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Trade Breaks: Family, Conduct, Robot

By Garth Franklin Thursday April 27th 2006 10:13PM

"20th Century Fox has acquired Mark Legan and Mark Wilding's pitch "Family Time". The story is described as a family time-travel adventure, similar in tone to "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids." Tom Jacobson is producing..." (full details)

"Columbia Pictures has acquired Jonathan Davis' baseball comedy pitch "Unsportsmanlike Conduct." Described as in the same vein as "The Bad News Bears" but with adults, the story chronicles what happens when a major league expansion team hires a statistician to assess the league's best available players. Todd Garner is producing..." (full details)

"Paramount Pictures has attached Mike Myers to star in the comedy "How to Survive a Robot Uprising". "Reno 911" creators Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant have penned the script in which Myers would play a technical administrator who has the thankless job of sounding warnings against the growing presence of robots and researching ways to keep those robots from taking over..." (full details)

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