Michael Clarke Duncan is in talks to co-star with Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Heder in director Todd Phillips' comedy School for Scoundrels , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Duncan would play Lesher, a cohort of...
Kirsten Dunst has revealed that Thomas Haden Church will play Sandman and Topher Grace will play Venom in director Sam Raimi's SpiderMan 3 . "We have really great people though as the villains in this film, Thomas Haden...
Ann-Margret has joined Tim Allen in the cast of Walt Disney Pictures' The Santa Clause 3 , says the Hollywood Reporter. Allen returns as Santa in order to save Christmas from Jack Frost while trying keep his family life...
20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises have bought New York Times reporter Alex Berenson's upcoming novel The Faithful Spy , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is described as a thriller in the vein of 1987's 'No...
Warner Bros. Pictures are set to make the comedy Worst Friends , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story, by Ian Roberts and Jay Martel, revolves around a successful yuppie whose life is turned upside down when his two...
20th Century Fox have bought the rights to Tish Cohen's character-driven comedy novel Town House, says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature centers on an agoraphobic man living with his teenage son in a Boston townhouse...
Nicole Kidman is to star in and produce a bigscreen adaptation of Jules Bass' comic novel Headhunters , according to Variety. Movie is centers on four New Jersey women who jet to Monte Carlo and pretend to be rich...
Kelly Brook has reportedly been asked to audition for the next James Bond movie Casino Royale , says the Sun newspaper. The paper quotes a source as saying: "Kelly realises she has to play on her biggest asset - her...
Fox are to produce a feature film adaptation of Ted Naifeh's comicbook Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things , according to Variety. Pic follows the story of a young girl who moves into her eccentric uncle's house, where...
Rap's Ying Yang Twins to star in their first feature fim Viagra Falls , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The comedy revolves around two best friends in Atlanta who struggle to make enough money from their...
After an eight year hiatus, Francis Ford Coppola is to return to the directors chair for the low-budget adaptation Youth Without Youth , according to Variety. The story centers on a professor whose life changes after a...
Joss Whedon is set to direct Universal Pictures fantasy thriller Goners , says Variety. The feature, which Whedon also wrote, is the story of a young woman's journey that involves a great deal of horror and some heroics....
Focus Features have bought the rights to director Peter Cattaneo's family drama Opal Dreams , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature centers on the story of a young girl (Sapphire Boyce) with two imaginary friends....
David Auburn has been hired by Paramount Pictures to write an off-kilter adventure version of the seminal knight's story St. George and the Dragon , says Variety. 'St. George and the Dragon' is the enduring myth of a...
Sarah Michelle Gellar talked to SCI FI Wire about starring in Richard Kellys Southland Tales . "I was originally playing Amy Poehler's character, and Amy Poehler was playing my character," Gellar said in an interview on...
Joel Schumacher has signed on to direct The Number 23 , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The script, written by Fernley Phillips, follows a man who is obsessed with an obscure book titled The Number 23 and becomes...
20th Century Fox are to remake Fox's 1983 film The Star Chamber , according to the Hollywood Reporter. In the original, Michael Douglas starred as an idealistic judge who, frustrated by having to let dangerous criminals...
Mick Jagger is said to be considering playing former Czech president Vaclav Havel in a new film about his life, according to the Czech daily Lidove novin. Havel had told the paper that he and Jagger had discussed the...
Catherine Zeta-Jones is set to star in Castle Rock Entertainment's American remake of romantic comedy-drama Mostly Martha , according to Variety. The feature, helmed by Scott Hicks, follows an obsessive and controlling...
Harrison Ford has signed up to star in Walden Media's Civil War thriller Manhunt , says Variety. Ford will play war hero Col. Everton Conger, leader of the search for Abraham Lincoln's assassin. It will focus on the...
Seann William Scott says reteaming with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in Richard Kelly's Southland Tales meant they were reversing roles. "It was strange," Scott told Sci-Fi Wire. "When we did our first scene together, it...
Oscar winner James Moll is set to direct LivePlanet's documentary Running the Sahara , says Variety. The feature, narrated by Matt Damon, is about three men who attempt to become the first humans to run Coast To Coast...
Palm Pictures have bought the rights to director Michael Kang's feature The Motel , says Variety. The movie tells the story of 13-year-old Ernest Chin, who lives and works at a sleazy, hourly-rate motel on a strip of...
Andrea Corr is to star in a new supernatural thriller The Threat , according to Ananova. Deepak Nayer, who also made Bride and Prejudice , is to film The Threat in London and India. And is based on a half-Indian,...
Edgar Wright ( Shaun of the Dead ) is to direct the adaptation of the Jon Ronson book Them , according to Variety. Jack Black is to star in the movie, with Jack White writing the script, which they will both produce....
Despite The Simpsons movie being greenlit last summer it is still under development by the writers, according to The Houston Chronicle . While speaking to series producer David Mirkin, he reveals, "We don't have a...
Henry James' classic creepy tale The Turn of the Screw is getting adapted for the big-screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Universal has acquired "The Turning," a pitch that Chad and Carey Hayes will write. The...
George Lucas says the upcoming DVD release of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith will include many new unseen material. "Most [of the deleted scenes] are Senatorial in nature," Lucas told the New York Post....
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire director Mike Newell says that the upcoming movie will be more of a thriller. "The first question that I asked myself was, 'Can I find a spine in this thing, which will allow me to...
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has been speaking about his role as Boxer Santaros in Richard Kelly's apocalypse movie Southland Tales . "It's realistic, and it's a love letter to Los Angeles, and I think it could be a bitch...
Ryan Reynolds is set to star in Warner Independent Pictures comedy Chaos Theory, according to Variety. The feature, helmed by Marcos Siega, is a story within a story about a man who finds out he is sterile and that his...
Brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly are set to make 20th Century Fox's Hall Pass , says Variety. The feature is a relationship comedy in which a married couple find themselves going through the motions. The wife gives her...
Adrian Grenier ("Entourage") is to star in the adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's best-seller The Devil Wears Prada , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt already have boarded...
Devon Sawa, Matthew Lawrence and Sanoe Lake have signed on to star in the horror/sci-fi Hunter's Moon , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a man (Sawa) who dreams that he and friends will die at...
Dreamworks are to make a sequel Madagascar 2 after box office success, according to Ananova. The animated film made more than £300 million worldwide, making it Dreamworks' most successful original movie ever. It has been...
Wayne Wang is attached to direct Rocket Fuel for Winners , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Movie tells the story of self-proclaimed "King of All Pimps," Jason Itzler. Itzler owned one of New York's top escort...
The 40-Year-Old Virgin star Steve Carell is set to star in Touchstone Pictures romantic comedy Dan in Real Life , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Peter Hedges, follows a widower with three...
Martin Short is in final talks to play the villain in Walt Disney Pictures The Santa Clause 3 , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Short will play Jack Frost, who tries to take over Christmas from Santa Claus. Tim...
Virginia Madsen, Bruce Willis and Bruce Dern have signed up to join Billy Bob Thornton in Warner Independent Pictures The Astronaut Farmer , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on an eccentric farmer...
Warner Bros. Pictures have hired Pete Berg to write and possibility direct the adaptation of the gritty DC-Vertigo comic book The Losers , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows a highly trained and eclectic...
Renee Zellweger is reportedly in talks to star in a remake of Cabaret , reports Ananova. The actress would reprise the role of Sally Bowles made famous by Liza Minnelli. Zellweger reportedly said: "I do love a challenge...
Jessica LangeJessica Lange, Sissy Spacek and Kathy Bates are to star in new film Bonneville , reports Production Weekly. The film follows a recently widowed woman called Arvilla (Lange) who goes on a road trip with her...
Laurence Fishburne has bought the rights to Gammy L. Singer's novel A Landlord's Tale , according to the Hollywood Reporter. A Landlord's Tale centers on Amos Brown, a smooth-talking man with a rough past who goes...
Francis Lawrence is to direct the adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel I Am Legend , according to Variety. WB has entrusted Lawrence with one of the more ambitious films in its repertoire. But the studio has...
Johnny Depp says he's worried about leaving his character of Captain Jack Sparrow in the upcoming sequels Pirates of the Caribbean 2 & 3 . "It's weird, because sometimes separation is more emotional than others," Depp...
Emma Roberts has signed on to play teenage detective Nancy Drew in Warner Bros. Pictures Nancy Drew: The Mystery in Hollywood Hills , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Andrew Fleming, sees Nancy...
Ioan Gruffudd and Albert Finney have signed on to star in Walden Media's Amazing Grace , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Michael Apted, is based on the life of British anti-slavery pioneer...
Mario Van Peebles has signed to star in and direct Spyglass Entertainment's mystery thriller Yellow Wood , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature centers on a woman who is haunted by the long-ago murder of her older...
Paul Schrader is set to direct Ehud Bleiberg's Adam Resurrected , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, based on a novel by Yoram Kaniuk, follows Adam Stein, a former circus clown who was spared the gas...
Martin Scorsese is to direct Leonardo DiCaprio as the 26th U.S. president in the adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Edmund Morris book The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt , according to Variety. The movie will chronicle...