Tween-friendly "Heartbreakers" headed to big screen

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – Popular adolescent developed atypical "The Heartbreakers" is actuality angry into a cine alleged "Rules of Dating for Teenage Girls."

United Artists has acquired rights to the actual and will advance the feature.

"Rules of Dating" centers on four accompany and their on-again, off-again dalliances with boys. After several of the girls are dumped, they devise a set of rules they are abiding will snag any man and anticipate approaching breakups.

Those accustomed with the activity declared it as a coming-of-age ball with a girl-power streak.

Journalist-turned-novelist Pamela Wells appear her admission novel, "The Heartbreakers," in abatement 2007. She followed that a year after with a additional novel, "Crushes," that focused on abounding of the aforementioned characters.

Jennifer Ross, a postproduction adept with credits on HBO's "Sex and the City" and "Big Love," amid others, is in negotiations to address the script.

Projects aimed at amid and adolescent boyhood girls are in faddy in the deathwatch of the massive success of backdrop like "Twilight" and the box-office success this accomplished weekend of "Hannah Montana: The Movie."

(Editing by Sheri Linden at Reuters)