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: Hot Tub Time Machine director Steve Pink has signed on to helm the film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's 1983 book The Curse of Lono. The story follows the exploits of Thompson and illustrator Ralph Steadman who are sent to cover the marathon in Waikiki and end up on a drug-fueled journey to the sacred…

The upcoming Paramount Network (currently Spike TV) is developing half-hour single camera comedy The Interventionist, executive produced by Tom Arnold and Kapital Entertainment’s Aaron Kaplan. Written by Steve Pink (High Fidelity), The Interventionist is based on Tom’s life as a recovering addict and interventionist…

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: Ice Cube is now aboard to star in the comedy Vacation Friends at 20th Century Fox, a project that was formerly earmarked for Chris Pratt and Anna Faris. The comedy, still to be directed by Steve Pink, was actually bought in March of 2014 with the husband-wife team in mind in what was a six-figure deal. The…

Steve Pink, director of the cult Hot Tub Time Machine feature franchise, has been tapped to helm the pilot episode of NBC’s single-camera comedy series Telenovela starring and executive produced by Eva Longoria. Telenovela has a 13-episode straight-to-series order but will shoot a pilot. Written/executive produced by…

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…

Steve Pink (Accepted, Hot Tub Time Machine) has been tapped to direct Disney’s Overnight, about a father and son who win an inaugural sleepover in a toy store the same night thieves decide to rob it. This is the project that’s been described as “Home Alone in a toy store.” Pink and writing partner Jeff Morris are…

EXCLUSIVE: TriStar has pre-emptively bought The Yank, a pitch for a star vehicle for Will Ferrell to play a mild mannered insurance courier who gets caught up in a conspiracy to steal the Crown Jewels in London. The fish out of water comedy will be written by Steve Pink and his writing partner Jeff Morris, and Mosaic…

EXCLUSIVE: In a near seven-figure deal, Fox has acquired the spec script Vacation Friends by the sibling scribe team Tom Mullen & Tim Mullen. The plan is for Steve Pink to direct, and for Chris Pratt and Anna Faris to star. Todd Garner is producing through his Broken Road Pictures banner. The hope is to shoot later…

Los Angeles, CA (May, 2013) –Action superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger (TERMINATOR series, TOTAL RECALL) is in negotiations to star in writer/director Steve Pink's (HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 1 & 2) big budget action comedy THE TOXIC AVENGER produced by Akiva Goldsman (CONSTANTINE, I AM LEGEND, MR AND MRS SMITH), Richard…

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…