Palak Patel Movie Updates

Columbia Pictures has bought Alfred Gough and Miles Millar's script Captain Nemo.

The material market has been slow so far, but studios right now are dealing with Red Rising, the just-released Pierce Brown novel.

Roth Films has partnered with Jane Startz Productions to acquired movie rights to The School For Good and Evil, the first title in a novel trilogy by Soman Chainani.

Joe Roth and his Roth Films partner Palek Patel, fresh off the opening-weekend success of Oz the Great and Powerful, have set up Brilliance, an upcoming novel by Marcus Sakey, at Legendary Pictures.

Jim Hecht, the Ice Age: The Meltdown scribe who recently signed on to write The Big Cigar, has signed on to rewrite The Grigsbys Go Broke for Paramount.

Universal Pictures has just acquired the Dean Unkefer book 90 Church: The True Story Of The Narcotics Squad From Hell, to be published by Random House in the US and Virgin Books in Europe in May 2013.

In a pre-emptive move, Sony has picked up The Royal Honour Society, a literary-themed action-adventure pitch from Ernest Lupinacci. Joe Roth and Palak Patel are attached to produce.

Sony Pictures has acquired a pitch from scribe Jason Keller for a period origin story on the Dracula mythology that will be produced by Joe Roth and Palak Patel.

Justin Long has formed I'm So Sorry Productions with partners Keir O'Donnell and Christian Long.

In a competitive situation, QED and financier/producer Norton Herrick have committed to fund "Ten", a drama that will begin shooting in December with Bruce Willis starring. Patrick Allesandrin is directing a script by Skip Woods. Roth and Palak Patel will produce with QED principals Bill Block and Paul Hanson, Herrick ...

Sony Pictures has acquired the rights to the life stories of Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, the two young Indian-born men from small villages who entered "The Million Dollar Arm" contest and placed first and second respectively after never hearing of the game of baseball.