James Lassiter Movie Updates

2oth Century Fox has acquired Kazu Kibuishi’s bestselling graphic novel series Amulet.

Paramount Pictures has bought Sascha Penn's spec script Bounty, with Will Smith attached to star.

Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment is materializing on Ghost Graduation, setting up a remake of the Spanish comedy at Fox.

Sony is looking for the funny in Interpol, snapping up a comedy pitch by the writing team of Jonathan Keasey and Brant Boivin and setting it up with Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment.

Sony Pictures Entertainment has signed Will Smith and son Jaden Smith to star in an untitled futuristic science fiction adventure film that will be directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

In his latest keep-it-in-the-family move, Will Smith is exploring with Sony the potential for a remake of the musical Annie, with daughter Willow as the star, sources say.

Angela Bassett has joined Fox's This Means War alongside Chris Pine, Tom Hardy and Reese Witherspoon, with McG directing.

Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reiff are moving from kung fu to karate. The duo, who wrote 2008's "Kung Fu Panda," have been tapped to pen the sequel to "The Karate Kid," Sony's surprise summer hit that Will Smith produced and starred his son Jaden Smith.

Will Smith has attached himself to star in and produce "The Legend of Cain", an epic re-telling of the Biblical sibling tale, this time with a vampiric twist.

Overbrook Entertainment's Will Smith, James Lassiter and Ken Stovitz are moving ahead on developing a feature for Sony based on modern-day explorer and African-American neuroscience professor Dr. S. Allen Counter. Debbie Allen is also producing and Farhad Safinia ("Apocalypto") has been tapped to pen the script.