Neal Purvis Movie Updates

Sam Mendes will begin filming the 24th James Bond film on Dec. 6, with the main cast members meeting for a table read that date at Pinewood Studios.

Universal is finally moving ahead on its big-screen adaptation of Kojak that is to star Vin Diesel as the lollipop-sucking detective.

1984 Private Defense Contractors and Ruby Films have set South Korean helmer Park Chan-wook to direct crime drama Corsica 72 from a Black List script by Skyfall scribes Neal Purvis and Robert Wade.

Working Title's "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" is the eighth John le Carre novel to reach the bigscreen. Now the author's two sons, Stephen and Simon Cornwell, are bidding to increase that number through their own production company the Ink Factory.

Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have been hired by Parkes MacDonald/Imagenation to pen an original action thriller based on a concept from Michael Lieber and Walter Parkes. Parkes, Lieber and Laurie MacDonald are producing the project.

It's Mendes. Sam Mendes. The British helmer is in negotiations to direct the 23rd installment of the venerable James Bond franchise.