Steve Tisch Movie Updates

Sony is fast tracking a remake of the 2015 French film Disorder.

Sony Pictures and Escape Artists are feeling confident in their Denzel Washington thriller The Equalizer, as screenwriter Richard Wenk has closed a deal to write the sequel.

DreamWorks comedy Delivery Man, Ken Scott is in early talks to once again team with Vaughn.

Michael Mitnick has been set by Universal Pictures to adapt the Oliver Jeffers novel The Incredible Book Eating Boy. Escape Artists partners Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch are producing with Furst Films’ Bryan Furst & Sean Furst.

Sony has preemptively picked up De-Friended, a comedy pitch from MadTV co-creator Fax Bahr and Harry Dunn. Steve Tisch, Todd Black and Jason Blumenthal of Escape Artists are producing.

Al Pacino is attached to play French artist Henri Matisse in Escape Artists' Masterpiece. Deepa Mehta (Water) is attached to direct from a script by Donald Martin.

Director Gary Fleder and writer Caroline Case are collaborating on psychological thriller Indiscretion for Escape Artists.

Fresh off their collaboration on “The Next Three Days,” Paul Haggis and Russell Crowe may be working together on a new project: “The Equalizer.” Crowe has long been attached as a star and producer of the feature adaptation of the late-’80s TV series, and Haggis, who just directed Crowe in the upcoming Lionsgate thriller “Days,” ...