Joe Roth Movie Updates

Universal Pictures won an auction for The Voyage Of Doctor Dolittle, with Robert Downey Jr playing the title character.

Mark Millar has partnered with producers Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum to bring the comic author’s latest work, Empress, to the big screen.

Sony Pictures is in talks with Charlize Theron to come aboard The Gray Man.

Disney has begun moving toward a sequel to Maleficent, the 2014 blockbuster fairy tale that starred Angelina Jolie as the winged title character.

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.

Sony has picked up Unleash the Mules, inspired by a real story of a team of blind wrestlers.

The proposed film based on the popular Mattel toy "Max Steel" is being revived.

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.

Mitchell Kapner has been hired to pen a script for a follow-up to the tentpole fantasy that opens Friday.

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.