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Akeelah and the Bee

The film centers on struggling writer who uses his own
dating experiences for a book and becomes known as the perfect
"transitional guy" for women just leaving relationships.
Problems arise when he falls for one of his temporary dates.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Lionsgate has picked up
"Pencilneck," a comic book adaptation created by Victor Carungi
and published by his own Paper Street Comics.

The crime thriller centers on a mild-mannered banker who,
in order to save his criminal brother, is forced by the mob to
help them rob his employer. When the heist goes awry and the
banker is taken hostage, he snaps. With nothing to lose, the
banker goes on a rampage, taking down anyone in his path in
order to rescue his brother.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Miramax has signed on to
remake the Israeli thriller "The Debt," acquiring a spec from
"Layer Cake" director Matthew Vaughn and his writing partner
Jane Goldman.

"Debt" revolves around three Mossad agents pursue a Nazi
war criminal across Europe 20 years after World War Two. Assaf
Bernstein directed the 2007 Israeli film, titled "HaHov," which
like the remake is set in the 1960s and 1990s. The Israeli
movie was not released Stateside.

Vaughn is not expected to direct "Debt." He and Goldman
were behind last year's fantasy flop "Stardust," which starred
Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - MGM has pre-emptively
picked up a fantasy comedy spec script that might be up for the
longest title of the year award: "Executive VP, David M.
Murch's Adventures in the Land of Zametherea."

The story centers on a boy who has the ability to travel to
a magical land, but after coming home and telling his parents
about his fantastic adventures, they have him committed. Thirty
years later, the boy has grown into a coldhearted big-shot
mergers-and-acquisitions executive when he gets the call to
return to the magical land of his youth. The man must get help
from his estranged son, the only person innocent enough to save
the land of the man's youth.

Peter Speakman and Michael M.B. Galvin's script went out
Wednesday morning and sold by mid-afternoon. They received an
$850,000 advance against a $1.35 million payout if the movie is
made.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - New Line has made its
first purchase since being downsized to a unit of its Warner
Bros. corporate sibling, plunking down a $500,000 advance for
"Dan Mintner: Badass for Hire," a comedy spec script by Chad
Kultgen.

Producer Beau Flynn described it as: "The baddest dude in
the world in supertight jeans, chewing on a matchstick, stuck
in the '80s but kicking ass in the present day."

Flynn said the project will be an R-rated comedy in the
spirit of "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" and "Wedding
Crashers," the kind of movie that "classic" New Line was good
at making and that the new iteration will be making as well.


Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

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