"Paramount Pictures has acquired screen rights to the Joshua Foer book "Moonwalking With Einstein" and will develop it as a potential directing vehicle for "The School of Rock" & "Nacho Libre" scribe Mike White. Foer is a young journalist who discovered there was a world of competitive memorizers, Foer spent a year learning the techniques and became a competitor who won both the U.S. and World Memory Championships. It is unclear whether White will adapt the book which gets published in 2009..." (full details)
"New Line birth-of-Jesus pic "The Nativity Story" will world preem at the Vatican on Nov. 26 with Pope Benedict XVI expected to attend. Italo distrib Eagle Pictures said the Catherine Hardwicke-helmed film will unspool in Vatican City's Paul VI Hall. "The pope has been invited, and we are 99% sure he will come since the Vatican has given the film its seal of approval," an Eagle Pictures rep said..." (full details)
"Christine Lahti is set to join Dennis Quaid and Sarah Jessica Parker in "Smart People," the Noam Murro-directed independent drama that begins shooting next week in Pittsburgh. She's also made a deal to direct "Any Way You Want Me," a drama with comic elements about the tenuous relationship between a mother and daughter..." (full details)
