Mark Johnson Movie Updates

Michael De Luca and Stephen L’Heureux have teamed up with author Dmitry Glukhovsky to develop a feature film based on Metro 2033.

Alexander Payne's Downsizing just added some more star power.

Paramount Pictures has bought the rights to the yet-unpublished young-adult fantasy novel An Ember In The Ashes.

Universal Pictures beat out four studios today to acquire a pitch for a new film version of the Frances Hodgson Burnett novel The Secret Garden that will be scripted by Oscar-nominated Beasts Of The Southern Wild co-writer Lucy Alibar.

MGM has picked up the screen rights to Dmitri Glukhovsky's highly successful 2005 Russian sci-fi novel Metro 2033.

Warner Bros has acquired Pontius Pilate, a script by Woman On Top scribe Vera Blasi about one of the most vilified figures in history.

Mark Johnson's Gran Via Prods. and Wild Fiesta Prods. are taking a stroll on Wall Street, picking up feature rights to Erin Duffy's recently published novel Bond Girl.

Bryan Cranston recently told Hollywood.com that he is in the process of developing a script, which he himself adapted from the novel Home Again by David Wiltse, into a film with producer Mark Johnson.

Walden Media has has set a May 23 start in Pittsburgh on Still I Rise, the working title of a drama that will star Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis. Daniel Barnz, who most recently directed Beastly, will helm the film.

Billy Ray has been set to direct "The Secret In Their Eyes," the English language remake of last year's foreign film Oscar winner "El Secreto De Sus Ojos".

MYST, the all-time top selling computer adventure game franchise, has been optioned for live action film treatment. Producers Hunt Lowry and Mark Johnson have partnered with Adrian Vanderbosch and Isaac Testerman of Mysteria Film Group.

Walt Disney Studios announced Monday that Guillermo del Toro’s “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” the remake of the 1983 TV movie that Guillermo del Toro co-wrote and is a producer on, will be released under Disney’s Miramax banner on January 21, 2011.

After a nearly two-decade hiatus, Oscar-winning producer Lili Fini Zanuck is returning to her directorial roots to helm a big-screen adaptation of John O'Brien's 1996 novel "Assault on Tony's."