CBS Films Movie Updates

CBS Films has attached Last Vegas director Jon Turteltaub to direct and produce The Lady in the Locker Room.

CBS Films has sprung for a pitch from Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan to adapt Alvin Schwartz’s classic spooky tale collection Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

CBS Films has closed a deal to acquire Split, a spec script by Adam Gierasch and Jace Anderson.

CBS Films has optioned Omega Point, a sci-fi spec script from newcomer Cameron Alexander.

Ben Lewin will direct A Moment to Remember, which is based on a Korean film inspired by a Japanese TV show.

CBS Films has optioned Michael Roberts’ screenplay Olivia Twisted, which has Michael De Luca and Michael De Luca Productions' Alissa Phillips attached to produce.

Warner Bros. and CBS Films are vying for the novel by Jamie McGuire that is described as "Fifty Shades" for the YA crowd.

Universal Pictures is in preliminary negotiations to acquire action comedy script My Spy out of turnaround from CBS Films with Jake Kasdan attached to direct.

Easy A helmer Will Gluck is at the center of a deal that CBS Films is making for the bestselling Geoffrey Gray novel Skyjack: The Hunt For D.B. Cooper, which was published by Crown.

Peter Weir is attached to direct contemporary gothic thriller The Keep, adapting Jennifer Egan's 2006 bestseller in a film set in a mysterious medieval castle somewhere in Central Europe.

CBS Films has preemptively picked up the U.S. distribution rights to Ends of the Earth, an action thriller from Derek Lee and Clif Prowse.

CBS Films has picked up feature rights to John O'Farrell's novel The Man Who Forgot His Wife.

The Words has sold to CBS Films after a heated bidding war that lasted until 4 a.m. on Sunday.

CBS Films has acquired the screen adaptation of Kody Keplinger's youth novel The DUFF and is in negotiations with McG's Wonderland Sound and Vision to produce.

Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits and Olga Kurylenko have joined Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken in Seven Psychopaths. Directed and scripted by In Bruges’ Martin McDonagh, the film began production this week in Los Angeles.

Salmon Fishing In The Yemen will be released by CBS Films on March 2, 2012 in a limited run.

CBS Films has acquired feature film rights to Tamara Ireland Stone's debut novel Time Between Us and set Robin Schorr to produce through her RCR Pictures banner.

CBS Films has closed a deal for Wedding Day, an ensemble romantic comedy pitch written by Andrew Goldberg.

CBS Films has picked up Hellfest, an original screenplay by William Penick and Chris Sey. Gale Anne Hurd, the veteran genre producer who exec produces AMC's The Walking Dead, will produce through her Valhalla Entertainment.

CBS Films has acquired Flight 75, a pitch for a thriller that will be directed by The Grudge helmer Takashi Shimizu. Project was bought on a treatment by Shimizu and a writer will be set momentarily. It is described as a claustrophobic thriller set on a transpacific airliner where the passengers encounter what appears to be a su ...

Edward Zwick has been tapped to direct CBS Films’ adaptation of American Assassin.