'Luck' finds helmer

October 04, 2009 U.K.-based indie Ruby Films ("The Other Boleyn Girl") is producing the dramedy, which centers on a perennially unlucky man whose fortunes abruptly change. Smith, like Kay repped by WME and Underground Management, recently completed shooting the romantic comedy "She's Out of My League" for DreamWorks and is attached to helm the rural-England drama "All Quiet on the Orient Express," which he wrote with Kay. Rounding out the top five are Neil Purvis and Rob Wade's "Corsica 72," Ol Parker's "Now Is Good," "Slumdog Millionaire" scribe Simon Beaufoy's "Salmon Fishing" and Deborah Davis' "Balance of Power."

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