Lorne Michaels Movie Updates

Paramount has acquired movie rights to Steve Silberman’s science book Neurotribes.

Kenan Thompson, who's at the center of a deal for Party Starters, an original high-concept comedy set up at Paramount Pictures about that sort of entertainer guy who gets the old people up to dance at weddings and keeps the party rolling. Pic will be scripted by SNL writer Bryan Tucker.

Anne Fletcher (The Proposal) will direct the project with a script by Dan Fogelman (Cars), which he wrote based on his own experience traveling with his mother. Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn are producing along with Evan Goldberg. Executive producers include Rogen, Streisand, Fogelman and David Ellison, whose Skydance will co- ...