Madhouse Entertainment Movie Updates

Amblin Entertainment has closed a deal for The Fall, a Pete Bridges spec script.

Blumhouse Productions has acquired the Sean Finegan & Gregg Maxwell Parker spec Free Fall.

Paramount Pictures has bought Sascha Penn's spec script Bounty, with Will Smith attached to star.

DreamWorks has paid mid to high six figures to acquire Glimmer, a spec script by Carter Blanchard that is described as a found footage version of an Amblin-style film, with a time travel element.

David Stem and David Weiss, the writing team behind last year's The Smurfs, have been tapped to write The Ringling Brothers for Paramount.

Warner Bros. has preemptively purchased the high-concept pitch Rome, Sweet Rome from first-time scribe James Erwin.

Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde and Charlie Hunnam are in talks to star in the crime thriller Kin for 2929 Entertainment and Mutual Film Co.