Your weekly dose of script news. What's being written, what's being sold, and what's entering production right now? Read on...

1. Karen McCullah and Kristen Smith's previously dormant rom-com script, “One for the Money”, an adaptation of a Janet Evanovich novel, has been given a new chance at life. Columbia Pictures and Lakeshore Entertainment are hiring writer Liz Brixius to re-draft the script, this after actress Katherine Heigl has expressed interest in the project that was once attached to Reese Witherspoon.

2. David Loucka's thriller script, “Dream House” is getting an all-star cast under the direction of Jim Sheridan. In fact, the film just began shooting last weekend and Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, and Rachel Weisz, who are starring in the film about a metropolitan family relocating to a small town. After the move, they discover that their house was the scene of a grisly murder of a wife and two children. No matter how successful the writer, when I hear about a script ending up with this level of production, I always find myself wanting to cheer for the writer first...

3. The X-Files won't be the only TV show FOX sends to the big screen. It turns out that, “24” will be headed that way too. Billy Ray has been hired to write the feature script, and his pitch and some of his previous credits helped him get the gig. (He wrote, “State of Play”, and, “Flightplan”.) Ray suggested a plot that will take Jack Bauer to Europe, and this idea may have come through Keifer Sutherland himself, who has long been vying for a feature film from the TV franchise.

4. Peter Bogdanovich is set to adapt the bestselling novel, “Turn of the Century” by author Kurt Anderson, into a screenplay. The film will begin shooting in spring of 2011 and follows the hyperactive and unfulfilling life of a New York City power couple as they struggle to keep their marriage and family afloat and thriving.

5. Scott Z. Burns script, “Contagion” has been picked up by Steven Soderbergh, who will direct the project later this year. As is the case with most Soderbergh films, there will be an all-star cast that already includes Matt Damon and Jude Law, with Kate Winslet and Marion Cotillard in talks to join as well. The film will be an action-thriller that follows the outbreak of a deadly disease.

6. An adaptation of the Kaui Hart Hemmings novel, “The Descendants” will begin filming sometime this year. The script was written by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash and will star George Clooney as a father forced to get to know his daughters after a difficult family tragedy.