Media Rights Capital Movie Updates

Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh have set the project at MRC and Universal.

Sources tell Morten Variety that Tyldum is in talks to direct an adaptation of Lauren Beukes’ novel The Shining Girls for MRC.

Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group chairman Tom Rothman has found a franchise to sink his teeth into.

Media Rights Capital has just bought a spec package for a grounded action thriller that will be a directing vehicle for Joseph Kosinski.

Media Rights Capital has teamed up with its Ted partner Universal Pictures to co-finance Highwaymen.

Marcia Gay Harden has signed on to Michael Radford's Elsa & Fred opposite Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer.

Seth MacFarlane is plotting his follow-up to Ted, a move that could involve him strapping on a pair of six irons and heading into the sunset.

Media Rights Capital is in serious talks to take on The Dark Tower after Warner Bros declined to make what potentially amounts to three feature films and two limited run TV series.

Mean Creek writer-director and indie darling Jacob Aaron Estes is on board to helm IOU for Media Rights Capital. David Fincher, who seldom lends his name to projects he isn't directing, is producing the thriller.

MRC and Ben Stiller's Red Hour Films are reteaming on a remake of 2010 French film Le Mac, with The Hangover star Ed Helms toplining and producing.

Media Rights Capital has made a pre-emptive acquisition of the Jonathan Lethem novel As She Climbed Across the Table, in a package that has David Cronenberg directing, Bruce Wagner writing and Film Rites' Steve Zaillian and Garrett Basch producing. Lethem is the author of Motherless Brooklyn.

Just as Warner Bros. prepares to open "Crazy, Stupid, Love," star Emma Stone is in negotiations to reteam with co-star Ryan Gosling and her "Zombieland" director Ruben Fleischer for the studio's period crime pic "The Gangster Squad."

And now Vulture hears that Fincher has just optioned Jason Starr’s 2009 macabre crime novel Panic Attack, about a New York shrink who shoots and kills a home intruder, then faces a media frenzy and the victim's vengeful accomplice. We're also told that Fincher has set Ocean’s Eleven and Tower Heist screenwriter Ted Griffin to ad ...

Media Rights Capital is negotiating to acquire Die in a Gunfight, a script by fresh-from-NYU scribes Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari that has Zac Efron attached to play a fight-prone and death-obsessed young society man who pursues a romance with the daughter of his father's enemy.

Media Rights Capital and M Night Shyamalan have set the next thriller to be made under their Night Chronicles banner. And once again, Shyamalan won't be directing. Instead, The Last Exorcism's Daniel Stamm will helm Reincarnate, scripted by Chris Sparling (Buried). Production will begin in 2011, and MRC is producing with Shyamal ...