Overbrook Entertainment Movie Updates

Jaden Smith and Cara Delevingne are set to topline Overbrook Entertainment’s upcoming romantic drama.

2oth Century Fox has acquired Kazu Kibuishi’s bestselling graphic novel series Amulet.

Paramount Pictures has bought Sascha Penn's spec script Bounty, with Will Smith attached to star.

Jada Pinkett-Smith will produce and star in Salsa. Her dance partner will be William Levy.

Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment is materializing on Ghost Graduation, setting up a remake of the Spanish comedy at Fox.

Sony is looking for the funny in Interpol, snapping up a comedy pitch by the writing team of Jonathan Keasey and Brant Boivin and setting it up with Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment.

Bieber is eyeing a lead role in the comedy “What Would Kenny Do?” according to a person who was briefed on the project but was not authorized to speak about it publicly. The film tells of a relationship between a 17-year-old and his thirtysomething self. Said thirtysomething would be played by Ashton Kutcher, the source said.

Screenwriting team Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (The Fighter) sold Joe to Sony Pictures and Smith’s production company Overbrook Entertainment; Smith is attached to star. In a recent interview, Tamasy spoke about their approach to updating the Biblical story, and revealed the studio wants to sign The Fighter director David O. R ...

In his latest keep-it-in-the-family move, Will Smith is exploring with Sony the potential for a remake of the musical Annie, with daughter Willow as the star, sources say.

Paramount has set up "Wheeler Dealers," acquiring Michael Lerner's pitch based on the tale of a recent munitions contract gone awry. Paramount has set the project up at Will Smith and James Lassiter's Overbrook Entertainment and Brett Ratner's Rat Entertainment.

M. Night Shyamalan is in town this week, working on putting together his next directorial effort which will see him working with Will Smith. But it won’t be the secret untitled project he shopped around in June. That script, which came with Bruce Willis, Bradley Cooper and Gwyneth Paltrow loosely attached, never found a buyer ...

Disney has acquired the script Monster Witness Relocation Program by writers Ahmet Zappa and Michael Wilson. The script's based on an original idea by Ahmet Zappa. Zappa's Monsterfoot Productions will produce with Overbrook Entertainment. Word is that the film will be developed as a potential star vehicle for Karate Kid star Ja ...

Will Smith has attached himself to star in and produce "The Legend of Cain", an epic re-telling of the Biblical sibling tale, this time with a vampiric twist.

Overbrook Entertainment's Will Smith, James Lassiter and Ken Stovitz are moving ahead on developing a feature for Sony based on modern-day explorer and African-American neuroscience professor Dr. S. Allen Counter. Debbie Allen is also producing and Farhad Safinia ("Apocalypto") has been tapped to pen the script.

The filmmakers, who hired a number of Chinese crew members, say the production inconveniences were minor and the creative conversations with partner China Film Group Corp. easily resolved. As part of Sony's deal with China Film, the government-run movie company invested about $5 million in the film's approximate $40-million budg ...