Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester is making the leap to the big screen with The Roommate. “The story follows Sara (Meester), a college student who is randomly assigned to a freshman dorm with a stranger named Rebecca. Things turn deadly when Rebecca becomes obsessed and begins targeting people in Sara's life,” per The Hollywood Reporter. Is this roommate, perchance, a single white female?

More penguins for you? “Twentieth Century Fox has acquired screen rights to Mr. Popper's Penguins, an adaptation of the beloved 1938 children's book that will be produced by John Davis,” Variety reports. “The book, which won the 1939 Newbery Award, is about Mr. Popper, a house painter whose dreams of Arctic exploration prompt him to write letters to real explorers. One of them sends him a penguin, which he keeps in the icebox. Before he knows it, the painter has a litter of 12 beaked birds.”

Sean Penn is looking to join Cartel, a semi-remake of the 1993 Italian film La scorta. “Scripted by Peter Craig, the mission movie will follow Ed Marker as he journeys to protect his son after his wife is brutally murdered in the gritty world of Mexican cartels.”

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