Movie buzz: Near 'Miss' and her cat's meow

WHO Tim Burton

THE MOVIE "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children"

THE DEAL Burton is in talks to direct a film version of this young-adult novel about a 16-year-old boy who explores a mysterious orphanage off the coast of Wales, according to Deadline.com. The book was released June 7 by a small publisher, Quirk, but soon began creeping into best-seller lists, thanks to its unusual format, which includes dozens of antique photographs found in archives and at flea markets. In an unusual promotional move, author Ransom Riggs filmed his own trailer for the book and posted it at his YouTube channel, ransriggs.

THE MOVIE "The Future"

THE DEAL Miranda July wrote, directed and stars in this oddball comedy-drama about a young couple thrown into crisis by adopting a stray cat, Paw Paw (also played by July). It screens as part of the Stony Brook University series Films for Campus & Community, which continues through Dec. 9 and focuses on art-house releases that may have had little exposure on Long Island.

INFO Friday at 7 p.m. at the Staller Center for the Arts. Tickets are $9. 631-632-2787; stallercenter.com.

WHO Richard Leacock

THE DEAL The late director and cameraman, whose credits include the 1960 Kennedy-Humphrey documentary "Primary" and the 1968 concert film "Monterey Pop," will be honored at this weekend's fourth annual Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival, which runs through Sunday. At tomorrow's opening-night gala, two of Leacock's short films from 1963, "Happy Mother's Day," about the birth of quintuplets, and "Crisis," about school desegregation, will be introduced by longtime collaborator and Sag Harbor resident D.A. Pennebaker; Leacock's son and daughter, who also are filmmakers, are scheduled to attend.

INFO Friday at 5:30 p.m. at Guild Hall, 158 Main St., East Hampton. Tickets are $75. 631-324-4050; guildhall.org. The festival runs through Sunday.