Simon Kinberg Movie Updates

Disney and Lucasfilm have tapped Oscar-nominated actress Felicity Jones to star in the Star Wars standalone movie from director Gareth Edwards.

20th Century Fox has closed a deal to acquire the screen rights to the hugely popular fantasy card game from Hasbro.

Bryan Singer has revealed who'll be working with him to write X-Men: Apocalypse.

Twentieth Century Fox is in negotiations to pick up Starlight, an upcoming comic from Wanted and Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar.

20th Century Fox has set Carter Blanchard to script a film based on his pitch for an adaptation of the Mark Millar comic Kindergarten Heroes.

Simon Kinberg is coming on board to write Fox’s Fantastic Four reboot. He will also be a producer on the project, joining Matthew Vaughn, his X-Men: First Class colleague.

Fox has picked up the option to author Andy Weir’s unpublished book The Martian.

20th Century Fox has set Happy Endings star Damon Wayans Jr. and New Girl’s Jake Johnson to star in 'Let’s Be Cops'.

Matthew Vaughn has decided not to direct the sequel to 20th Century Fox‘s hit spinoff X-Men: First Class.

Sony Pictures has set the writing team of Chris Cantwell & Chris Rogers to script Shadow Runners, an action vehicle for Thor star Chris Hemsworth.

20th Century Fox has re-upped production president Emma Watts to a new multi-year deal that will keep her in the post through 2015.

20th Century Fox is in final negotiations to pick up Rosa, a sci-fi project based on an animated short from Jesus Orellana.

New Line Cinema has acquired a new untitled heist film written by Peter Morgan (The Queen).

20th Century Fox used the holiday weekend to close a preemptive deal for David Guggenheim's action thriller spec Narco Sub.

Dwayne Johnson has become attached to star in Monster Hunter’s Survival Guide, a live action adventure film based on the comic book miniseries by John Paul Russ that was published by Zenescope Entertainment.

20th Century Fox, which tapped into Isaac Asimov’s futuristic robot science fiction for I, Robot, is now working on a live-action adaptation of Asimov’s The Caves of Steel.

20th Century Fox has acquired the Royden Lepp graphic novel Rust: Visitor in the Field, and has set Aline Brosh McKenna to write the script.

"Ouija," the supernatural board game that's being turned into an action-adventure by McG ("Terminator Salvation") and Michael Bay's production company, is getting a boost from Simon Kinberg.

Sony will distribute District 9 helmer Neill Blomkamp's Elysium starring Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and District's Sharlto Copley.

Now Disney has made a 7-figure pitch deal for "Cinderella", the working title of a live action reimagining of the classic fairy tale to be written by Aline Brosh McKenna.

One of the other benefits is it might keep Kinberg writing more projects for Fox, because he's got stuff going on all over town. He's currently teamed with Aline Brosh McKenna on an untitled project for Paramount and JJ Abrams and Bryan Burk's Bad Robot, after selling the project as a pitch last fall in a deal worth nearly $2 mi ...