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DreamWorks has bought the screen rights to THE 39 CLUES, an adventure series being launched this fall by Scholastic Media, per VARIETY. Steven Spielberg is debating whether to direct the project, which is a 10-book series that includes collectible cards and an online game.

DreamWorks co-chair and CEO Stacey Snider and Scholastic Media President Deborah Forte closed the deal.

Because DreamWorks is on its way out the door at Paramount, it was unclear whether the project would remain at the studio.

The principals of DreamWorks SKG are close to a deal with one of India's biggest entertainment conglomerates, reports THE WALL STREET JOURNAL this morning.

According to people familiar with the situation, the deal would form a new movie venture, giving director Steven Spielberg the cash to finance his DreamWorks team's departure from Paramount later this year.

Mumbai-based Reliance ADA Group would provide Spielberg with $500 to $600 million in equity, moving them one step closer to leaving Viacom, which has been a contentious relationship from the start.

Steven Spielberg is reportedly trying to raise more than $1 billion in third-party financing to reinvent DreamWorks as a separate company, once again owning the movies it makes, per THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

THQ and DreamWorks Animation have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement to develop and publish video games based on the studio's 2010 fall animated feature film.

The film, acquired under the working title of MASTER MIND, is due in theaters on November 5, 2010. The new agreement grants THQ exclusive rights to publish interactive games based on the DreamWorks Animation property for all console and handheld systems, wireless devices and Windows PCs.

DreamWorks has optioned the rights to ATLANTIS RISING, a comic book from Platinum Studios, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci will produce the live-action feature adaptation for DreamWorks. Platinum chairman and CEO Scott Mitchell Rosenberg will also produce.

The fantasy adventure script IMAGINARY FRIENDS has been purchased by DreamWorks, according to VARIETY.

Newcomers Cornelius Uliano and Bryan Schulz, who met at the Brooks Institute of Photography, were paid in the six-figure range for their work.

The studio is keeping the logline under wraps.

DreamWorks Animation will wait to release the 3D flick HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON until March 26, 2010, a less crowded date, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

DRAGON was previously scheduled to open on Nov. 20, 2009, where it would have been competing with A CHRISTMAS CAROL with Jim Carrey and James Cameron's AVATAR, both in 3D.