Tom Pollock Movie Updates

Summit and OddLot Entertainment’s dramedy Draft Day began filming today in New York, timed to the real NFL Draft that begins Thursday at Radio City Music Hall.

Rango co-writer Jim Byrkit and Alex Manugian have been happed to pen the script for Fraggle Rock, New Regency’s big-screen adaptation of the 1980s musical puppet series created by Jim Henson.

Universal and Montecito Picture Co. are hoping to develop a doozy of a follow-up to the 1988 hit comedy that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito that would reunite the two stars.

Toni Collette, Danny Huston, Michael Stuhlbarg and Michael Wincott are in negotiations to join the cast of Fox Searchlight's Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of 'Psycho'.

Producer Cathy Konrad and James Mangold’s Tree Line Films will partner with Tom Pollock and Ivan Reitman’s Montecito Picture Company on an adaptation of the Anne Fortier novel Juliet.

Montecito Picture Co. has pre-emptively purchased Rockabye Baby, a spec script from writer Chris Baldi.

Paramount has preemptively picked up Bastards, a comedy spec from Justin Malen, for Montecito to produce.

Ivan Reitman and Tom Pollock’s Montecito Pictures has acquired the film rights to journalist Alan Paul’s new memoir Big in China: My Unlikely Adventure Raising a Family, Playing the Blues and Reinventing Myself in Beijing.

The Montecito Picture Co. is getting into the creature feature biz, preemptively picking up Monsters of the Midway, a spec by Jeff Lowell.

Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith, writer of "Legally Blonde," will make her directorial debut with "Camp Rules" from Paramount Pictures.

Montecito and Paramount are going on a "Field Trip." Montecito, run by Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollock and Joe Medjuck, has dipped into its discretionary fund to pick up a sci-fi-tinged adventure comedy pitch from Jordan Cahan.

Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka have been hired by Paramount to write the screenplay for the studio’s feature adaptation of “Baywatch.”

Writer-director Derick Martini has set up his sophomore film at Paramount. Studio has preemptively acquired Martini's original screenplay "I Am My Family's Secret" and has attached the "Lymelife" helmer to direct.