Original Films and Scholastic Media to Produce New Movie Based on Internationally Renowned Children’s Book Series With Sales of More than 300 Million Copies Worldwide

Culver City, CA (May 15, 2008) — Columbia Pictures has acquired from Scholastic Media the right to adapt Scholastic’s bestselling Goosebumps™; book series into a theatrical feature. The film will be produced by Deborah Forte and Neal H. Moritz; it was announced today by Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of Columbia Pictures.