Cathy Schulman Movie Updates

Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini have come on board to direct indie romance-comedy My Beautiful Coma for Mandalay Vision and Rat Entertainment.

Philip Seymour Hoffman is set to direct the supernatural drama Ezekiel Moss for Mandalay Pictures and Likely Story.

Thomas Carter is hitting the gridiron for Mandalay's When the Game Stands Tall.

Image/Millennium has acquired Playing Dirty, a spec script written by Richard Blaney and Gregory Small.

Mandalay Vision has set Julian Jarrold to helm Exit 147, an indie thriller scripted by Travis Milloy.

Ann Peacock has signed on to write Hunting Eichmann, a thriller based on the true account of Israeli agents who secretly entered pro-Nazi Argentina to capture Adolph Eichmann, known as the architect of the final solution.

Mandalay Pictures has tapped emerging scribe Nic Kelman to adapt Liquid Comics' graphic novel Ramayan 3392 AD.

New Line Cinema has tapped Puss in Boots scribe David H. Steinberg to rewrite its live-action laffer Furry Friday.

Marking the first project under their new producing pact, Mandalay Pictures and FilmColony will bring Troy Cook's comic crime novel 47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers to the bigscreen.

Universal Pictures has set Scott Rudin to produce Sinatra, the film Martin Scorsese will direct about the life of singer-actor Frank Sinatra.

In a pre-emptive move, Mandalay Pictures has nabbed bigscreen rights to the just-published young adult novel "Firelight." Supernatural tale, the first in a three-book series, was penned by bestselling author Sophie Jordan, aka Sharie Kohler.

Mandalay Pictures wants to build a movie around "Machine Man," a novel whose pages are being posted online each day by author Max Barry. The shingle has picked up film rights to the thriller that Vantage Books plans to publish in 2011.

Mandalay Pictures has optioned the film rights to the upcoming novel "Horns," penned by Joe Hill, son of Stephen King.