"Sony has bought the pitch "Beautiful" for Avenue Pictures with Delia Ephron ("Bewitched", "Sammy") to pen the screenplay. The psychological thriller, loosely inspired by Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', follows a high-powered woman in the world of fashion whose vanity jeopardizes everything she holds dear..." (full details)
"Universal Pictures has picked up "Anguish," a pitch by Jake Wade Wall based on the 1987 Spanish horror film, "Angustia". Original film, helmed by Luna, was a horror-movie-within-a-horror movie. As an audience in a small theater watches a pic about an optometrist on a killing spree, a maniac begins killing the moviegoers. Wall penned the remake of "When a Stranger Calls" and the upcoming "The Hitcher" redux for Rogue Pictures..." (full details)
"Kate Schumaecker has been tapped to head up development for Superb Entertainment which has optioned the rights to Valerie Ann Leff's 2004 novel "Better Homes and Husbands". Becky Mode ("Fully Committed") is writing the script, the original novel revolved around the residents of a tony Gotham co-op, following their lives from the 1970s through the present day..." (full details)
