"Disney has paid a mid-six-figure option for the rights to Ayelet Waldman's upcoming novel, tentatively titled "Crossing the Park". As yet no screenwriter is attached to pen the adaptation. "Park" is a drama centering around a woman, Emilia, who has been emotionally shattered by the death of her baby and is consumed with hostility for her young stepson. However, she soon discovers that to repair her marriage and herself she must earn the love of the boy..." (more details)

"Paramount-based Cruise/Wagner has decided to make a deal for "The Devil's Banker," buying the screen rights to Christopher Reich's thriller for C/W to produce. Project, seen as a platform to track the new heroes of the war on terrorism, follows a female British spy, who's an ace undercover operative, and a U.S. agent/forensic accountant who got into counterterrorism via a business career. The duo join forces to try to stop a terrorist attack aimed at the United States by tracking a mastermind who's auditing their every move while transferring vast sums of money from country to country and bank to bank..." (more details)

"With "Saw" producers Twisted Pictures expecting to see more than $50 million in profit participation, the shingle has made a nine-picture deal with Lions Gate Films..." (more details)

"FX is mixing church and slate, teaming with Section Eight principals George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh on a 10 Commandments-themed event miniseries. Ambitious 10-hour project explores the spiritual and moral issues faced by modern America as interpreted by 10 different directors..." (more details)

"Reese Witherspoon's Type A Films shingle is developing Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum mystery novel "One for the Money" as a possible starring vehicle for Witherspoon at Columbia. Story concerns a down-on-her-luck native of Trenton, N.J., who convinces her bail bondsman cousin to give her a shot as a bounty hunter. Her first assignment is to track down a former cop on the run for murder -- the same man who broke her heart years before..." (more details)

"Columbia Pictures has acquired the rights to Nick Flynn's best-selling novel "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City" for producer Michael Costigan. Based on Flynn's darkly comic memoir about an unconventional reunion between a father and his son. While working as a caseworker at a homeless shelter in Boston, the 27-year-old Flynn meets his father at a time when Flynn's own life is unsettled. Together they begin a journey that illuminates the great hidden story of fathers and sons in America and the enduring strength for survival... (more details)