"DreamWorks is close to acquiring the film rights to Tom Clancy's videogame "Splinter Cell," with Daniel Pyne ("The Manchurian Candidate") attached to write the script. Studio would take the project over from Paramount, where it was originally set up last winter. 'Cell' follows the adventures of government spy Sam Fisher as he's dispatched to infiltrate an international terrorist syndicate and stop a high-tech threat..." (full details)
"Leonardo DiCaprio's production banner, Appian Way, has bought Sheldon Turner's pitch "In Dark Woods". While Appian is keeping the plot under wraps, it described the project as a dark revenge thriller. Turner, who wrote the screenplay for this summer's remake of "The Longest Yard," penned upcoming horror-thriller "Pacific Air Flight 121" for New Line Cinema..." (full details)
"Universal Pictures has made a preemptive $600,000 against $1 million deal for "Dream House," a supernatural thriller spec by David Loucka. In "Dream House," a man moves his family into what appears to be the ideal residence in the country, but ominous things are going on there. Ehren Kruger and Daniel Bobker will produce..." (full details)
Thanks to 'KC'.
