Logan Lerman, star of the WB Network's "Jack & Bobby," will star in Walden Media and New Line Cinema's "Hoot." Written and directed by Wil Shriner, "Hoot" is based on Carl Hiaasen's Newbery Award-winning book of the same name. The story centers on Roy Eberhardt (Lerman), a young Montana boy who moves with his family to Florida, where he uncovers a plot to systematically destroy a local population of endangered owls. The boy ends up battling an assortment of unusual creatures and eccentric adults in order to save the owls..." (full details)

Australian actor Nathan Phillips ("Wolf Creek", "Australian Rules") will make his American film debut opposite Samuel L. Jackson in New Line Cinema's "Pacific Air Flight 121," directed by David Ellis. "Flight 121" centers on a ruthless assassin who unleashes a crate full of lethal snakes aboard a packed passenger jet over the Pacific Ocean in order to eliminate a witness in protective custody. Phillips will play the witness. Jackson is set as a cop on the plane. The film is to shoot next month in Canada..." (full details)

Jonathan Liebesman ("Darkness Falls") has signed on to direct the untitled "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" prequel that Platinum Dunes is producing for New Line Cinema. As in the first movie, which grossed more than $80 million domestically, the story follows a group of kids who run afoul of chainsaw-wielding psycho Leatherface and his demented family. The story will reveal Leatherface's origins. The script was written by Sheldon Turner with a rewrite by David Schow..." (full details)

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