Paramount adores being in the JJ Abrams business, because at the moment it seems to guarantee them profits. They’re getting together again for The God Particle, as Paramount Pictures and JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot production company are now putting together the sci-fi thriller God Particle, based on a script by Oren Uziel, and have also picked up an action thriller spec script called Wunderkind from Patrick Aison. At the moment it appears Abrams will produce by not direct both movies.

According to Vulture, God Particle centres on a physics experiment with a particle accelerator that causes the Earth to seemingly disappear into thin air. The plot follows an American space station crew set floating adrift with no home to go back to, when they discover a European spacecraft on their radar. Although that sounds like a pretty big budget movie, the studio plans to shoot this project for just $5 million, and they will likely release it under their Paramount Insurge micro-budget division.

Variety meanwhile has the news on Wunderkind, which is set in the 1970s and follows a young CIA Nazi hunter who crosses paths with an older, more experienced tracker from Israel’s Mossad. The pair reluctantly decide to join forces when they realise they’re after the same person. Patrick Aison’s script has excited a lot of interest in Hollywood, with numerous parties trying to pick it up, but Paramount and Bad Robot were the ones who signed the deal.

A month or so ago Liam Neeson was in talks to play the bad guy in Darren Aronofsky’s biblical epic Noah. That didn’t work out, and now the role looks like it’s going to Ray Winstone, who’s in talks to join the film, according to Deadline.

Russell Crowe will take the title role, with Logan Lerman, Douglas Booth and Emma Watson also set to star. Although in the bible, the main baddie for Noah is the weather, Aronfsky’s film will add in a human nemesis, played by Winston, who presumably thinks building arks is the dumbest thing in the world.

Jennifer Connelly is still being eyed as Noah’s wife, but nothing’s been signed as yet. Aronofsky’s going to have to make a decision soon, as the movie is set to shoot later this summer.

Fox Searchlight has signed a deal with Limitless director Neil Burger to follow-up his thriller success with the crime drama Animal Rescue, according to Variety. No cast is attached as yet, but expect that to change fairly soon.

The drama follows a man who wants to leave his life of crime (everyone in movie seems to be just about to leave a life of crime). However he gets caught up in a murder that results from a loss at a pitbull fight.

Burger is also writing the screenplay, adapted from a short story by Dennis Lehane. There’s no news on when it might shoot and it may be a while, as the director is already juggling several other movies as his possible next project.

It appears Anton Yelchin likes vampires, as after last year’s Fright Night he’s heading back into a film about the bloodsuckers, although this time with a more arthouse bent, as Deadline reports that he’s signed on to star in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, a drama about the centuries-long romance between two star-crossed vampires.

When it was first announced, the movie was due to star Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender in what Jarmusch describes as a “crypto-vampire love story”, following the centuries-long love story of two vampire lovers. Since then John Hurt has signed on and there have also been rumours Tom Hiddleston has stepped in to replace Fassbender.

However what isn’t certain is who will play the central vampiric lovers. Jarmusch is deliberately keeping quiet about his plans, but it certainly sound like something larger scale than he normally takes on.