Joe Roth Movie Updates

Linda Woolverton is penning a sequel to Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, the 2010 hit that starred Mia Wasikowska as Alice and Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter.

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.

Universal has bought the Black List script Bethlehem, scripted by Larry Brenner.

Hollywood dealmaker Skip Brittenham has teamed with writer Brian Haberlin on sci-fi graphic novel Anomaly, and a feature adaptation is in development with Joe Roth.

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.

Tim Burton was loosely attached to direct Maleficent, written by Linda Woolverton and produced by Joe Roth, but he backed away last May; the studio had been trying to find their prince since.

If Joe Roth were any more closely associated with fairy tales, he’d be one of the Grimm Brothers. Roth, who help start Hollywood’s feverish devotion to fairy tale films by producing the $1 billion-grossing Alice in Wonderland, is negotiating to become producer of Maleficent, Disney’s re-telling of its 1959 classic Sleeping Beaut ...

Sony Pictures has acquired screen rights to the book Heaven Is For Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip To Heaven And Back, written by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent. Joe Roth will produce with T.D. Jakes.

Actor Channing Tatum, screenwriter Billy Ray and producer Joe Roth are seeking to tell the origin of Peter Pan with a pitch package that went out to studios Tuesday. Not much is known in the way of details, but the project carries the title Peter Pan Begins.

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

CAA is out with The Boondoggle, a comedy that has been rewritten by Tom Lennon and Rob Riggle, with the duo starring as two guys who attend a boondoggle business trip, with everything imaginable going awry.

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 ...

Is Hollywood ready to take a new bite out of the Snow White apple? Since yesterday, "Snow White and the Huntsman," a new take on the classic fairy tale from scribe Evan Daugherty, director Rupert Sanders and producer Joe Roth has been making the rounds at the studios. The only studio sitting out of the visual present ...

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.