Oscar-winning screenwriter William Monahan (The Departed) will direct a film adaptation of the forthcoming Myles Connor memoir The Art of the Heist: Confessions of a Master Thief, Rock-and-Roller and Prodigal Son, Variety reports. The book, to be published in April, details Connor’s life as a musician and as a criminal implicated in museum robberies. Monahan will make his directorial debut guiding Keira Knightley and Colin Farrell through an adaptation of Ken Bruen’s London Boulevard, as previously reported.

Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures will scare up remakes of the Spanish horror film Anguish and the Danish frightfest Room 205, Variety reports. Both involve young women in peril. Anguish centers on two girls whose lives begin to resemble the plot of a scary movie they’re watching. Room 205, which will be rechristened The Dorm, follows a college freshman whose room is haunted.

Sam Rockwell has been cast as Hilary Swank’s brother in the legal drama Betty Anne Waters. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film is based on the true story of an unemployed single mother (Swank), who earns a law degree to try to save her brother from serving life in prison after he’s convicted of murder and robbery. Tony Goldwyn will direct the film, which begins shooting this month. Rockwell well then move on to play Justin Hammer in Iron Man 2. Swank will get terrorized by Jeffrey Dean Morgan in The Resident.

Zachary Levi, star of the NBC action-comedy series Chuck, will star in the Alvinand the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Levi will play the cousin of Jason Lee‘s character alongside computer-animated versions of the three chipmunks, who will again be voiced by Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, and Jesse McCartney. The sequel will also introduce the Chipmunks’ rivals, theChipettes: Brittany, Jeanette, and Eleanor.

Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and David Spade are in talk for an as-yet untitled comedy for Columbia Pictures, Variety reports. The movie, which will be directed by Dennis Dugan (You Don’t Mess With the Zohan), is about five best friends from high school who reunite 30 years later on a Fourth of July weekend. Sandler wrote the screenplay with Fred Wolf (Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star). Production is scheduled to begin this summer.