"VFX supervisor Stefen Fangmeier will make his directorial debut this summer on "Eragon", based on the Christopher Paolini-penned bestselling fantasy novel about a youth whose discovery of a dragon egg leads him to become a knight and battle an evil king. The medieval-set tale revolves around a farm boy who learns he is the last of a breed of benevolent Dragon Riders, whose magical powers derived from their bond with the beasts. Shooting begins in July in Europe..." (full details)

"Disney has purchased "Nutjobs," a comedy pitch to be developed as a directing vehicle for Adam Shankman. In the murder mystery scripted by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland, a sufferer of obsessive compulsive disorder teams with a compulsive liar in an attempt to prove their therapist's supposed suicide was murder. Shankman is prepping a "Topper" redo and his Vin Diesel comedy "The Pacifier" opens Friday..." (full details)

"Twentieth Century Fox has acquired the rights to Michael Krieger's "All the Men in the Sea: The Untold Story of One of the Greatest Rescues in History". Screenwriter Tony Gayton ("The Salton Sea," "Murder By Numbers") was hired to adapt the book, and helmer John Moore ("Flight of the Phoenix") is attached to direct. Nonfiction tome tells the story of the divers and seamen of Barge 269, a cargo ship caught in the path of Hurricane Roxanne's 90-mph winds and 45-foot waves in 1995. Krieger's book also details the lawsuit brought by the company that owned the barge......" (full details)

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