Summit Entertainment has acquired screen rights to John Corey Whaley's YA novel Noggin, which will be published in April by Atheneum Books. Deadline.com reported that Jamie Linden (We Are Marshall; Dear John) is attached to write the script and direct the film, with Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen's Temple Hill Entertainment producing.
In the book, a "dying young man agrees to be cryogenically frozen, Ted Williams style, for as long as it takes for medical science to be able to cure the disease that is killing him," Deadline.com wrote. "He wakes up just five years later and finds his head grafted onto the body of someone else. He's still 16, but discovers life has moved on without him. Seeing that his friends have grown up and his life love is engaged to someone else, he tries to find a way to build a new life, even if new scars are inevitable."
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The first teaser trailer has been released for director Michael Winterbottom's The Face of an Angel, adapted from Barbie Latza Nadeau's book Angel Face: Sex, Murder and the Inside Story of Amanda Knox, Indiewire reported. The film stars Daniel Bruhl, Kate Beckinsale and Cara Delevingne, and "if these thirty seconds are anything to go by, The Face of an Angel is very much about the trial of Amanda Knox (renamed here), and certainly the movie now has a bit of extra buzz thanks to the young American being convicted again by an Italian court of murdering her roommate (she spent four years in prison before the original verdict was overturned)," Indiewire wrote.
