reported by Jennifer Tillman, CyberScreenwriter.com

In this new partnership Nick G. Miller will write, direct and produce film and TV projects while David Rodgers will take on a more business, advisory and creative role bringing completed works to the next level. The new company will be Rodgers / Miller Productions.

Miller and Rodgers first met several years ago at a film festival and had expressed interest in someday working together on a film. It was only after viewing a rough draft of Miller's latest feature "The Unlikely's," that Rodgers was convinced that he couldn't let a talent like Miller get away.

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reported by Samuel Grigsby, CyberScreenwriter.com

DreamWorks Studios in association with Film 4 has acquired "The Lovely Bones," Peter Jackson's adaptation of the Alice Sebold best-selling novel.

Peter Jackson will direct the film from a screenplay he co-wrote with Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh. Carolynne Cunningham, Jackson, Walsh, and Aimee Peyronnet will serve as producers. Executive producing will be Film 4?s Tessa Ross, Ken Kamins and Jim Wilson.

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