"The plagiarism scandal over Kaavya Viswanathan's novel "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life" has become so complicated that it has pretty much killed a feature adaptation at DreamWorks. The scandal arrived just after the studio received a first draft of a screenplay by Kara Holden. The "Opal" project joined Warner Bros.' adaptation of James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces" on the movie-adaptation trash heap..." (full details)

"Disney Pictures has hired Kathryn Price and Nichole Millard to write "I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You," an adaptation of a young-adult novel by Ally Carter. Carter's book centers on a 15-year-old girl who attends an elite spy-training academy in Washington and must deal with the mystery surrounding the death of her CIA agent father, her "Alias"-style spy education and a cute, off-limits civilian boy who doesn't know her true identity..." (full details)

Producer Damien Saccani has selected his first project at the Walt Disney Co. since opening his Cider Mill production company at the studio last month, setting up an untitled family comedy from David Collard ("Annapolis", "Out of Time", TV's "Family Guy"). Story follows an extended family on vacation..." (full details)