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Less than two weeks ago The Weinstein Company proudly announced their big screen adaptation intentions for Paulo Coelho's classic The Alchemist and now, Warner Bros. are quick to follow announcing that they have re-set a Coelho project originally set up at New Line. Variety reports that Hollywood Gang Prods. has set Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now) to direct the project and rewrite the script by Marcos Bernstein (Central Station).

Teenage girls who frequent slumber parties and guys who like to watch big things blow-up can both rejoice. According to THR, Michael Bay's production company Platinum Dunes is on board to produce a pic based on Hasbro's classic paranormal conjuring game, Ouija.

Days before the winners at this year's edition of the Cannes film festival were announced, a picture that was deemed as a potential contender for the Palme and I would say was one among the top three buzz pics on everyone's lips - almost every film critic or market person I spoke to agreed that the animated documentary film had a fair chance. Though it went home empty handed, Variety reports that after finding a good return for their investment with Persepolis that Sony Pictures Classics has laid claim to Waltz with Bashir.

Fans of crime literature no doubt recognize the name Georges Simenon. Creator of the much-loved Inspector Maigret, the late Simenon is considered one of the greatest crime fictionalists in modern history. The oft adapted author’s work is again heading to the silver screen with Stain in the Snow, directed by Scot filmmaker David MacKenzie (Young Adam) for Studio Hamburg International.

Just because your last name is Trier and you happen to be from Denmark, doesn't mean that you have a free-pass into the film industry. Joachim Trier is in fact a distant relative of the ambitious and illustrious director and inventor of Dogme95, Lars von Trier (Dogville, Breaking the Waves), but this Norwegian-Danish filmmaker has built his cinematic success without such assistance.