Mandalay Entertainment has optioned film rights to "The Hookup Handbook: A Single Girl's Guide to Living It Up," which is scheduled to be published in March.

  The part satire and part field guide, written by New Yorkers Jessica Rozler and Andrea Lavinthal, postulates how in the modern world of singles looking for love, formal "dating" has been replaced by the more casual "hooking up."

The book is part of Simon & Schuster's new imprint, Simon Spotlight Entertainment, which launched in September and targets the 18-34 demographic. The imprint already has a runaway hit with "He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys," by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo, which already has 1.2 million copies in print. "Hookup" is SSE's first book to be optioned.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) -- "For Love of the Game" scribe Dana Stevens has signed on to adapt "The Dive" for James Cameron and 20th Century Fox.

Cameron is expected to direct the feature, which is based on the true-life love story between free divers Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras and his wife, Audrey Mestre.

Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment acquired Ferreras' life rights, along with a cover story from Sports Illustrated on the diver. Cameron is producing with his Lightstorm partners Jon Landau and Rae Sanchini.

Stevens' other credits include "Blink," "City of Angels" and "Life or Something Like It."

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) -- Joe Stillman, one of the writers of "Shrek" and "Shrek 2," is going to adapt the upcoming kid-lit fantasy novel "Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief" for Fox 2000. Maverick Films is producing.

The book, due next year, is the story of a young boy in modern-day America who discovers he is the son of the Greek god Poseidon and must avert a deadly war between the gods in order to save his mother.

Stillman is well known in the animated feature world. He is working on "Shrek 3," and his other credits include "Curious George" and "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America." He was a writer on the TV shows "Beavis and Butt-Head" and "King of the Hill."