Disney has confirmed that they have acquired the rights to Niel Gaiman's young adult book The Graveyard Book, and they will adapt it into a feature film. I'm actually reading this book right now with my kids, and so far, it's really good. It will definitely make for a solid movie, and Disney seems like the right place for it to be.
The Graveyard Book is a dark tale that tells of the last surviving child of a murdered family who is raised by ghosts in a graveyard.
When the book was first released, UK effects house Framestore nabbed the rights to the novel and set The Crying Game director Neil Jordan to develop it. Obviously, the movie never got off the ground even though they kept renewing the rights. In the end Disney beat out a lot of other studios that wanted to take it on. There's no word on whether Jordan will still be directing the project, but the studio is making it a priority. This would make for a great project for Tim Burton to take on, but he's got a pretty busy schedule.
Who would you like to see direct this movie?
Here is a little description of the story for those who haven't read it yet.
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family. . . .
Source: Deadline (http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/disney-scares-up-deal-for-neil-gaimans-the-graveyard-book/)