Bluegrass Pictures Movie Updates

Universal Pictures made a preemptive buy on Daniel Kunka’s spec script Space Race.

DreamWorks Pictures is looking for a few bad men.

Universal Pictures is hitching a ride on Margot Robbie's rising stardom.

Lisa Joy, who scripted and is exec producer on HBO’s series Westworld, is writing the script.

Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, T.J. Miller and Kate McKinnon will star in Office Christmas Party, a holiday comedy from DreamWorks Pictures.

Universal Pictures has acquired an untitled comedy pitch from writers Wellesley Wild, Kevin Biggins and Mike Desilets, who all work together on Fox’s Family Guy.

Universal Pictures keeps lining them up. The studio has acquired the action comedy pitch The Revenger.

We’re the Millers director Rawson Marshall Thurber has signed on to return to New Line to direct its spy comedy Central Intelligence.

Universal Pictures has won a bidding war for the film rights to a comedy package based on Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Steve Breen’s upcoming book of illustrations, Unicorn Executions and Other Crazy Stuff My Kids Make Me Draw.

Universal Pictures and producer Scott Stuber have set Sarah Treem to adapt Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year Of Living With Joy.

Stuart Blumberg has sold an original comedy pitch to New Line Cinema with Scott Stuber and Maven Pictures duo Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler producing.

Universal Pictures has optioned the rights to crime thriller On the Job, with Baltasar Kormakur on board to write and direct.

Bluegrass Films has set Parkland writer-director Peter Landesman to rewrite and direct Down By The River.

Universal Pictures has closed a deal to turn the David Guggenheim and Nicholas Mennuti novel Weaponized into a feature with Scott Stuber producing through his Bluegrass Films banner.

Scott Stuber and Pam Abdy’s Bluegrass Films are on board to produce along with Underground’s Trevor Engelson.

Universal has picked up Little Evil, a dark comedy spec from Tucker and Dale vs Evil writer-director Eli Craig.

Gears of War may be getting closer to a film adaptation

DreamWorks just closed a deal for Las Madres, a comic pitch for a script that will be written by Lona Williams.

Universal Pictures has acquired an untitled family comedy pitch from scribes Brian Gatewood and Alex Tanaka that will be developed as a star vehicle for Vince Vaughn.