"Novelist-director Clive Barker has partnered with the Midnight Picture Show, a venture meant to scare up two horror films per year. Most will be based on the prolific author's short stories published in the six volumes of "The Books of Blood," or on his original ideas. Lakeshore Entertainment has been set to finance "The Midnight Meat Train," an adaptation of the Barker story about a Gotham-based photographer's effort to track down "the subway butcher," a search that leads to an unholy secret. The pic was adapted by Jeff Buhler and will be directed by Patrick Tatopoulous..." (full details)

"Andy Fleming has signed on to direct the bigscreen feature film adaptation of "Nancy Drew," based on the series of novels by Carolyn Keene. Holly Brix is currently scripting an updated version of the teenaged detective who digs up the necessary clues to solve all sorts of mysteries..." (full details)

"Martin Freeman, Ray Winstone and Mark Benton have joined writer/director Anthony Minghella's Breaking and Entering, which has started shooting in London. The project is a contemporary story about theft, both emotional and criminal. The story follows an encounter between a yuppie architect (Jude Law) and a young Muslim thief who breaks into his office. A series of related incidents leads the architect to re-evaluate his life. Juliette Binoche and Robin Wright Penn also star..." (full details)

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