"Freddie Prinze Jr. and Taryn Manning ("Hustle & Flow") have signed on to topline "Jack and Jill vs. the World" for writer-director Vanessa Parise ("Kiss the Bride"). Romantic satire of the advertising world concerns a cynical guy who falls for a carefree young girl with a secret. Shooting starts this summer in Toronto..." (full details)
"Magnolia Pictures has nabbed all English-language territory rights to Billy Corben's "Cocaine Cowboys," which chronicles the Miami-based drug trade explosion of the 1980s and its impact on society. The documentary hits theaters in the fall. Jan Hammer, who composed the music for the "Miami Vice" TV series and the upcoming film version, scored "Cocaine," which features interviews with top cops who sniffed out offenders, along with criminals up and down the cocaine food chain, from drug kingpins to dealers and killers..." (full details)
"Intermedia has optioned Adam Alleca's sci-fi action-thriller spec "The Drowning Man." Based on Hideshi Hino's manga "Living Corpse," the story centers on a man who wakes up without a pulse and soon discovers that he is at the center of a macabre government experiment..." (full details)
