I’d like to bet there’s a gift for everyone in this Movie News Cheat Sheet because this week’s edition is packed with a particularly eclectic selection of material. My favorite industry present? Starship Troopers is set to return! Ender’s Game fans will be happy to know that the incredibly talented Hailee Steinfeld was offered the role of Petra Arkanian in the big screen adaptation while those who hold the Where’s Waldo books near and dear to their hearts will be thrilled to find out that the feature production is moving forward with screenwriter Todd Berger. We’ve also got a nice sized package of first looks including images from Wrath of…

Zac Efron (“High School Musical”, “Me And Orson Welles”) has signed on to star in an adaptation of renowned comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis’s graphic novel, “Fire.” Efron would play a college student who is recruited to be an agent of the CIA. However, he soon discovers that he has in fact been recruited into a program that actually creates expendable spies and assassins. “Fire” will be produced by Neal Moritz and David Enge for Universal Studios. “Fire” was one of Bendis’s first works, created in 1993 and published through Caliber Comics, with Image Comics later on collecting the series into a single graphic novel. He has since gone…

Variety is reporting that Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to adapt the Dark Horse Comics title “Criminal Macabre,” the noir/horror miniseries created by Steve Niles. Kyle Ward has been set to write the script. Dark Horse’s Mike Richardson of Dark Horse, along with with Neal Moritz and his Original Film company, will be producing the film. The story follows a supernaturally-inclined private investigator/contract hitman named Cal McDonald, who hunts the various terrors such as vampires and ghosts who stalk humanity from the shadows. The film has a tentative 2010 release date set for release. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more news on “Criminal Macabre”. By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Variety.com)

Jason Sudeikis (“Saturday Night Live”, “30 Rock”) has been cast in the comedy “Bounty Hunter” for Columbia, alongside Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler. The movie centers on a bounty hunter named Milo, played by Butler, who is hired to track down his ex-wife Casidy, played by Aniston. Sudeikis will play Stewart, a friend of Casidy’s who is under the delusion that he is her boyfriend. Andy Tennant is directing, based on a script by Sarah Thorpe, and Neal Moritz is producing through Original Films. Sudeikis has recently appeared in “The Rocker” and “What Happens in Vegas.” Keep checkin’ for more news on “Bounty” and other projects right here at Shockya.com….

Writing duo Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander are in negotiations to write the live-action film adaptation of the children’s book horror series Goosebumps for Columbia Pictures. Neal Moritz’s production company, Original Film, is producing alongside Scholastic Entertainment’s Deborah Forte. Karaszewski and Alexander are expected to seal the deal this week. Although the book series, penned by R.L. Stine, has been made into a children’s television show in the past, the newly announced project will be the first feature adaptation of the series and could lead to a franchise for Columbia. The Goosebumps series contains over 50 books and often reflect ideas and themes from classic horror movies such as Night…