Mike Newell Movie Updates

Thea Sharrock, director of the tearjerker Me Before You, is in early talks to direct The One and Only Ivan.

Mike Newell has signed on to direct Disney’s adaptation of The One and Only Ivan, the Newbery Medal-winning book written by Katherine Applegate.

Rosamund Pike is circling long-gestating project Guernsey, with director Mike Newell also in the mix to direct.

Michael Douglas is ready to be sworn in as the 40th president of the United States.

Warner Bros has lost some steam on Londongrad, the drama about about the mysterious death of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned in 2006 with polonium-210.

Lionsgate has closed a deal with Mike White to direct Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith novel that spices up Jane Austen's time-tested 1813 literary classic with a smattering of flesh-eating walking corpses.

I'm told a lot of directors are lining up for Lionsgate's Pride, Prejudice and Zombies, the Seth Grahame-Smith revisionist novel that enhances Jane Austen's tale of class and manners in 19th Century England with the much-needed infusion of bloodthirsty brain-eating zombies. I'm told that after Natalie Portman backed out of playi ...