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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Players has acquired Slime, a pitch for a family action-adventure film that will be scripted by writing partners Steve Pink and Jeff Morris. Pink will direct it. Pic is about a slime experiment gone wrong. Slime of course has long been a staple of sister network Nickelodeon. This was a last-minute…

EXCLUSIVE: Stories International Tomoya Suzuki and filmmakers Steve Pink and Jeff Morris are collaborating on a film adaptation of Rent a Hero, the Sega video game about a slacker genius who joins a high-tech start-up that is pitched as a company to improve people’s lives but is nothing as it seems. When company…

EXCLUSIVE: A pitch auction barely got started over the weekend when MGM moved aggressively to make a big deal for Cop Swap, a comedy that will be directed by Hot Tub Time Machine helmer Steve Pink, who is writing the script with his writing partner Jeff Morris. Nicky Weinstock will produce via his Invention Films, and…

EXCLUSIVE: In a high-six against seven-figure pre-emptive deal, DreamWorks has acquired Shore Leave, a male-driven action comedy pitch that will be written by Steve Pink and Jeff Morris. Pink will direct the picture. The deal reunites him with Stacey Snider, who while chairman at Universal Pictures gave him his first…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney has closed a deal for an untitled pitch to be written by Steve Pink and Jeff Morris, and produced by Infinitum Nihil’s Johnny Depp and Christi Dembrowski. The project is best described as a modern re-imagining of Don Quixote. Depp has long been intrigued with that character, and at one time was…