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Paramount Vantage has made another acquisition, this time plunging into the horror genre with Details. The film, written by Dan Kay and based on a short story China Mieville, will be produced by Paramount’s Jason Blum and his Blumhouse Productions, along with his colleague Amy Israel. Steven Schneider and Ian Levy will serve as executive producers.

Back in August Production Weekly reported that Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor were booked for the project and now the duo becomes as trio as Michelle Williams has signed onto star in what might be an eye full of a project. Put in turnaround by Fox and then financed independently, the production for The Tourist begins in New York on Oct.13th.

The Weinstein Co. is hiring quite a bit this week under their international banner. Signing a pact to release eight U.K. pics a year, they have been busy assigning projects to various (mostly U.K. based) directors. Their most recent (and in my eyes, most exciting) employee is Danny Boyle who will take on Lee Hall and Robert Nelson Jacobs' Solomon Grundy.

A quick weekend announcement before showcasing the film at the 44th annual New York Film Festival, New Yorker Films announced they picked up the dramedy.

The connection between music and filmmaking stems all the way back to his debut in Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story and later on reflected with Velvet Goldmine – for Todd Haynes film and music are the creative outlets and the soundtrack of his life. The Bob Dylan-inspired I'm Not There – a Montreal (and outskirts of Montreal) based production is in its last week of production and since the moment I found out that they were filming in my backyard, I was hoping to somehow get a peak of the production.