Ellen Goldsmith-Vein Movie Updates

Dimension Films has acquired rights to the comedy guidebook How to Defeat Your Own Clone. Ed Ricourt, who wrote the feature treatment, is set to adapt the script.

Sidney Kimmel Entertainment plans to be Borrowing Girls, acquiring the psychological sexual thriller spec script by David Schickler.

Sony Pictures Animation has optioned the humor book "How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack" for Robert Zemeckis to produce.

DreamWorks has picked up a pitch from writer Jonathan Tropper about the closing of the last Kodachrome lab in the United States. Tropper will pen the script which is inspired by a New York Times article written by A.G. Sulzberger.

Sony Pictures Animation has picked up an original project with the attached talent of Oscar-nominated writer David Reynolds, animation veteran Stephan Franck and the Gotham Group.

Catherine Hardwicke is in talks to direct the bigscreen adaptation of James Dashner's young adult sci-fi tome The Maze Runner for 20th Century Fox.

The Gotham Group is showing its sweet tooth, nabbing bigscreen rights to Brandon Mull's young-adult novel "The Candy Shop War." Zachary Gordon, who starred in the novel-turned-film "Diary of a Wimpy Kid," is attached to star.

Harry Kloor's Jupiter 9 Prods. is developing a feature version of Robert Heinlein's "Have Space Suit, Will Travel" with Gotham Group's Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Peter McHugh attached as producers.

Miley Cyrus may be taking a step into the darkness. The Disney princess is attached to star in an adaptation of Lisa McMann's young-adult paranormal thriller novel "Wake" for Paramount Pictures and MTV Films, which are picking up film rights to the property.

Twenty years later, screenwriter Michael Schiffer is heading back down the rough-and-tumble halls of high school. In 1989, Schiffer's screenplay for "Lean on Me" became a Warner Bros. drama that starred Morgan Freeman as real-life, hard-nosed New Jersey high school principal Joe Clark. Now Schiffer has sold his pitch & ...