21 Laps Entertainment Movie Updates

20th Century Fox wants to tell you how to get to Sesame Street. The studio has picked up the movie rights to the long-running and iconic children’s television show and has tapped longtime Street writer Joey Mazzarino to pen the script.

Paramount is in negotiations to pick up Monster Problems, a spec script by Brian Duffield for Shawn Levy and his 21 Laps banner to produce.

Joe Ballarini has been set by Walden Media to rewrite Atlantis 7, a thriller in which an elite military Navy SEAL force attempts to find the mythical city of Atlantis.

Anne Fletcher has been set to direct Alone For The Holidays, an original Christmas comedy script for Fox 2000 that was written by Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update anchor Seth Meyers.

Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps Entertainment production company and Fox 2000 have acquired the upcoming book Man Made by Joel Stein (out May 15), about a guy trying to learn how to be a man so he can be a better role model for his infant son.

Fox is going young with Fancy Nancy, acquiring rights to the children's book series and setting it with studio-based Shawn Levy at his 21 Laps banner.

20th Century Fox acquired The Three Misfortunes of Geppetto for Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps. He’s attached to direct the screenplay by Michael Vukadinovich.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes isn't the only case where a film division at 20th Century Fox is monkeying around with a primate picture. Fox Animation has set the team of Christian Magalhaes & Bob Snow to write a modern day twist on the King Kong story.

Twentieth Century Fox has optioned film rights to futuristic trilogy Black is the Color by Alexandra Bracken.

DreamWorks has picked up a pitch from writer Jonathan Tropper about the closing of the last Kodachrome lab in the United States. Tropper will pen the script which is inspired by a New York Times article written by A.G. Sulzberger.

20th Century Fox has acquired Scavengers, a script by Chris Baldi that Thor Freudenthal will direct.

Twentieth Century Fox Animation is teaming with producers Shawn Levy and David Heyman on a big-screen adaptation of British author Roger Hargreaves’ beloved Mr. Men illustrated children's books.

Fox 2000 has completed its second book purchase in the last two days, acquiring Rebecca Serle's debut novel Rosaline for Shawn Levy to produce under his 21 Laps banner.

Shawn Levy and 20th Century Fox are teaming to turn bestselling kids picture book "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" into a high-concept family comedy.

Fox is looking to get into a holiday battle, snapping up comedy pitch "The Fight Before Christmas" from Adam Sztykiel ("Due Date").