DreamWorks Studios Movie Updates

Steven Spielberg finally has decided on his next movie -- make that his next two movies.

Anders Roslund and Stefan Thunberg's crime thriller tells the true story behind the largest wave of bank robberies in Sweden's history.

DreamWorks Studios has preemptively acquired the rights to the Paula Hawkins novel The Girl on the Train for Marc Platt to produce.

Van Wagenen has become the youngest non-actor to ever make a feature deal at DreamWorks.

DreamWorks has preemptively picked up the film rights to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin's soon-to-be-released book The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism.

Phil and Scott Rosenberg have sold an untitled pitch to DreamWorks Studios.

DreamWorks has acquired the upcoming sci-fi thriller novel Spark by John Twelve Hawks.

DreamWorks has acquired remake rights to Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda's Like Father, Like Son.

Derek Cianfrance, who last directed the Ryan Gosling drama The Place Beyond the Pines, has been hired to direct DreamWorks’ adaptation of The Light Between Oceans.

Universal Pictures is in negotiations to pick up 39 Clues, the adaptation of Scholastic’s 10-book adventure series, out of turnaround from DreamWorks.

DreamWorks Studios has acquired a book proposal by Paul Kix for Noble Assassin as a directing vehicle for Cary Fukunaga.

Universal has optioned Locke & Key, the acclaimed supernatural comic book series by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez, to develop as a feature film.

DreamWorks is setting Lasse Hallstrom to direct The Hundred-Foot Journey, an adaptation of the Richard C. Morais novel.

Steven Spielberg has found his next directing project: an adaptation of American Sniper, the autobiography of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, which is set up at Warner Bros.

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

Steven Spielberg has revealed that DreamWorks is prepping a film to shoot in Kashmir, on the India-Pakistan border, with its Indian partner Reliance Entertainment.

DreamWorks jumped into the fray last night by closing a mid-six figure against seven-figure deal for Merry Men, a pitch for a film that will be scripted by Brad Ingelsby with Act Of Valor co-director Scott Waugh attached to direct.

Michael Sucsy is attached to helm a biopic about a cappella group Straight No Chaser for Dreamworks Pictures and Anonymous Content.

Christopher Kyle is in negotiations to adapt Shadow and Bone, DreamWorks’ adaptation of the YA fantasy from Leigh Bardugo.

DreamWorks Studios has acquired the manuscript to Matthew Quick’s latest novel, The Good Luck Of Right Now.

DreamWorks is in talks to pick up the movie rights to The Light Between Oceans, the debut novel by M.L. Stedman.

The conversations on DreamWorks‘ Julian Assange film that Twilight Saga’s Bill Condon will likely direct is now with Benedict Cumberbatch playing the WikiLeaks founder, and Robocop‘s Joel Kinnaman playing his former right hand man, Daniel Domscheit-Berg.

DreamWorks has paid mid to high six figures to acquire Glimmer, a spec script by Carter Blanchard that is described as a found footage version of an Amblin-style film, with a time travel element.