EXCLUSIVE: Gianni Nunnari’s Hollywood Gang has optioned Second Coming, the satirical novel by Scottish author John Niven. Italian filmmaker Paolo Genovese (Perfect Strangers) is circling the project to write and direct. In Second Coming, God takes a much needed holiday, which in Heaven-lapsed time is a leisurely week…

Gianni Nunnari's Hollywood Gang has acquired rights to Hell From the Heavens: The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II's Greatest Kamikaze Attack, a book by John Wukovits that is being adapted by screenwriter Rosalind Ross and developed as a feature film by the Se7en and The Departed producer. The pic has the…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM and Gianni Nunnari's Hollywood Gang are teaming up on The Domestics and have set Mike P. Nelson to direct his script. The pic takes in a post-apocalyptic future where a young couple, traveling through a harrowing, gang-ravaged countryside, are trying to make it home. Nunnari and Shannon Gaulding are…

EXCLUSIVE: Tarsem Singh, whose latest film Immortals just opened and who follows with the Julia Roberts-starrer Snow White film Mirror, Mirror, has become attached to Killing On Carnival Row. That is a script by Travis Beacham that producers Arnold and Anne Kopelson originally set up six years ago. It was a hot spec…

Warner Bros has hired Michael Ross to rewrite the futuristic Robin Hood project that has commercials director Nicolai Fuglsig attached to helm. The film is being produced by Charles Roven, Richard Suckle and Gianni Nunnari. Jason Dean Hall wrote the first draft of a drama set in dystopian London, about the band whose…

EXCLUSIVE: At a time when organized crime films are back in vogue, Relativity Media’s Ryan Kavanaugh is wetting his beak. He’s acquired Ness/Capone, a Grant Pierce Myers script that made the 2010 Black Script and puts a new spin on the epic battle between Eliot Ness and Al Capone during the Prohibition Era 1920s. That…

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Penn is circling The Last Photograph, and I’m told he plans to join Christian Bale in the Kurt Johnstad-scripted drama that will be directed by Niels Arden Oplev, director of the Swedish The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. The film is moving from Warner Bros, and is in negotiations to move to Dark Castle…

Deadline reported last fall on the lawsuit last Sepember that pitted former allies Vittorio Cecchi Gori against Gianni Nunnari, producers of some of Hollywood’s larger movies the past few years. Cecchi Gori has released this press release claiming victory (a spokesman for Nunnari said that “We are obviously…

For 300 producer Gianni Nunnari, the decision to sue former longtime employer Vittorio Cecchi Gori for getting axed in 2008 has so far proven as ill-advised as sending 300 Spartans to hold off the entire Persian army at Thermopylae. A rather stunning legal judgment was rendered last week by Los Angeles County Superior…