Adam Shankman Movie Updates

Paramount Players is moving quickly on the its latest comedy What Men Want.

Paramount Pictures has acquired the thriller pitch Gasp.

Adam Shankman has come on board to direct Kate Beckinsale in mother-daughter drama The Chocolate Money.

Adam Shankman is in negotiations to direct Disenchanted, the sequel to Disney’s 2007 musically-inclined fantasy that starred Amy Adams.

Broad Green Pictures is developing the drama Bad Influence, based on a pitch from writer Tyger Williams.

Reese Witherspoon may soon be spreading some fairy dust.

New Line is going on The Craziest OkCupid Date Ever, buying the movie rights to Clare Benson’s tale of a three-week date and titling the project No Baggage.

Universal Pictures has acquired an untitled pitch to be written by Steinbeck’s Point Of View scribe Brandon Camp.

Summit's long-in-development romantic comedy Kicked, Bitten and Scratched has revved up with the scripting team of Keith Merryman & David A. Newman and producers Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot of Offspring Entertainment now on board.

Get ready for another installment of Step Up, the under the radar franchise that continues to do strong business, particularly overseas.

New Line Cinema has put its feature project The Nutcracker into turnaround, a person with knowledge of the situation has confirmed to TheWrap.

Sony Pictures is setting sail on Sinbad again, tapping Black Swan scribe John J. McLaughlin to pen a reimagined version of the classic adventure tale that the studio has been developing for years.

Malin Akerman and Jason Sudeikis are in talks to join the cast of This Is Where I Leave You, Adam Shankman’s latest all-star project set up at Warner Bros.

Rock of Ages helmer Adam Shankman is in talks to direct This Is Where I Leave You for Warner Bros., the studio confirms. The project is based on the Jonathan Tropper novel about four grown children who return to the house they grew up in and sit shiva with their mother after their father dies

Summit is dancing its way back to Step Up, tapping choreographer Wade Robson to direct the fourth, Miami-set installment in the film franchise.

Paramount has its eye on world of fashion, snapping up an untitled pitch from Emily Meyer and Amy Andelson and setting it up with Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot of Offspring Entertainment.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller may end up singing for their supper. The Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs co-writer-directors are in talks with Disney to develop and direct the comedy Bob the Musical. If they end up making their deals, Miller and Lord will have to work around directing Sony’s live-action feature revamp of 21 Jump ...

Sandra Bullock is reuniting with the director of "The Proposal," Anne Fletcher, for an untitled project. Warner Bros. has picked up the pitch, which hails from scribes Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis. Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot of Offspring Entertainment are producing.

Disney and Offspring Entertainment have formed a love connection over Ally Condie's upcoming young adult novel "Matched." The Mouse House fended off Paramount in a bidding war to pick up the film rights to the soon-to-be-published book for the shingle, run by Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot, to produce.

Tinkerbell is getting ready to take flight at Disney in "Tink," a live-action romantic comedy that has Elizabeth Banks attached to star and Adam Shankman, Jennifer Gibgot and McG guiding the pic's flightplan to the bigscreen as producers.

Warner Bros. has picked up an untitled workplace comedy by Jason Filardi for Zac Efron to star in and produce. Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot are in negotiations to produce via their Offspring Entertainment banner.