"Madrid-based production house KanZaman has attached U.S. screenwriter Neil Cohen ("24") to "The Travel Agent," a $20 million-$25 million Sarajevo-set romantic thriller. "Travel Agent" turns on a ex-Israeli secret service operative who sets up a travel agency but is asked to travel to Sarajevo to put an old woman, a friend of his mother's, onto a refugee bus. That's not as easy as it seems. KanZaman is currently advancing on financing for the pic. Cohen has delivered a completed screenplay; a director has yet to be attached..." (full details)

"Ckrush Entertainment has joined forces with National Lampoon Inc. for the new comedy "National Lampoon's TV: The Movie." The project features several of the famed members of the "Jackass" crew, including Steve-O, Wee Man and Preston Lacy in a spoof about the increasing depravity of television in society. Sam Maccarone is writing and directing..." (full details)

"Helmer Holger Ernst ("The House Is Burning") is reteaming with Wil Wenders on "D.O.P.E.: Dreaming of Paradise Europe," a political pic following a group of North Africans' tenuous, politically charged relationship with Europe. Pic centers on characters in Morocco's Rif mountains -- the world's largest hotbed for hashish -- and tells the story of young residents there who dream of a better life, but are faced with two options: farming cannabis or trying to illegally cross into Europe..." (full details)