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After years in the film world, I thought I'd share with you the scoop on some up-and-coming projects. Look here for an ongoing list of books, DVDs, comics, etc. that are being adapted in to film and television projects. Be in the know before you get to the theater!

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Absolutely Fabulous - Absolutely Everything DVD Box Set

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Fox is developing a redo of Jennifer Saunders' enduring Britcom "Absolutely Fabulous."

Christine Zander ("Saturday Night Live") is set to write the script and will exec produce along with the BBC's Ian Moffet and original series creator Saunders. Fox has given Sony a script order with hefty penalty attached.

The latest attempt at a U.S. rendition of "Ab Fab" will be transplanted to L.A. but retain the basic template of the original, revolving around the friendship of two boozy, over-40 best friends who are desperate to stay hip and youthful and who carry on under the disapproving eye of Edina's teenage daughter, Saffy. (via Variety)

Updated Oct 7, 2008

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Alice in Wonderland (Masterpiece Edition)

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A lot of people would think that Alice and Wonderland is my favorite Disney movie but actually it's my second favorite (you were close). This movie is so crazy and weird that you just have to love it.

Updated Jan 27, 2008

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Lone Ranger: 75th Anniversary - Seasons 1 and 2 : TV DVDs

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Jerry Bruckheimer has acquired the rights for a big-screen adaptation of The Lone Ranger - and Johnny Depp will play Tonto. Talk about a beautiful revival!

Updated Sep 25, 2008

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Moby-Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville

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Universal Pictures has made a splashy preemptive buy of “Moby Dick,” a reimagining of the Herman Melville whale tale that Timur Bekmambetov (”Wanted”) will direct. Studio paid high six figures to Adam Cooper and Bill Collage to pen the screenplay. The writers revere Melville’s original text, but their graphic novel-style version will change the structure. Gone is the first-person narration by the young seaman Ishmael, who observes how Ahab’s obsession with killing the great white whale overwhelms his good judgment as captain. This change will allow them to depict the whale’s decimation of other ships prior to its encounter with Ahab’s Pequod, and Ahab will be depicted more as a charismatic leader than a brooding obsessive.

Updated Sep 23, 2008

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Prince of Thieves: A Novel by Chuck Hogan

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Ben Affleck will rewrite, direct and star in “The Town,” a Warner Bros. adaptation of the Chuck Hogan novel “The Prince of Thieves.” Graham King is producing through his GK Films banner. Affleck would play a career thief who becomes smitten by the manager of a bank. The project - which most recently had director Adrian Lyne attached - would be based in Charlestown, Mass., a gritty blue-collar Boston suburb similar to the one that Affleck captured in his directorial debut, “Gone Baby Gone.” Affleck is doing a rewrite on the most recent draft by Peter Craig and Hogan.

Updated Sep 16, 2008

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How to Be Single: A Novel by Liz Tuccillo

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The creative team behind the upcoming romantic comedy “He’s Just Not That Into You” is teaming up again for another laugh-infused romancer. New Line has picked up the rights to Liz Tuccillo’s best-selling novel “How to Be Single” for Flower Films’ Nancy Juvonen and Drew Barrymore to produce, setting Marc Silverstein and Abby Kohn to adapt. Juvonen and Barrymore are producing “Into You,” which Silverstein and Kohn adapted from a tome written by Tuccillo and Greg Behrendt. Tuccillo is a former writer for “Sex and the City.” While “Into You” was a non-fiction how-to look at relationships, “Single” is Tuccillo’s fiction debut.

Updated Sep 11, 2008

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Spanking Shakespeare by Jake Wizner

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Paramount Pictures is reteaming with “Spiderwick Chronicles” producers Mark Canton and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein to bring young-adult novel “Spanking Shakespeare” to the bigscreen. Based on the debut novel by New York-based eighth-grade teacher Jake Wizner, story centers on Shakespeare Shapiro, who chronicles every mortifying detail of his quest to get into college and find a girlfriend in his memoir — a writing project that every high school senior must complete. Random House Books published the book last year.

Updated Sep 8, 2008

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Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield

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Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer have acquired screen rights to Steven Pressfield's novel “Killing Rommel." Book, about a British battalion’s attempt to thwart German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s desert campaign, was published in the spring by Doubleday. Randall Wallace will write the script with Pressfield. Bruckheimer will produce. “Killing Rommel” focuses on the British Long Range Desert Group and its attempt to stop Rommel, the legendary Desert Fox who routed the British in the North African desert in 1942 and threatened to overrun the Middle East thanks to his battlefield strategies and Panzer tanks.

Updated Sep 3, 2008

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Twilight (Book)

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Harry Potter's release date is pushed back to '09, which opens up November 21 for Twilight! The buzz is building and I know thousands of Twilight fans will be lining up for opening day.

Updated Aug 29, 2008

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Poltergeist

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MGM has scared up the scripting team of Stiles White and Juliet Snowden (”Boogeyman”) to pen its remake of “Poltergeist.” The 1982 horror pic, based on a script by Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais and Mark Victor, was directed by Tobe Hooper and starred JoBeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson. It spawned two sequels, released in 1986 and 1988.

Updated Aug 20, 2008

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