BY Michael Fleming

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 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 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.

BY Ben Fritz

{Variety} - Vivendi Games is pacting with Sony Pictures to turn "Ghostbusters" into a videogame franchise.

First title in what the publisher hopes will be a series of "Ghostbusters" games is set for release in fall '08 from Vivendi's Sierra label. 

BY Gregg Goldstein

{Hollywood Reporter} - Likely Story founder Anthony Bregman will produce Carter Smith's psychological horror feature "Come Closer" for Miramax.

"30 Days of Night" scribe Brian Nelson signed on to pen the film before the start of the writers strike.

BY Tatiana Siegel

{Variety} - Twentieth Century Fox is bringing the Japanese manga phenomenon "Dragonball" to the bigscreen.

Justin Chatwin will star as Goku, a powerful warrior who protects the Earth from an endless stream of rogues bent on dominating the universe and controlling the mystical objects from which the film takes its name. James Marsters is onboard as the film's villain Piccolo.