Bruckheimer snags rights to Ignatius's next novel

by | May 31, 2008 | Films

David Ignatius’ next novel comes out in 2009, but the movie rights have already been snatched up. Jerry Bruckheimer’s production company has purchased the rights to The Increment. “A shadowy, elite group of British undercover intelligence operatives are enlisted by a...

Peter Blauner's Slipping into Darkness Optioned

by | May 22, 2008 | Films

Peter Blauner’s Slipping into Darkness has been optioned at Warner Brothers.It’s a cat-and-mouse thriller about a cop who, 20 years after sending a teenager to jail for life, watches him freed on a technicality.Rupert Wyatt will direct. The screenplay will be...

Charlaine Harris' True Blood gains another vampire

by | May 10, 2008 | TV

Veteran actor Stephen Root (News Radio, Office Space, No Country for Old Men) will be drinking blood on HBO. Root has signed on for a three-episode story arc for the upcoming True Blood. TB is based on the novels of Charlaine Harris and set in Louisiana in a world...

Michelle Monaghan will be Swierczynski's Blonde.

by | Apr 28, 2008 | Films

I am pretty late on this, as Duane talked about over a month ago, but Duane Swierczynski has sold the film rights to The Blonde. The buyer? Actress Michelle Monaghan. Fans of crime films should know her, she has starred in Gone Baby Gone, Mission Impossible III and...