The Hollywood Reporter reports that Michael Winterbottom will direct the pair in a $13 million dollar project based on a pulp novel (circa 1976) by Jim Thompson (The Grifters).
Screen Daily reports that Hayden Christensen is being courted to topline the re-imagining of Mona Lisa with Clark very much looking forward to directing the pic.
A pair of Germany's best film exports in director Oliver Hirschbiegel and actor Moritz Bleibtreu are reuniting on a new project backed by Miramax Germany.
Unlike his previous two, strictly art-house films in Man Push Cart and Chop Shop, I had a strong feeling that the bidding war would include the type of players that can bring such a film to a larger public. I guessed right. THR reports that the cab fare has been paid in full by Roadside Attractions.
Variety reports that the pair are snapping Chan Wook Park’s deftly imaginative revenge flick Oldboy and remaking via Dreamworks for the folks at Universal.