Barry Josephson Movie Updates

Sony pre-empted the supernatural thriller spec /reddoor.

The new mandate at Focus Features seems to be commercial fare with meaty roles. Here’s a deal made before this week’s shakeup that fits that bill.

Jason Segal is to front a movie based on the stranger-than-fiction tale of a maple syrup heist which took place in 2012.

Taran Killam has been tapped to star in a pair of new indie pics during his summer hiatus from Saturday Night Live.

20th Century Fox has attached Martin Campbell to direct and J. Michael Straczynski (Changeling) to write The Dive, the true, tragic love story of freediver Francisco “Pipin” Ferraras and his wife Audrey Mestre.

Universal Pictures has acquired the John Phillips spec script Dirty Grandpa, for Barry Josephson to produce. ICM made the deal for Phillips, a young writer out of New York.

Michelle Krumm is going to Gate of Scars, optioning the action script from L.H Adonis for her eponymous production banner.

No writer has been hired to adapt The Most Dangerous Man in the World, the book by Australian reporter Andrew Fowler, that will be released this year.

Barry Josephson (Life As We Know It) is developing a feature version of James King's family drama Bill Warrington's Last Chance.

Variety reports that new production company Red Crown have attached Sam Bayer ("A Nightmare on Elm Street") to direct an adaptation of the graphic novel "Tumor," created by Joshua Hale Fialkov and Noel Tuazon.

Three months after Rich Ross put on a hard hat and started renovating the Mouse House's executive suites, the dust is settling and the future of Disney has begun to reveal itself.