Remember that time when Sam Raimi said that we won’t know who the “Spider-Man 4″ villains are until the script is finished? Yeah, well, it looks like that time might be a little farther away than we’d hoped. According to Variety , Gary Ross has been hired to pen a new draft of “ Spider-Man 4 ,”

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The Toronto-based scribe Elan Mastai sold an untitled breakup comedy pitch to Paramount. Ira Glass and producer Alissa Shipp were also in on it. It's about a young woman who gets dumped by her ostensible soulmate and refuses to get over it.

Mastai has also been hired to work on the screenplay for "First Kiss," a romantic comedy at Warner Bros. It follows a New Yorker strung out after a succession of failed relationships who begins to have premonitions about the end of each new relationship at the moment of the first kiss.

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"The Longest Yard" Screenwriter Sheldon Turner's pitch was pre-emptively picked up for seven-figures by Sony Pictures to adapt the videogame "inFAMOUS" as a feature film. Launched in May, "inFAMOUS" centers on bike messenger Cole MacGrath, who survives an explosion that destroys entire blocks of Empire City only to find that he has electricity-derived superpowers.

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Finally a spec sale worth mentioning! Paramount has put up a nice six-figures for Andy Burg's supernatural action script, "Hellified." Dan Bradley attached to direct. "Hellified" is known to be a supernatural action movie involving a journey to hell.

Burg was no rookie though, a comedy and family-film writer who has worked on such movies as 1989's "K-9" and 1996's "Alaska."

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Kyle Ward is the writer Columbia tapped while developing "Uncharted: Drake's Fortune," an action-adventure video game for a feature film.

The story follows a descendent of explorer Sir Francis Drake, a treasure hunter named Nate Drake who believes he has learned the whereabouts of El Dorado, the fabled South American golden city, from a cursed golden statue. The search becomes competitive when a rival hunter joins the fray, then is racheted up several notches when creatures -- actually mutated descendants of Spaniards and Nazis -- begin attacking those hoping to learn the treasure's true secrets.