Broken Road Productions Movie Updates

Broad Green Pictures has signed on to make 1974.

Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the duo known for the parody films including the Scary Movie franchise, Epic Movie and Vampires Suck, will next take on the iconic Star Wars franchise.

MGM has acquired Snapshot, a novella by Brandon Sanderson.

Simon McQuoid, best known for directing commercials, is in talks to helm the “Mortal Kombat” reboot for New Line.

Barry L. Levy will direct Stranglehold, a movie about the Boston Strangler Task Force.

Fox has acquired the spec script Vacation Friends by the sibling scribe team Tom Mullen & Tim Mullen.

Sony Pictures is acquiring Go Fast, an action vehicle that will be written by Rich Wilkes for Kick-Ass 2 helmer Jeff Wadlow to direct.

Grumpy Cat, the cranky-faced kitty voted Meme of the Year at the 2013 Webby Awards, has a shot at getting her famous sourpuss on the big screen.

The production companies Broken Road and Benderspink have joined forces to license a movie based on the restaurant franchise Medieval Times.

Since they got a big write up in the Wall Street Journal late last month, the “Tag Brothers” have been swarmed by movie producers hoping they would tell one of them, “you’re it.”

Lionsgate/Summit has won an auction for Spinback, a John Swetnam spec script action thriller set in the world of electronic dance music.

Broken Road Production’s Todd Garner has teamed up with Adam Herz and Joshua Shader of Terra Firma Films to produce an adaptation of Sullivan’s Sluggers, a horror baseball graphic novel by Mark Andrew Smith and James Stokoe.

Summit Entertainment is looking to do the Unexpected, setting up the pregnancy comedy project with Todd Garner and Jennifer Eatz producing.

Sony Pictures Entertainment has made a preemptive deal for Valet Guys, a feature pitch from a potential vehicle for Adam Sandler and Kevin James to play veteran valet parking guys at a South Beach hotel who witness a murder and find themselves running for their lives.

Sony Pictures just made a deal for an untitled mixed martial arts vehicle for Kevin James to shoot next year. The script will be written by Allan Loeb, and Kevin is producing with Todd Garner.