* DreamWorks has grabbed SPACE MONKEY from animation writer-director Ash Brannon (TOY STORY 2), who will develop the project as a fully CG-animated pic. It's about a team of monkeys involved in the NASA space program in the 1950s.

* Anand Tucker (HILARY AND JACKIE) will direct Steve Martin in Lakeshore's SHOPGIRL, based on Martin's best-selling novella of the same name. Production will begin this fall. Martin adapted the pic, which centers on Mirabelle, a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at Neiman Marcus, and the two men in her life: wealthy divorcee Ray Porter and struggling musician Jeremy.

* Twentieth Century Fox won the bidding war to acquire the big-budget, tentpole actioner THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, written by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, to be directed by Roland Emmerich. Production is expected to begin in the fall for a summer 2003 release. The project is described as a high-concept film about the disastrous effects of global warming.

* De Line Pictures has optioned the romance script TULIP, an edgy romantic comedy described as a TOOTSIE-esque story that involves mistaken identity. Gina Wendkos and Jerry Stahl penned the screenplay.

* Radar Pictures has picked up the pitch TURN by Fernley Phillips. The deal includes the remake rights for the Japanese film of the same name. It's about a woman in a near-fatal accident who then finds herself repeating the events of the previous 24 hours.

* David Fincher is in talks to shoot a remake of the 1975 supernatural thriller THE REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD for Paramount. The original centered on a young college professor who experiences flashbacks from a previous incarnation and is mysteriously drawn to the town of his "wife" from another time.

* Frank Marshall will direct the life story of the legendary gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt for Universal, Kennedy/Marshall and the Manheim Co. Shooting is expected to begin in spring 2003 from a script by Janus Cercone (LEAP OF FAITH). Reinhardt was a handsome gypsy guitar player who was badly burned while saving his wife from a fire that started in the gypsy caravan. Doctors wanted to amputate his left hand and right leg, but the gypsies took him and nursed him back to health. He continued to play, until he was captured during WWII by the Nazis, who had outlawed jazz in Europe and wanted to get rid of all the gypsies. He later became the toast of the Paris jazz set and realized his dream to play with Ellington at Carnegie Hall.

* David Koepp (SPIDER-MAN, PANIC ROOM) will adapt and direct Stephen King's TWO PAST MIDNIGHT: SECRET WINDOW, SECRET GARDEN.

* Dean Parisot (GALAXY QUEST) is directing the Summit Entertainment time travel comedy LOCKED & UPRIGHT about two dingy flight attendants from the swinging '70s who head into the Bermuda triangle aboard a passenger flight and come out in the belly of a German bomber staging a raid over London. Production begins this winter.

* Andrew Marlowe (AIR FORCE ONE) will rewrite Rick Waugh and Tag Mendillo's script HAMMER DOWN for DreamWorks about a disgraced NASCAR driver who becomes a wheel man in a heist in the belief it will get him back on the track.

* Revolution Studios is developing a sequel to the upcoming Vin Diesel pic XXX, with director Rob Cohen and screenwriter Rich Wilkes signed to reprise their duties for Original Film. The project is being targeted for release in summer or Christmas 2004.

* Music video and commercials director Marcus Nispel will helm the reconceptualization of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE for New Line, Platinum Dunes and Radar Pictures. Production will begin in July. The new pic will focus more on the horror than the gore.

* Michael Schiffer (THE PEACEMAKER scribe) will write and direct MEMOIRS OF A CADDY, based on the novel by David Noonan. It's a coming-of-age story about two brothers who survive first love, forbidden love and shadows of war during the summer of 1968.

* RKO Pictures will remake the 1946 film CRACK-UP and hired Chris Kletzien to write the new version. The original followed an art curator who remembers surviving a train wreck that never happened. As the story continues, he finds himself becoming the unwitting victim of an artist.

* Universal Pictures and director Michael Mann are developing MIAMI VICE, a feature based on the '80s cop series. Mann, who executive produced the series, will write the script and produce with Forward Pass' Sandy Climan. Series creator Anthony Yerkovich will executive produce. Mann will decide whether or not to direct the project once the script is finished. His goal is to create a contemporary crime detective story set in Miami, as opposed to retreading the fashions and characters of the show.

* Jonathan Hales (STAR WARS: EPISODE II) has set up the pitch CRUSADER at the Walt Disney Co., with Firm Films producing. The story is set in the future on an alien planet and centers on two brothers who battle each other for control of a kingdom.

* Gregory Dark will direct Millennium Films' horror-action feature LEGION, written by Peter Schink. Production begins this fall on the story of a desolate truck stop that serves as the last bastion of humanity after hell spills over onto Earth.

* The Walt Disney Co. has purchased the script SNOW AND THE SEVEN, written by Josh Harmon and Scott Elder. It's a SNOW WHITE-inspired action-adventure set in late 19th century China where an aristocratic young Englishwoman who flees her Hong Kong home after her life is threatened by her stepmother. The woman flees to a Shaolin temple, where seven Shaolin monks are chosen to keep her safe from the supernatural forces that hunt for her.

* Barry Levinson will direct Ben Stiller and Jack Black in the DreamWorks comedy ENVY, about best friends whose relationship hits a roadblock when one of them is consumed with jealous rage after the other becomes filthy rich selling an invention. Shooting begins in July.

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