"Charles Leavitt ("Blood Diamond", "The Astronaut Farmer") will adapt Vanity Fair editor Doug Stumpf's unpublished legal thriller novel "Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy" for Warner Bros. Pictures, Donald De Line Pictures and Spring Creek Pictures. Storyline revolves around a Brazilian shoeshine guy, who works at a preeminent New York financial institution, and a reporter who exploits his relationship to uncover corporate crimes taking place at the Wall Street firm..." (full details)
"Peter Sarsgaard will star with Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon in New Line's "Rendition" Director Gavin Hood's followup to his Oscar-winning "Tsotsi" centers on a CIA operative in the Middle East who questions his assignment after observing a secret-police grilling of a suspect in a suicide bombing. Kelley Sane wrote the script, with filming to begin this fall..." (full details)
"Anthony Mackie ("Half Nelson," "Crossover", "Haven") has been set to play Olympic track-and-field legend Jesse Owens in a biopic to shoot next summer. Script by James L. White ("Ray") follows Owens as he rose to international stardom at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where Adolf Hitler watched him win four gold medals. A Summer 2008 release is targeted..." (full details)
