Not to be confused with doc filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, the former Us Weekly editor who probably never paid for a Robert McKee seminar, has had the good fortune of selling Safe House to Universal last month, Los Angeles Times' Steven Zetchik featured the writer, and today Guggenheim, can perhaps put a down payment on a first home as he has sold his second script to Summit Entertainment.

The first role that comes to mind when I think of Barry Pepper is the punishing his character took in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. I imagine the casting folk might have referenced that raw performance and might have subconsciously chosen Pepper because he fits the bill and the name.

Looks like won't be the be all and end all for The Duplass brothers, as Jason Reitman's Right of Way Films and John Malkovich's Mr. Mudd have signed on as producers for Mark and Jay Duplass' new project entitled, Jeff Who Lives at Home.

Currently in post-production with The Hereafter, the Warner Bros. thriller that I think has a legitimate shot at a Cannes showing, Clint Eastwood might be turning back the years to another period pic that would would receive the same product value that The Changeling did. The trades report that he is considering making this Dustin Lance Black's penned untitled J.Edgar Hoover biopic as his next project.

I guess this means that the adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road is proving to be more of a perilous project, as Walter Salles appears to be moving onto a Hollywood biopic in the interim.

Now he returns to Zodiac-lite territory with a script that goes the direction of the mystery comedy sub-genre. Aptly titled Murder Mystery, this project reminds me of how much I hated the Clue film. Screen Daily reports that free-range director Kevin MacDonald will direct.

Right at Your Door, Chris Gorak's 2006 low budget debut was essentially his calling card, however, the Sundance film got picked up, but it took a while for Hollywood to place the director in the rolodex. Looks like someone at Regency did just that.

After heading towards the exit door from police thriller Son of No One, Robert De Niro is joining yet another thriller, this time opposite Bradley Cooper in the book to film adaptation of The Dark Fields.

I'm not sure if it was this Iron Man 2 still that reminded casting directors that Mickey Rourke is still hitting the gym, but I'm fully expecting for the actor to flex more than his acting muscles as the villain of choice in Tarsem's War of the Gods. With his inflamed trapezius muscles, Variety reports that he'll be joining the already set Henry Cavill and Freida Pinto, in the role of King Hyperion.

While Production Weekly had this listed as "Dawn of War", Variety is calling this one War of the Gods, it looks Pinto will be joining this new Tarsem film in the lead female role of Phaedra. Production begins in Montreal this April.

David Gordon Green has traded in his days as an indie filmmaker in favor for the better craft services tables and chilling out with the Apatow crowd. Although it certainly appears as if he has switched sides, Green hasn't entirely sold out to Hollywood as he acts as a producer on indies, and as a filmmaker who probably grew up with a steady diet of films from the 80's, is just doing his thing.

Apart from having to cast an infant in Raising Arizona and boys with braces in Fargo and A Serious Man, having to cast a teenage girl is an official first for the Coen brothers. Earlier today, Deadline Hollywood put out the news that Hailee Steinfeld has effectively been plucked from obscurity and can add a Coen bros. film to her career resume.

Universal Pictures are effectively pushing the eventual theatrical release of Asger Leth's debut in feature filmmaking to a highly probable 2011 date. Production Weekly's twitter update states that the project formerly know as "Cartel", and that'll see Josh Brolin toplining, is now called "Waterbug" and has a shooting in the sweltering month of May in the cards.

Come to think of it, Ben Foster not only has a beach blond fro, but he could have the same temperament that Cobain had. If you happen to see Foster switch from an army buzz cut to something a tad bit longer then you could begin the rumor mill -- as Universal is looking to hire Oren Moverman to rework the draft that David Benioff filed in three years back.

I'm still in awe of and can imagine a film version of yesterday's news item where a team of assassins played dress up, staked out a swanky hotel and took out a leader of the Hamas...if that headliner has got me thinking of a better version of Munich, then I have every reason to believe that despite not knowing the film's true villain, that Alexander Litvinenko's true life story might translate well on screen with the Cold War, spy vs spy elements

Screen Daily reports that Silverstone and Heckerling will work in a sub-genre that shall become stale once the Twilight series is over and done with. Silverstone will join the well cast Krysten Ritter in Vamps - a modern-day tale of two female vampires who live it up in New York until love enters the picture, when each has to make a choice that will jeopardise their immortality.

After a lengthy career in genre cinema, Denmark's Nicolas Winding Refn is finding himself in the driver's seat. With a couple of Hollywood options available to him, the filmmaker is now doing donuts around Drive - a Universal project that once had Neil Marshall on board to direct and had Hugh Jackman manning the wheel. Another bit of interesting news is that the helmer will be teaming with Ryan Gosling...

According to the folks at ThePlayList and ScriptShadow, Source Code (a top fifteen script on the 2007 list, which I figure I should get my hands on) is a time-traveling film that doesn't suck. I guess we can start hyping Duncan Jones' follow up to his much appreciated debut film Moon, as a top tier, anticipated project to look out for in Summit Entertainment's 2011 campaign. With Jake Gyllenhaal already on board, THR reports that Vera Farmiga is in negotiations and Michelle Monaghan is set star in the pic which begins filming this March, in Montreal.

There was that long stretch between 1987's Full Metal Jacket and 1999's Eyes Wide Shut where Stanley Kubrick was missing in action. The master filmmaker was passionate enough about a little Frenchman going by the name of Napoleon that he devoted years to a film project that never came to fruition. Taschen books who've already put out a couple of books honoring the legend, have put out the unthinkable: a limited edition collection of books (including the original screenplay) just in time for Xmas.

I guess we're moving forward in time with the whole "I am a false prophet. God is a superstition" discourse. Paul Thomas Anderson must have liked Philip Seymour Hoffman take on the priesthood in Doubt, as he is putting his faith in him. Universal studios would be doing the same with a 35 million dollar faith based, period drama probably not of the Kirk Cameron kind, and despite the similarities in choice of year circa 1952, probably not the Jimmy Jones kind either.

The one who charmed the art-house circuit with her Jean Seberg coiffe and introductory performances to world auds in L'auberge espagnole and High Tension will be making her official Hollywood studio film debut as one of the three central characters in the globe-trotting supernatural drama.

Duncan Jones might be pinned down to the sci-fi genre from Moon on onwards. After being attached to a finger-full of projects since his Sundance launch pad, the helmer has signed onto direct the 2007 Black List script (high on that list and tops on ScriptShadow's recent poll) with Jake Gyllenhaal in the running to topline the pic.

I include myself among those who was impressed by his dark, direct blow to the role of religion and the church in The King (a show of hands for those who feel the same). Now Marsh is going after the top dogs of the Catholic Church with The Vatican Tapes.

Looks like April 23 won't be Jérôme Salle's big break into Hollywood filmmaking (though it could be argued that Largo Winch is a very Hollywoodian film from France) but Heitor Dhalia's intro instead.

The French film from which The Tourist is based from (Anthony Zimmer) contains a narrative DNA that is very kaiser soze, but to be frank about it, I'm not sure what all the fuss is about. Spyglass Entertainment is seeing a lot of action for a tale about a wanted man...its mostly due to scheduling conflicts.

Variety reports that Paramount Pictures via Ivan Reitman and Tom Pollock's Montecito Picture Co. have picked up Martini's original screenplay and have attached him to direct the pic.

I've been keeping tags on Motorcade since I heard the project being pitched as an In the Line of Fire meets Black Hawk Down.

Ghosts of Cité Soleil's Asger Leth can count his lucky charms. He has had the fortune of having only one directing nod to his credit with the docu film and landing a major Hollywood production, but has managed to grab a top tier acting talent, not once - but twice.

Make a moneymaking, audience-pleasing debut like Marc Webb did with 500 Days of Summer, and Hollywood throws projects at you. His next gig could be Hollywoodian-Danish remake of a thriller that Ole Bornedal just presented at Sundance in 08'.

I've witnessed tales of scripts making it up the ladder in more obscure ways, but if this does get a greenlight you'll be sure that this will be mentioned in the press notes. The Hollywood Reports reports that Jason Lew's first screenplay made it into the hands of the great Gus Van Sant via actress Bryce Dallas Howard. If Van Sant is looking on making this studio project his next, then what does this tell us about the status of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and How Starbucks Saved My Life?

If McGrath wants to avoid further bad luck, he'll make a title change request with the project he just embarked on - Variety reports that the director will helm The Lucky One - not to be confused with The Lucky Ones (that Iraq war flick with Rachel Adams).