Atlas Entertainment Movie Updates

MGM has optioned Rising Stars, the Top Cow comic series created by J. Michael Straczynski.

Warner Bros. is fetching Scooby-Doo again.

Relativity has acquired Continuum, a feature pitch that will be written by Greg Russo, based on the Arcana comic book.

The doping scandal that enveloped the Tour de France and led to the downfall of 7-time champion Lance Armstrong is now the focus of movies being developed by two major studios.

Oscar Isaac and Jason Clarke will star in Mojave, a thriller that William Monahan is directing.

Sony Pictures and New Regency are making a deal with Snow White And The Huntsman helmer Rupert Sanders to next direct The Juliet.

The nascent Arcana/Benderspink comics partnership has brought on Atlas Entertainment to produce a pair of projects -- Kill on Sight and Langley High.

Universal has tapped Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan to rewrite God of War, the studio adaptation of the video game from Sony Computer Entertainment.

Atlas Entertainment has made a pre-emptive pitch sale to New Line Cinema and is currently developing a script based on the life of Chris Paciello, the nightclub impresario who transformed the Miami club scene.

Sony Pictures Worldwide which has snagged U.S. and Canadian rights to Atlas Independent’s dark comedy Revenge for Jolly!.

Gemma Arterton is in negotiations to star in The Wright Girls, a dark comedy-thriller from Relativity and Atlas Entertainment.

Warner Bros. is conjuring up Mandrake the Magician, picking up the movie rights to the classic comic strip with Atlas Entertainment producing.

Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven and Alex Gartner have optioned Langley High, a graphic novel conceived by Benderspink.’s JC Spink and Christopher Cosmos.

Thomas Tull's Legendary East has set The Great Wall as its first project to bow through the China-based banner, with Edward Zwick at the helm and Marshall Herskovitz co-writing the project with the director.

Warner Bros. is doubling down on scribe Chris Boal, having picked up a pair of pitches from the playwright and emerging screenwriter, including a Viking-themed epic that True Blood thesp Alexander Skarsgard would star in and produce.