"Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino and Matthew Goode have joined the cast of "The Lookout," a crime thriller that Scott Frank is writing & directing for Miramax. The story follows a physically challenged janitor, played Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who becomes part of a heist at a bank that employs him. Fisher will play a scandalous vixen. Gugino portrays a therapist, and Goode plays a criminal. Shooting begins in Winnipeg, Manitoba, at month's end..." (full details)
"Vadim Perelman has signed on to adapt and direct Lois Lowry's Newbery Award-winning novel "The Giver" for 20th Century Fox and Walden Media. The story centers on Jonas, a 12-year-old boy living in an idyllic future society where all memory of human history has been erased. His life is thrown into turmoil when he is designated to inherit the role of the Giver -- the sole keeper of the vast range of human emotions..." (full details)
"Warner Bros. Pictures has set director Todd Phillips ("Old School", "Starsky & Hutch") to direct "The Disassociate". The script by Zach Helm centers on an ordinary man who questions his sanity when he receives postcards from God. Phillips just finished work on the comedy remake "School for Scoundrels" with Jon Heder and Billy Bob Thornton starring..." (full details)
