Michael De Luca Productions Movie Updates

Universal Pictures has optioned the upcoming Melissa Del Bosque book Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI, and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty.

Universal Pictures has won an auction for screen rights to The Cruel Prince, the new fantasy novel by The Spiderwick Chronicles author Holly Black.

Universal Pictures has attached Kevin Hart to star in The Great Outdoors, a reboot.

Jared Leto, Michael De Luca and Terence Winter are teaming to tackle the life of Andy Warhol.

Amblin has set Blaise Hemingway to adapt the John Connolly novel The Gates.

Lisa Joy, who scripted and is exec producer on HBO’s series Westworld, is writing the script.

Universal has won the rights to Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn's dark and twisted ghost story The Grownup.

Jesse Wigutow has been tapped to adapt Descender, the sci-fi comic book from acclaimed creator Jeff Lemire.

Sony has picked up the rights to The Sculptor, the new and well-received graphic novel from Scott McCloud.

Jim Carrey finally doing ‘Ricky Stanicky’.

Disney has paid mid-six figures for Ground Control To Major Tom, a romantic comedy by Butter scribe Jason Micallef that has Seth Gordon attached to direct.

Paramount Pictures has acquired the action-heist spec script Swindle, which will be developed by Moneyball producer Michael De Luca as a star vehicle for Megan Fox and Zoe Saldana.

Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan, the team behind three of the Saw films, are currently doing production rewrite work on the Guillermo del Toro-directed tent pole Pacific Rim for Legendary Pictures

Michael De Luca Prods. and Boss Media are teaming to produce Olivia Twisted, with Twilight star Ashley Greene toplining the ultramodern take on the classic Charles Dickens novel.