Marty Bowen Movie Updates

Plans to turn Epic Games' Gears of War into a film franchise are being revived.

Fox 2000 and Twilight Saga producers Temple Hill Productions have set Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber to adapt The Fault In Our Stars, the John Green novel.

CBS Films has closed a deal for Wedding Day, an ensemble romantic comedy pitch written by Andrew Goldberg.

Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson have come on board to produce the Paramount crime drama "When Corruption Was King." They join Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey and Shane McCarthy, who are currently producing through Bowen's Temple Hill Entertainment shingle.

CBS Films today announced that the company has secured exclusive rights to Marie Lu's futuristic thriller Legend. Penguin Group has set the series' first novel for publication in November 2011. Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey (The Twilight Saga, Dear John) will develop and produce.

Director Scott Derrickson is getting his slingshot ready for Goliath, a new take on the David vs. Goliath Biblical tale from Relativity Media. Ryan Kavanaugh of Relativity as well as Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen of Temple Hill are producing what will be a period action movie made with contemporary sensibilities.

Channing Tatum is working with Jamie Linden and producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey of Temple Hill on "Ten Year," an ensemble drama about friends reuniting a decade after their graduation.

Relativity has won the bidding war to the movie rights for Nicholas Sparks' upcoming novel "Safe Haven," with Temple Hill's Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey the lucky producers attached.

Temple Hill partners Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey have made a with rights holders Nelvana and The Clifford Ross Company to generate family films around "Babar", the bestselling book series.

Will Ferrell will star in "Everything Must Go," an independently financed film that marks the feature directorial debut of commercials director Dan Rush.