Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today, few though they may be:

TELEVISION

Actress Marina Sirtis (Star Trek: The Next Generation) will be stepping into some big shoes that were recently vacated on NCIS. Sirtis will be taking over as the new Director for the Mossad. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

DEVEOPMENT NEWS

ABC Family is developing a new hour-long dramedy based on the novel called Hot Property written by Michele, Sabrina and Samantha Kleier. The series will center on Elizabeth Chase and her daughters, Kate and Isabel, who live and work together. Their lives are so intertwined that outsiders, including their own boyfriends, question if there is room for anything besides business and each other. (Lacey Rose at The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Here are the top 10 box office movies for this past weekend courtesy of Exhibitor Relations:

1. The Croods, $44.7 million
2. Olympus Has Fallen, $30.5 million
3. Oz the Great and Powerful, $22 million
4. The Call, $8.7 million
5. Admission, $6.4 million
6. Spring Breakers, $5 million
7. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, $4.3 million
8. Jack the Giant Slayer, $3 million
9. Identity Thief, $2.5 million
10. Snitch, $1.9 million

Relativity Media has acquired the rights to the psychological thriller novel Scare Me with actor Wentworth Miller (Prison Break) set to write the script. Miller made his screenwriting debut on Stoker, the upcoming thriller over at Fox Searchlight that will star Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode. Scare Me is in the vein of Se7en, and it will be published in the spring by Angry Robot. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

Sony Pictures as acquired the right to the upcoming young adult novel called Seeker by author Arwen Elys Dayton. The first of an intended trilogy, the story focuses on a young girl put through years of brutal training who discovers too late that she will be using her new found knowledge and training to become an assassin. (The Hollywood Reporter and Dark Horizons)

That’s it. Enjoy!