According to Variety, Will Smith is among a group of producers who have optioned The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine, an upcoming book by Benjamin Wallace. There were no reports on when production might begin.

The story centers on an auctioned cache of wine bottles and the scandal that follows. In 1985, a member of the Forbes family purchased a bottle of Bordeaux for $156,000 at auction. The bottle was believed to have been part of a cache that belonged to Thomas Jefferson. After paying half a million for the other bottles, billionaire Bill Koch paid an additional million to confirm their authenticity. The wines turned out to be bogus, and Koch sued Hardy Rodenstock, who had supposedly unearthed the bottles and sold them at auction.

According to Variety, Charlize Theron and Viggo Mortensen (of The Lord of the Rings fame) will star in the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Theron, who won an Oscar for her role in Monster, will play Mortensen’s wife, a small role in which she appears only in the flashback scenes. The story is about a man who takes a nightmarish road trip after a nuclear explosion in order to get his son to safety and away from cannibals. The film will be directed by John Hillcoat and produced by Nick Wechsler (who worked with Theron on The Yards).

We knew it’d be sooner than later, that Sue Monk Kidd’s best-selling novel, The Secret Life of Bees, would get turned into a movie with big-name actors. Variety has confirmed that Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo, and Jennifer Hudson will star in the Fox Searchlight picture, which will begin filming in January and be released sometime next year. The paper also reported that Dakota Fanning and Alicia Keys are in negotiations to join the film, and that Gina Prince-Bythewood of Love & Basketball will direct.

The story centers around a South Carolina girl in the 1960s, who runs away from her troubled life and ends up in the home of three beekeeping sisters. Fanning would star as the young girl, Lily Owens, with Hudson as her friend and caregiver and Latifah, Keys, and Okonedo will play the sisters.

It used to be that all you’d see on Lifetime were movies based on Danielle Steele books and Golden Girls reruns, but the cable network will be airing an adaptation of Kim Edwards’ The Memory Keeper’s Daughter. Variety reported that, in addition to Dermot Mulroney and Emily Watson, the made-for-TV film will star Gretchen Mol. Directed by Tuesdays With Morrie’s Mick Jackson, Mol’s character gives birth to twins, but is told one had Down syndrome and died during birth (the child was secretly raised by another woman). Mol is currently starring in 3:10 to Yuma. Memory is expected to hit our TVs in March.