"Kelly Preston and Stuart Lafferty have been cast in 20th Century Fox's "Death Sentence". The film stars Kevin Bacon as a father out for revenge after gang members attack his family. Preston will play the wife of Bacon's character and Lafferty will play their son..." (full details)
"After a heated bidding war, Twentieth Century Fox has won the film rights to Michael Lewis' latest book, "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game". The film is a look at the race for ever-bigger players in professional football and centers on a poor, undereducated 344-pound African-American teenager in Memphis. The kid was adopted by a wealthy white couple who took him in and groomed him both athletically and academically to become one of the top high school football prospects in the country..." (full details)
"The Paramount Motion Picture Group and investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort announced a $300 million film financing arrangement Monday. The new fund will invest in the production costs of at least 30 films bearing the labels of Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, MTV Films and Nick Movies. Titles from the studio's specialty division Paramount Vantage and the Paramount Classics label are not part of the package. The new fund covers the 2006 Paramount release slate and beyond......" (full details)
