Ahmet Zappa Movie Updates

Burt Wonderstone producers Chris Bender, J.S. Spink and Jake Weiner are teaming up with Ahmet Zappa for Monster X.

Sony is updating Oliver Twist with Dodge and Twist, an adventurous take featuring the characters from Charles Dickens’ classic novel with Cole Haddon, the creator of the NBC’s upcoming Dracula show, writing the script.

Bron Studios is launching production next year on Sole Mates, its first CG-animated feature, based on an original concept by Deon Taylor.

Rango co-writer Jim Byrkit and Alex Manugian have been happed to pen the script for Fraggle Rock, New Regency’s big-screen adaptation of the 1980s musical puppet series created by Jim Henson.

Joe Gazzam has been tapped to write an untitled family adventure set in Hawaii for Disney that Ahmet Zappa's Monsterfoot Prods and Scott Sanders Prods will shepherd.

Daniel Dubiecki has launched The Allegiance Theater, a company designed to create a haven where talent and financiers can hatch film and TV projects.

Disney is in discussions for a movie based on The Museum of the Weird with screenwriter Ahmet Zappa, according to a source close to the project.

Walt Disney Pictures is developing an adventure film from a script by Ahmet Zappa that's set against a Polynesian backdrop. Sources close to the project said Zappa and writing partner Michael Wilson were inspired by Disneyland's Enchanted Tiki Room in writing the script.

Disney has acquired the script Monster Witness Relocation Program by writers Ahmet Zappa and Michael Wilson. The script's based on an original idea by Ahmet Zappa. Zappa's Monsterfoot Productions will produce with Overbrook Entertainment. Word is that the film will be developed as a potential star vehicle for Karate Kid star Ja ...