Chernin Entertainment Movie Updates

Reese Witherspoon is heading back into romantic comedy territory with The Beard.

Chernin Entertainment has acquired The Boy Who Played With Fusion, the true story of Taylor Wilson, a 14-year-old Arkansan who became the youngest ever to achieve nuclear fusion.

Bill Murray has begun looking at future projects, including the Black List dramedy St. Vincent De Van Nuys, which he's in early negotiations to topline for Twentieth Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment.

Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy are going to be packing heat. The duo have signed up to do a cop buddy movie.

Fox Animation has acquired the movie rights to children’s book The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom by first-time author Christopher Healy.

Chernin Entertainment dipped into its discretionary fund to spend mid six figures to option an untitled female buddy cop action comedy written by Katie Dippold, the writer and producer on Parks And Recreation.

Michael Fassbender may be staying in business with 20th Century Fox, as he's in early talks to topline Gerardo Naranjo's romantic drama The Mountain Between Us.

Fox 2000 has decided to Reboot, snapping up feature rights to Amy Tintera's yet-to-be-published novel and setting the fuuturistic project with Chernin Entertainment and Vast Entertainment.

So who did the studio lock in first? No, it wasn’t James Franco or Freida Pinto. The studio just closed what I’m told is a healthy seven-figure deal for Andy Serkis to reprise his role as lead ape Caesar. Serkis had only signed on for one movie, so his reps had leverage in ensuring that he come back to continue leading the ape t ...

Production-management outfit Benderspink has optioned the rights to Red Station, the first book of a spy thriller franchise.

Peter Chernin and Universal Pictures are headed to the ballet, nabbing a pitch from writers Jon Gunn and John Mann that's a spin on the Nutcracker story.

Peter Chernin and his top production executive Dylan Clark are coming aboard as producers of Oblivion, the futuristic science fiction film that has Tom Cruise starring and Tron: Legacy's Joseph Kosinski directing.

Eric Nazarian and Sergei Bodrov have sold a pitch to Chernin Entertainment titled Blood Brothers, with Channing Tatum attached to star, sources tell Variety.

Fox 2000 and Chernin Entertainment have teamed on a deal for screen rights to the upcoming Robert Harris novel The Fear Index, a thriller Knopf will publish in January in the US after a September UK release.

Hans Christian Andersens’ The Little Mermaid is the latest fairy tale to follow into the studios thirst for reimaginings. Sony has picked up Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale, a book by Carolyn Turgeon, for Country Strong filmmaker Shana Feste to write and direct.

Twentieth Century Fox has acquired bigscreen rights to young adult novel "Shatter Me" by Tahereh Mafi. Peter Chernin and Dylan Clark will produce the project through Fox-based Chernin Entertainment.

Fox 2000 has acquired screen rights to The Floor Of Heaven, a non-fiction book by Howard Blum that will be published April 26 by Crown/Random House.

20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment have set the Blades of Glory team of Will Speck & Josh Gordon to direct The Pool. The comedy is about a middle-class college graduate who jumps into the job market at the worst possible time, and the only gig he gets is teaching swim lessons at a prestigious country club full of bea ...

"Crazy Heart" filmmaker Scott Cooper is attached to write and direct "The Pale Blue Eye" for Fox 2000, TheWrap has learned.

Atari has set up its "Missile Command at 20th Century Fox. Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama are set to adapt the 1980s arcade game that Peter Chernin and Dylan Clark will produce through Chernin Entertainment.

The babies are bustin’ out. That’s the logline of a family adventure comedy that Fox is developing with director Clay Weiner and Chernin Entertainment. The untitled film would follow a group of babies that break out of their day-care room to find another infant before he makes it outside.

Jason Mantzoukas, who has been juggling acting and writing, has sold 2 projects: a feature action comedy pitch I've Got Your Girlfriend to 20th Century Fox and a workplace comedy to FX.

Glee creator Ryan Murphy might be in a deal to direct the feature film remake. I'm told that he's being courted by Fox 2000 to direct a remake of the 1975 musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which has grossed north of $100 million and is considered the longest running theatrical release in film history because it still packs ...

While he’s right now playing a lovable drunk in the Arthur reboot after portraying that drunken rock star in Get Him To The Greek, Russell Brand is finally getting the chance to play an old-time hero. Brand is the catalyst for Hawkwood, an action comedy that's been acquired by 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment.

Helmer Andy Fickman is negotiating to direct the Fox comedy "Us & Them," written by married scribes Joe Syracuse and Lisa Addario.

20th Century Fox has acquired screen rights to Incognito, a graphic novel series written by Ed Brubaker and illustrated by Sean Phillips. Robert Schenkkan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of The Kentucky Cycle, will write the screenplay. Peter Chernin and his Chernin Entertainment will produce with Circle of Confusion’s Da ...

Peter Chernin's production company and alma mater 20th Century Fox are looking for some laughs. Chernin Entertainment and Fox are teaming on a comedy pitch by scribes Adam Cole-Kelly & Sam Pitman that revolves around a group of middle-school kids who find themselves transformed into adults. Story follows the hilarity and cha ...