Columbia Pictures Movie Updates

Columbia Pictures has preemptively acquired the rights to Arwen Elys Dayton’s upcoming YA novel Seeker, with the Mark Gordon Company attached to produce the adaptation.

Seth Rogen has signed on to direct, produce and star in 'The Interview' for Columbia Pictures.

Columbia Pictures is looking to bring a version of 1970s TV hit Good Times to the big screen.

Hangover 2 writer Scot Armstrong will direct the comedy, which is set to begin shooting this spring.

Sony is updating Oliver Twist with Dodge and Twist, an adventurous take featuring the characters from Charles Dickens’ classic novel with Cole Haddon, the creator of the NBC’s upcoming Dracula show, writing the script.

Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot partners JJ Abrams and Bryan Burk are going to make a movie about the epic rise and fall of doping bicyclist Lance Armstrong.

Jean Dujardin is being eyed for a role in George Clooney’s film The Monument’s Men, a person with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.

Despite being moved from Sony Pictures to Warner Bros. Pictures, Iron Man helmer Jon Favreau remains attached to direct the film version of the Tony-winning musical Jersey Boys.

Sony Pictures has tapped Sheldon Turner to adapt Richard Clarke's novel The Scorpion's Gate as an action-thriller that will be produced by Jennifer Klein.

Producer Matt Tolmach has been set by Sony Pictures to produce its reimagining of Joe Johnston's 1995 pic Jumanji along with original producer William Teitler.

Cameron Crowe has settled on his next movie -- a yet-to-be titled romantic drama starring Emma Stone.

Channing Tatum is in negotiations to star in and produce a film about '70s daredevil Evel Knievel for Columbia Pictures. Tatum will produce with his Iron Horse Entertainment partner Reid Carolin, who also will write the screenplay.

Josh Trank has signed with Sony Pictures to develop to direct Shadow Of The Colossus, a big-scale live-action adaptation of the bestselling Sony video game.

The Sony project is from (500) Days of Summer scribes Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber.

Sony Pictures Animation and Columbia Pictures are feeling confident in their upcoming "Smurfs" sequel, as the studios are already developing a script for "Smurfs 3" with scribes Karey Kirkpatrick and Chris Poche, sources tell Variety.

Forest Whitaker and David Oyelowo are in negotiations to star in Lee Daniels' The Butler, with Whitaker playing the title role and Oyelowo as his son.

Casa de Mi Padre director Matt Piedmont is jumping right into another project with Gary Sanchez and NALA Films, and this time he’ll work in English. Piedmont will direct King Dork, based on the 2006 Frank Portman novel that has been adapted by D.V. DeVincentis.

Columbia Pictures has acquired the rights to develop the Dutch thriller Taped, into an English-language motion picture to be produced by Red Wagon Entertainment’s Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher,.

Bruce Willis has signed on to star in action thriller Five Against a Bullet.

Sony Pictures is collaborating with Ryan Murphy on One Hit Wonders, a musical comedy pitch that will be written as a star vehicle for Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon, Cameron Diaz, Beyonce and Andy Samberg.

Sony Pictures has acquired a pitch from scribe Jason Keller for a period origin story on the Dracula mythology that will be produced by Joe Roth and Palak Patel.

John Logan has been tapped to adapt the musical Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, with GK Films' Graham King and Tim Headington producing.

Sony Pictures Entertainment and Escape Artists are developing a bigscreen adaptation of 1980s television series The Equalizer with Denzel Washington attached to star.