Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up the film rights to “Heist Society,” author Ally Carter’s young adult thriller novel hitting stores on Tuesday, February 9. The Hollywood Reporter says Shauna Cross will write the script with Denise Di Novi producing with Di Novi Pictures’ Alison Greenspan.

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Universal Pictures has announced the “The Twilight Saga” star Taylor Lautner will will play the title character in Stretch Armstrong , which will be made in 3D, while the studio has moved back Battleship to Memorial Day Weekend in 2012.

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In order to keep the movie rights to Marvel Comics’ “Daredevil” under their belt, 20th Century Fox and Regency are looking to develop a reboot of the sightless superhero with News Corp VP Peter Chernin producing and David Scarpa ( The Day the Earth Stood Still ) writing a script, according to Mike Fleming at Deadline Hollywood .

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Actor Pierce Brosnan is going to be around a lot in the coming months with key roles in a number of films including Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer and the romantic drama Remember Me . At the junket for Chris Columbus’ fantasy-adventure epic Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief , in which Brosnan plays a centaur named Chiron, ComingSoon.net asked him if he had any update on the proposed sequel to his 1999 thriller The Thomas Crown Affair , last mentioned almost two years ago, to be based on the 1964 Peter Ustinov film Topkapi and Eric Ambler’s novel “Light of Day.”

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At the junket for his new movie Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief , we ask director Chris Columbus if he has heard anything and how he feels about someone doing a sequel or remake of some of his classic movies of the ’80s and ’90s such as The Goonies , Gremlins or Mrs. Doubtfire .

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Transformers director Michael Bay has topped Vanity Fair magazine’s inaugural list of the top earners in Hollywood in 2009, followed by fellow filmmakers Steven Spielberg, Roland Emmerich and then Canadian James Cameron.

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Variety reports that Eric Bana is in final negotiations to star opposite Saoirse Ronan in Focus Features’ action-thriller Hanna .

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Latino Review reports that Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci will produce a feature adaptation of IDW Publishing’s “Locke & Key,” written by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez, at DreamWorks Studios.

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Variety has confirmed a recent report in the Serbian magazine Politika that said Johnny Depp will direct a documentary on Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards, who served as an inspiration for Depp’s Jack Sparrow character in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films.

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Sony has joined Lionsgate in the bidding on the rights to the “Terminator” franchise, reports Variety . The studio submitted a bid on Thursday, the final day for submitting offers.

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