Angelina Jolie In ‘Shoot Like A girl,’ Laurene Powell Jobs Invests in Hollywood, ‘Horse Soldiers’ Cast, ‘Alchemist’ To TriStar

Angelina Jolie In Talks To Star In TriStar’s ‘Shoot Like A Girl’

Angelina Jolie is in early talks to star for TriStar in Shoot Like a Girl. The film is an adaptation of Shoot Like A Girl: How One Woman’s Dramatic Fight In Afghanistan and on the Home Front. (DH)

Laurene Powell Jobs Buys Minority Stake In ‘Spotlight’ Producer Anonymous Content

Powell Jobs’ Emerson Collective has teamed with the producer of The Revenant and Mr. Robot. (THR)

Chris Hemsworth & Michael Shannon Saddle Up For Black Label Media’s ‘Horse Soldiers’

The film is based on the novel by Doug Stanton about a U.S. Special Forces team sent to a mountainous region of Afghanistan after 9/11. (IW)

Ioan Gruffudd Joins Mel Gibson & Sean Penn For ‘The Professor And The Madman’

Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd is set to join Mel Gibson and Sean Penn in The Professor and the Madman, a film about James Murray, the 19th century professor who started to compile the Oxford English Dictionary. (DH)

‘Alchemist’ Movie Adaptation Lands At TriStar And PalmStar

TriStar and PalmStar are teaming up to produce an adaptation of the classic Paulo Coelho novel The Alchemist. PalmStar acquired worldwide rights to the book and TriStar moved quickly to ensure the project ended up at their studio. (VAR)

Fox Searchlight Acquires ‘A United Kingdom’

The studio confirmed the acquisition of North American rights to Amma Asante’s film that recently premiered in Toronto and will open the BFI London Film Festival. (SI)

Zac Efron Tackling True-Life Wall Street Story ‘Straight To Hell’

Dirty Grandpa writer John M. Phillips will pen the script about the world of investment bankers based on John LeFevre’s book. (THR)

‘Snowfall’ Full Season Order Greenlit By FX