Sacha Baron Cohen will star in Mandrake the Magician for Warner Bros. Etan Cohen is set to direct the film. The most recent drafts of the script come from David Peoples and Janet Peoples and Puss In Boots scribe Tom Wheeler. (TB)
The live-action talking-dog comedy from Scooby-Doo director Raja Gosnell has a new release date — November 10, 2017. It had been penciled in for October 13 that year. Open Road Films and Riverstone Pictures are co-producing and co-financing the pic. (DH)
It has been 15 months since Tom Rothman took the film chairman job at the troubled Sony Pictures, and now he has firmly put his stamp on the studio. On June 3, Rothman appointed Sanford Panitch, to run the main Columbia Pictures label, succeeding Doug Belgrad. (THR)
Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment have delayed
Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas almost a full year. Originally planned for a November 10, 2017 debut, the
Grinch movie will now hit the big screen November 9, 2018.
(CS)
Studio Canal and producer David Heyman will be collaborating on an adaptation of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Jack Thorne has been tapped to write the screenplay. (SR)
James Marsh is set to direct a film based on the 2015 Hatton Garden jewelry heist. The movie will be based on Mark Seal‘s Vanity Fair article, The Over-the-Hill Mob, which Working Title optioned the rights to about a month ago. (COLL)
The former Life Unexpected leading lady has landed the title role in Girlboss, Netflix’s 13-episode comedy based on the bestseller #Girlboss by Nasty Gal fashionista Sophia Amoruso. (TVL)