LOS ANGELES, June 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CBS Films announced today that Oscar©-winner Edward Zwick (The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond) is attached to direct the film adaptation of American Assassin from a screenplay by Zwick and Oscar©-nominee Marshall Herskovitz.

Brokeback Mountain co-stars Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal are in talks for roles in the film version of Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman. The Hollywood Reporter said the stars are in negotiations to reunite for the big-screen adaptation of the non-fiction book by Jamie Reidy, a sales representative for Pfizer in the late 1990s who penned his memoir about working in the pharmaceutical field. Previously titled Pharma, but now called Love and Other Drugs, the film is to be directed by Ed Zwick.

By THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER For those ready to move past the endless stream of dark dramas from fall 2007, get ready for a new barrage from the 1960s, the 1940s and the 1780s.

By Molly Willow, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Feb. 26--Quarterlife is based on the idea that today's 20-somethings are all repressed, struggling somethings in love with the wrong people. The drama has received notice for being the first series to jump from the Internet to television.

By Molly Willow, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Feb. 26--The NBC series quarterlife will make its TV debut tonight. But the drama about young adults experiencing "quarterlife" crises already has devoted fans, online discussion forums and 36 episodes, each eight minutes long.