- According to a press release from Global Creatures, work has begun on a Broadway musical version of King Kong called King Kong — Live on Stage. I thought we learned the first time around that we didn’t want him live on stage, right? Looking forward to this, though.
- Paradise Lost has found its director: I, Robot and Knowing director Alex Proyas will helm the adaptation of the John Milton poem. [Variety]
- So You Think You Can Dance announced via press release that the season 7 tour is set to kick off Sept. 19 in New Orleans. Obviously, Nigel Lythgoe to arrive armed with beads.
- Disturbia co-writer Carl Ellsworth has been tapped to pen the Goosebumps adaptation. I’d cross my fingers for a Why I’m Afraid of Bees adaptation, but I already saw that back in 2006 when it was called The Wicker Man. [THR]
- IFC Films has nabbed rights to Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project, an “uncensored” (Hm.) documentary about the Miramax co-founder, according to a press release from the studio.
- Sony has announced it has acquired Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin That I Inhabit, which is not about Buffalo Bill, but rather a father who avenges his daughter’s death.
- In other Sony acquisition news: The studio has also picked up rights to Insidious, a horror film starring Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne and directed by Saw‘s James Wan. Good to see the kids will learn a new SAT vocab word. [The Wrap]
Way to Go Micheal! The universe heard your call and responded. You are the real deal and a gem of a guy!
So much LOL @ the Nigel Lythgoe comment.