Yeah, sounds like we should have been taking this with a giant grain of salt from the beginning. I have a suspicion this is probably all fishing on the part of the news site, due to the Goosebumps thing. Taking a legitimate Point A and speculating to a Point B.
I mean, Katherine would know, either way, whatever production they were trying to get off the ground. If she says it's BS, it doesn't really matter if MyTrackingBoard is sticking to their story.
The Goosebumps thing piqued my interest though, I hadn't even heard about it until this thread. Just went over to imdb to check it out, seems pretty abysmal by the team they've hired. Though Scott Alexander did shock me a bit, he wrote Ed Wood and The Man On The Moon, seriously amazing movies. But the director Rob Letterman's a hack stooge, Gulliver's Travels and Shark Tale?! Good grief. Gulliver explains the Jack Black involvement, they're probably friends and Black's supporting his efforts.
This is what worried me all along though, if it was real. This is the type of team they hire for these things, you're not going to get some A-lister (or even no-namer with a huge impressive vision), they get the work-for-hire guys who don't really care, it's just their next gig and nothing more.