J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot production co. has returned the "Dark Tower" rights to Stephen King. Now Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Akiva Goldsman are teaming up to tackle the fantasy Western, where they're working to adapt the material as a movie, to be written by Goldsman and directed by Howard - that would lead to a TV series produced by Imagine's small-screen division.

Adam McKay just tweeted: ”So bummed. Paramount basically passed on Anchorman 2. Even after we cut our budget down. We tried.”