Morning Deal Report: Polanski and Belushi, Together at Last

Scott Von Doviak — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:30:00 GMT

Apparently some sort of awards nominations were announced this morning. I think you can find the details elsewhere at the Screengrab.

Scorsese and De Niro. Hitchcock and Stewart. Polanski and…Belushi? JIM Belushi? Yes, it’s true, according to The Hollywood Reporter: "Tom Wilkinson and Jim Belushi have joined the cast of Roman Polanski's The Ghost, which begins filming in Berlin on Feb. 4. The movie stars Pierce Brosnan as a former British prime minister and Ewan McGregor as his ghostwriter.”

Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer) will direct “The Spectacular Now, a coming-of-age dramedy based on Tim Tharp's book,” per Variety. "It's somewhere between Sideways, Catcher in the Rye and Ferris Bueller's Day Off," said producer Tom McNulty. Well, that narrows it down.

Mark Ruffalo’s directorial debut, Sympathy for Delicious, is back on track following the shooting death of Ruffalo’s brother. “The story, written by Christopher Thornton, follows a paralyzed DJ, struggling to survive on the streets of L.A., who turns to faith healing and mysteriously develops the ability to cure the sick -- although not himself. The DJ then decides to cash in on his gift in exchange for his rock 'n' roll dreams,” per THR.

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Roman Polanski Sees a Ghost
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Morning Deal Report: Adapt or Die

Peter Smith — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:00:00 GMT

Guillermo Del Toro will adapt The Champions, a late-'60s BBC series too goofy to summarize here.

Roman Polanski will adapt Robert Harris's thriller The Ghost.

Mike Newell will adapt Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, from the legendary videogame series. If he were adapting my experience with Prince of Persia, it'd have to be ten hours of the Prince getting killed over and over again, possibly with a twelve-year-old screaming curses in the background. That game ruled.

— Peter Smith

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Morning Deal Report: Polanski and Belushi, Together at Last

Morning Deal Report: Adapt or Die