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EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from co-scripting Meg, Jon & Erich Hoeber have been set to script Mighty Mouse for Paramount Animation. Karen Rosenfelt and Robert Cort are producing what will be a hybrid film about the massively muscled mouse. The character with the catchy theme song made famous by Andy Kaufman was created by…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Family has picked up the rights to The Purloining Of Prince Oleomargarine, the recently discovered children’s story  written by Mark Twain and completed by Philip and Erin Stead, creators of the Caldecott-winner A Sick Day For Amos McGee. Karen Rosenfelt will produce and Vanessa Morrison and Ralph…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures won an auction for movie rights to Aru Shah and the End Of Time, a young adult novel by Roshani Chokshi that debuts this Sunday in the No. 2 slot on The New York Times Bestseller list for young readers. The studio sees the potential for a franchise that is a cross between Wizard of Oz and…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox today closed a mid-six-figure deal for an untitled spec script that will mark the directing debut of Melissa Stack, who wrote the Cameron Diaz-Leslie Mann comedy The Other Woman. Karen Rosenfelt is producing the new comedy, which Stack wrote based loosely on her own experience. It’s an R-rated comedy in…

EXCLUSIVE: Talk about a timely acquisition. Given the environment in the country right now with talk about building walls, Fox just picked up the Joe Ballarini spec Skyward about two families trying to escape to freedom over a wall. Producer Karen Rosenfelt and her Sunswept Entertainment has the project which is the…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Paramount Pictures executive-turned movie producer Karen Rosenfelt, producer of such features as the Twilight and Percy Jackson franchises and The Devil Wears Prada, is making her first foray into television through her Sunswept Entertainment banner.  Sunswept’s newly launched TV division, headed by…

If Summit Entertainment is actually serious about a merger or a sale, the company has the benefit of wheeling and dealing while it is at a high-water mark. Summit announced today that The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1, flew past $500 million in global box office in just 12 days. The film is at $508 million…

EXCLUSIVE: While the outbreak of zombie and vampire films has been well chronicled, Hollywood has also become flush with Frankenstein films. The latest is an adaptation of the Peter Ackroyd novel The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, which has just gotten Pulitzer-winning Proof playwright David Auburn signed to write…

EXCLUSIVE: Summit Entertainment has acquired screen rights to This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, a novel by Kenneth Oppel. Summit’s Twilight Saga producer Karen Rosenfelt is aboard to produce. The novel will be published by Simon & Schuster in the summer. The action adventure surrounds…

EXCLUSIVE: In a deal that’s high six-figure against 7-figures, Fox 2000 has acquired Pure, the first of a three-novel series by Julianna Baggott. The film will be produced by Karen Rosenfelt, who is one of the producers  on the Twilight Saga series and whose Fox 2000 projects include The Devil Wears Prada and Marley…