Gary Goetzman Movie Updates

Tom Hanks is tackling an adaptation of the international best-selling novel A Man Called Ove.

Fox 2000 will turn the Paulette Jiles novel News Of The World into a feature star vehicle for Tom Hanks.

Universal is officially moving along on a sequel to the 2008 hit Mamma Mia.

Tom Hanks is more then eyeing it, he wrote the script.

Emma Watson will star alongside Tom Hanks in James Ponsoldt’s upcoming feature adaptation of Dave Eggers’ novel The Circle.

Lotus has come on board to handle international sales for A Hologram For The King, the adaptation of the Dave Eggers novel.

Focus Features and Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman are closing a deal to acquire the new Neil Gaiman novel The Ocean At The End Of The Lane.

The Weinstein Company has acquired the Michael Gates Gill memoir How Starbucks Saved My Life.

Benedict Cumberbatch and his Sherlock director Paul McGuigan are teaming up for a biopic about Brian Epstein, the iconic manager of The Beatles.

Playtone principals Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman are set to produce Parkland, an indie drama about the assassination of John F. Kennedy that will mark the directorial debut of scribe Peter Landesman.

Universal has optioned the movie rights to Erik Larson’s nonfiction best-seller In the Garden of Beasts for Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman to produce.