DreamWorks Studios Movie Updates

DreamWorks Studios has bitten into the original comedy pitch “Raised by Wolfs” from writer Les Firestein. Steve Carell is attached to star and produce through his Carousel Prods.

Sam Raimi has signed to helm and produce a pic based on graphic novel "Earp: Saints for Sinners" for DreamWorks, Radical Studios, Mandeville and Raimi's Star Road Entertainment.

DreamWorks has picked up an action thriller pitch from writer John Hlavin. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the story is described as an internationally set heist movie.

I'm hearing that DreamWorks has just acquired the screen rights to "Monsterpocalypse", and they are already making overtures to Burton to be the creative catalyst.

Steven Spielberg has selected his next directing job: World War I epic "War Horse." Disney and DreamWorks will release the film Aug. 10, 2011.

Here is McKay's Twitter: "So bummed. Paramount basically passed on Anchorman 2. Even after we cut our budget down. We tried."

Jeremy Slater has crafted an airport-thriller pitch with producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and sold it to DreamWorks Studios. Kurtzman and Orci, who produced "Eagle Eye" for the company, will produce the untitled thriller, which Slater will write.

As the search for a "Mission: Impossible IV" director intensifies, a surprising contender has emerged: Brad Bird.

Ginnifer Goodwin is falling for romancer "Something Borrowed" and is in talks to star for Alcon Entertainment-based 2S Films.

DreamWorks Studios and Doubleday have acquired, in a pre-emptive deal, the rights to Daniel H. Wilson's unpublished manuscript, "Robopocalypse," it was announced today by Mark Sourian and Holly Bario, Co-Presidents of Production at the studio, and Jason Kaufman, Executive Editor and Vice President, at Doubleday.

DreamWorks Studios has purchased the original screenplay "Someone in the Dark," written by Richard Blaney and Gregory Small.