Kerr’s ‘Children’ coming to screen

With every studio in Hollywood looking to tap into “Harry Potter” and “Chronicles of Narnia” fever, DreamWorks Studios is placing its bet on the magical “Children of the Lamp” series. DreamWorks has licensed the film rights to “Children of the Lamp,” author P.B. Kerr’s popular series of novels about globe-trotting twin tweens who learn that they are from a family of djinn, or genies, who pass for human but have the power to grant wishes.

Nina Jacobson, the studio executive who shepherded “Narnia” into production, brought Kerr’s series to DreamWorks, where she will oversee production for the studio’s Adam Goodman. The producing team has hired Oscar-nominated screenwriter Lee Hall (2000’s “Billy Elliot”) to pen the movie adaptation.

-- Sheigh Crabtree