Posted: Mon., Nov. 7, 2005, 9:00pm PT

Home for four holidays

Spyglass will remain the producer on laffer

New Line has decided to celebrate "Four Christmases," picking up the holiday comedy after it had been put into turnaround by Sony.

Spyglass will remain the producer. Penned by Matt Allen and Caleb Wilson, script centers on a young couple, each of whose parents have divorced and married other people, leaving the newlyweds with four parental households to visit on Christmas Day.

Spyglass partners Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum and exec John Glickman will produce with Derek Evans exec producing. New Line's Mark Kaufman and Michael Disco will oversee for the studio.

Aim is to begin production next spring for a holiday 2006 release.

Adam Shankman had been attached to direct "Four Christmases," which was to be Spyglass' first pic at Sony after company began a nonexclusive co-financing and production deal in 2003. But development came to a halt because the project conflicted with Revolution's "Christmas With the Kranks."

Shankman's directing "Hairspray" for New Line.


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