July 30, 2009–Spike Jonze has acquired screen rights to Shane Jones' first novel “Light Boxes,” to be directed by Ray Tintori.

July 20, 2009–Warner's “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” made close to $400 million in its worldwide debut, scoring the biggest overseas opening of all time at $237 million and $159.7 million domestically.

July 15, 2009–Warner’s “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” directed by Davis Yates, scored the biggest midnight gross of all-time in earning $22.2 million as it played in 3,003 runs at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.

July 13, 2009–Paramount is teaming with Joe Roth to pick up Mattel's “Max Steel” as another action figure it wants to play with on the bigscreen.  “Max Steel” will be the first picture Mattel has set up at Paramount since it began aggressively looking to turn its toys into features.

July 5, 2009–Fox's 3-D animated “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” scored the biggest international opening of all time for an animated title.  Domestically, it tied with Paramount's “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” for No. 1 at the box-office over the July 4 weekend.