Mandate Pictures Movie Updates

Fox 2000 has made a deal for the 2008 Green novel Paper Towns.

Justin Timberlake is having no trouble lining up his next job, as he's in talks to topline Good Universe's romantic dramedy The Last Drop, sources familiar with the project tell Variety.

Mandate Pictures has optioned The Young, The Hot, And The Bothered, a script by Leah Rachel that is described as a coming-of-age comedy about the delusion, desperation, and absolute euphoria of first loves.

Phillip Noyce is inked a deal to direct the thriller The Arrangement for Mandate Pictures.

As Comic-Con prepares to open in San Diego, the graphic novel publisher Top Cow and the Walt Disney-based producer Mandeville Films are teaming up to make a movie based on the comic-book property The Darkness.

In an exclusive scoop, we're told that Fede Alvarez (Federico Alvarez) is directing for Raimi's Ghost House Pictures and Mandate. The remake was announced way back in 2004. No word on casting or if Bruce Campbell will return.

After a three-year hiatus, Spike Lee has found his next feature directing project, committing to helm Mandate Pictures' remake of the South Korean thriller "Oldboy."

Mandate Pictures and the 50/50 team of Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Jonathan Levine and Will Reiser are reteaming to develop the feature comedy Jamaica.

Mandate is hitting the sauce for The Last Drop, picking up the spec by brothers Brandon and Phillip Murphy. Mixing comedy and drama, Drop tells the story of a charming writer who is a fully functioning alcoholic by day, turned horribly dysfunctional by cocktail hour. While on assignment for The New Yorker, he meets the girl o ...

Mandate Pictures has bought a comedy pitch from scribe D.V. DeVincentis based on Bob Powers' book You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero. Project has been set up with the Mark Gordon Co.

Picture Machine and Galavis Films are developing Bret Easton Ellis screenplay Bait, a Spain-set thriller to be directed by Jonas Pate.

Mandate Pictures has won the auction for "The Day of the Triffids". The film will be produced by Ghost House, the partnership between Mandate, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert.

Word broke in May that Danny McBride and Aziz Ansari, who are currently shooting the comedy, "30 Minutes or Less" in Michigan, would be teaming up again for an untitled comedy flick that Ansari and Matt Hubbard, a writer on "30 Rock," conceived.

Miley Cyrus got a leading man for her Mandate film LOL in Douglas Booth. The British actor who makes his American feature debut after starring in the Julian Fellowes-directed From Time To Time, and playing Boy George in the BBC Two biopic Worried About The Boy. LOL is the Lisa Azuelos-directed remake of the 2009 French film Laug ...

Here's a good way to build buzz: Make a cool teaser trailer, then make it available for only 24 hours. That's what Mandate and Eleven Eleven Films are doing with their sci-fi paranoia thriller "The Divide." Formerly titled, "The Fallout," it's set in a post-apocalyptic New York where a group of eights surv ...

Mandate Pictures has picked up an untitled comedy feature pitch based on an idea by comedian Aziz Ansari and "30 Rock" television scribe Matt Hubbard. Ansari is attached to star in the project alongside comic actor Danny McBride.

Mandate Pictures has attached Shia LaBeouf to star in "The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman", a Mandate Pictures film that will be directed by hot commercials helmer Dante Ariola from a Matt Drake script.

"The Office" scribes Brent Forrester and Mindy Kaling are looking to boost their self-esteem with a bigscreen project at Mandate Pictures. The duo have set up "The Low Self Esteem of Lizzie Gillespie" with the team behind "Juno" and will pen the original romantic comedy, which will be produced by J ...

Roadside Attractions has acquired to indie romancer "The Good Guy" and plans to release the comedy-drama in March.