Alloy Entertainment Movie Updates

Madonna is set to direct the feature Taking Flight, based on the life of ballerina Michaela DePrince, for MGM.

Alloy Features are moving to produce Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, a feature film based on the book by William and Ellen Craft.

Alloy Entertainment is developing Sisterhood Everlasting, a follow-up to the previous two films based on the popular YA books.

Alloy Entertainment and Southpaw Entertainment are partnering for a music-driven love story titled Anything But Ordinary, developing the project simultaneously as a book and a film.

Alloy Entertainment is partnering with 24 showrunner Howard Gordon and writer-director James Wong for a sci-fi project titled 2084. The project is being developed simultaneously as a film and a young adult book series, with HarperCollins buying the three-tome series.

Alloy Entertainment is programming its forthcoming sci-fi book The Robot for the bigscreen, hiring The Legendary McClouds and Maintenance scribe Joe Ballarini to adapt the script.

Screenwriter Greg Russo has sold an action pitch to Alloy Entertainment called Black Ice. Meanwhile, the scribe also has been hired to rewrite the script for the Platinum Dunes actioner Heatseakers at Paramount.

Universal is feeling witchy. The studio has attached scribe Robert Nelson Jacobs to adapt "Sweep" for the bigscreen, based on Cate Tiernan's bestelling book series about a 16-year-old girl who discovers she's a blood witch.

Fox 2000 has snapped up Cherry Cheva's young-adult novel "Duplikate" for Alloy Entertainment to produce. Rina Mimoun, creator of the short-lived CW skein "Privileged," has been tapped to adapt.