After the drama of Little Children, Bona Fide Picture producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa are looking for more, and they've found it. Variety reports that the duo will produce another youth-titled project with very adult themes -- an adaptation of Charles Bock's Beautiful Children, which will be made with Warner Independent Pictures.

Eric Roth, the pen behind Forrest Gump, The Insider, and Munich, is in talks to adapt the novel, which follows the disappearance of a 12-year-old boy in Las Vegas. Think Lovely Bones, but instead of an eerie account of a girl's death and its aftermath, this is a seedy story set in Sin City. According to the Washington Post review up on Amazon, the kid is a spoiled brat who runs away into a raunchy environment where one girl even cuts her nipples open for a floor show. However, while it just sounds raunchy, the review also says that even though it's not polished, the novel "deserves to be read more than once because of the extraordinary importance of its subject matter and the sensitivity with which he treats it." Whether that sensitivity makes its way to the big screen -- we'll have to wait and see.

But this isn't the only project in the works for Yerxa and Berger. They're finalizing the money for The Undeniable Charm of Sloppy Unruh, a comic fable starring Patrick Wilson, Zooey Deschanel, Amy Ryan, Seann William Scott, and John Doe, and they are also reteaming with Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Ferris for the Tom Perrotta adaptation The Abstinence Teacher.

Oh, if only all biopics were as aptly titled as Big Eyes, a movie about the artist Margaret Keane. If you're not familiar with her work, simply do a Google image search and you'll see why the title makes sense. Of course, I would have gone a little further and named it Creepy Big Eyes. According to Variety, the production has cast Kate Hudson as Keane, who is still alive to possibly assist the actress with the role. The independently financed film was scripted by biopic masters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (Ed Wood; The People vs. Larry Flynt; Man on the Moon) and it will also be the duo's directorial debut, who will also direct (they last helmed the 2000 comedy Screwed). Scheduled to begin shooting in June, depending on how the SAG contract negotiation goes, Big Eyes will be produced by Dan Halsted (Garden State), Albert Berger (Little Miss Sunshine), Ron Yerxa (Little Miss Sunshine) and financier Andrew Meieran.

Variety reports that Big Eyes will deal with Keane's personal life, specifically her lawsuit against her second husband, Walter Keane, who had taken credit for her mass-produced artwork until the 1960s. Not to give away spoilers, but according to Keane's Wikipedia page, she finally won the rights to her work in divorce proceedings that went all the way to Federal court. How did she prove she was the real talent? She painted in court in front of the judge (Walter meanwhile declined to do the same). I apologize for ruining the ending of the film, but I figured I'd share that info so that when the scene pops up in Big Eyes, you'll know it isn't just some cinematic tool used to make the story more visually interesting.

Regardless of how the movie is received now, though, it's sure to be one of the most popular movies come 2173 (see Woody Allen's Sleeper, which claims that in the future Keane is considered one of the greatest artists of all time)

It was a great Simon & Garfunkel song, and now Little Miss Sunshine producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa are teaming with director Seth Gordon on a feature film titled The Only Living Boy in New York for Columbia Pictures. Berger and Yerxa have had a successful year in indie land; they also produced Little Children which, along with Sunshine, combined for seven Oscar nominations and two wins (both for Sunshine). With a script from Allan Loeb (Things We Lost in the Fire), pic is being described as a coming-of-age drama about a recent college graduate who is seduced by his father's mistress.

As a director, Gordon crashed onto the scene this past January when his documentary King of Kong was all the rage at Slamdance. Picturehouse will distribute the pic, while New Line snatched up the feature remake rights to produce the film as a narrative with Gordon attached to direct that as well. The Simon & Garfunkel flick (which is what I'm calling it, because I'm sure that song will be all over this bad boy) sounds interesting (if you like stories about a father and son shacking up with the same gal), but I am dying to see King of Kong. I don't know, there's just something about watching a group of video game fans fighting to break world records that gets me all fired up to dust off the old Playstation 2 and take on a new adventure.