Robert Mark Kamen Movie Updates

20th Century Fox has given the go ahead for a Taken 3, as confirmed by screenwriter Mark Kamen.

Paul Walker is in talks to star in Brick Mansions, the Americanized remake of the Paris-set Banlieue 13.

Veteran producer Ed Pressman is in Cannes with news on three projects. Pressman has closed deals with Phillip Noyce to direct and Robert Mark Kamen to script a reinvention of iconic Jean Claude Van Damme actioner Bloodsport (1988).

A fascinating drama has been playing out over the past few weeks on Taken 2, the sequel to the surprise global hit film hatched by Luc Besson that reinvigorated Liam Neeson.

"Taken” co-writer Robert Mark Kamen has sold an untitled thriller pitch to Paramount Pictures. The high-concept plotline is being kept a mystery, but it is known to involve two twentysomethings, a man and a woman, caught up in a character-based, intimate thriller.

Zoe Saldana is in early negotiations to star in "Columbiana," a drama that Luc Besson is producing under his Europa Corp. The project is slated for late-summer start with Olivier Megaton ("Transporter 3") directing.

CBS Films has made a preemptive deal to acquire "Vengeance," an action pitch by scribe Robert Mark Kamen. Erwin Stoff will produce.