Eric Fellner Movie Updates

Wes Bentley is joining Zac Efron in drama We Are Your Friends, the story of a troubled aspiring DJ named Cole who finds his place in the world of electronic dance music.

Sofia Coppola is in negotiations to direct The Little Mermaid for Working Title and Universal.

Two of Europe's primo production players, Studiocanal and Working Title, are teaming to produce thriller Two Faces of January, the directorial debut of Drive scribe Hossein Amini.

"New Girl" star Zooey Deschanel and Irish thesp Domhnall Gleeson are in talks to star in Working Title Films' low-budget time-travel dramedy "About Time," which "Love Actually" helmer Richard Curtis will direct from his own script.

Simon Baker looks to have found his next project during his hiatus as The Mentalist star is set for the Working Title's I Give it a Year.

Focus Features will distribute the Joe Wright-directed adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic Anna Karenina in the United States in the second half of 2012. Universal Pictures International will distribute the movie internationally.

Chris Hemsworth will get behind the wheel to star in the role of British Formula One driver James Hunt in Rush, the Peter Morgan-scripted drama that shapes up as the next directing effort for Ron Howard.

Working Title Films has optioned the feature film rights to Charlotte Street, the debut novel by Danny Wallace, whose non-fiction book Yes Man was the basis for the 2008 Jim Carrey comedy.

Working Title Films and Kris Thykier's Peapie Films have acquired film rights to Andy Mulligan's crossover novel Trash for Richard Curtis to adapt and Stephen Daldry to direct.

Looks like Universal Pictures has won the battle for the next film to be directed by Oscar-winning The King’s Speech helmer Tom Hooper. The dealmaking has started for Hooper to direct Les Miserables, a full-blown musical adaptation of the Cameron Mackintosh-produced perennial stage hit.

London-based Working Title has optioned The History Keepers, a new children’s novel due to be published by Random House Children’s Books in the UK this fall. It’s being pitched as Harry Potter meets Doctor Who.

As his new film Unknown gets its international premiere in Berlin today and rolls out in U.S. theaters, director Jaume Collet-Serra is making a deal to direct Red Circle, the remake of the 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville-directed Le Cercle Rouge. The film is being written by Eastern Promises scribe Steven Knight for Working Title Film ...

Legendary wizard Merlin is being conjured up for the big screen. Working Title is developing a take on the magician, having picked up a pitch from author-screenwriter Jay Basu that brings Merlin into a contemporary setting.

Working Title Films has landed screen rights to "The Snowman," the Jo Nesbo novel that is the latest in a bestselling detective series that has sold more than 5 million copies worldwide. The book is currently at the top of the UK bestseller lists and will be published by Knopf in the US next spring.

Universal and production company Working Title plan on bringing "The Cup of Tears" to life as a feature-length film.

20th Century Fox has acquired screen rights to Incognito, a graphic novel series written by Ed Brubaker and illustrated by Sean Phillips. Robert Schenkkan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of The Kentucky Cycle, will write the screenplay. Peter Chernin and his Chernin Entertainment will produce with Circle of Confusion’s Da ...

Universal Pictures is bringing back bumbling British spy Johnny English for a follow-up assignment. Studio and U.K.-based shingle Working Title have quickly assembled a sequel to the 2003 comedy starring Rowan Atkinson and are eyeing an August start date.