As "Shrek 3" nears pre-production, DreamWorks is already plotting another ogre encore. Studio has begun developing "Shrek 4," hiring Tim Sullivan to write the script. Sullivan landed on the DreamWorks radar by working on several feature toon projects for Jeffrey Katzenberg. Sullivan was invited to pitch a take for a fourth "Shrek," and the studio sparked to his idea. Sullivan is a Cambridge-educated lawyer who quit to become a standup comic and then cut his teeth as a screenwriter adapting literary classics including "A Handful of Dust" and "Where Angels Fear to Tread" for British films..." (full details)

Warner Bros. Pictures will produce "Blood Father," a drama based on the novel by Peter Craig, Andrea Berloff will adapt the screenplay. Story concerns a runaway who turns to her reformed ex-con father after she witnesses a murder. To protect his long-estranged daughter, he is forced to return to his criminal lifestyle. Book was published last week by Hyperion. Anonymous chairman Steve Golin bought film rights to the title in August..." (full details)

The Ruddy Morgan Organization, one of the producers of "Million Dollar Baby," has come on board Applause Pictures' upcoming $10 million musical "Perhaps Love." The film, to be helmed by Peter Chan ("The Love Letter"), will be shot on location in Beijing and Shanghai. "Perhaps Love" is the first full-blown Mandarin-language musical by a Hong Kong director since the heyday of the Shaw Brothers Studio in the 1960s..." (full details)

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