{Reported by Marc Graser in VARIETY}

-Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to Oni Press' comicbook series "Maintenance," for McG's Wonderland Sound & Vision to produce and for the helmer to possibly direct.

Joe Ballarini is adapting the project, which follows the exploits of two janitors who work at Terrormax Inc., the world's leading manufacturer and supplier of weapons and doomsday devices to supervillains. As comicbook's conceit goes, if they're not too busy cleaning up toxic spills and performing menial repairs on time machines, they just might save the world.

Synopsis: After his father's death, Kale (SHIA LABEOUF) Brecht becomes sullen, withdrawn, and troubled -- so much so that he finds himself under a court-ordered sentence of house arrest after a run in with the law. His mother, Julie (CARRIE-ANNE MOSS), works night and day to support herself and her son, only to be met with indifference and lethargy. The walls of his house begin to close in on Kale. He becomes a voyeur as his interests turn outside the windows of his suburban home towards those of his neighbors, one of which, Mr. Turner (DAVID MORSE), Kale begins to suspect is a serial killer. Aided by his best friend Ronnie (AARON YOO) and his new neighbor Ashley (SARAH ROEMER) the trio try to uncover the truth by their mysterious neighbor.  Could Kale’s suspicions simply be the byproduct of cabin fever and his overactive imagination?

Crew: Director - D.J. Caruso; Screenplay - Christopher B. Landon and Carl Ellsworth; Producers - Jackie Marcus, Joe Medjuck, and E. Bennett Walsh ; Cinematography - Rogier Stoffers; Score - Geoff Zanelli; Editing - Jim Page; Production Design - Tom Southwell; Costume Design - Marie-Sylvie Deveau; Special Effects Supervisor - Mickey Kirsten; Visual Effects Supervisor - Howard Berger; Special Effects - KNB EFX Group.

Cast: SHIA LABEOUF... Kale Brecht; SARAH ROEMER... Ashley; CARRIE-ANNE MOSS... Julie Brecht; DAVID MORSE... Mr. Turner; AARON YOO... Ronnie; JOSE PABLO CANTILLO... Officer Gutierrez; MATT CRAVEN... Daniel Brecht; VIOLA DAVIS... Detective Parker.

Official Website: www.disturbia.com

{As Reported by Michael Fleming in VARIETY}

- Johnny Depp is getting in touch with his inner vampire.

Warner Bros. is teaming with Depp's Infinitum-Nihil and Graham King's GK Films to develop a feature based on the '60s daytime supernatural sudser "Dark Shadows."

Depp has said in interviews that he has always been obsessed with "Dark Shadows" and had, as a child, wanted to be Barnabas Collins, the vampire patriarch of the series. The role was originated by Jonathan Frid.

 - Guy Walks Into a Bar ("Starship Dave") has decided to go to purgatory, acquiring feature rights to the videogame "Painkiller" from DreamCatcher Interactive.

Game centers on a character stranded between heaven and hell who's forced to become a pawn in the battle between good and evil.

"Painkiller" first bowed for play on PCs as a first-person-shooter game in 2004, and was followed up by "Painkiller: Hell Wars" for the Xbox in 2006. DreamCatcher's planning to release a sequel to the original soon.

{Reported in VARIETY by Dave McNary}

- Disney has picked up feature rights to the graphic novel "Pet Robots" and set it up with Chris Bender and JC Spink through their Benderspink banner.

Benderspink's Jake Weiner will exec produce and Jon Silk will co-produce the high-tech comedy about futuristic robots that fall into the hands of the least likely people.

{As Reported in VARIRTY by Michael Fleming}

- Universal has acquired the pitch "The Lost Adventures of Stone Perlmutter Jr.," with Peter Huyck and Alex Gregory to pen the script as a star vehicle for Jack Black.

Black and partner Ben Cooley will produce through their U-based Electric Dynamite Prods. label.