DreamWorks Studios Movie Updates

eamWorks has acquired remake rights to last year's French-Canadian hit Starbuck and tapped original filmmaker Ken Scott to write and direct the comedy.

Asserting itself as a buyer once more, DreamWorks is in negotiations to pick up Need for Speed, the racing project based on the Electronic Arts video game.

DreamWorks and Working Title Films are embarking on a feature remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic mystery Rebecca, that will be written by Eastern Promises scribe Steven Knight, who will go back to the original book by Daphne DuMaurier.

DreamWorks has tapped hot comedy scribe Tim Dowling to write its untitled office comedy, which Blades of Glory helmers Will Speck and Josh Gordon are attached to direct.

After Transformers: Dark of the Moon hauled in more than $1 billion at the global box office, Hasbro is eager to keep its toy-trafficking franchise rolling on the bigscreen.

Chris Columbus is negotiating to become attached to direct The Secret Lives of Road Crews, an action comedy script by Kevin Lund and T.J. Scott about a clandestine group of road crew workers.

DreamWorks has picked up the movie rights to Roald Dahl's book "The BFG" for Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall to produce amid talk that the studio is clamping down on development.

DreamWorks, which is looking to launch its own fantasy franchise, has acquired feature film rights to all five books in Karen Marie Moning's bestselling Darkfever series.

DreamWorks has thrown in the towel on Southpaw, the boxing drama that has Eminem returning to the screen for the first time since 2002's 8 Mile, and Antoine Fuqua directing a script by Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter.

Kario Salem has been set by DreamWorks to write an untitled crime thriller. He has already been working for the studio writing the Martin Luther King Jr movie that DreamWorks is doing with Warner Bros.

MGM is jumping into the animation game with the children's book adaptation Punk Farm, the studio's first toon since All Dogs Go to Heaven in 1989 and only its second in-house project since emerging from bankruptcy.

Wedding-themed movies are all the rage in Hollywood -- see the success of Bridesmaids and The Hangover Part 2 -- and now DreamWorks and Reese Witherspoon are trying a knot.

Vanguard Films and Animation president and CEO John Williams has locked a deal for screenwriter-author Ross Venokur to write three animated comedy/family feature films.

Last month, DreamWorks made a preemptive buy of an untitled pitch from "Real Steel" director Shawn Levy and the Gotham Group about the country's last remaining Kodachrome color photo lab. Jonathan Tropper is attached to write the script based on a New York Times article, with Levy directing. Problem was, Levy has a ...

Robert Zemeckis is in negotiations to direct Flight, a drama for Paramount that has Denzel Washington loosely attached to star.

Disney doesn't release Real Steel until Oct. 7, but already DreamWorks is getting the machinery moving on a sequel to the Shawn Levy-directed drama that stars Hugh Jackman. I'm told the studio has commissioned John Gatins, who scripted the first film, to start on the second installment.

DreamWorks has picked up a pitch from writer Jonathan Tropper about the closing of the last Kodachrome lab in the United States. Tropper will pen the script which is inspired by a New York Times article written by A.G. Sulzberger.

Gyllenhaal has moved on, and Liman is now determined to find his two or three leads in one shot. The filmmaker would like to shoot late summer, although no green light has been given and the strength and chemistry of the leads will be a factor in Paramount moving forward.

DreamWorks is looking to the afterlife, buying Voices From the Dead from J. Michael Straczynski. Project, which hasnt been set with a producer, centers on a fictional story of magician Harry Houdini and Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle using a psychic to solve a set of murders in New York during the 1920s.

Andrew Garfield, Jennifer Garner and Marcia Gay Harden are attached to star in Infinity Media's adaptation of Tawni O'Dell's bestselling novel Back Roads.

Jason Segel as an '80s-era undercover cop? It's almost too perfect. That's the premise of a new comedy project called Undercover Cop that DreamWorks Studios is putting together with Steven Zaillian's Film Rites banner.

Time Crimes, the remake of the 2007 Spanish time travel film, has been moved by Steve Zaillian from United Artists to DreamWorks. Zaillian, who'd set it up at UA to produce, has also committed to rewrite the script.

The studio has locked Pettyfer into another vehicle. DreamWorks acquired Shunt: The Story of James Hunt, a book by Tom Rubython. Pettyfer will play James Hunt, the British racing driver who won the Formula One World Championships in 1976 and whose charm turned the whole country on to the sport.

DreamWorks has made a preemptive acquisition of Southpaw, a pitch for a star vehicle for Eminem (Marshall Mathers) that will be written by Sons of Anarchy creator/exec producer Kurt Sutter.

DreamWorks has bought screen rights to W. Bruce Cameron's bestseller A Dog's Purpose, and hired the author to cowrite the script with his wife, Cathryn Michon. Gavin Polone will produce. Cameron's credits include 8 Simple Rules For Dating My Daughter and Michon's include China Beach. The book's about a pooch's quest to discover ...

Ronan Bennett is writing the screenplay for this adaptation of Dean King’s true-life bestseller about 12 American sailors forced into slavery in Africa when they were shipwrecked in 1815. The sailors endured a punishing trek across the Sahara before they were taken prisoner. Captain James Riley’s account of their ordeal caused a ...

Alex Kurtzman is best known as one-half of the screenwriting team of Kurtzman-and-(Roberto) Orci, who have gone from writing "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" to working on some of the biggest sci-fi tentpoles in Hollywood, such as "Transformers" and "Star Trek." Now Kurtzman is entering the direct ...