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It's being reported that Justin Lin, director of four The Fast And The Furious films and  Star Trek Beyond has teamed with screenwriter Mark Heyman (Black Swan, Xoxo) to create a brand-new, politically-charged feature for Netflix called The Stand Off. The events of the film will take place during December of the year 1969, when a newly-established police unit known as the "Swat... Read More...

Exclusive: Lionsgate is moving forward again on the social-media thriller Xoxo, signing Greenleaf co-showrunner Clement Virgo to rewrite and direct. Darren Aronofsky and Groundswell Productions’ Michael London are attached to produce the pic, which follows an up-and-comer executive with a real-life fiancé having an online affair. The studio has been working to bring the film to the screen since 2011, when it acquired the script from Black Swan scribe Mark Heyman…...

Nightlight is available starting today on VOD and in theaters, and we caught up with directors Scott Beck & Bryan Woods to discuss urban legends and their unique approach to Pov filmmaking:

Thanks for taking the time to talk with us. Can you tell our readers what brought the two of you together for Nightlight?

Beck/Woods: We’ve actually known each other since we were 11, and we’ve been making movies together as long as we’ve been friends. Throughout middle school and high school we made dozens of shorts and no-budget features, which really taught us the craft of filmmaking. We never formally studied film production aside from consuming DVD features and commentaries (“That Moment” on the Magnolia DVD is beyond inspirational), so we always refer to those early years as our “film school” experience. Since then we’ve constantly co-written and co-directed all of our works, including a...

Black Swan writer Mark Heyman has bagged scripting duties on upcoming adaptation, How To Catch A Russian Spy. The movie will be adapted from the forthcoming novel, How to Catch a Russian Spy: The True Story of an American Civilian Turned Double Agent by Naveed Jamali and Ellis Henican, which is slated to hit store shelves this June.

The true story book follows Jamali’s three-year experience as a double agent. During that period, he spied on America for the Russians and traded sensitive intel for great financial rewards, or so the Russians believed. In actual fact, Jamali was a covert double agent working with the FBI. It’s a gripping story that could have been yanked from a Robert Ludlum novel.

Fox procured the rights to the novel some time ago with a 2014 release initially on the calendar. (500) Days Of Summer‘s Marc Webb was – and still is – attached to direct.

Since making his directing debut on The Adjustment Bureau in 2011, George Nolfi was once shortlisted to direct Captain America: The Winter Soldier before the job went to Anthony & Joe Russo. Otherwise, he's been trying to find his next project with Darren Aronofsky's Xoxo, an adaptation of One Minute to Midnight and a sci-fi film from The Last Stand writer Andrew Knauer as possibilities. However, it sounds like his next project will actually be a film of a different kind. Variety has word that Nolfi has been hired to direct Birth of the Dragon, a biopic about martial arts master Bruce Lee that emerged last year. Read on! However, as we learned last year, the film will chronicle the earlier years of Lee, including the real-life fight between the famous martial artist and Wong Jack Man, China's most well-known kung fu master. The fight will serve as the launching point for a bigger,...

Variety reports that Darren Aronofsky‘s Facebook romance Xoxo has found it’s director in George Nolfi.

Nolfi, director of The Adjustment Bureau, is more seasoned as a writer, having penned The Bourne Ultimatum, Ocean’s 12, and The Adjustment Bureau to name a few.

A film described as a Facebook romance cries out romantic comedy, but Xoxo should be a fair bit darker than your typical romance, prompting some descriptions to refer to it as a thriller. Plus, the script was written by Black Swan scribe Mark Heyman, so odds are it won’t leave audiences feeling cheery. The description First Showing provides gives a bit of a glimpse into the darker side of the film.

The story follows an executive climbing the corporate ladder with great success who’s engaged, but has a good time flirting with other women on the world wide web. When he meets an intriguing woman on Facebook,...

With social media infiltrating the minutiae of daily existence, it’s only inevitable that the prevalence of such things would seep into the multiplex. And, of course, movie theaters near you will soon be bombarded with “social media thrillers” that center the dangers of Twitter feeds, Instagram accounts, Facebook profiles, and Google+ circles (kidding about the Google+, sorry, Google!). After all, what’s more terrifying that someone having access to scads of information about you, including (in some cases) your real-time location? And what could be more compelling than such a thriller penned by Black Swan scribe Mark Heyman? We reported on Heyman’s script, called Xoxo, over a year ago, and back then we only knew that it was set to center on “the way that social media has altered our interactions. The story is about a young man who meets a girl online, starts up a relationship with her, but...

Director Darren Aronofsky isn't one for conventional romance as we've seen in The Fountain, and it sounds like he's bringing that penchant for complicated love to the big screen as a producer as well, but someone else will be behind the camera. Variety reports The Adjustment Bureau director George Nolfi has been attached to direct Xoxo, a romance that starts online in the world of Facebook. But before you get all bent out of shape, it's important to note that the script comes from Black Swan writer Mark Heyman, and this isn't just another silly romantic comedy, or even your average romance with a happy ending. More below! The story follows an executive climbing the corporate ladder with great success who's engaged, but has a good time flirting with other women on the world wide web. When he meets an intriguing woman on Facebook, the two develop their relationship online,...

The Adjustment Bureau director George Nolfi is now attached to both helm and oversees a rewrite of his sophomore effort Xoxo.

The social media thriller Xoxo was initially penned by Black Swan writter Mark Heyman and Nolfi will supervise a rewrite by Heyman.

A modern day Fatal Attraction, the Facebook thriller Xoxo, also compared to Catfish and Hard Candy, explores the dark side of virtual relationships as it follows an up-and-coming executive who blurs the line between his real-life fiancé and his online affair, bringing a whole new meaning to the term ‘poke.’ The main character discovers that his Internet romance is seeping into his actual life in a deadly way.

The film that will have many stylized visual sequences, Darren Aronofsky will produce alongside Michael London, with the project being developed at Lionsgate.

Nolfi most recently worked on the script for Jee-woon Kim’s upcoming The Last Stand, the thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

1.) Michael Fassbender is negotiating to star alongside Natalie Portman in Jane Got a Gun, a Western from We Need to Talk About Kevin director Lynne Ramsay. Portman will also produce the sub-$20 million film through her handsomecharlie banner. [Vulture] 2.) Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Tom Hardy have joined forces to produce an untitled pitch for an animal-trafficking drama at Warner Bros. The film is said to be in the vein of Steven Soderbergh's Traffic, taking a look at animal trafficking from several different angles. The idea actually came from Hardy, then his Inception co-star DiCaprio, a long-time animal-rights activist came aboard and brought along his lifelong friend Maguire. They're currently looking for a screenwriter and while the project sounds promising, I also imagine it being very difficult to watch as an animal lover. [THR] 3.) Lionsgate has hired The Adjustment Bureau helmer George Nolfi to direct Xoxo, a so-called "Fatal Attraction for the internet age.

Before making his directorial debut last year with sleeper hit “The Adjustment Bureau,” George Nolfi made his bread and butter as a screenwriter, with his spec script “Honor Among Thieves” famously reworked into Steven Soderbergh’s Euro-themed heist sequel “Ocean’s Twelve.” Nolfi also did some fine tuning on “The Bourne Ultimatum,” and now is set to lead the overhaul of “Black Swan” writer Mark Heyman’s Facebook thriller “Xoxo.” The thriller, which will retain Heyman as sole writer but under Nolfi’s guidance as he will also be directing the film, follows “an on-the-rise exec who's engaged to be married but enjoys flirting online. He meets an alluring woman on Facebook and the two begin a virtual relationship, but the Internet romance begins seeping into the protag's actual life in a deadly way.” So yes, the “Fatal Attraction” for the millennial...

George Nolfi (The Adjustment Bureau) is attached to direct the upcoming social-media thriller "Xoxo," which is written by Mark Heyman (Black Swan) and is being produced by Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Wrestler). Story follows an on-the-rise executive who's engaged to be married but enjoys flirting online. He meets an alluring woman on Facebook and the two begin a virtual relationship, but the Internet romance begins seeping into his actual life in a deadly way. The project will employ stylized visual sequences to make the online interactions more cinematic. The plan is to first complete re-writes, which will be supervised by Nolfi, who has written scripts for such films as "Ocean's Twelve" and "The Bourne Ultimatum."...

We've already had "the Facebook movie" (The Social Network) - now it's time for "the Facebook thriller movie."  The former turned out both differently and better than just about anyone expected or planned it to; and while that may have been due to the combined might of Fincher/Sorkin, "the Facebook thriller movie" Xoxo has an effective and talented team-up of its own. To be produced by Darren Aronofsky and initially written on spec by Mark Heyman (Black...

Oh, Facebook. Is there anything you can’t do? Help employees waste an unGodly number of hours when they’re supposed to be working? Check. Stalking your ex from high school or college? Double check. Checking up on your kids to make sure they’re not sending nudie shots of themselves to strangers posing as 15-year old girls? Triple check! That and more will apparently take place in the thriller “Xoxo”, a spec script from “Black Swan” writer Mark Heyman that Lionsgate has now set “The Adjustment Bureau” writer/director George Nolfi to oversee a rewrite by Heyman and eventually direct. What does it mean that he’s going to “oversee” it? I’m guessing he’ll stand over Heyman’s shoulder muttering suggestions and such. Or possibly not. “Xoxo” will follow an “on-the-rise exec who’s engaged to be married but enjoys flirting online. He meets an alluring woman...

George Nolfi ("The Adjustment Bureau") is attached to both direct and oversee a rewrite of the social-media thriller "Xoxo" at Lionsgate, Protozoa Pictures and Groundswell Productions says Variety.

Mark Heyman ("Black Swan") penned the script about a rising executive who flirts online despite being engaged. He begins a virtual relationship with an alluring woman on Facebook, but said Internet romance begins seeping into his actual life in a deadly way.

Darren Aronofsky, Michael London and Kelly Mullen will produce the tale which will explore the issue of misleading digital identities.

The film once called "Fatal Attraction for the digital age" has finally found its director. George Nolfi, who is best known as the director of the 2011 Matt Damon thriller The Adjustment Bureau, is now attached to both direct and oversee a rewrite of Xoxo, a film about a dangerous relationship that begins in the world of social media. The original script was written by Mark Heyman , who is best known as one of the scribes of Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan (Heyman will be doing the re-write himself). Variety reports that the movie is about a soon-to-be-married executive who makes a bad habit out of flirting with women online. He then begins a relationship with an woman only to discover that " his Internet romance is seeping into his actual life in a deadly way." The project is being developed by Lionsgate and both Aronofsky and Michael London are on-board to produce.

A little under a year ago, the Interwebs were abuzz about Darren Aronofsky producing a new script from Black Swan’s Mark Heyman called Xoxo. Back then, no director was attached, but now The Adjustment Bureau’s George Nolfi has come aboard to develop and direct the film.Heyman wrote the script on spec, a Twitter / Facebook generation take on Fatal Attraction that follows a successful young business executive who seems to have it all – good job, lovely fiancée etc – but can’t resist flirting with strangers online. It will surprise exactly no one that the virtual romance begins to creep into his real life in a dangerous way. The plan apparently is to make the online interactions jazzier and more cinematic: a tough thing to pull off, even in the age of Skype.Lionsgate is backing this one, with Aronofsky and Sideways producer Michael London providing support. Nolfi will...

No, that was not an exclamation of love over Lionsgate finding a director for its new film. Xoxo is actually the title of the flick, and social media will never be the same. Read on for the latest details on the project, which was originally announced over a year ago.

According to Variety, Lionsgate has inked a development deal with director George Nolfi (The Adjustment Bureau), attaching him to helm and oversee a rewrite of social media thriller Xoxo.

Written on spec by Black Swan scribe Mark Heyman, Xoxo is an elevated genre tale set in the world of Facebook, where things aren't always as they seem. Nolfi will supervise a rewrite by Heyman.

Darren Aronofsky and Michael London (Sideways) will produce Xoxo through their respective shingles, Protozoa Pictures and Groundswell Prods., whose Kelly Mullen brought in the project and will also be involved in a producing capacity.

Described as...

Having lost the Captain America job, Lionsgate have come in and filled the void in the schedule of George Nolfi (The Adjustment Bureau). The writer-director is being snagged to helm Xoxo, a thriller which Darren Aronofsky will produce from a script his Black Swan co-scribe Mark Heyman; Michael London (Sideways) is also behind the picture. [Variety]

Along with an expected behind-the-camera job, Nolfi will also “oversee a rewrite” of that original screenplay. No matter how extensive these adjustments (ahem) end up being, one would be remiss to expect changes which strongly deviate from this basic set-up: “[A]n on-the-rise executive who despite being engaged, enjoys flirting online, where he meets an alluring woman on Facebook.” What starts off as inappropriate (albeit fruitless) conversations soon transforms into something that earns the description of “Fatal Attraction for the digital age.” (That is, things get deadly for our protagonist.)

When one takes a) Heyman‘s...

Lionsgate has attached The Adjustment Bureau director George Nolfi to helm their upcoming social media thriller Xoxo , Variety reports. The script arrives from Mark Heyman ( Black Swan ), who will now rewrite under Nolfi's supervision. In a story described by the studio as "'Fatal Attraction' for the digital age," Xoxo follows engaged and on-the-rise young executive Will Campbell who clandestinely flirts online and meets an alluring woman on Facebook. He begins a virtual relationship with her, but as the line between online temptations and real life possibilities begins to blur, Will soon discovers that his internet relationship is seeping into his real life... in a deadly way. Michael London ( Milk , Sideways , The Illusionist ) will be producing with Darren...

Variety reports that Millennium NuImage have just purchased the rom-com spec Lauren Pemberton is No Longer in a Relationship; Robert Cort will produce.

Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger teamed to write the script, which “focuses on a guy who reconnects with his high school crush through Facebook when he discovers she is single only to find out that he is not the only one in pursuit.” In a world consumed by Facebook and social media, it was only a matter of time before it took over Hollywood as well; look at the Darren Aronofsky-produced Xoxo, a “Fatal Attraction for the digital age.” We’ve come a long way since 1998, when You’ve Got Mail seemed hi-tech.

This script also led Berger and Aptaker to obtain staff writing positions on NBC’s Friends With Benefits, and currently serve as executive story editors on MTV’s Zach Stone is Gonna Be Famous.

Santa Monica,CA (October 28, 2011) – Lionsgate has acquired comprehensive rights to Xoxo, a script written by Mark Heyman (Black Swan). The announcement was made today jointly by Joe Drake, President of the Motion Picture Group, and Alli Shearmur & Mike Paseornek, Presidents of Motion Picture Development and Production, who will be overseeing the production at the studio.

Michael London (Milk, Sideways, The Illusionist) will be producing with Darren Aronofsky and Scott Franklin (Black Swan, The Wrestler), through their respective production companies Groundswell Productions and Protozoa Pictures. Groundswell.s Kelly Mullen ushered the project into the company, and will be involved in a producing capacity.

In a story that can be characterized as Fatal Attraction for the digital age, engaged and on-the-rise young executive Will Campbell clandestinely flirts online and meets an alluring woman on Facebook. He begins a virtual relationship with her, but as the line between online temptations and real life possibilities begins to blur,...

"Geoff Dyer's forthcoming book Zona (2012) has a premise that is so simple and brilliant it seems almost a wonder that it hasn't been tried before," blogs Katie Kitamura for frieze. "[A]s the book's subtitle puts it, Zona is 'A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room.' In other words, a book about Andrei Tarkovsky's seminal Stalker (1979), itself loosely based on the novel Roadside Picnic (1971), by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. 'Loosely' is key here. The skeleton of Zona is something like a glorified transcript of Tarkovsky's film, a factual description of what is seen on the screen…. But Zona hangs a great deal onto the scaffolding of this formal conceit. The book itself is full of digressions, both filmic and personal, as well as footnotes, interpretations, imprecations and asides. There's a definite gulf between the tone of Zona and the tone of Stalker, which is almost...

"Paranormal Activity 3" rocked the box office last weekend, and it looks like next October we may be able to find out what happened to Katie and Hunter — a fourth installment in the supernatural chiller is possibly heading our way. (Duh!)

With record-breaking numbers like "PA3's" it's no shocker that Paramount's Don Harris told The Wrap, "I can't imagine that we wouldn't make a number four, and I imagine [Paramount Film Group president] Adam Goodman this morning is thinking about the challenge. I'm sure he's thinking, 'Now what do I do?'" Where do you think they'll take the storyline from here?

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Darren Aronofsky and Mark Heyman’s new Facebook thriller, the awkwardly titled Xoxo, has found a home at Lionsgate, according to a report in Variety.

Heyman, the writer of Aronofsky’s absurdly brilliant Black Swan has wrote the script which is described as a 21st century version of Fatal Attraction and revolves around a promising twentysomething executive who is engaged but falls into an online fling with a female contemporary on Facebook, only for her to go all Glenn Close on him. A ‘deadly twist’ is promised, so you can probably take a good guess at where this one is planned to go. See ‘Catfish‘ for a good example of what I’m talking about.

Sadly Aronofsky is only producing the movie as it would have been kick-ass to see his claustrophobic, Polanski style Black Swan direction on another of Heyman’s scripts. A hunt is currently on for a director.

If you're in with Darren Aronofsky, you're certainly in our good books. The writer-director has a keen eye for talent, shining a light on names like Sean Gullette, Clint Mansell, Matthew Libatique and Robert D. Siegel. And let's not forget the revitalization of Mickey Rourke. A recent addition to the Aronofsky stable has been screenwriter Mark Heyman ("Black Swan"), who's now teaming with Lionsgate for his latest script, "Xoxo," a Facebook-relationship thriller surely hoping to emulate the success of "The Social Network" and "Catfish." The story is described as the digital age's "Fatal Attraction" and follows a young executive on-the-rise,…...

Lionsgate has acquired "Black Swan" writer Mark Heyman's spec screenplay "Xoxo" reports Variety.

The story follows an engaged executive who strikes up an online relationship with a beautiful woman he meets on Facebook. The relationship soon spirals out of control, consuming his personal life with deadly consequences.

Darren Aronofsky and Michael London will produce, but no director is presently attached. The tone is said to be akin to David Slade's rather hardcore "Hard Candy".

There's a great film still waiting to be made about internet relationships, romantic or otherwise. Will Xoxo be among the first? Variety reports today that Lionsgate has purchased Black Swan scribe Mark Heyman's spec script titled Xoxo, "an elevated genre tale set in the world of Facebook, where things aren't always as they seem." The story is described as a modern Fatal Attraction. Here's more: "Story follows an on-the-rise exec who's engaged to be married but enjoys...

This past summer a report came out saying that Mark Heyman, one of the writers of Black Swan, was shopping around a new drama called Xoxo. Similar to Fatal Attraction, the basic description of the plot was about a young man who begins flirting with a girl on Facebook who ends up becoming obsessed with him. Today the project took a major leap forward and more details about the story have been revealed. According to Variety, Xoxo has been picked up by Lionsgate and heads of production Alli Shearmur and Mike Paseornek have been assigned the project (Darren Aronofsky and Michael London are also still signed on as producers). Building on the plot description above - and actually describing the script as "Fatal Attraction for the digital age" - apparently the protagonist is both engaged and an "on-the-rise" executive who likes occasionally taking part in online flirting through Facebook. The...

Mark Heyman’s script for Xoxo has been described as “Fatal Attraction for the digital age,” and after months of negotiating, Lionsgate has purchased the rights to it, reports Variety. The film also has Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky, Kelly Mullen, and Michael London of Sideways to produce.

The story focuses on a young engaged man to begins to interact with an attractive woman on Facebook. But their the electronic relationship proves to be a deadly one as the woman begins to stalk her online lover.

Like Lionsgate’s own 2005 thriller “Hard Candy,” “Xoxo” explores misleading digital identities, as the film also makes use of streaming video and other social-media platforms. These online interactions will be made more cinematic by employing stylized visual sequences, though no director has been brought on board yet.

While his first script was for the Black Swan, he didn’t write it on his own,...

He's not directing this one, since his hands are somewhat full building Noah's Ark, but Darren Aronofsky will be producing Xoxo, from a screenplay by his Black Swan writer Mark Heyman. Lionsgate have just picked up the rights.Xoxo ("Kiss Hug Kiss Hug", for people who don't speak Txt) is a high-concept piece based around a Facebook stalker. All involved are admirably up-front about its being "Fatal Attraction for the social networking age". It involves an up-and-coming city type with a perfectly nice fiancee, who neverthless enjoys a bit of online flirting with people he meets on the interweb. As you might surmise, one of these online dalliances starts to go rather wrong.Bits of Hard Candy and Catfish in there, as well as the aforementioned Fatal Attraction  and that film's progenitor Play Misty For Me. His buddy Heyman aside, you might wonder what attracted Aronofsky to the project, but...

Fans of the Academy Award-winning film Black Swan are in luck! The new thriller from the team who brought you all that masturbatory goodness has found a home!

According to Variety, following months of negotiations, Lionsgate has closed a deal to acquire Black Swan scribe Mark Heyman's spec script Xoxo, an elevated genre tale (lord, how we hate that term) set in the world of Facebook, where things aren't always as they seem.

Darren Aronofsky and Michael London (Sideways) will produce through their respective shingles Protozoa Pictures and Groundswell Productions, whose Kelly Mullen brought in the project and will also be involved in a producing capacity.

Described as Fatal Attraction for the digital age, the story follows an on-the-rise executive who, despite being engaged, enjoys flirting online, where he meets an alluring woman on Facebook. The two begin a virtual relationship, but as the line between online temptations and real-life possibilities begins to blur,...

[1] It's been months since Black Swan co-writer Mark Heyman began shopping [2] his upscale thriller Xoxo, but the project has finally found a home at Lionsgate. After months of negotiation, the studio has just finalized a deal to acquire Heyman's spec script, described as "Fatal Attraction for the digital age." As previously reported, Darren Aronofsky and Michael London (Sideways) are set to produce, along with Kelly Mullen. More details after the jump. Xoxo centers around a young up-and-coming who indulges in online flirtation despite being engaged to be married. He meets an attractive woman on Facebook, but their digital relationship proves to have deadly real-world consequences when she begins stalking him. Xoxo will incorporate stylized visual sequences to show the characters interacting, as well as streaming video and other social media platforms. It's unclear at this point what those scenes will look like, exactly, but they're bound to be more interesting...

The idea of a thriller that centers around Facebook leaves a lot of room for plain old stupidity, but when you hear the ideas behind Lionsgate and Warner Bros.’ new projects that happen to be such a thing, they don’t sound half bad.

As Variety says, Lionsgate has acquired is Xoxo, a spec script written by Black Swan co-scribe Mark Heyman. Produced by Darren Aronofsky through Protozoa Pictures and Michal London through Groundswell Productions, it’s described as “Fatal Attraction for the digital age,” as it revolves around “an on-the-rise executive who despite being engaged, enjoys flirting online, where he meets an alluring woman on Facebook.”

Soon, “the line between online temptations and real-life possibilities begins to blur, [and] the protag soon discovers that his Internet relationship is seeping into his actual life … in a deadly way.” As we heard back in June, the online interactions will be exhibited through “stylized visual sequences,...

Following months of negotiations, Lionsgate has closed a deal to acquire Black Swan scribe Mark Heyman's spec script Xoxo, an elevated genre tale set in the world of Facebook, where things aren't always as they seem, reports Variety. Darren Aronofsky and Michael London (Sideways) will produce through their respective shingles Protozoa Pictures and Groundswell Prods. Described as Fatal Attraction for the digital age, "story follows an on-the-rise executive who despite being engaged, enjoys flirting online, where he meets an alluring woman on Facebook. The two begin a virtual relationship, but as the line between online temptations and real-life possibilities begins to blur, the protag soon discovers that his Internet relationship is seeping into his actual life ... in a deadly way."...

Liongsgate has plans to develop Xoxo from a script by Mark Heyman. Variety has the news, saying that Darren Aronofsky will reunite with the Black Swan screenwriter to produce the internet thriller. The movie is said to involve a young businessman who winds up in a deadly back and forth with someone he meets on Facebook . Heyman is also attached to the potential Marc Webb project, Age of Rage , announced earlier this year . Aronofsky, meanwhile, is set to develop his biblical epic, Noah at Paramount Pictures. No director for Xoxo is currently attached.

Lionsgate picked up Mark Heyman's script Xoxo , a Fatal Attraction -like thriller. Heyman previously penned Black Swan , making the writer a hot commodity. Here, the story follows an executive who flirts with a lovely lady on Facebook behind his fiancee's back. The relationship he carries on with this girl soon turns deadly. Sounds like a fancy version of every Fatal Attraction copycat we've seen over the last two decades. But hey, Darren Aronofsky is on board to produce. No direct has been attached yet.

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Once you've sat through 'Black Swan' and all the leg-crunching, schizophrenic horror it throws your way from beginning to end, that's probably all the evidence you'll need to conclude that screenwriter Mark Heyman is a creepy dude. Who knows what he's like in real life, but when it comes to movies, he might a well be wearing a strait jacket. With that being said, we're pretty excited to hear that one of his upcoming projects, 'Xoxo,' sounds like it'll be tapping right into that crazy brain of his.

From what we've heard so far, 'Xoxo' is about a guy who strikes up a relationship with a girl he meets online, but then she turns out to be nuts and starts obsessively stalking him. Sounds like a mix between 'Catfish' and 'Fatal Attraction,' and as long as it's done well,...

The success of the psychological thriller effect from "Black Swan" may have led one of the scriptwriters to pen another thriller. 24 Frames reports that Mark Heyman, one of the scriptwriters of the Natalie Portman-starring film, has written a script for "Xoxo", an upcoming movie which will revolve around a Facebook stalker.

The forthcoming movie follows a twenty-something guy who meets a female friend on Facebook. He later strikes a relationship with the young woman, only to find a disturbing fact that the girl is obsessed and stalking him.

Apparently, the plot is a mixture of "Black Swan", "The Social Network" and "Catfish". "Black Swan" is represented by the obsessive relationship, and "The Social Network" contributes to the Facebook focus. "Xoxo" will also use social media savvy a la "Catfish" to explore digital identities.

Heyman is allegedly shopping the "upscale genre" script for "Xoxo" around the town, including to numerous genre labels,...

Facebook is still popular in Hollywood. Deal with it! And now, when we know that Black Swan writer Mark Heyman will be in charge for something that has a lot to do with Facebook, it sounds even more popular.

Or, maybe we should call this movie The Social Network meets Black Swan online?

Whatever, I’m trying to say that we’re here today to start a little chat about project titled Xoxo. So, let’s start it.

First of all, a little explanation. Xoxo is a project that will tell us a story of a twentysomething man who meets a female contemporary on Facebook and begins a digital relationship with her, only to find the object of his affections take the relationship to an obsessed and stalker-y place.

I like the way guys from LATimes explained the whole thing by saying – think Fatal Attraction but with Facebook.

They also...

Fan of the Academy Award-winning film Black Swan? Then you'll be happy to hear that the team behind all that masturbatory goodness is back to deliver some blood-soaked hugs and kisses with Xoxo.

According to The L.A. Times, Xoxo, written by Black Swan writer Mark Heyman, who is co-producing with Darren Aronofsky, tells of a twentysomething man who meets a female contemporary on Facebook and begins a digital relationship with her, only to find the object of his affections take the relationship to an obsessed and stalker-y place. Think Fatal Attraction (but with Facebook).

Xoxo, which makes use of streaming video and other social-media platforms in addition to Facebook, also evokes the documentary Catfish in its exploration of slippery digital identities. (The letter-centric title is, of course, a reference to affectionate, and potentially creepy, online sign-offs.)

The script is now being circulated in Hollywood, including to numerous genre labels,...

Fans of Darren Aronofsky get ready for horrific hugs and kisses as the Black Sawn director is co-producing Xoxo with Swan co-writer and co-producer Mark Heyman. " 'Xoxo' tells of a twentysomething man who meets a female contemporary on Facebook and begins a digital relationship with her, only to find the object of his affections take the relationship to an obsessed and stalker-y place. Think "Fatal Attraction" (but with Facebook)," writes the La Times. Xoxo, which makes use of streaming video and other social-media platforms in addition to Facebook, also evokes the documentary Catfish in its exploration of slippery digital identities (The letter-centric title is, of course, a reference to affectionate, and potentially creepy, online sign-offs.) The script is now being circulated in Hollywood, including to numerous genre labels, as it seeks financing and distribution.

Black Swan writer, Mark Heyman, is currently shopping a new script for a thriller titled Xoxo. The La Times repots that Heyman is currently shopping the script around Hollywood, which will be produced by Darren Aronofsky. 

The story is said to be "Fatal Attraction but with Facebook". It focuses on "a twentysomething man who meets a female contemporary on Facebook and begins a digital relationship with her, only to find the object of his affections take the relationship to an obsessed and stalker-y place." The project will use streaming video and other social media platforms in addition to Facebook to tell the story. 

I am interested in seeing how this story develops. When I saw the trailer for Catfish I had hoped that it would be something much darker than it ended up being. This has the potential to be very cool, what are your thoughts?

Source: La Times (http://latimesblogs.

While I never made myself a "Eric's Favorite Movies of 2010" list, public or private, if I did the top two movies would have been The Social Network at number one and Black Swan at number two. Sure, they aren't the most shocking choices in the world, but, if anything, the number of lists the two titles showed up on demonstrates how incredibly great they were. Now, in a very strange way, the two movies are being combined. The Los Angeles Times reports that Mark Heyman, one of the three writers behind Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, has produced a script called Xoxo that has started getting studio attention. A thriller that seems to have close ties to Fatal Attraction, the story is about a man in his 20s who begins a digital relationship with a girl on Facebook, but things start taking a dark turn when the girl becomes obsessed...

So sue us, we're about as excited as you can get about Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" adaptation.

Fortunately for us fans, Empire is too. That's why we're pretty thrilled that "The Hobbit" is gracing the August issue of the mag (out June 30) with some brand new looks at Martin Freeman as Bilbo, Ian McKellen re-donning the gray robes as Gandalf, and tons of inside scoop from the set. It should at least tide us over until the flick's Comic-Con panel.

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Black Swan co-writer and co-producer Mark Heyman is at work on Xoxo . It's the latest thriller is described by the Times as an "upscale thriller" - meaning, like Swan , it's a glossy genre flick. " Xoxo tells of a twentysomething man who meets a female contemporary on Facebook and begins a digital relationship with her, only to find the object of his affections take the relationship to an obsessed and stalker-y place. Think "Fatal Attraction" (but with Facebook)," says the Times. Darren Aronofsky will co-produce. The project is circulating through Hollywood seeking a home.