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Carter Blanchard has come on to write "Spy Hunter" for Warner Bros. Ruben Fleischer is attached to direct with Dan Lin and Roy Lee Producing... Even though he is busy finishing up "Star Trek Into Darkness" and prepping for "Star Wars: Episode VII," producer/director J.J. Abrams is already looking at other projects to take on. Speaking at the D.I.C.E. Conference in Las Vegas, the filmmaker has revealed that his company Bad Robot plans to work closely with game company juggernaut Valve to adapt their iconic games "Half-Life" and "Portal" into features. Abrams and Valve co-founder Gabe Newell made the announcement during a keynote conversation kicking off the convention. The film joins a recent surge of video game properties that have been put into active film development including "Assassin's Creed," "Splinter Cell," "Need for Speed," "World of Warcraft," "Deus Ex," "Uncharted," "Mortal Kombat," "Hitman" and more... Disney has just issued this official press release confirming yesterday's news regarding the new director of "Star Wars: Episode VII"... Ubisoft Motion Pictures and New Regency have hired acclaimed English playwright Michael Lesslie to pen the upcoming film version of the "Assassin's Creed" video game series. A search is currently underway for a director on the project which Michael Fassbender will star in and produce... There's been a flurry of news in recent months of film adaptations of various console video game titles being put into development. Today though comes word that the most popular video game franchise of them all will NOT be making the jump - Activision's "Call of Duty" series. In a recent profile piece on Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, the article says: "Call of Duty may look like a movie, but Mr. Kotick has little interest in turning it into one - and has turned down several studios' requests... Once pegged as a potential Steven Spielberg project, filmmaker Christopher Nolan seems to have found his next directorial effort. Multiple sources claim Nolan is looking at the sci-fi drama "Interstellar" as his immediate next project to direct and produce... New York Asian Film Festival director Dan Craft left this world with his last wish granted. The terminally ill "Star Trek" fan was recently granted a personal DVD screening of an early cut of the forthcoming "Star Trek Into Darkness" by director JJ Abrams - five months before the film's release date. Craft attended an IMAX screening of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" with the hope of seeing the nine-minute preview of "Star Trek Into Darkness" in front of it... E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Academy Award®-winning director Steven Spielberg’s magical adventure, celebrates its 30th Anniversary with its first-ever release on Blu-ray™ on 12th November 2012... The Farrelly brothers have been talking for awhile about possibly revisiting the lives of Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunn for a sequel to DUMB AND DUMBER. There's been some interest expressed by Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, and a script was being worked on late last year by Sean Anders and John Morris (HOT TUB TIME MACHINE)... Hammer, Alliance Films, Cross Creek Pictures, and author Susan Hill are all teaming up to develop a follow-up to this year's film adaptation of Hill's famed 1983 Victorian gothic horror novel (and later long-running stage play) "The Woman in Black" says The Hollywood Reporter...