Nick Wechsler Movie Updates

Harvey Weinstein and Steven Spielberg are poised to go head-to-head once again.

Steve Schwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz and Nick Wechsler have preemptively acquired rights to The Kill List, the new novel by Day Of The Jackal author Frederick Forsyth.

Producer Nick Wechsler has acquired The Prophet, the upcoming Michael Koryta novel that will be published in August by Little, Brown and Company.

Rhys Ifans is in negotiations to join Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in Susanne Bier's adaptation of Ron Rash's novel Serena.

While Cormac McCarthy’s novels have been turned into No Country For Old Men, The Road and All the Pretty Horses, he’s left the film adaptations to others.

Edward Zwick has been tapped to direct CBS Films’ adaptation of American Assassin.

Steven Soderbergh has just committed to direct Channing Tatum in Magic Mike, a story of friendship set in the world of male strippers. Tatum plays the title character, who schools a young dancer in how to hustle on and off the stage.

Scarlett Johansson is set to star in Jonathan Glazer's sci-fi pic Under the Skin, which Glen Basner's FilmNation is launching at the American Film Market.