Columbia Pictures Movie Updates

Longtime Adam Sandler collaborator Tim Herlihy has been tapped to write Pixels, the adaptation of the popular Internet short, by Sandler’s Happy Madison and Columbia.

After months of wrangling, Columbia has optioned the rights to "Emergency!: This Book Will Save Your Life," the non-fiction book from best-selling author Neil Strauss. Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps scribe Allan Loeb is set to pen the script. Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, and Michael DeLuca are developing the ...

Sony Pictures just made a deal for an untitled mixed martial arts vehicle for Kevin James to shoot next year. The script will be written by Allan Loeb, and Kevin is producing with Todd Garner.

Screenwriter Carl Ellsworth is carving a niche for himself writing movies about kids in jeopardy. The "Red Dawn" and "Disturbia" co-writer has come aboard to write the screenplay for a live-action feature adaptation of the R.L. Stine book series "Goosebumps" for Columbia. Neal Moritz is producing ...

Robin Wright is negotiating to star in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the David Fincher-directed adaptation of the Stieg Larsson novel for Sony Pictures Entertainment. She is in talks to play Erika Berger, the publisher of crusading finance magazine Millennium, and the occasional lover of journalist Mikael Blomkvist (to be pla ...

It appears that Sony has slated "Girls Like Us" as a "priority project" at the studio and are currently seeking a female writer to tackle the story.

Baseball project "Million Dollar Arm" has taken a sharp right turn. The project, with Mark Ciardi, Gordon Gray and Joe Roth producing and Palak Patel exec producing, was in the middle of being snagged by Columbia but now appears to be heading to Disney.

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 ...

The multihyphenate who most recently took on an HBO biopic about Jack Kevorkian, is attached to helm a bigscreen pic about human rights activist Jack Healey for Columbia Pictures.

Marvel Studios has hired Conan scribes Thomas Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer to write Dr. Strange, marking forward progress on a long-gestating superhero property which will likely be among the first Marvel films generated under the Disney banner.

"Grown Ups" director Dennis Dugan will reunite once again with Adam Sandler for "Jack and Jill".

Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison are in early talks to develop a movie based on Patrick Jean's video-game themed sci-fi invasion video Pixels, which has become a viral sensation. No deal yet at Columbia, but Happy Madison bought the rights to Jean's work and Adam Sandler's company is a fixture on the lot.

The continuing uncertainty over who will own MGM has prompted the studio and Sony Pictures Entertainment to change its strategy on their comedy co-production Zookeeper, which bows in October. Columbia Pictures will replace MGM as the domestic theatrical distributor.

Columbia Pictures has made a deal to develop The Pioneer Woman, a romantic comedy that's being shaped as a potential star vehicle for Reese Witherspoon.