"New Line has bought "A Family Affair," a comedy spec to which Sarah Jessica Parker is attached. Script was written by Sahara Lotti ("Back Magick"). Parker would play a real estate agent who has a one-night stand with a distinguished older man. After becoming engaged to someone else and heading off to meet her fiance's family, she discovers her future father-in-law was her bedmate..." (full details)
"Columbia Pictures and Red Wagon have tapped scribes Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O'Brien to adapt the upcoming book "The Worthy: A Ghost's Story" by Will Clarke. The subversive college comedy centers on a fraternity pledge so obsessed with a girl that even his accidental death does not stand in the way of his pursuit of her..." (full details)
"Howard and Karen Baldwin ("Atlas Shrugged", "Death Sentence") are developing a feature version of Frank McCourt's bestselling memoir "Teacher Man" with Ron Bass. Bass will adapt the tome, which details McCourt's 30-year career teaching English and creative writing in New York's public school system, beginning in 1958. McCourt won the Pulitzer Prize for his earlier memoir "Angela's Ashes". Bass said the feature version will focus on the changes in the teacher's character over several decades, as opposed to his 1995 screenplay "Dangerous Minds," which focused on a single class over a school year..." (full details)
