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Paul Garnes has been named president of Array Filmworks. The company’s current president, Sarah Bremner, is stepping down for a personal hiatus, according to an individual with knowledge of the situation.

“Sarah is a thoughtful executive who has built a wonderful creative development team here and is respected by our showrunners and artists. I’m grateful for her time at Array, look forward to continuing our friendship and wish her good health and happiness always,” said Array founder Ava DuVernay.

Garnes is the long-time producing partner of DuVernay. He previously served as Array’s head of physical production. In his new role, he will oversee all aspects of creative development, physical production and post-production for the company’s television and film slate.

“Paul has been my true and trusted partner for the past decade, the one who takes my dreams off the page and makes them a reality on the set and beyond,...

The Dead Island cinematic reveal trailer propelled the game from an obscure title known only to horror gamers to one of the most talked about titles in 2011. A feature film may not be moving forward yet, but Hatchet III director Bj McDonnell teamed up with Machinima to create a live-action version of the trailer.

For those that weren’t aware, Lionsgate acquired rights to produce a Dead Island movie back in 2011. We haven’t heard anything since, but this may draw a bit more interest to the project. Here are details from the original announcement:

“Santa Monica, CA, September 27, 2011– Lionsgate® (NYSE: Lgf), a leading global entertainment company, today announced that it has optioned film rights from Deep Silver to develop a feature inspired by Dead Island, which became a viral media sensation when its haunting, artful trailer launched in February 2011. The announcement was made by Lionsgate’s co-coo and Motion Picture Group President Joe Drake.

Anne Hathaway is looking to expand her resume beyond acting and singing. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actress is closing on a deal to produce and star in Paramount Pictures’ “Puzzler.” The film is mentioned as a female-driven thriller in the vein of “Three Days of the Condor.” Hathaway will be seen in the upcoming comic book sequel “The Dark Knight Rises.” She recently appeared in romantic drama “One Day” this year. Other producers for the project will include Adam Schulman, Sarah Perlman and Stefan Sonnenfeld. Perlman and Sonnenfeld are also producing Lionsgate’s “Dead Island,” based on a popular zombie video game. The screenplay is written by Karl Gajdusek. Gajdusek wrote the thriller “Trespass,” which stars Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman. He wrote a few episodes for the television series “Dead Like Me.”Source: The Hollywood Reporter...

Anne Hathaway made plenty of news this summer with reports and fan photos of her Catwoman suit and a crash by her stunt double on a giant motocycle from the shoot of The Dark Knight Rises. Hathaway made development headlines today via reports of her joining the espionage thriller Puzzler in The Hollywood Reporter. Karl Gajdusek (Trespass) wrote the thriller and Hathaway joined the Paramount project both as its lead as well as a producer. Adam Schulman, Sarah Perlman and Stefan Sonnenfeld also joined the film as producers. Hathaway recently starred alongside Jim Sturgess in director Lone Scherfig’s adaptation of David Nicholls’ popular romance novel One Day.