Paramount Lands 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' Remake Rights

Paramount has closed a deal for the U.S. rights to adapt Wes Craven's original screenplay for "A Nightmare on Elm Street." The new movie will come from Paramount Primal, the studio's new genre label, run by "Barbarian" producers J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules. They will be licensing the title from the Wes Crave estate, which includes Iya Labunka and Jonathan Craven. According to Paramount, the new film will be produced by Labunka, Craven and Marc Toberoff, with Lifshitz and Margules executive producing for Paramount Primal. The film is in "priority development," with plot . . .