Gillian Anderson is in talks to star in Straightheads , a dark revenge thriller that's the feature debut of British documentary director Dan Reed, according to Variety. Straightheads is the story of a middle-class couple...
Jon Heder ( Napoleon Dynamite ) is to star in the lead in the comedy Mama's Boy , according Variety. Tim Hamilton is to make his directorial debut with Heder playing an arrogant pseudo-intellectual whose ideal life of...
Marc Forster has signed on to direct the adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel The Kite Runner , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The Kite Runner centers on a man who returns to his native Afghanistan,...
Dominic Sena is in final talks to direct Season of the Witch , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story revolves around a group of knights in 14th century France who must transport a woman accused of witchcraft to...
Ewan McGregor is to star in Relativity Media's comedy The Great Pretender , according to Variety. McGregor will play four roles in two time settings -- 1938 and 1745. The story follows two ambitious producers in the...
Transporter 2 star Jason Statham is set to star in Lions Gate Films action-thriller Crank , says Variety. The feature, helmed and written by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, is a mayhem-driven film which will track a hit...
Chad Lowe is set to make his feature directorial debut Beautiful Ohio , says Variety. The feature, which stars William Hurt, is about a family grappling with one another amid the social changes of the early 1970s....
Kathy Gori and Alan Berger have been hired by Broken Road to write the comedy Henchman vs. Sidekick , according to Variety. In the film, two mortal enemies -- a superhero and a supervillain -- are killed, leaving the...
Strand Releasing is hoping to snap up the film rights to Gallic helmer Francois Ozon's Time to Leave (Les temps qui reste), says Variety. The feature, which stars Jeanne Moreau, Melvil Poupaud, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and...
Claire Danes is in final talks to star alongside Richard Gere in The Flock , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Bauer Martinez's thriller is going to be directed by Andrew Lau which follows a hypervigilant federal...
Jennifer Carpenter talked to SCI FI Wire about her title role in the upcoming supernatural drama The Exorcism of Emily Rose . She said that she practiced in a mirrored room to perfect her character's various seizures,...
MTV Films have bought the film rights to Midway Games' action horror game The Suffering , according to the Hollywood Reporter. "We were tracking this project really early on, and it really was about the material itself...
William Hurt has signed on to star in the ensemble drama Beautiful Ohio , which Hilary Swank is going to be producing, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Chad Lowe is going to be making his directorial debut on the...
Morgan Spurlock ( Supersize Me ) is set to help make the documentary feature Class Act , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Sara Sackner, focuses on the arts education crisis in America. It...
Charlie Hunnam is in talks to join Universal Pictures Children of Men , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story, helmed by Alfonso Cuaron, is set in the near future, when mankind has lost the ability to reproduce,...
David Slade is set to direct Columbia Pictures' adaptation of Steve Niles' comicbook series 30 Days of Night , says Variety. The story is set in Barrow, Alaska, a town where, in the middle of winter, the sun sets and...
Leslie Bibb has signed up to join Will Ferrell in Columbia Pictures' untitled Will Ferrell NASCAR comedy, says the Hollywood Reporter. Bibb will play Carley Bobby, the wife of Ferrell's character. The project, directed...
Daniel Radcliffe ( Harry Potter ) and Jamie Bell ( Billy Elliot ) are in competition to play James Bond in Silverfin a movie about his teenage years, according to Ananova. Both stars are keen to land the role. The film...
Andy Dick talked to MTV about his tentatively titled directorial debut Danny Roane: First Time Director which has wrapped shooting and is in the final stages of post-production. "The new movie I'm working on right now is...
Director Jon Favreau's sci-fi film Zathura is to debut at the inaugural Fantastic Fest during Oct. 6-9 in Austin, Texas, according to Sci Fi Wire. The new international genre film festival devoted to SF, horror, fantasy...
Oscar-nominated documentary director Jeffrey Blitz ( Spellbound ) is to direct Rocket Science , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Rocket Science centers on average 15-year-old boy Hal Hefner (Reece Thompson), who...
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith's 7-year-old son, Jaden Smith, is set to make his screen debut by joining his dad in Columbia Pictures The Pursuit of Happyness , according to Variety. The feature, helmed by Gabrielle...
Jason Statham has admitted he would like to be the next James Bond in Casino Royale . Speaking to the New York Post, he said, "He's (Bond) been around for so many years. I'm a massive fan of James Bond, and I've seen...
Laurence Fishburne has signed up to join Paul Walker in Millennium Films The Death and Life of Bobby Z , says Variety. The feature, helmed by , the story of a first-rate loser who cops a plea with the DEA requiring him...
Director Shawn Levy ( Cheaper By The Dozen ) is in talks to direct Sony Pictures 21 , says Variety. The feature, previously called 'Breaking Vegas', is based on Ben Mezrich's nonfiction bestseller 'Bringing Down the...
Spanish distributor Sogepaq has acquired international rights to helmer Chema de la Pena's ensemble drama Sud Express, according to Variety. The feature weaves six stories about passengers on the Paris-to-Lisbon Sud...
Jessica Alba and Hayden Christensen is to star in psychological thriller Awake , according to Variety. Awake will mark the directorial debut of Joby Harold. Story focuses on a man (Christensen) who suffers "anesthetic...
Geoffrey Rush and Clive Owen have joined the cast of The Golden Age , a sequel to Elizabeth , according to Variety. They join star Cate Blanchett and director Shekhar Kapur, who directed the first movie. Blanchett will...
Sam Shepard is to star opposite Brad Pitt in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The movie tells the story of how Robert Ford joined Jesse James' gang, only...
Terrence Malick ( The Thin Red Line ) is in talks to direct and write the screenplay in Tree of Life with Colin Farrell is in talks to play one of the leads, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film's story outline...
Jim Carrey is in talks to team up with Ben Stiller in 20th Century Fox' Used Guys , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Jay Roach, is set in a world where women run the Earth. Men became extinct because they ingested an...
'The Office' star Ricky Gervais has signed up for For Your Consideration , according to the BBC. The feature, written and directed by 'Spinal Tap' star Christopher Guest, sees Gervais play a studio boss around the movie...
Billy Crudup has signed up for a lead role in Mission: Impossible 3 , according to Variety. Crudup joins stars Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Keri Russell. Crudup will next be seen starring alongside...
Diane Lane, Thomas Jane and Mickey Rourke are set to topline The Weinstein Co's feature film adaptation of Elmore Leonard novel Killshot , says Variety. The feature, helmed by John Madden, follows what happens when a...
Cheri Oteri, Amy Poehler and Jill Ritchie have signed on to Richard Kelly's indie Southland Tales , according to the Hollywood Reporter. They join Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott,...
Anna Faris and Eddie Izzard are to join Uma Thurman and Luke Wilson in Super Ex , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Ivan Reitman is to direct the comedy which centers on a man (Wilson) who learns that his girlfriend...
Steven Spielberg is to produce the remake of When Worlds Collide , taking over from Stephen Sommers, according to Variety. Paramount's original When Worlds Collide , directed by Rudolph Mate and released in 1951, served...
Academy Award nominee Paul Haggis ( Million Dollar Baby ) is to do a rewrite of Casino Royale , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Producer siblings Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson have brought back Martin Campbell...
Rob Reiner is set to direct Warner Bros. Pictures Whiskey River , says Variety. The story concerns an American soldier who is injured in Iraq and shipped to a U.S. hospital. But before he has fully recovered, he is...
Mary Lambert has signed on to direct Treasure Entertainment's vampire western High Midnight , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a broken-down sheriff who is forced to team up with an obsessed...
Focus Features is distribute director Phillip Noyce's thriller Hot Stuff , says Variety. The featuer is based the true story of African National Congress freedom fighter Patrick Chamusso. Tim Robbins plays a policeman...
Country singer Toby Keith is making big screen debut in Paramount Pictures yet untitled project, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature centers on Bo Porter, a country music singer who has fallen from the...
Justin Chatwin and Margarita Levieva are in talks to star in Spyglass Entertainment's supernatural thriller The Invisible , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by David Goyer, centers on a teenager...
Chris Cooper and Ryan Phillippe are set to star in Universal Pictures espionage thriller Breach , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Billy Ray, centers on aspiring FBI agent Eric O'Neill...
Sandra Bullock is in talks to star in TriStar Pictures Premonition , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by German director Mennan Yapo, centers on a housewife (Bullock) whose husband dies in a car crash and...
Ron Burch and David Kidd have been hired by Walt Disney Pictures to write the comedy The Last Lap , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is based on the real-life story of Leonard, a Chicago-based feature...
Anthony Hopkins is set to star in Emilio Estevez's Bobby , says the Hollywood Reporter. Demi Moore is currently in talks to join. The feature is a part fact and part fiction story based on the assassination of Robert F....
Czech director Milos Forman is set to direct the film based on the Spanish Inquisition Goya's Ghosts , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, starring Natalie Portman and Javier Bardem, tells the story of the...
Radha Mitchell and Paddy Considine have signed up to star in the black comedy crime drama PU-239 , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed and scripted by Scott Burns, follows a nuclear facility technician...
Joseph Cross has joined the cast of Clint Eastwood's World War II film Flags of Our Father , says the Hollywood Reporter. The movie is based on James Bradley's book and focuses on the Battle of Iwo Jima, which took place...