Checkin' to see what scripts were sold recently, here were a few:

Class Act
Tierney Cahill, a teacher from Reno, takes a challenge from her sixth-grade students to run for Congress in the 2000 elections on the condition that they would help run her campaign. The single mother ultimately loses her bid to an incumbent, but she ends up winning 35% of the popular vote.
Based on a true story. Halle Berry will star.

Cougars
A group of young men, fed up with dating women their own age, discover the pleasures of dating older women.

Mafia Cop
Louis Eppolito is convicted of murdering for the mob while serving as an NYPD detective. Rewrite deal. True story based on the life rights as well as the book, "Mafia Cop: The Story of an Honest Cop Whose Family Was the Mob".

The Rotten School
Centers on the crazy boarding school adventures of Bernie Bridges as he schemes against his teachers and rival students.
Writer: R.L. Stine (author)
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
Genre: Family Comedy
More: Children's book.

And my favorite
O.C.T.: Occult Crimes Taskforce
A New York police detective, after stumbling upon a gruesome and bizarre crime scene, is enlisted for a covert squad that uses black arts and mystical weaponry to hunt down and kill soul-sucking ghouls. To be adapted from Image Comics comic series which was created by Rosario Dawson, David Atchison & Tony Shasteen. Trybe's Dawson will produce. Atchison & Shasteen will co-produce. Dawson will also star.

Yep... good things coming out our way

Sold on Friday:

James Cameron's Sanctum
A father and son lead a diving team to uncharted depths and a life-threatening crisis occurs.
Writer: James Cameron & John Garvin (Syphon Filter)
Prod. Co: Rogue Pictures
James Cameron and Andrew Wight will produce. Gary Johnstone will direct. The live-action film will be shot in high-definition 3-D.

DarkMaze wrote:

They're gonna retitle it "Titanic 2." Just sayin'.

I thought they were calling it "Abyss 2"

This week's funs:

Bell Witch
A new mom is so haunted by unexplained phenomena that she doubts her sanity. She fixates on the legend of the Bell Witch and becomes convinced that an evil spirit is out to harm her baby.
Studio: Universal Pictures
Genre: Horror
Type A's Reese Witherspoon & Jennifer Simpson will produce. Witherspoon may star.

Fraggle Rock
Gobo, Wembley, Mokey, Boober and Red travel from beneath the Rock and venture into the human world for the first time.
Prod. Co: Henson Company, The Jim Monsterfoot Productions
Based on the 80's hit puppet TV show. Monsterfoot's Ahmet Zappa will executive produce and develop. No screenwriter or director is attached as yet.

The Lost Painting
Chronicles a quest to locate "The Taking of the Christ," a lost masterpiece by mercurial 16th century Italian painter Caravaggio. A couple of clues led to the discovery of the dust- and grime-covered canvas in a house owned by Jesuit priests in Ireland.
Studio: Miramax Films
To be adapted from Jonathan Harr's nonfiction book. Zachary Feuer will produce.

The Boathouse
A mysterious young woman's new beau discovers that her past lovers died under suspicious circumstances. He begins to suspect she may be cursed.
Studio: Dimension Films
Ehren Kruger (Reindeer Games) & Daniel Bobker and Forthcoming's Iain Softley & Sarah Curtis will produce. Softley will also direct.

FINALLY
The Mist
In a small town, a thick mist engulfs the area and kills those caught in its darkness. Terrified survivors seek refuge in a supermarket, while a swarm of murderous critters tries to get in.
Writer: Frank Darabont
Studio: Dimension Films
Prod. Co: Castle Rock Entertainment
Genre: Horror
Adapted from Stephen King's novella. Darabont and Castle Rock's Martin Shafer & Liz Glotzer will produce. Darabont will also direct.

HIGHLIGHTS: The Mist and Fraggle Rock movie! YES!

DarkMaze wrote:

The Mist, eh? There's a pretty cool radio drama version of it made by ZBS Productions. Worth a listen.

Preaching to the choir on that one.

Char Aznable wrote:

In a world where ducks rule the earth, one man will rise up against tyranny. Vin Diesel is The Duck Stabber.

Ha! Except Vin's kinda booked until 2009

Of course, if he sits in a car and doesn't move the whole film, that should be alright.

A few films catching my eye:

Fantastic Mr. Fox
A fox uses its wits and cunning to outfox three dimwitted farmers who tire of sharing their chickens with the fox and resort to a shock-and-awe offensive.
Writer: Wes Anderson Noah Baumbach
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Animation
Genre: Family Animation
To be adapted from Roald Dahl's classic tale. Scott Rudin and American Empirical's Wes Anderson will produce. Anderson will also direct.
This has been announced for awhile.

Stepfather
Centers on the perfect stepfather's impact on the family dynamic.
Writer: Brian Burns
Will Ferrell, Adam McKay & Chris Henchy will produce. Paramount Vantage's Amy Israel & Chad Hamilton will oversee.
Odd producing choice.

Animated America
A misfit teen is completely lost and doesn't fit in when his girlfriend leaves town after graduation and he's forced to find himself.
Writer: Peter Ackerman
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Genre: Comedy Drama
Landscape's Bob Cooper and ImageMovers' Robert Zemeckis & Jack Rapke will produce. Film will be a mixture of live-action and animation.
This sounds like a certain John Cusak movie to me...

Burn After Reading
A CIA agent loses the disc of the book he is writing.
Writer: Joel Coen Ethan Coen
Ethan Coen will also produce. Joel Coen will also direct. George Clooney will star.
Syriana sequel? I think so... you know, if Clooney had... um, "come back to America" at the end. Should be better than "Intolerable Cruelty".

Cobalt 60
In a postapocalyptic world inhabited by mutants and fantastical creatures, a masked hero, Cobalt 60, embarks on a quest to avenge his parents, who were murdered by the evil Strontium 90.
Writer: Vaugh Bode (author)
Studio: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action
60's cult comic book created by Vaugh Bode. Zack Snyder & Debbie Snyder will produce. Zack Snyder will also direct. Universal's Dylan Clark will oversee. No screenwriter is attached as yet.
I doubt this movie will ever get made.

Factor X
A black counterterrorism expert from Washington teams up with a Wichita police detective, who spent his career trying to chase down the infamous BTK killer, and invents a data reduction process to mathematically rule out suspects. The killer turns out to be a mild-mannered leader at a local church.
Studio: New Line Cinema
Scott Free's Michael Costigan will produce. Victoria Fredrick and Gregory Allen Howard will also produce. Ridley Scott to possibly direct. Eric Bana and Terrence Howard will star.
eh...

Syd Lexia wrote:

Apparently Voltron got the go-ahead: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472429/

Voltron: Defender of the Universe
Five maverick explorer-pilots must travel to the planet Arus to learn how to operate Voltron, a giant mechanical warrior formed by five smaller robots.
Prod. Co: Gordon Company, Mark
Genre: Science Fiction
Logged: 7/26/2005
To be based on the 80’s children’s TV series. Mark Gordon Co.’s Mark Gordon will produce. Pharrell Williams, Mark Costa and Ford Oelman will executive produce. Williams will score the film and produce the soundtrack.
Pretty much what it says on the imdb... A year old though.

Faces of Death
Depicts the gruesome and varied ways people and animals can die via explicit footage.
Prod. Co: Rogue Pictures Angry Films
Genre: Horror
Remake of the series of gory videotapes from the 70s and 80s. Rick Benattar, Susan Montford and Don Murphy will produce. John Burrud will executive produce. J.T. Petty will direct.

Okay, this is just weird. How the heck do you remake snuff-ish tapes into a feature film? I guess if anyone can it'll be Rogue...

Street Fighter
Storyline is being kept under wraps, but wil focus on the game's most popular female fighter, Chun Li.
Writer: Justin Marks
Prod. Co: Hyde Park Entertainment Capcom Ltd.
Genre: Action
Based on the popular videogame. Hyde Park's Ashok Amritraj and Capcom Ltd. will produce.

Damn it...Didn't Jackie Chan already make a Chun-Li movie?

RobotGumshoe wrote:

There was a movie where jackie chan dresses up as, amongst other characters, chun-li.

And that scene can still be seen at: http://www.angelfire.com/comics/blueheaven/jackie.mov. Originally posted in thread #118.

RobotGumshoe wrote:

I'm also pleased to hear they are focusing on one character, versus a deadly battle to get as many cameos as possible.

I am too, even if Chun-Li isn't my first choice to focus a movie on.

There's also a writing group/club that believes as you do, because they focus on writing "Mortal Kombat" movies where each writer focuses on one individual character/storyline. (and I may or may not be affiliated with the group and may or may not be doing a "Black Dragon" script...)