Focus Features is developing Hanna, a reverse spin on The Professional from screenwriter Seth Lochhead.

In this version, a 14-year-old raised by her father to be a cold-hearted killing machine must learn how to be a girl. In Luc Besson's 1994 big screen version, an orphaned girl played by Natalie Portman befriended her neighbor, a hitman.
Marty Adelstein and Scott Nemes are producing Hanna.

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Focus Features co-chair James Schamus has revived A Little Game -- months after the project imploded -- and brought in frequent collaborator Ang Lee to direct.

The project is expected to be Lee's next after Lust, Caution. "Game" will mark his third straight film for Focus after Brokeback Mountain and Lust, Caution.

Schamus is rewriting the romantic comedy, an adaptation of a French play called "A Little Game of Consequence." It centers on a happily engaged Brooklyn couple who decide to play an experiment on their friends; when a rumor goes around that they have broken up, they play along to find out what their pals really think of their coupling...more click on heading

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A young man driving across country becomes prey for a cunning serial killer, who blames all his murders on the young man.

From filmmaker Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes production company (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Amityville Horror) comes a remake of the 1986 terror classic. Dave Meyers is directing the new film, which tracks the terrifying cross-country trajectory of Grace (Sophia Bush) and Jim (Zachary Knighton), two traveling college students who are tormented by the mysterious hitchhiker John Ryder, a.k.a. The Hitcher (Sean Bean).

Genres:  Suspense/Horror, Thriller and Remake
Release Date:  January 19th, 2007 (wide)
MPAA Rating:  R for strong bloody violence, terror and language.
Distributors:  Rogue Pictures (Focus) ....more click on heading

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Release Date: October 27, 2006

This dramatic portrayal of terrorism during apartheid in South Africa follows one man's (Derek Luke) battle against the regime. Click to read more ....

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