Scott Rudin Movie Updates

Scott Rudin and Eli Bush will produce the adaption of Michael Lewis' book, which hit stores on March 31.

Sony Pictures has tapped Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg to direct a movie version of business thriller Console Wars with Scott Rudin producing.

Scott Rudin has picked up the rights to City on Fire, a 900-page novel by Garth Risk Hallberg.

Scott Rudin has acquired Five Days At Memorial, the book by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink that was published by Crown last month.

Rosario Dawson is in talks to play the female lead opposite Chris Rock in the untitled comedy that Rock wrote and will direct for Scott Rudin and Barry Diller.

Paramount Pictures and Scott Rudin Productions have optioned the Jeff VanderMeer novel Annihilation and the two subsequent books in what he is calling his Southern Reach trilogy.

Alex Garland is set to make his directorial debut in the sci-fi thriller called 'Ex Machina'.

Columbia Pictures is looking to bring a version of 1970s TV hit Good Times to the big screen.

'The Daily Show' host will take a 12-week hiatus to helm historical drama; John Oliver filling in

Tim Robbins has come on to star and direct the indie Man Under with Michelle Pfeiffer and Chloe Moretz on board to star as well.

Ralph Fiennes is in talks to star in writer-director Wes Anderson's next film The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Sony Pictures and David Gordon Green have tentative plans to bring Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic book series to the big screen in a feature film version of Little House on the Prairie.

It’s official: Aaron Sorkin, the Oscar-winning screenwriter behind The Social Network, A Few Good Men and TV’s The West Wing, has signed on to adapt Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s biography on the late Apple co-founder.

Paramount Pictures is making a deal to finance and distribute The Intern, which Nancy Meyers will direct from her script, with Tina Fey attached to star.

Producer Scott Rudin has acquired screen rights to The Marriage Plot, the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides that was published earlier this month by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

StudioCanal has come on board to co-finance and handle international sales for Inside Llewyn Davis, an original script by the Coen brothers.

Scott Rudin has just optioned "The Terrorist Search Engine," a recent New York Magazine profile of controversial counterterrorism expert witness Evan Kohlmann — and what's more, the Oscar-magnet producer is interested in adapting the piece as a possible starring vehicle for The Social Network's Jesse Eisenberg.

Universal Pictures has set Scott Rudin to produce Sinatra, the film Martin Scorsese will direct about the life of singer-actor Frank Sinatra.

And why is Hollywood so transfixed with the zillion year old story of Snow White? THR had an actual exclusive the other day that Toy Story 3 scribe Michael Arndt has boarded Disney's long-gestating Francis Lawrence-directed action pic Snow and the Seven (though I can report Scott Rudin has stepped off that picture as producer).

Paramount Pictures has set a May 11, 2012 worldwide release date for the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy The Dictator. The studio has reunited Baron Cohen with his Borat and Bruno director Larry Charles. Baron Cohen is producing with Scott Rudin, Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and David Mandel.

Fresh from their Golden Globe win for The Social Network, producers Scott Rudin, Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti have made a deal at Sony Pictures to collaborate again on Sex on the Moon, the next book by Ben Mezrich.

This coming Monday marks what would have been the 83rd anniversary of the birth of civil rights hero Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Atlanta, Georgia — and now Vulture hears exclusively that director Paul Greengrass plans to make his next film about the events leading up to King's assassination in Memphis, Tennessee.

Franco is in talks to direct William Faulkner‘s literary classic, “As I Lay Dying,” from his own screenplay.

Ben Stiller and James Franco may be teaming up for Noah Baumbach's latest project, While We're Young. The actors are in whispered talks along with Cate Blanchett to be involved with the dramatic comedy, which Baumbach and producer Scott Rudin are packaging before taking out to buyers.