Jesse Andrews, author of Me And Earl And The Dying Girl, is going to make his directing debut on Empress Of Serenity, and he has Trainwreck‘s Bill Hader set to star. Pic is a comedy that has taken root at Good Universe. Andrews wrote the script, which is loosely inspired by David Foster Wallace’s novel. It’s an edgy…

Liam Neeson is in talks to star in Felt, a drama about Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s famed Watergate source known at the time as Deep Throat but revealed decades later to have been FBI agent W. Mark Felt. Concussion helmer Peter Landesman is directing the pic from his script and also will produce. Marc…

Paul Katis’ Afghanistan war drama Kilo Two Bravo, formerly known as Kajaki The True Story when Katis landed a BAFTA Award nomination this year for outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer, has been acquired by Search Engine and Honora. The deal comes ahead of its North American premiere at the Toront…

EXCLUSIVE: Good Universe has optioned rights to the thriller Wrong Move, the adaptation of Jonathan Stone’s bestselling 2014 novel Moving Day that has been adapted by scribe Christopher Kyle. The deal was made with Magic Mike producer Nick Wechsler and Chockstone Pictures, which had optioned rights to the book in…

Good Universe has just landed a comedy pitch from Portlandia writer-director Jonathan Krisel and writer Graham Wagner for Mermaids In Paradise, the pair’s adaptation of Lydia Millet's satirical novel. Krisel is set to help the pic and Wagner will write the screenplay, marking the feature debuts of both. Pacific…

Good Universe has closed multiple international deals for the distribution of The Forest, a supernatural thriller starring Michiel Huisman (Wild, World War Z, Game Of Thrones) and Natalie Dormer (The Hunger Games, Game Of Thrones, Elementary). To be directed by Jason Zada from a script by Sarah Cornwell and Nick…

EXCLUSIVE: Aussie up-and-comer Sam Reid has joined the Paul Currie-directed 2:22 alongside Michiel Huisman (Game Of Thrones, Wild) and Teresa Palmer (Knight Of Cups, Point Break, ). Good Universe is selling in Berlin. The romantic thriller has gone through some casting changes, but now looks set with principal…

EXCLUSIVE: Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech) will play composer-lyricist Lionel Bart, who famously wrote the score for Oliver!, in Vadim Jean’s musical feature Consider Yourself. Joining Rush is a stellar cast including Stephen Fry (Sherlock Holmes), Olivia Colman (Broadchurch), Eddie Marsan (Snow White And The Huntsma…

The Devil Wears Prada helmer David Frankel has taken over the directing reins of Good Universe’s sci-fi romance Departure. Oscar-nominated Billy Ray penned the script and was previously set to direct the tale of a brilliant FAA investigator who is obsessed with learning how a 727 suddenly vanished into thin air and…

Benjamin Walker and Teresa Palmer star in 2:22, a psychological thriller 2:22 that Lightstream Pictures’ Paul Currie directs from a script by Todd Stein with Nathan Parker and Currie. Good Universe will sell at Cannes. Walker plays a man whose life is permanently derailed when an ominous pattern of events repeats…

EXCLUSIVE: The Grudge, the Takashi Shimazu-directed 2004 film that helped establish the viability of low-cost genre films, is getting a reboot. Ghost House Pictures and Good Universe will relaunch the franchise, and they’ve set Midnight Meat Train scribe Jeff Buhler to draft the reboot. The original starred Sarah…

Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver’s Point Grey Pictures have entered into a joint venture with Good Universe to develop comedies together. The two companies already have found great success working on such films as 50/50 and This Is The End, and Neighbors, which Universal will release May 9. They also…