Daily news dose: Adam Scott joins 'Leap Year;' Pitt, Portman team up for 'Artifacts'

Here's your dose of film news for March 18, 2009:

• Adam Scott is set to star in Anand Tucker's upcoming romantic comedy "Leap Year," about a young woman who travels to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend (Scott) on leap day, Feb. 29. Matthew Goode is also on board. Harry Elfont and Deb Kaplan wrote the script. (Variety)

• Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman are attached to star in Paramount's big-screen version of Leanne Shapton's book "Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry." (Variety)

• Universal is developing a big-screen adaptation of EA's videogame "Dante's Inferno," and Dan Harris is on board to write the screenplay. In the game, players take a perilous trip through hell. Harris' credits include "Superman Returns" and X2." (Variety).

• Lionsgate has acquired the big-screen rights to Suzanne Collins' novel "The Hunger Games," the first in a trilogy. Variety says the story "takes place in a society in which districts pay tribute in the form of a teenage boy and girl who are forced to fight to the death on live TV."