Sam Worthington is to return to his home town of Perth to star in new surfing film Drift , set in the south west of Australia, national film agency Screen Australia said Wednesday. Drift is set in 1972 and tells the...
Drew Barrymore is returning to the director’s chair for her sophomore effort, How to Be Single, a New Line romantic comedy that Barrymore is also producing with her Flower Films partner Nancy Juvonen. Single is based on...
" Revenge of the Jocks " is gearing up at Warner Bros. with "Jackass" director Jeff Tremaine on board to helm the comedy, set up with Tapestry and Tremaine's Dickhouse Entertainment. Studio's also tapped Jeff Baena ("I...
Hollywood's frantic search for the next "Twilight"-sized phenomenon now centers on Jennifer Lawrence, who's first in line to play Katniss, the tomboyish heroine in the young-adult trilogy "Hunger Games." As Variety.com...
British actor Colin Firth will star in the South Korean helmer Park Chan-Wook's new mystery drama Stoker , according to the U.K.’s Daily Mail newspaper. The film, Park’s ambitious Hollywood debut and his first...
Australian filmmaker Shane Abbess ("Gabriel") will direct " 7th Day ," a sci-fi thriller that "Source Code" scribe Ben Ripley is writing for the Dino De Laurentiis Co. Script, which concerns a voyage to establish a new...
John Hawkes ("Winter's Bone") is attached to star in the indie drama " Surrogate " for Rhino Films. Pic is based on the life of Mark O'Brien, a poet and journalist who, after spending most of his life with an iron lung...
Logan Marshall-Green has signed on to play one of the lead roles in Ridley Scott's sci-fi thriller " Prometheus " for 20th Century Fox. Green will join previously-announced cast members Michael Fassbender and Charlize...
Clifton Collins is set to star in the supernatural pic " Hellbenders " with J.T. Petty on to direct. The script, also penned by Petty, is about a secret group of elite demonologists in a Brooklyn diocese who battle a...
Brendan Fraser will topline comedic heist pic " Whole Lotta Sole ," produced by Jay Russell and directed by Terry George. Script by George and Thomas Gallagher centers on a young man robbing a fish shop in order to pay...
Brit thesp Hayley Atwell has joined the cast of " I, Anna ," alongside Gabriel Byrne and Charlotte Rampling. Pic, the debut feature from helmer-scribe Barnaby Southcombe, is a noir thriller told from the point of view of...
New Regency and Shine have hired scribe Matt Cook to adapt a screen version of Swedish novel " Three Seconds ." Book centers around an undercover operative in the Swedish police force who must infiltrate one of the...
"The Kids Are All Right" star Julianne Moore is back in business with Focus Features, as the four-time Oscar nominee has signed on to play a supporting role in Paul Weitz's " Another Night ." Based on Nick Flynn's memoir...
"Parks and Recreation" star Chris Pratt has joined Nicholas Stoller's Universal comedy " Five-Year Engagement ." Jason Segel and Emily Blunt star in the pic, which chronicles the highs and lows of their lengthy...
Brie Larson is in early talks to star in Sony Pictures' " 21 Jump Street " opposite Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Ice Cube. " 21 Jump Street " is based on the Fox series, which ran from 1987 to 1991 and starred Johnny...
" Rock of Ages " has started firming up its cast with "Dancing With the Stars" champ Julianne Hough in final negotiations to star opposite Tom Cruise in New Line's adaptation of the Broadway musical. "Hairspray" helmer...
Universal's the new home for Jeremy Garelick's comedy " The Insane Laws ," with Vince Vaughn attached to star. "Insane Laws" centers on two male best friends and the changes in thier relationship when their grown...
Lucasfilm Ltd. and 20th Century Fox will release the 3D version of Star Wars: Episode I:The Phantom Menace on Feb. 10, 2012. George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic is supervising the 3D conversion, with an eye for both...
Diane Lane will play Martha Kent in Zack Snyder's upcoming Superman movie. Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures said late Wednesday that the actress is set as "the only mother Clark Kent has ever known."
Kevin Spacey is on board to star in and executive produce House of Cards . The hour-long drama project, based on the book and British miniseries of the same name, comes from Media Rights Capital.
Alcon Entertainment, the company behind The Blind Side, is looking to bring the world of Blade Runner back to the big screen. The 1982 cult classic, which was directed by Ridley Scott and starred Harrison Ford, was based...
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has nabbed North American rights to Matthew Parkhill's supernatural ghost story " The Caller ." The film centers on a troubled divorcee who begins to receive mysterious phone calls...
Mandy Moore and Rodrigo Santoro will star in " Falling Slowly ," the directorial debut of "Buried" writer Chris Sparling. The supernatural drama, about a couple whose apartment is haunted by a dark presence, will be...
Jose Padilha, the Brazilian director behind the gritty South American Elite Squad movies, is in talks to direct Robocop, the film project which is the reconstituted MGM’s top priority. Robocop is remake of the 1987...
Jake T. Austin ("The Wizards of Waverly Place") has joined the cast of Garry Marshall's romantic comedy " New Year's Eve ." Production on the New Line pic started two weeks ago. Gotham-set movie will follow intertwining...
Malin Akerman is in negotiations to play the female lead opposite Nicolas Cage in Medallion , a Nu Image/Millennium Films action thriller directed by Simon West. The story, with shades of Taken, follows a father -- a...
Kate Mara and Treat Williams have signed onto the indie crime thriller " Blackbird ." Initially announced as "Kin," pic stars Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde as sibling fugitives who cross paths with a young boxer (Charlie...
Jimmi Simpson will co-star with Ben Walker in Fox's " Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ." Story focuses on president Lincoln, who goes on a quest to rid the world of vampires after his mother is murdered by monsters.
Peter Stormare has joined the cast of Paramount's "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters," which stars Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton. Tale is set 15 years after the siblings killed the witch who kidnapped them, with Hansel...
Warner Bros. has zeroed in on " Line of Sight ," buying F. Scott Frazier's thriller spec preemptively and setting it up with Silver Pictures. Plot details are under wraps, but the project's described as a high-concept...
While rumors that Blake Lively was in talks to play a younger Carrie Bradshaw in a Sex and the City prequel have been shot down, another of one of the original SATC gals agrees with Sarah Jessica Parker that the whole...
Warner Bros. has decided to reboot " The Bodyguard ," setting up an updated remake of the 1992 hit with Warner-based Dan Lin producing. The original film was directed by Mick Jackson and centered on a former Secret...
Hello Ghost , a Korean film by the director Kim Young-tak, has sold remake rights to Chris Columbus' 1492 Pictures. A comedy about a depressed man who sees ghosts after a suicide attempt, the film attracted over 3.04...
Patrick Wilson and James Marsden are in talks to star in the indie thriller " Loft ," Anonymous Content's remake of the 2008 Belgian picture. Film follows five married friends who decide to rent a loft together where...
R&B crooner Eric Benet will make his lead acting debut in " Trinity Goodheart ," written by Rhonda Freeman-Baraka. Film centers on a 12-year-old girl, played by Erica Gluck, on a mission to reunite her disjointed family.
Stephen Root has joined the cast of Clint Eastwood's Leonardo DiCaprio starrer " J. Edgar ," in production for Warner Bros. Root will portray Arthur Koehler, an introverted man and wood specialist who helps J. Edgar...
Despite Sex and the City 2 underperforming at the box office and receiving lukewarm reviews last year, Sarah Jessica Parker, who produced as well as starred in the two Michael Patrick King rom-coms, says she's isn't...
Steve Carell is taking a turn for the serious, attaching himself to star in Dogs of Babel , a drama for Mandate Pictures. The novel, described as a tragic story of love and loss centers on a linguistics professor...
Charlie Sheen's iconic "Wild Thing" character would play an important role in his planned new edition of the Major League franchise. David S. Ward, who directed and wrote the original, tells The Hollywood Reporter that...
D.J. Caruso has closed a deal to direct Preacher , Columbia’s adaptation of the popular 1990s DC/Vertigo comic book series. Created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, Preacher , which ran from 1995-2000, told the story of...
Phillip Noyce will direct international action-thriller Hunter Killer for Relativity Media. Novel tells the story of an untested American submarine captain who teams with U.S. Navy Seals to rescue the Russian president,...
Paul Walker is starring in Pawn Shop Chronicles , a thriller that Fred Durst will direct. The interconnected stories center on a missing wedding ring which leads to a wild-goose chase involving meth addicts, skinheads...
Michelle Pfeiffer is in negotiations to reteam with Tim Burton for Dark Shadows , Warner Bros’ big-screen take on the 1960s gothic vampire TV soap opera starring Johnny Depp. Pfeiffer would play Elizabeth Collins...
Jeremy Irons and Kim Cattrall have joined Lajos Koltai's The Treehouse , a $10 million budgeted movie scripted by Paul Mayersberg from the novel by Eduard von Keyserling. Irons and Cattrall join the project as the leads...
Walt Disney unveiled here Monday that two of the new characters in Cars 2 are voiced by John Turturro and Eddie Izzard. Turturro is behind Italian race car and Lightning McQueen rival Francesco Bernoulli, Cars 2 director...
Marion Cotillard may join the cast of The Dark Knight Rises . A rep for the actress in Paris said that her involvement in the film is currently "in discussions, but nothing has been confirmed yet." WB France has yet to...
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up U.S. rights to " In Darkness ," the latest from helmer Agnieszka Holland. Based on Robert Marshall's nonfiction book "In the Sewers of Lvov," storyline follows a thief in 1943 Poland...
Sylvester Stallone will star as a New Orleans hitman who teams with a New York City cop in action pic Headshot , from IM Global and Alexandra Milchan's EMJAG Prods. IM Global CEO Stuart Ford -- who announced the project...
The Hobbit will begin filming March 21, production company 3Foot7 Ltd announced Monday. "Despite some delays we are fully back on track and very excited to get started," said Peter Jackson, who was released from the...
Twentieth Century Fox Animation is teaming with producer Shawn Levy on a big-screen adaptation of British author Roger Hargreaves’ beloved Mr. Men illustrated children's books. Hargreaves wrote 48 Mr. Men books, each of...