BY Gregg Goldstein

{Hollywood Reporter} - Magnolia Pictures' genre arm, Magnet Releasing, has picked up North American rights to the comedy "Special," starring Michael Rapaport as a man who becomes convinced he's a superhero.

Josh Peck ("The Wackness") and Paul Blackthorne also star in Hal Haberman and Jeremy Passmore's feature writing-directing debut.

BY Carly Mayberry

{Hollywood Reporter} - Australian actress Melissa George is in final negotiations to star in the supernatural thriller "Triangle."

Christopher Smith ("Severance") is directing.

BY Gregg Goldstein

{Hollywood Reporter} - Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Jessica Biel, Seann William Scott and Justin Long will voice lead characters in the CG-animated sci-fi film "Planet 51" for New Line.

BY Carl DiOrio

{Hollywood Reporter} - Dramatically underscoring the need for movie-side execs to review slates following the long writers strike, Paramount on Wednesday bounced six films to new dates and moved two unslotted films to next year's calendar.

Other distributors were scrambling to complete similar reviews of their upcoming productions to determine what can or can't be delivered on scheduled dates. In some cases, films will move because of talent issues, but many film projects have been frozen in time when script rewrites weren't completed before the 100-day scribe walkout.

BY Kimberly Nordyke

{Hollywood Reporter} - ABC Family has picked up "Samurai Girl," which the cable network plans to air as a "major programming event" consisting of three two-hour episodes.

"Samurai," from ABC Studios, is to start production in the spring in Vancouver and is slated to air during one weekend in August; the strategy is similar to one the network took with "Fallen."

BY Nellie Andreeva

{Hollywood Reporter} - TNT has picked up Dean Devlin's action drama pilot "Leverage" to series.

The cable network has ordered 13 episodes of the project that stars Timothy Hutton and is executive produced by Devlin and John Rogers.

BY Leslie Simmons

{Hollywood Reporter} - "Star Wars" is returning to the big screen in animated form.

On Monday, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros. and Turner Broadcasting System announced that the animated movie "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" would hit movie theaters Aug. 15.