Lawrence Grey Movie Updates

The spec script Princesses is closing in on a six-figure deal with Pascal Productions’ Amy Pascal and Rachel O’Connor.

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

Jim Mickle has been set to direct Sylvester Stallone in an untitled thriller for STX Entertainment.

Sony finally closed its deal for Winter’s Knight, the Viking-mythology-tinged origin story of St. Nick and Christmas.

Oculus filmmakers Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard have sold their original pitch Peekers to Lionsgate.

Ifve gathered more intelligence on the flashy late night spec script deal made by Universal for Aaron Berges Section 6 script about the formation of the British intelligence agency MI6.

Warner Bros has acquired The Vatican, a pitch for a conspiracy-driven thriller to be scripted by David Cohen. William Brent Bell, who directed and co-wrote the weekend’s surprise hit The Devil Inside for Paramount’s Insurge release label, has made a deal to direct the film.

Screen Gems has picked up rights to a creepy student-made short entitled Viral with the plan of spinning it into a feature.

Warner Bros. Pictures has purchased the spec script Hidden from twin brothers and recent college graduates Matt and Ross Duffer, who are also set to direct the pic that the studio is committed to starting as early as 2012.

Phillip Noyce is inked a deal to direct the thriller The Arrangement for Mandate Pictures.