Bluegrass Pictures Movie Updates

Universal Pictures has plans for Mama director Andy Muschietti to helm their adaptation of Josh Malerman's upcoming novel Bird Box.

Bestselling author Ernie Cline (Ready Player One) has sold feature film rights to his next novel, Armada, to Universal.

Seth MacFarlane is plotting his follow-up to Ted, a move that could involve him strapping on a pair of six irons and heading into the sunset.

Universal Pictures and producer Scott Stuber have optioned the Derek Haas spy thriller novel The Right Hand.

Paramount Pictures has acquired screen rights to the John Scalzi novel series Old Man’s War, with Wolfgang Petersen attached to direct and David Self adapting the tale into a large-scale science fiction project. Scott Stuber will produce through his Stuber Pictures banner, with Petersen also producing.

Universal Pictures is looking to stay in business with Contraband scribe Aaron Guzikowski, who is in negotiations to rewrite the studio's long-gestating adaptation of Moby Dick with the aim of scaling back the budget for director Timur Bekmambetov.