Stuart Cornfeld Movie Updates

Jack Black is set to produce and star in The Man Who Would Be Polka King.

After languishing in development for years, Misha Green's script Sunflower, which appeared on the 2008 Black List, has new momentum in the form of Adam Blaiklock, who has come on to direct the thriller for Twentieth Century Fox and Red Hour Films.

Will Ferrell is attached to star in Red Hour Films' "Flamingo Thief," which Michael LeSieur ("You, Me and Dupree") will adapt from the novel by Susan Trott.

20th Century Fox has preemptively acquired The Mountain, a spec script by Helen Childress that Ben Stiller will develop to direct.

New Line has acquired Pregnancy Pact, a comedy pitch that Sam Pitman and Adam Cole-Kelly will write for Red Hour Productions.

MRC and Ben Stiller's Red Hour Films are reteaming on a remake of 2010 French film Le Mac, with The Hangover star Ed Helms toplining and producing.

Disney has acquired remake rights to Quantum Hoops, the 2007 documentary that followed the 2006 Caltech basketball team that had 21 seasons and 245 conference games without a single win, routinely getting walloped by 60 points or more.

This riff off of Tom Cruise's Tropic Thunder parody of a movie producer that was a hit at the MTV Movie Awards (and is a viral video phenom) couldn't come at a better time for him. Because Cruise's upcoming rom com with Cameron Diaz, Knight And Day, is tracking like a bomb. I've always said that, if Tom wants to have a film care ...