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David Chase has signed a deal with Paramount to write, direct, and produce his first feature, an original drama.

As part of their 8 Films to Die For series, After Dark Films will produce and distribute Faithless and Perkins, which will shoot consecutively in Romania in May. With Faithless, Stewart Hopewell will direct a script co-written with Tim Long about a woman who goes to her family’s farm to leave an abusive relationship, to discover an even crueler form of abuse. Perkins 14, Jeremy Donaldson’s winning idea of Dark’s Ghost in the Machine promotion, about a suspected murderer, his arrest and bloodshed, will be written by Lane Shadgett and directed by Craig Singer.

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has distribution rights in all English-speaking territories for Duncan Jones' scifi thriller Moon. Starring Sam Rockwell, it's about a man who mines precious gas that can reverse Earth's energy crisis.

Daniel Myrick, co-director of The Blair Witch Project, is looking for a distributor for his first person filmed thriller, The Objective, about a CIA officer and special forces crew who are threatened by the supernatural while on a mission in the Afghan mountains.

John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have been hired to rewrite Greg Pace's screenplay Hours of Fun. Walt Disney and Scott Rudin Productions are developing, the tentatively titled, Fun about two childhood friends who have to save their town when, thirty years later, all the novelty stuff they ordered from the back of comic books (Sea Monkeys, X-ray glasses, etc.) as kids start actually doing what they claim.

Adam Torchia and Justin Stanley's supernatural spec The Knights Templar has been picked by Universal Pictures. In it, the Knights Templar fight vampires who are trying to destroy the Holy Grail.

Warner Brothers has Sascha Penn's scifi action spec script The Ditch. In the future, in a maximum security prison on one of Jupiter's moons, a prison guard is coerced into helping a terrorist on death row escape in order to save his family.

Gregor Jordan will direct Unthinkable, an action thriller starring a Samuel L. Jackson. Filming starts September.

James McTeigue will direct scifi thriller Revelation, written by John Salvati. It’s about a journalist who discovers that victims in a series of strange murders were all being treating in research about alien abductions.

Ron Perlman, Shun Sugata, Gackt have joined Bunraku’s cast. Perlman will be the bad guy.

James Brolin will replace James Caan as a politician who chokes to death on a cookie in David O’ Russell's political satire Nailed.

Eva Mendes, Josh Hartnett, and Ben Kingsley will star in Queen of the South. The Jonathan Jakubowicz directed drama is about a Mexican woman who becomes a Spanish drug lord (lady?) to avenge her murdered boyfriend.