Touchstone Pictures Movie Updates

Derick Martini ("Lymelife") is going to camp, signing on to direct and rewrite Walden Media's summer camp comedy Cabin Pressure".

The TV series adaptation of Joe Hill's comic book "Locke & Key" has landed at Fox. The network has made a series commitment to the project, which is produced by Dreamworks TV and K.O. Paper Products through the latter's deal with 20th Century Fox TV.

Alex Kurtzman is best known as one-half of the screenwriting team of Kurtzman-and-(Roberto) Orci, who have gone from writing "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" to working on some of the biggest sci-fi tentpoles in Hollywood, such as "Transformers" and "Star Trek." Now Kurtzman is entering the direct ...

From the start, there was concern within the Aniston camp that the offbeat comedy, which also stars Jason Bateman as a surprise sperm donor, was a tricky sell. "Switch" was produced independently for about $19 million by Mandate and Bona Fide Prods. As filming began, Miramax picked up domestic rights for about $6 milli ...

Disney announced today that the Touchstone pic The Tempest directed by Julie Taymor is now dated for December 10th exclusive and December 17 for limited expansion.

Sam Raimi has signed to helm and produce a pic based on graphic novel "Earp: Saints for Sinners" for DreamWorks, Radical Studios, Mandeville and Raimi's Star Road Entertainment.

Disney has jettisoned an adaptation of the Steven Pressfield historical novel Killing Rommel. Several drafts were written by Randall Wallace and Pressfield, best known for writing Gates of Fire and The Legend of Bagger Vance.

John August is in negotiations with DreamWorks to write the studio’s feature film adaptation of “Monsterpocalypse,” a strategy game played with collectible miniature figures.

DreamWorks has picked up an action thriller pitch from writer John Hlavin. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the story is described as an internationally set heist movie.

"Private Practice" star Chris Lowell is in negotiations to join the cast of DreamWorks' "The Help," based on Kathryn Stockett's novel.

Steven Spielberg has selected his next directing job: World War I epic "War Horse." Disney and DreamWorks will release the film Aug. 10, 2011.

Studio has dated Pixar's "Brave" for June 15, 2012 while also confirming a sequel to "Monsters Inc.," which will be released on Nov. 16, 2012.

Ginnifer Goodwin is falling for romancer "Something Borrowed" and is in talks to star for Alcon Entertainment-based 2S Films.

DreamWorks Studios and Doubleday have acquired, in a pre-emptive deal, the rights to Daniel H. Wilson's unpublished manuscript, "Robopocalypse," it was announced today by Mark Sourian and Holly Bario, Co-Presidents of Production at the studio, and Jason Kaufman, Executive Editor and Vice President, at Doubleday.

The game Shattered Union only came out in 2005, but I doubt too many people remember it. The PC and Xbox turn-based strategy title speculated on a political future in which the US sees states seceding from the Union after the second-term retention of the most unpopular president in the nation’s history. Now Jerry Bruckheimer is ...