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Strike Entertainment has acquired the rights to Shanna Swendson's book Enchanted, Inc. and hired screenwriter Steven Rogers to pen the screenplay. The story centers on a small-town woman who comes to New York only to find out magic is commonplace in Gotham and has existed there for centuries. But because she is one of the rare creatures without the slightest bit of magic inside her, she can see through any spell. Rogers is known mostly for romantic comedies with his credits including Hope Floats, Stepmom, Kate & Leopold and P.S. I Love You. Universal-based Strike Entertainment's recent credits include Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men and the horror film Slither. The company has a number of films in development, including The Dallas Buyers Club, which stars Ryan Gosling, and an adaptation of Robert Ludlum’s The Sigma Protocol. Enchanted Inc. was published in 2005.
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Minnie Driver will join Hilary Swank as she comes over all Erin Brockovich for the legal drama Betty Anne Waters, based on the life of a single mother who spent a decade training to become a lawyer in order to free her imprisoned brother. Driver, now otherwise known as Eddie Izzard's gypsy wife in The Riches, will step into the role of Abra, an ex wild-child and law school friend of Betty Anne who helped challenge her brother's life sentence with DNA evidence.Swank, who is currently working on Amelia, the biopic of legendary pilot Amelia Earhart, will look to match Julia Roberts' Oscar winning performance as Brockovich, in the struggling-single-mom-who-challenges-injustice-using-the-legal-system stakes.Actor-turned-director Tony Goldwyn will direct  the movie, which was rescripted by P.S. I Love You writer Richard Lagravenese after a first draft by Pamela Grey. The movie begins shooting in February.  

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Though the book Enchanted, Inc. was published in 2005, it's going to have a hard time avoiding comparisons to the 2007 movie now that it's being turned into a film. It doesn't help that it's set in New York and involves magic. But Universal will try their luck at getting out from under Amy Adams' shadow, assigning Steven Rogers to write a screenplay based on Shanna Swendson's book. The story, according to Variety, follows a woman who arrives in New York from a small town, and discovers that the city is full of magic that everyone-- except her, that is-- can tap into. Rogers has previously written screenplays for P.S. I Love You, Hope Floats and Kate & Leopold, which makes him more familiar with the magic of romance than the magic of, uh, magic. But hey, it sounds like the movie could be cute and inoffensive, and maybe if it ...

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