Ryan Knighton, who is an author and contemporary literature teacher at Capilano University, has landed the job of adapting Paul Hoffman's WINGS OF MADNESS: ALBERTO SANTOS-DUMONT AND THE INVENTION OF FLIGHT, which will mark Chris Wedge's live-action directing debut, reports Variety.

The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood announces today that tickets for the 39th Annual Annie Awards are now on sale.

Solipsist Films has picked up the rights to Top Cow's upcoming vampire graphic novel IN THE DUST, reports Heat Vision.

Paramount and Hasbro have hired ZOMBIELAND scribes Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese to transform MICRONAUTS into a feature film, reports Deadline.com.

Sony Pictures Television has begun development on a ZOMBIELAND TV series, writes The Hollywood Reporter.

Fox has purchased Michael Vukadinovich's spec script THE THREE MISFORTUNES OF GEPPETTO with Shawn Levy attached to direct, reports Deadline.com.

Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz (X-MEN: FIRST CLASS) are in talks to write Paramount and Skydance Prods.' TOP GUN sequel, reports Variety.

Paramount has snatched up the hot spec script HYPERDRIVE from Morgan Jurgenson (TUCKER AND DALE VS. EVIL) and David Daniels (which is a pseudonym for Panay Films' vp of production Alex Ankeles), writes Heat Vision.

20th Century Fox has picked up the rights to the British TV series RENTAGHOST, reports Deadline.com.

Sony Pictures Animation, the studio behind this year’s worldwide hit THE SMURFS, continues to advance its development slate with the hiring of veteran animation writer/director Kelly Asbury.