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Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit’s horror comedy spec script The Harvard Zombie Massacre has been picked up by the Parallel Zide production company. It’s about how brilliant Harvard minds fend off the undead that have overrun the Ivy League school. Filming is planned for early next year.

Matthijs van Heijningen has signed with Warner Brothers to make his feature length directing debut with Army of the Dead. The action thriller is about a father who tries to save his daughter from a zombie infested Las Vegas.

After her comments on the earthquake in China, Sharon Stone has been dropped from U.S-China produced Mermaid Island.

Stephen Tobolowsky has been cast in Taratino Productions and KarlAdam Entertainment’s supernatural western Death Keeps Coming. Written and directed by Derek Milton, the movie will be about a mysterious gunfighter who comes to save Sara, the innocent victim of a gypsy curse.

John Cusack, Ken Watanabe, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan will star in Mikael Hafstrom’s Shanghai. Paul Sommes (Cusack) investigates the death of his friend’s (Morgan) murder in Japanese occupied Shanghai before the attack on Pearl Harbor, and comes across a government secret. Currently filming in Thailand.

Anthony LaPaglia has been cast, and Gyton Grantley and Nathan Phillips are in talks for Robert Connolly's Balibo. About five Australian television newsmen who were shot dead by the Indonesian military in East Timor in 1975.

Benita Collings will play Nicolas Cage's mother in Knowing.