Warner Bros and Producer Roy Lee To Develop Remake of TIFF Hit ‘Sleepless Night’

Posted on Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 by Peter Sciretta

I walked out of an early Toronto International Film Festival press screening 10 days ago ranting and raving about Frédéric Jardin‘s incredible French contained action thriller Sleepless Night. I posted an enthusiastic review on September 12th calling it “one of the best and tightest written action thrillers I’ve seen in the past few years” and predicted that some lucky Hollywood studio would be developing a big budget American remake within the week. I was a little off in my prediction timeline, but ten days later The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Warner Bros and Roy Lee will be producing the English-language adaptation.

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Summit Options Upcoming Time Travel Novel ‘Tempest’

Posted on Tuesday, October 5th, 2010 by Peter Sciretta

Summit Entertainment has optioned the right to turn Julie Cross‘ upcoming sci-fi novel Tempest into a big screen movie.

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Exclusive: Tim Burton Developing Monsterpocalypse, Full Details Revealed

Posted on Monday, July 19th, 2010 by Peter Sciretta

Last month, it was reported that John August was in talks with Dreamworks to pen a big screen adaptation of the Monsterpocalypse board game which has been described as “part strategy, part Kaiju Big Battel, and part Rampage!, all played out with miniatures on a tabletop.” At the time, it was speculated that the involvement of Burton’s regular collaborator might mean that Tim Burton was developing the project to direct. We now have a confirmation and more information on the project.

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