Nina Jacobson Movie Updates

Jason Ian Drucker and Owen Asztalos have been cast as the young leads in the film, which will be directed by David Bowers.

Lionsgate has preemptively acquired The Second Life Of Nick Mason, a potential franchise based on the first in a series of books by Steve Hamilton

Lionsgate is developing a grand-scale retelling of history’s greatest voyage home, Homer’s The Odyssey.

Fox 2000 has optioned the rights to Robert Crais' best-selling novel 2013 novel Suspect.

The mini-major is courting Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire scribe Simon Beaufoy to write Catching Fire, the second installment of the three book series that tracks the life and death adventures of Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence). I’m told that Gary Ross, who directed The Hunger Games, is coming back for the sequel.

The collaboration between Gary Ross and Color Force on The Hunger Games must be proving fruitful. The director and the production company, run by Nina Jacobson, have teamed up for a pitch by John Whittington, which is set up at New Regency. Ross is attached to direct while Jacobson will produce.

The next big film directing job in Hollywood will be decided late next week,. That's when Lionsgate chooses a filmmaker for The Hunger Games, the first installment of a trilogy based on the Suzanne Collins novel series that many feel could be the next Twilight. I'm told that Lionsgate has gotten Billy Ray's rewrite, and will mee ...