This live-action property starring the voice of Will Smith will also be produced by Smith alongside John Lassiter ("Ali"). The film's premise will center on a strange Mark that an Everyman gets transferred to his body from the corpse of a Colonial Soldier. The Mark begins to move all around his body, imbuing our hero with amazing powers. If the Mark is on his head, our hero has the power of telekinesis; if it's on his arm, he's got the strength of 50 men; if it's on his shoulders, he can soar into the air. As the Everyman tries to understand his powers, he struggles with the impulse to use the Mark for evil. The film will be written by Gregg Chabot and Kevin Peterka ("Reign of Fire").
"Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging" by Louise Rennison
Adapted from the New York Times Bestseller book of the same name, "Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging" has garnered several awards including the Printz Award and the Cuffie award for "Funniest Novel" both in 2000. The feature will follow the wildly funny journal of a year in the life of 14-year- old Georgia Nicolson including soaring joys and bottomless angst of being a teenager. This is the story of Georgia& her best-friend Jas's comic awakening to boys and how they can muddy even the best of friends.
The film will be simultaneously developed as a live-action series for Nickelodeon and will be directed by Katherine Diekmann ("Pete & Pete") and written by Chris Viscardi and Will McRobb (both creators of "Pete & Pete" and writers of "Snow Day").
"Sector 7"
Adapted from the 1999 Caldecott-winning book by David Wiesner of the same title, "Sector 7" is about a young boy who is swept away by a cloud creature to "Sector 7," a floating weather factory in the sky above Manhattan. Once there, the boy teaches the clouds the value of chaos and individuality, and inspires them to revolt against a group of strict, bureaucratic humans who are bent on standardizing all weather. The film will be produced by Ted Hope ("In the Bedroom") and written by Zach Helm ("The Disassociate").
"Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
Adapted from the best-selling children's book "Stargirl," by Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli, the movie features an eccentric student named Stargirl who arrives in the town of Mica, Arizona - a hot-bed of conformity and stirs up the town's appetite for individuality and self-expression. The story celebrates the nonconformist in everyone. It's a tense, emotional and funny tale about the fleeting nature of popularity, and the thrill and inspiration of first love.
"Stargirl" book sales have exceeded 450,000 since August 2000. The book has earned the Publishers Weekly "Best Book of the Year" for 2000 and is a New York Times Best-Seller.
Nickelodeon Movies is the feature film development and production division of Nickelodeon which produces movies for kids and their families in association with its sister Viacom company, Paramount Pictures. Nickelodeon Movies was created in 1993 to develop and produce several types of films, which include star-driven family event movies, kids first movies and animated features, all of which bring extraordinary events, characters and situations into everyday contemporary life. Nickelodeon feature film releases have grossed more than a half billion at the box office and include the Oscar(R) nominated "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius," "Rugrats Go Wild," "Rugrats," "Snow Day," "Rugrats in Paris: The Movie," "Clockstoppers" and "The Wild Thornberys Movie," among others. Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon Movies and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom International Inc.
