Davis Entertainment Movie Updates

Paul Greengrass has come on board to direct the Eliot Ness film, aptly titled Ness, for Paramount.

Paramount Pictures reeled in a big one last night. In competitive bidding, the studio closed a deal for Conquest.

Disney is moving forward with an untitled film revolving around its Jungle Cruise theme park attraction with Dwayne Johnson attached to star.

New Line has acquired the rights to the Shaft franchise and is developing a reboot of the popular police property with producer John Davis of Davis Entertainment.

Predator is getting the reboot treatment from 20th Century Fox.

Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, the writers of Fox's Night at the Museum franchise, are in final negotiations to write the script for the studio's adaptation of iconic 1980s book line Choose Your Own Adventure.

Will Smith is attached to star in the supernatural thriller Selling Time for 20th Century Fox, multiple individuals familiar with the project have told TheWrap.

Paramount’s Insurge Pictures is picking up Prism, a pitch from emerging writer Ian Fried, who has had two other scripts land on The Black List.

Stephen Chbosky, who directed Emma Watson in the sleeper hit The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, has re-teamed with the actress at 20th Century Fox on While We’re Young.

Allison Miller, one of the stars of TV’s short-lived Terra Nova, will topline Unwanted, a found footage movie from Fox and Davis Entertainment.

Jason Bateman and Jim Garavente’s Aggregrate Films and Davis Entertainment’s John Davis and John Fox have joined to produce Game Night, a comedy that was acquired by New Line Cinema from a pitch by Mark Perez.

Fox 2000 has closed a deal to tell the life story of Joy Mangano, a struggling Long Island single mom of three who became one of the country’s most successful entrepreneurs.

Is Daniel Radcliffe pasty enough and ghostly enough to star in Frankenstein?

David Stem and David Weiss, the writing team behind last year's The Smurfs, have been tapped to write The Ringling Brothers for Paramount.