Order of the Seven Movie Updates

The Genre Company and Inferno's Ember Prods. are unwrapping Christmas-themed horror pic Silent Night, tapping Malcolm McDowell to star and Steven C. Miller to direct the loose remake of TriStar's 1984 film Silent Night, Deadly Night.

Saoirse Ronan is in final talks to star in Disney's "Order of Seven," a project that was originally developed as a Kung Fu retelling of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

While Universal and Relativity jockey over their rival Snow White movies, Disney is quietly making moves on its own revisionist Snow White feature, a live-action project now called The Order of the Seven. Commercials director and visual effects wizard Michael Gracey has been chosen as the man to helm what is being envisioned ...

And why is Hollywood so transfixed with the zillion year old story of Snow White? THR had an actual exclusive the other day that Toy Story 3 scribe Michael Arndt has boarded Disney's long-gestating Francis Lawrence-directed action pic Snow and the Seven (though I can report Scott Rudin has stepped off that picture as producer).

Michael Arndt, who just last week received an Oscar nomination for his work on Toy Story 3, is in negotiations to work on the script. Production designer John Myhre, an Oscar winner for his work on Memoirs of a Geisha and Chicago who’s working on Disney’s new Pirates of the Caribbean movie, has been brought on board to begin cre ...