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“Carmen Luna” might have sung her last note, but Devious Maids star Roselyn Sanchez is staying put at Lifetime with a killer new project.

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Sanchez star in Death of a Vegas Showgirl, a new movie based on the true story of Debbie Flores, a professional dancer who went missing the night before she was set to make her debut as the lead in a major stage production. She will also executive-produce, along with husband Eric Winter (Witches of East End).

Per Lifetime, “the investigation into [Debbie’s] disappearance reveals the...

Brian D. Young ("180 Degrees") has been hired to pen a re-write of the film adaptation of Jeffrey Archer's 2005 novel "False Impression" at New Franchise Media says The Hollywood Reporter.

An action-crime novel set on several continents, the story begins with a woman who escaped the 9/11 attack after being fired by her banker boss. She then helps a British lady try to sell a Van Gogh painting while both a mercenary and an FBI agent are on her trail.

New Franchise acquired the worldwide film, TV and digital rights to ten of Archer's novels a while back with Richard Regen working on a script based on "A Matter of Honor" and its follow-up "Honor Among Thieves" for Kennedy/Marshall. Similarly Gale Anne Hurd is developing a TV adaptation of Archer's"The Eleventh Commandment".

Toronto - Canadian indie producer New Franchise Media has tapped Brian D. Young to do a re-write of the Jeffrey Archer novel False Impression, now in the script stage. Toronto-based New Franchise, which last year acquired the worldwide film, TV and digital rights to a slate of ten thriller novels by Archer, and The Kennedy/Marshall Company have also hired Richard Regen to adapt the separate novel, A Matter of Honor, into a multi-film franchise property. False Impression, published by Archer in 2005, is an action-crime novel set on several continents considered ripe for an action thriller. Young

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Director/VFX Supervisor Gary Jones (Mosquito, Spiders) dropped me an email about Ghouls, his new film premiering on the Sci-Fi Channel this weekend. Sci-Fi must really be high on the film since I've seen ads hyping it as not just an original movie premiering, but as an "event".

Ghouls tells the tale of a college student (Kristen Renton, "Days of Our Lives") returning with her father (William Atherton, Die Hard, Ghostbusters) to his home country only to discover her family holds a dark secret that involves her.

It also involves some spectral ghouls that fly around attacking people, not all that dissimilar to the Dementors from the Harry Potter films, though I suspect the aftermath of one of their attacks is far more unpleasant.

Also starring in the Romanian-filmed fright flick from writer Brian D. Young (Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep) are James DeBello (Cabin Fever, Detroit Rock City) and...