Deal Report: July 1, 2011

Black Swan‘s Darren Aronofsky is dancing over to HBO to direct the WWII-based pilot Hobgoblin.

Woody Allen will join costars Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig, and Ellen Page when production on his next film, The Bop Decameron, begins July 11.

90210‘s Freddie Smith has joined the cast of Days of Our Lives to star in the soap’s first gay story line.

FX has secured the rights to air J.J. Abrams‘ big-screen sci-fi hit Super 8.

Lost‘s Evangeline Lilly will play woodland elf Tauriel in Peter Jackson‘s The Hobbit, which is currently in production.

Discovery has ordered a documentary special on SEAL Team Six, the elite military unit credited with killing Osama bin Laden. It will air July 10.