Ellen Goldsmith-Vein Movie Updates

The Gotham Group has acquired yet another book, this time the film rights to Robyn Harding’s coming-of-age novel The Party.

Bryce Dallas Howard is attached to make her directing debut on an adaptation of the Matthew Quick novel.

Amblin Partners just acquired a pitch from writers Greg Erb and Jason Oremland based on the book Sky High.

Paramount Pictures has acquired the Stephan Talty book The Black Hand for Leonardo DiCaprio to star in

Julia Roberts is eyeing to star in Train Man, a courtroom drama about a real-life New York folk hero, Variety has learned.

Catherine Hardwicke is on board to direct an adaptation of the bestselling YA novel Stargirl.

Isla Fisher is in talks to join John Hawkes and Jennifer Aniston in writer-director Dan Schechter's untitled adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1978 novel The Switch.

Emmett/Furla Films partners Randall Emmett & George Furla have added another mid-budget thriller to their slate. They’ve set Brass Monkey helmer Nicolai Fuglsig to helm the $60 million action thriller Taking Gotham.

Constantin Film has acquired Joe Golem And The Drowning City, a graphic novel by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden.

John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the writing team behind Horrible Bosses who are also directing the new Vacation movie for New Line, have been tapped to do a rewrite of Secret Histories for Sony Pictures Animation.

Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson are set to star in Screen Gems' thriller No Good Deed.

John Hawkes has committed to star opposite Yasiin Bey in the Elmore Leonard adaptation Switch, from writer-director Dan Schechter (Supporting Characters).

The Gotham Group has optioned feature rights to Marty Beckerman's self-published new book "The Heming Way: How to Unleash the Booze-Inhaling, Animal-Slaughtering, War-Glorifying, Hairy-Chested, Retro-Sexual Legend Within ... Just Like Papa!"