NEWS

**Producer JJ Abrams is slated to write a fiction novel for Mulholland Books. All involved are keeping the details, title and plot, close to the vest.

**Bravo! is going to try it again in the scripted show department. Facedown, the working title, about an engaging and flawed make-up artist.

**Hugh Jackman has been offered a role in Universal Pictures' Snow White and the Huntsman; if he accepts, his role would be the huntsman.

**On-location shooting in the City of Angels and the surrounding areas is up by 4.7% .... not because of big studio movies or television but music videos, industrial videos, and student films.

**The September Issue docu-director RJ Cutler is inked to direct Fabulous Nobodies, a based on a book. This is Cutler's first scripted feature. The film is set in 1980s NYC downtown club scene and centers around a group of people that breathed, ate and lived fashion before the onslaught of what fashion is today.

**Netflix signs an exclusive deal with Lionsgate to syndicate Mad Men. The first four seasons will be available on its Watch Instantly service July 27, 2011. Additional seasons will air after their first run on AMC.

**The Dark Knight Rises will begin shooting in Pittsburgh. Chris Nolan is set to direct and the film will premiere Summer 2012.