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Chronicle’s Max Landis will direct a remake of An American Werewolf in London for Universal Pictures. His father directed the original…Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore are set to star in an untitled mafia crime series for Amazon and The Weinstein Company. The sixteen episode series will be written and directed by The Fighter’s David O. Russell…Showtime is turning the Paul Schrader film American Gigolo into a TV series…Flash’s Greg Berlanti will direct a remake of Little Shop of Horrors…Amy Schumer will play the lead in a live-action Barbie movie…20th Century Fox’s upcoming remake of John Carpenter’s Escape From New York is actually a prequel. The film will be written by Luther’s Neil Cross…Martin Scorsese’s next film is an adaptation of Erik Larson’s The Devil In The White City with Leonardo DiCaprio. The film will tell the story of serial killer H.H. Holmes and architect Daniel H. Burnham…The Stand’s Josh Boone will direct Russell Crowe in an adaptation of Stephen King’s Revival. He will then direct the adaptation of The Stand….AMC and James Cameron will team on a documentary series about science fiction…HBO Chief Casey Bloys says he hasn’t seen the script for David Milch’s Deadwood film yet. He also says there has been progress on True Detective season three, a sequel to The Night Of and that Nic Pizzolatto’s potential Perry Mason series with Robert Downey Jr. is slowly moving through the development process… we will see another season of Wayward Pines but not this year.