Fox 2000 Pictures Movie Updates

"The Wind in the Willows" is being developed in a live-action and animatronics version by RG Entertainment for a fall shoot in New Zealand, with Peter Jackson's visual effects company Weta Workshop onboard.

Fox 2000 has acquired movie rights to "The Secret Journeys of Jack London: The Wild", the first installment of a young adult supernatural adventure series by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon. Harper Collins just acquired the series and will publish the first volume in March, 2011.

Fox 2000 has snapped up Cherry Cheva's young-adult novel "Duplikate" for Alloy Entertainment to produce. Rina Mimoun, creator of the short-lived CW skein "Privileged," has been tapped to adapt.

Fox 2000 and New Regency have partnered to option Liane Moriarty’s novel “What Alice Forgot.” Katherine Fugate, creator of the Lifetime series “Army Wives,” has been hired to write the adaptation. Moriarty’s novel is about a woman who suffers a head injury and wakes to find that she actually might be 10 years older and forgotten ...

Ridley Scott is in discussions with Angelina Jolie for the femme fatale role in “Gucci,” a drama about murder and decadence in the Gucci fashion dynasty.