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The name of Daniel Barnz may soon become synonymous with contemporary adaptations of traditional fairy tales. His previous effort (which gets released on March 6th by Thinkfilm) borrowed from Alice in Wonderland, and now CBS Films are asking the filmmaker to both write and direct a project that takes from a Beauty and the Beast template and reconfigures it into a possible Twilight-like film.

The Weinsteins might have found gold in Garland. Perhaps banking on the fact that a screenwriter will be able to do to Gerald Clarke's "Get Happy: the Life of Judy Garland" for what was done to Clarke's take on Capote, The Weinstein Co. have optioned the book which digs into the personal life of the starlet who died at the very young age of 47.

I'm not sure if I'd describe this portion of her acting career as being "in the zone", European audiences have been watching her for the past decade, while U.S viewers have seen her in art-house fair but only probably spotted her in a key supporting role in Thomas McCarthy's The Visitor. The actress followed up that role with a pair at this year's Sundance film fest and she'll most likely be present at this year's Cannes fest with Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control. Now she gets to work on Julian Schnabel's fourth feature film. Not to shabby.

Following their teaming up in the upcoming Fighting and their first pairing in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Variety reports that Warner Bros have hired Montiel to direct and rewrite the project and have the actor on board to star in The Brotherhood of the Rose.

After more than a decade on the backburner, Marty Scorsese is three steps closer to realizing The Silence. Gangs of New York/The Age of Innocence actor Daniel Day-Lewis and Benicio Del Toro (The Wolf Man) and Gael Garcia Bernal (The Motorcycle Diaries) might compare notes on how they interpreted versions of Che – the trio of actors would insure that global audiences pay to see a pair of 17th century Jesuit priests.