Paramount has tapped Mark Waters ("Freaky Friday", "Mean Girls") to helm its remake of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" from a script by Richard LaGravanese. Samuel Goldwyn has been trying for a decade to mount a remake of 1947's "Walter Mitty," a comedy in which Danny Kaye played a timid man who daydreamed of being a swashbuckling hero..." (full details)

Paramount has tapped the writing team of Bennett Yellin and James Johnston to pen the horror screenplay "Let's Scare Jessica". Story centers on a fearless young man at a college in Colorado who, while pledging a frat, must prove his allegiance to the house by scaring his girlfriend into believing the college is haunted. The prank then takes on a life of its own..." (full details)

"Pretty Persuasion" scribe Skander Halim is set to make his feature directing debut on horror thriller "The Perfect Ghost." Halim also is writing the script for the project, which follows a girl who is terrorized by ghosts. The plan is to go into production in the summer..." (full details)

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