Scott Free Productions Movie Updates

Andre Ovredal, the helmer of fantasy horror movie Troll Hunter, is to direct psychological horror film The Autopsy of Jane Doe.

20th Century Fox has pre-emptively bought Tranquility Base, a spec script by first-time scribe Daniel Turkewitz.

Twentieth Century Fox has picked up the movie rights to Mind MGMT, a Dark Horse comic book by indie darling Matt Kindt.

Ridley Scott’s British-based film and TV banner Scott Free London has snapped up movie rights to Anne de Courcy’s best-selling book The Fishing Fleet.

Its Universal deal may be a thing of the past, but Hasbro is still moving forward on translating its properties for the big-screen.

Michael Douglas is ready to be sworn in as the 40th president of the United States.

Ridley Scott and Steve Zaillian will produce a reimagining of the BBC's The Day Britain Stopped for Fox.

I’m hearing that 20th Century Fox is the frontrunner to acquire Wool, a self-published online book that has become an internet sensation and is being called the sci-fi version of Fifty Shades of Grey.

Martin Scorsese will direct “The Wolf of Wall Street” starring Leonardo DiCraprio. The deal, which brings Scorsese and DiCaprio together for their fifth feature collaboration, was made official today.

Ridley Scott is in talks to direct the Cormac McCarthy-scripted drama The Counselor. Scott intends to make it his next film and his followup to Prometheus, the 3D space film which Fox releases this summer.

Joe Carnahan has landed a new gig: He's being hired to write and direct a remake of Death Wish, the 1974 vigilante picture that helped put Charles Bronson on the map, according to a person familiar with the project who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak about it publicly.

20th Century Fox used the holiday weekend to close a preemptive deal for David Guggenheim's action thriller spec Narco Sub.

Brit helmer Stephen Frears and scribe D.V. DeVincentis are set to work together once again.

Fox Searchlight is back in business with Juno star Ellen Page, who's in final talks to join Brit Marling and Alexander Skarsgard in Zal Batmanglij's thriller The East.

Euro production-distribution giant Studiocanal and Ridley and Tony Scott's Scott Free are teaming to produce the first English-language film from Italian helmer Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love).

StudioCanal has come on board to co-finance and handle international sales for Inside Llewyn Davis, an original script by the Coen brothers.

Tony Scott is getting serious about a new version of a movie classic. Scott is in talks with Warner Bros to direct a reboot of the 1969 Sam Peckinpah-directed The Wild Bunch.

Projects involving Rowan Joffe, Emma Thompson and Christmas are among those planned for the British arm of Ridley and Tony Scott's production company.

"Crazy Heart" filmmaker Scott Cooper will write and direct "Out of the Furnace" for Relativity Media. "Furnace" is based on Brad Ingelsby's story "The Low Dweller," and is envisioned as a gritty throwback to pics of the 1970's. Plot follows an ex-con bent on avenging the death of his br ...

Warner Bros. has scooped up David Liss' period novel A Conspiracy of Paper for Ridley and Tony Scott to produce through their Scott Free banner.

Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain scribes Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana are in the midst of two major period Western feature films projects. They are scripting The Color of Lightning for Ridley Scott to direct at 20th Century Fox, and they are at the center of a new deal at Warner Bros to adapt the S. C. Gwynne book Empire of t ...