On Friday, riding high on solid weekend gross projections and an outstanding critical reception, Sony Pictures made moves to get a 21 Jump Street sequel in development post haste.  Now that the film has surpassed initial commercial expectations by earning an estimated $35 million in its first three days of release and met with the widespread approval of audiences, so the studio should be pleased as punch that it already has Jonah Hill and Michael Bacall tossing sequel ideas around.

With director JJ Abrams still not confirmed to return and a 70 page treatment in place of a script, it has looked increasingly likely that Paramount would have to delay Star Trek 2's planned release next summer.  To take the place of that blockbuster, the studio would need another high profile bit of business for summer 2012.  According to Deadline, the studio is looking to position its GI Joe sequel, now titled GI Joe: Cobra Strikes as their Trek replacement.  Not only that, but Dwayne Johnson is reportedly in talks to go Joe alongside Channing Tatum, who is likely to return.

Columbia Pictures is bringing the popular young adult book series "Goosebumps" to the big-screen, and obviously, the ideal candidate to adapt the series is the guy who wrote The Last House on the Left! That's right, Carl Ellsworth, who re-wrote the remake of Wes Craven's disturbing shocker about the rape and torture of a teenage girl, is the man for the job when it comes to bringing R.L. Stine's classic series to life.