"Touchstone Pictures and Summit Entertainment have tapped Emmy-winner Rachel Griffiths ("Six Feet Under") to star in their "Untitled Music High Project," now shooting in Baltimore. Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan and bestselling recording artist Mario also star. Film follows a rebellious teen (Tatum) who must do community service at a performing arts high school, then joins the cast of a show after he falls in love with a dancer (Dewan). Mario will play a student who befriends him. Griffiths is playing the school principal..." (full details)
"Comedy troupe Broken Lizard ("Club Dread", "Super Troopers") has sold the sports comedy "Nutcracker" to Warner Bros. Pictures. The quarter will write and produce the film, which centers on the nastiest and dirtiest linebacker in the NFL who, when he starts to lose his skills, reluctantly turns to ballet to get his game back..." (full details)
"Fox Animation has tapped Matthew Weiss to write "Emily the Strange," based on the sullen teenage character created by Rob Reger. Pic will be mainly live-action with some animation elements. Emily the Strange is a rail-thin 13-year-old whose clothes are as black as her hair and as dark as her adventures. Weiss has been meeting with Reger to discuss the pic but will write the screenplay independently..." (full details)
Thanks to 'KC'.
