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Film News: Sci-pic from ‘Titans’ scribe heads into development — “Pacific Rim” will center on the Earth inhabitants uniting to defeat a powerful extraterrestrial opponent.

Film News: Film unit acquires comedy pitch from Ansari, Hubbard — Mandate Pictures has acquired an untitled comedy pitch based on an idea by Aziz Ansari and “30 Rock” scribe Matt Hubbard.

Film News: Film unit acquires comedy pitch from Ansari, Hubbard — Mandate Pictures has acquired an untitled comedy pitch based on an idea by Aziz Ansari and “30 Rock” scribe Matt Hubbard.

Film News: Film unit acquires comedy pitch from Ansari, Hubbard — Mandate Pictures has acquired an untitled comedy pitch based on an idea by Aziz Ansari and “30 Rock” scribe Matt Hubbard.

Film News: Universal sets story of refugee kids’ team — Scribe-helmer has signed on to write and direct Universal Pictures’ “The Fugees.”

Film News: British producers secure financing for ‘Robin’ — Simon Vaughan, Nuala Barton, Rene Sheridan, Yan Fisher and Roger Corbi are producing.

Film News: Julie Bertucelli’s Oz-set drama to end fest — The Cannes Film Festival announced today that scribe-helmer Julie Bertucelli’s Oz-set drama “The Tree” will screen as the out of competition closing film of this year’s festival.

Film News: ‘Wasted on the Young’ also takes coin — Dean Craig, scribe of 2007′s “Death at a Funeral,” turns his pen to Down Under weddings in the Screen Australia-backed “A Few Best Men.”

Film News: Oscar-nommed writer of ‘Il Postino,’ ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ — Oscar-nominated Italian screenwriter Furio Scarpelli, whose credits include spaghetti western classic “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” but who is best known for scores of the finest postwar Italo comedies penned in tandem with writing partner Age, died Wednesday in Rome. He was 90.

Film News: Director wins best film for his ‘Trotsky’ script — Jacob Tierney has nabbed the best feature scribe prize for Jay Baruchel starrer “The Trotsky.”