"Joe Nussbaum, who co-wrote and directed "George Lucas in Love," has sold the comedy spec "Brad Cutter Ruined My Life ... Again" to Warner Bros. Pictures for Donald De Line to produce. The story centers on a successful young man whose life is turned upside down when Brad Cutter, the cool kid from his high school, is hired at his company and begins to re-create the man's miserable teenage experience..." (full details)
"Beth Schacter (Broadway's "Brave New World") will direct her script "Normal Adolescent Behavior" for New Line, with Amber Tamblyn in final negotiations to star in the darkly comic look at sexual politics among precocious and privileged teenagers. Shooting begins late spring. Schachter penned the script as part of the IFP/LA screenwriters' lab in 2004..." (full details)
"Tim Allen and George Lopez will co-star in the comedy "Amigos" at Touchstone Pictures. In the pic, based on an idea by Allen, he and Lopez will play mismatched in-laws who have to raise their grandson. Allen and Todd Garner will produce through their respective shingles, Boxing Cat Films and Broken Road Prods. Seth Greenland wrote the script..." (full details)
"Warner Bros. has scared up screen rights to "Heart Shaped Box," a thriller novel written by Joe Hill, the son of horror fiction maven Stephen King. Akiva Goldsman will produce. Studio will set a screenwriter shortly. Story revolves around a singer obsessed with the occult who buys a ghost on eBay in the form of a man's burial suit. He's ultimately forced to confront both the ghost and the demons of his own past..." (full details)
