"Mexican thesps Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal ("Y Tu Mama Tambien") are developing an hour-long TV series plus a doc on the life of Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez via their shingle, Canana. TV show, "Ruta 32," will focus on a different Mexican city or town each episode..." (full details)
"FilmFour has bought the Zadie Smith novel "On Beauty," with Alison Owen and Scott Rudin producing. Novel, which was on the short list for the Booker Prize, is about two professors who are bitter rivals in the academic world. Despite each prof's inherent dislike of the other, members of their two families intermingle..." (full details)
"Columbia Pictures and Red Wagon partners Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher have purchased Holly Peterson's book "The Manny" in a preemptive six-figure sale. Dial Press completed a $1 million, two-book deal with Peterson last week. Novel is about a male nanny who falls for his client, a divorced mother who lives on Park Avenue..." (full details)
"Beau Bridges and Shaheen Khan ("Bend It Like Beckham") will appear in romantic comedy "Americanizing Shelly," a Hollywood-made Bollywood-style pic from new production company American Pride Films Group. Pic will be a helmed by TV vet Lorraine Senna ("The Sopranos"). Pic is set in Los Angeles where a wanna-be Hollywood talent manager sets out to Americanize an Indian girl from the Himalayas..." (full details)
Thanks to 'KC'
