"Touchstone Pictures has purchased the spec script "Off the Chain" by writers Dax Shelby and Robert Stevens. The comedy follows two prison-bound women from opposing walks of life - a framed, clueless housewife and a career street criminal. Through a glitch in the system, the two accidentally swap prisons, with the housewife being sent to a maximum-security penitentiary and the criminal going to a country-club setting..." (full details)

"Rogue Pictures, the genre arm of Universal specialty unit Focus Features, has picked up worldwide rights to horror pic "Altered," to be helmed by "The Blair Witch Project" co-creator Eduardo Sanchez. Pic, which follows a group of men living a night of terror after their lives were changed 15 years earlier by a strange occurrence, begins lensing next month in Florida. Jamie Nash penned the script from a story he created with Sanchez..." (full details)

"Gold Circle Films has paired with Wes Craven's Craven/Maddalena Films to produce "The Waiting," an indie horror pic penned by Juliet Snowden and Stiles White. Craven will be an exec producer on the project. Described in the vein of '70s horror staples like "Don't Look Now" and "Rosemary's Baby," story follows a woman who believes she is being haunted by the ghost of her deceased child. Snowden and White most recently collaborated on the script for "Boogeyman"..." (full details)

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