Alex Kurtzman Movie Updates

Akiva Goldsman has relocated his Weed Road banner to the Melrose Avenue lot.

Sony has ensnared a star and director for its Spider-Man offshoot, Venom.

Neil Widener and Gavin James have been set to write the script for Now You See Me 3 for Lionsgate.

Universal has added a third untitled monster franchise movie.

Sony Pictures is setting its sights on other Spider-Man franchises. Case in point: Venom.

Johnny Depp is joining Universal’s burgeoning monster universe.

The writing gang of Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jeff Pinkner is once again caught in the spider’s web.

Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have come aboard to produce Dragonology, Universal’s fantasy adventure based on the children’s book series.

Star Trek scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have been tapped by Sony Pictures to rewrite the script for the sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man, the 3D Marc Webb-directed film that introduces Andrew Garfield as the webslinger and Emma Stone as his love interest Gwen Stacy.

Happy Madison, the production banner run by Adam Sandler and Jack Giarraputo, is in negotiations to come aboard to produce Paramount’s planned remake of Summer School.

Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment has optioned the rights to Anne Rice’s The Tale of the Body Thief, the fourth book in Rice’s best-selling series The Vampire Chronicles.

Asa Butterfield has closed a deal to star as the title character in Ender's Game.

Alex Kurtzman is best known as one-half of the screenwriting team of Kurtzman-and-(Roberto) Orci, who have gone from writing "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" to working on some of the biggest sci-fi tentpoles in Hollywood, such as "Transformers" and "Star Trek." Now Kurtzman is entering the direct ...