Maybe it's just because people are intrigued by the crime life, but director Phillip Noyce is in talks with Dreamworks to direct "The Art of Making Money".
Gas--in the form of "House" executive producers Garrett Lerner and Russel Friend stepping up to the plate and putting their pens to work on Brock Clarke's best-selling "An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England". Boy, I sure hope they shorten that title.
"The Family Stone" helmer Thomas Bezucha is set to tackle the English remake of supreme French auteur Patrice Leconte's drama "Man on the Train" (or, ahem, "L'Homme du Train) for Miramax. But what of the cast?
Everything's gonna be alright for director Ang Lee and writer (also Focus Features big cheese) James Schamus when production starts on "Taking Woodstock" this year. Reunited after working on ten films together, including "Brokeback Mountain", "Taking Woodstock" adapts the Elliot Tiber memoir "Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, Concert, and a Life".