'Six Feet Under' star Peter Krause is set to star in the drama Civic Duty , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Jeff Renfroe, will see Krause play an American accountant obsessed with terrorist...
Marion Cotillard has signed to star opposite Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott's A Good Year , says the Hollywood Reporter. Tom Hollander will also join the cast, which includes Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart and Didier...
James McAvoy has signed up to star in HBO Films coming-of-age movie Starter for Ten , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Tom Vaughan, will focus on a working-class student (McAvoy) who stumbles...
Rob Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Brian Dennehy, William H. Macy, Mandy Patinkin, Dana Reeve, Robert Wagner, Richard Kind, Raven Symone and New York Yankees manager Joe Torre have all joined the voice cast of IDT...
Anna Paquin is set to star in Fox Searchlight Pictures drama Margaret , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Kenneth Lonergan, revolves around a Gotham teen, her actress mother and the girl who tries to make amends for...
Jodie Foster is in talks to play the title role in Warner Bros. Pictures urban suspense thriller The Brave One , says Variety. Foster would play a woman who struggles to recover from a brutal attack and sets out on a...
TV director Todd Holland has signed up to helm Regency Enterprises Firehouse Dog , says Variety. The feature, which stars Josh Hutcherson, centers on Rexxx, Hollywood's most in-demand canine star. After getting lost, the...
Thomas Ian Nicholas, Jenny Mollen, Andrew Katos, Diedrich Bader and Nicole Eggert have all signed up to star in National Lampoon's Cattle Call , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Martin Guigui,...
Bruce Willis is to star opposite Halle Berry in Revolution Studios psychological thriller Perfect Stranger , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by James Foley, is set in the world of the Internet. Berry...
German helmer Robert Schwentke is to direct 20th Century Fox' action-thriller Runaway Train , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows a rail company's frantic efforts to stop an unmanned, half-mile-long freight...
David Morrissey and Idris Elba are joining Hilary Swank in Warner Bros. Pictures The Reaping , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a university professor (Swank) who debunks miracles. She is summoned to a...
Brian Robbins is in talks to direct DreamWorks comedy Norbit , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, which stars Eddie Murphy, follows a meek guy pressed into marrying a monstrous woman (also played by Murphy). When...
Billy Bob Thornton is putting on his spacesuit to star in Warner Independent Pictures The Astronaut Farmer , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Michael Polish, follows an eccentric farmer who dreams of...
Daniel Craig is set to join Nicole Kidman in Warner Bros. Pictures' sci-fi thriller Invasion , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, sees a mysterious epidemic alter the behavior of...
Paul Giamatti and Monica Bellucci are in talks to join Clive Owen in New Line Cinema's hard-core action project Shoot 'Em Up , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Michael Davis, begins with a woman having...
Al Pacino is set to star in Stone Village Pictures remake of the 1955 French heist classic Rififi , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Harold Becker, revolves around a career thief who, upon...
Lions Gate has bought the rights to James Halperin's sci-fi thriller The Truth Machine , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story examines what the world would be like after the construction of a perfect lie...
Albert Finney has signed on to join Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott's "A Good Year", says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is based on the novel by Peter Mayle, which centers on Max Skinner (Crowe), a London financier...
Angelina Jolie has signed up to star in director Robert Zemeckis Beowulf , says Variety. Jolie joins Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Brendan Gleeson and Robin Wright Penn. Jolie will play the queen of darkness, who tempts...
Panic Novel Weinstein Co. have bought the rights to develop and produce Jeff Abbott's novel Panic , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a documentary filmmaker who returns home to Austin to find his...
Joseph Kaiser, Ben Davis, Rene Pape, Lyubov Petrova and newcomer Amy Carson have been cast in Kenneth Branagh's feature adaptation of Mozart's The Magic Flute , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature chronicles the...
Thandie Newton has been cast opposite Will Smith in Columbia Pictures The Pursuit of Happyness , says the Hollywood Reporter. The drama centers on Chris Gardner (Smith), a sporadically employed salesman who wins custody...
Emily Blunt is set to join Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep in 20th Century Fox's The Devil Wears Prada , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by David Frankel, is set at a glitzy Manhattan fashion magazine....
Gerard Butler is set to star in Warner Bros. Pictures adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel 300 , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Zack Snyder, will tell the true story of 300 elite Spartan...
Adam Friedman has bought the movie rights to Joe R. Lansdale's best-selling novel A Fine Dark Line , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, also helmed by Friedman, is the coming-of-age story of Stanley...
Karl Urban is in talks to star in Phoenix Pictures Pathfinder , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Marcus Nispel, is a remake of the 1987 Norwegian film by helmer Nils Gaup. While the original followed...
Bill Murray is in talks to reprise his role as the voice of Garfield in 20th Century Fox's sequel Garfield 2 , says the Hollywood Reporter. Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love, Lucy Davis and Billy Connolly also star in the...
Paul Rudd is set to star opposite Michelle Pfeiffer in Amy Heckerling's I Could Never Be Your Woman , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Tracey Ullman, Fred Willard, Stacey Dash and newcomer Saoirse Ronan also star in...
Producer Paul Sandberg has bought the rights to Jeff Edwards' award-winning novel Torpedo , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The book is a modern-day technological sea-chase thriller revolving around a handful of...
Benderspink has bought the rights to Glen Brunswick's graphic novel The Gray Area , says the Hollywood Reporter. 'Gray Area' is a supernatural thriller that follows a corrupt cop who, after being killed, goes to an...
Hip-hop star 'The Game' and actors Meagan Good and Larenz Tate have joined Tyrese Gibson in Rogue Pictures urban action thriller Waist Deep , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, written and directed by Vondie...
Leelee Sobieski and Ellen Burstyn are joining Nicolas Cage in Neil LaBute's remake The Wicker Man , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is a remake of the 1973 British horror film, which centers on a police officer...
New Line Cinema is set to make the thriller Scared Straight , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is about a governor's teenage son who is sent to prison as part of Scared Straight, a crime-prevention...
Sunu Gonera is to make his feature directorial debut on Lions Gate Films inspirational sports drama PDR , according to the Hollywood Reporter. PDR stands for Philadelphia Department of Recreation, and tells the real-life...
Billy Gerber ( The Dukes of Hazzard ) is to remake the 1975 film The Yakuza , for Warner Bros. Pictures, says the Hollywood Reporter. The original followed a man who returns to Japan after a lengthy absence to rescue a...
Sigourney Weaver and Ioan Gruffudd have signed on to join David Duchovny in the indie satire The TV Set , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows the making of a television pilot, with Duchovny playing the pilot's...
Seann William Scott is to star in Universal Pictures Book of Leo , says Variety. The story follows a man dissatisfied with the way his life has turned out. He decides to try to do everything he ever wanted to do, all in...
Roselyn Sanchez has signed up to star in Yellow , which she also co-wrote and is producing, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film, helmed by Alfredo De Villa, centers on a woman who is haunted by the death of her...
Independent film company Co. Op has optioned rights to Gigi Levangie Grazer's Teacher, Teacher , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project, helmed by Gavin Grazer, is a dark comedy about students who take revenge...
Justin Chatwin is in talks to star in a feature film adaptation of Michael Turner's cult novel The Pornographer's Poem , says the Hollywood Reporter. Set in Vancouver in the late '70s, the feature is a dark coming-of-age...
Warner Bros. Pictures has bought the rights to the soon-to-be published young-adult fantasy manuscript Endymion Spring , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story is set in present-day Oxford and in 1450s Germany,...
Eric Singer has been hired to write the political action movie Terminus , for Thunder Road / Warner Bros. Pictures, says the Hollywood Reporter. Set 50 years in the future, the story follows a burned-out and...
Walter Salles is to direct the feature adaptation of the Jack Kerouac classic On the Road , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The 1957 novel, which played a role in giving rise to the Beat movement, is narrated by...
Julie Delpy and Hope Davis are joining the cast of director Lasse Hallstrom's upcoming drama Hoax , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Richard Gere will star in the biopic about Clifford Irving, the man who wrote and...
Paramount Pictures bought the film rights to A.J. Jacobs' upcoming nonfiction book, The Year of Living Biblically : One Man's Humble Quest to Obey the Bible as Literally as Possible, according to the Hollywood Reporter....
Richard Gere has signed on to star in the thriller The Flock , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Hong Kong director Andrew Lau (Wai Keung Lau), follows a hypervigilant federal agent (Gere) who,...
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Ryan Reynolds are set to star in Touchstone Pictures buddy action comedy Blowback , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Although details of the feature are being kept under wraps, the...
Samuel L. Jackson has signed on to star in the live-action feature film adaptation of Takashi Okazaki's manga Afrosamurai , according to the Hollywood Reporter. "'Afrosamurai' is an enormously exciting concept that we...
Frank Spotnitz, co-executive producer of The X-Files , says that that a sequel to the original is still in the works. "My deal has been done—and I'm not exaggerating—for a year and a half," he told Sci-Fi Wire. "There...
Haley Joel Osment is set to make his return to movies by taking a starring role in the indie coming-of-age feature Home of the Giants, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, written and helmed by Rusty Gorman,...