Scott Z. Burns Movie Updates

Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) will direct the dramatic feature American Hero.

The story of the Panama Papers is getting the movie treatment via filmmaker Steven Soderbergh.

Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin of U.K. production company Blueprint Pictures are looking to build on their expanded profile with three features planned to shoot to 2013.

Scott Z. Burns has been tapped to work on Fox’s sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Chernin Entertainment is producing.

Open Road is setting a February 8, 2013 release date for Bitter Pill, the film that Steven Soderbergh began shooting in New York.

Catherine Zeta-Jones has been set to star in Side Effects, the thriller that Steven Soderbergh will direct.

Steven Soderbergh ia reteaming with his U.N.C.L.E. writer Scott Z. Burns for The Bitter Pill.

Steven Soderbergh is in early talks to take over directing duties on the long-in-development film The Man From U.N.C.L.E. at Warner Bros. Scott Z. Burns, who wrote Soderbergh’s The Informant and the director’s upcoming medical thriller Contagion, is negotiating to come aboard as writer.

New Films International has acquired U.S. and international theatrical distribution rights to Derek Magyar's "Flying Lessons" and Connie Stevens' "Saving Grace B. Jones." New Films Cinema will release both films in U.S. theaters.