"Paz Vega ("Spanglish") will play conspiring Renaissance aristo Catarina Sforza in Antonio Hernandez's "Los Borgias" (The Borgias). The $12.3 million pic is a portrait of the bloody dynasty that spawned a pope, Alexander VI (Luis Homar), as well as the role model for Machiavelli's "The Prince," his son Cesare Borgia, and a legend of femme duplicity, daughter Lucrezia Borgia (Maria Valverde)..." (full details)
"Paramount Pictures has optioned the rights to "Midnight Cactus," an upcoming novel by Bella Pollen. Described as a love story/thriller, the story centers on a woman in a failing marriage in the U.K. who moves with her children to Arizona. She becomes involved with border politics and illegal immigration..." (full details)
"Oscar-nominated writer Robert Rodat ("Saving Private Ryan") has been tapped to adapt Thomas Mullen's novel "The Last Town on Earth" for DreamWorks Pictures. Set in 1918, the book tells the story of how a small rural town reels when a self-imposed quarantine fails to keep an influenza epidemic at bay and the foundations of life and mortality come apart at the sea..." (full details)
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