BY Borys Kit

{Hollywood Reporter} - Dean Parisot is in final negotiations to direct "Weekend Warrior," a supernatural action comedy at Warner Bros. Andrew Lazar is producing through his Warner-based Mad Chance banner.

BY Michael Fleming

{Variety} - Bruce Willis will star in “The Surrogates,” a sci-fi thriller that Jonathan Mostow will direct for Disney. The studio is eyeing a February production start in Boston.

A Willis deal comes just as United Artists unplugs “Pinkville,” the My Lai massacre drama in which Willis was going to star for director Oliver Stone next month.  

BY Stuart Kemp

{Variety} -  The first round of awards have been dished out by the U.K. Film Council's revamped development fund.

Among the winners are writer-director Christopher Smith, who burst onto the scene with a duo of horror movies, "Creep" and "Severance," is developing "Triangle," billed as a psychological horror.

Smith collaborator Jason Newmark will produce with the project, receiving 7,500 pound ($15,000) from the fund.

BY Tatiana Siegel & Michael Fleming

{Variety} - Kristen Stewart has signed on to star in Summit Entertainment's thriller-romance "Twilight," based on Stephenie Meyer's young-adult novel.