"Universal Pictures has acquired screen rights to "The Stars My Destination," a 1955 Alfred Bester novel that's considered a seminal sci-fi work. Story follows the sole survivor of a wrecked spaceship that drifts through deep space. When a passing vessel ignores his distress signal, he becomes obsessed with revenge and uncovers a secret destined to change history. Lorenzo Di Bonaventura will produce..." (full details)

Zeitgeist has picked up "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes," by the Quay Brothers, and Jan Svankmajer's "Lunacy". Set in an imaginary world, "Earthquakers" concerns an opera singer who's murdered onstage before her wedding by a nefarious inventor. "Lunacy," by Czech writer-helmer Svankmajer, is loosely based on two stories by Edgar Allen Poe and incorporates a character inspired by the Marquis de Sade..." (full details)

DeuxBoy Prods. and Seventh Art Releasing have inked a distrib deal for "The Last Western," a feature documentary on the era of the B-Western. Pic focuses on Pioneertown, a life-sized Western set created in 1946 by Gene Autry and Roy Rogers that became the backdrop for various famous films. Pioneertown fell into disuse and became a 1960s hangout for biker gangs and desert rats..." (full details)