The Hunger Games' Gary Ross might make one of those half-dozen Houdini movies
It's been more than a year since we first noticed the half-dozen or so projects about Harry Houdini that were in the works—a passing fancy that seemed to have been replaced with competing Frankensteins and movies where the apocalypse is totally fun. But that was all an illusion, as Summit Entertainment is close to hiring recently resigned Hunger Games director Gary Ross to conjure its own Houdini project, proving that its avowal to keep him in the family wasn't just smoke and mirrors. You might even say that they pulled this out of a hat for him, because their Houdini movie has not yet escaped from the padlocked chains of franchise expectation. Or something. There is still plenty of interest in a Harry Houdini movie, if you catch our drift.