"Scott Rudin has acquired screen rights to "Indecision," the Benjamin Kunkel novel that launches this week . Novel chronicles a chronically indecisive and underachieving 28-year-old who, after ingesting an experimental drug, heads off to Ecuador to track down a high school flame. Rudin, who will make the transition from Paramount to Disney by year's end, will likely set a writer-director before he puts the book at a studio..." (full details)
"Toby Keith is making the jump to the big screen with an untitled project for Paramount Home Entertainment/CMT. Keith has sold 21 million albums. The Paramount project centers on Bean Porter, a country music singer who has fallen from the spotlight and returns to his hometown where he is reunited with his childhood sweetheart. He also meets his 16-year-old daughter for the first time..." (full details)
"Scribe Tyger Williams ("Menace 2 Society") has made a deal with Disney for "Double Dutch," a pitch for a starring vehicle for Raven Symone. Project sets Disney Channel fixture Symone in the world of competitive jump roping. Aside from "Double Dutch", Williams made a deal with Paramount and MTV Films for "Street Soldier," a vehicle for former B2K bandmates Marques Houston and Omarion Granberry, and to rewrite "The Ballad of Walter Holmes" - a "Saturday Night Fever" like drama that has Usher..." (full details)
Thanks to 'KC'.






