CBS Films Movie Updates

CBS Films has pre-emptively picked up Inside the Machine, a spec thriller from Marc Maurino. Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson of Contrafilm are producing.

CBS Films has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to The Woman in Black, the gothic horror thriller that stars Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds, Janet McTeer and Shaun Dooley. I'm still pulling together the facts on this one, but I'm told that CBS Films moved aggressively to beat out bidders that included Summit E ...

Films just closed a movie option deal for the young adult novel Level 2, right around the same time its sister company Simon & Schuster Children's Books closed a publishing deal.

CBS Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Gambit. The film has a script by Joel and Ethan Coen, and Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz are set to star for The Last Station helmer Michael Hoffman.

CBS Films today announced that the company has secured exclusive rights to Marie Lu's futuristic thriller Legend. Penguin Group has set the series' first novel for publication in November 2011. Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey (The Twilight Saga, Dear John) will develop and produce.

Stephen King's grand opus The Stand is finally getting the big-screen treatment. Warner Bros. and CBS Films are teaming to adapt the novel, which in many ways set the bar for a generation of post-apocalyptic stories and influenced works ranging from TV's Lost to music group Anthrax.

CBS Films is making a deal to acquire remake rights to the Daniel Monzon-directed Spanish language film Celda 211. Paul Haggis is in talks to adapt with an eye to direct.

CBS Films has lined up new (haunted) digs in Eastern Europe for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo director Niels Arden Oplev. The company has closed a deal for rights to Jennifer Egan’s spooky 2006 best-seller The Keep and is in final negotiations to acquire the adapted screenplay written by The Skeleton Key scribe Ehren Kruger.

CBS Films is in negotiations with the scripting team of Matt Allen and Caleb Wilson ("Four Christmases") to rewrite romantic comedy "Who Gets Bob?"

CBS Films has made its first acquisition of a finished film, buying U.S. distribution rights to "The Mechanic", the remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson film that stars Jason Staham as a hitman who trains an apprentice who has a connection to one of his mentor's victims. Simon West directed and Ben Foster and Donald Sut ...

CBS Films and Columbia Pictures are teaming to acquire It Takes A Village, a comedy pitch that Keenen Ivory Wayans will write and direct about a 30-something white single career-obsessed woman who decides on a whim to adopt a child from a South Pacific island--and comes home with the tribe's chief and seven elders who'll stay un ...

Sahara Lotti has been hired to write the comedy "The Exes" for CBS Films. The project is an adaptation of the best-selling 2003 novel "The Ex Files," written by British columnist Jane Moore.

Jeremy Slater has crafted an airport-thriller pitch with producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and sold it to DreamWorks Studios. Kurtzman and Orci, who produced "Eagle Eye" for the company, will produce the untitled thriller, which Slater will write.

CBS Films has made a preemptive deal to acquire "Vengeance," an action pitch by scribe Robert Mark Kamen. Erwin Stoff will produce.

CBS Films is developing the teen comedy "Freaky Monday" with producers Andrew Gunn and Mark Waters.