Keri Russell is to lead the cast of director Adrienne Shelly's indie project Waitress , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is a romantic comedy, which follows a baker who's missing the perfect recipe for...
Oscar-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden has joined the cast of Universal Pictures political satire American Dreamz , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Paul Weitz, will see Harden play the first lady...
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Maria Bello are to portray the wives of Port Authority officers rescued from the World Trade Center in Paramount Pictures untitled Oliver Stone project . The duo join Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena...
Jeff Bridges is to lead a cast that includes Shia LaBeouf and Zooey Deschanel for Sony Pictures Animation's upcoming CGI Surf's Up , says Variety. The feature, helmed by animators Ash Brannon and Chris Buck, is an...
Nicole Kidman is to star in Invasion , a remake of the cult horror classic 'Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers', according to Production Weekly. Set in the 1950s the movie revolves around a glamorous woman in danger and in...
Paul Walker has joined the cast of Clint Eastwood's World War II epic Flags of Our Fathers , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The movie is based on the Battle of Iwo Jima, which took place in winter 1945, was a...
Gabriel Mann, Peter Postlethwaite, Bruce McGill and Diana Scarwid have joined Banana Peel Entertainment's indie drama Valley of Heart's Delight , according to Variety. The feature, helmed by Tim Boxell, is inspired by an...
Russell Crowe is in talks to star in Ridley Scott's French vineyard drama A Good Year , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature follows a London banker who moves to Provence after inheriting a vineyard. But when he...
Claire Forlani is joining the cast of director Uwe Boll's video game adaptation Dungeon Siege, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Forlani will play Solana, wife of the film's hero, Farmer, played by Jason Statham....
'Saturday Night Live' star Seth Meyers has sold the pitch Key Party to Paramount Pictures, with the possibility of starring in the movie, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The comedy, to be produced by Meyers 'SNL'...
Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai has joined Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley and Thomas Sangster in The Last Legion , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Doug Lefler, is set in 470 A.D. as the Roman empire crumbles. It's the...
Guy Pearce has signed to star in the Houdini drama Death Defying Acts , according to Variety. The feature, helmed by Gillian Armstrong, is based on true events during the escape artist Harry Houdini's 1926 tour of...
LucasFilm has announced that it will release the DVD version of its final installment in the Star Wars prequel trilogy Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith on November 1st. The two-disc "Revenge of the Sith" DVD...
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is to star in Walt Disney's dramatic thriller The Lookout , according to Variety. The feature, written and helmed by Scott Frank, revolves around a mentally impaired former athlete who works as a...
Warner Bros. are to make the comedy The People's House , about a first couple divorce that puts the White House in play as a marital asset, according to Variety. The story sees the president who is caught philandering,...
Chuck Russell is set to direct the nuclear war drama Point Thunder , says Variety. The feature, written by Dean Widenmann, is about a new submarine rushed into service and the commander and lieutenant who have to fight...
Mexican helmer Arturo Ripstein is set to direct El carnaval de Sodoma , says Variety. The feature is an ensemble piece set entirely in a bordello, delving into the lives and frustrations of a group selecting outfits for...
Jodie Foster is to direct and possibly star in Universal Pictures Sugar Kings , says Variety. The feature is about a young lawyer who teams with a veteran public-interest attorney to take on powerful sugar barons who are...
Steven Spielberg's next film has finally been named " Munich ", according to the Hollywood Reporter. The thriller centers on the aftermath of the killings of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Eric Bana...
A consortium of Chinese investors are to finance the Konwiser Brothers' latest indie feature The Shanghai Kid , says Variety. The feature, based on a semi-autobiographical script by David Ren, follows a young, struggling...
Reese Witherspoon's Type-A Films and Scott Steindorff's Stone Village Pictures are teaming up to make the indie feature Penelope , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Mark Palansky, is described as a modern-day fable...
Matt Dillon has signed up to star opposite Owen Wilson and Kate Hudson in Universal Pictures' comedy You, Me and Dupree , says Variety. The comedy tells the story of a newlywed couple (Hudson, Dillon) whose relationship...
Video game maker THQ has hired United Talent Agency to make a movie based its recently released Destroy All Humans! , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The game sees players take on the role of aliens sent to Earth to...
Paramount Pictures has bought the comedy pitch The Worst Man , says Variety. The story centers on a prospective groom who's forced to select a best man among his three best friends.
Christian Bale and Steve Zahn are set to star in Werner Herzog's action drama Rescue Dawn , says Variety. The feature recounts the true story of German-born Dieter Dengler, who dreamed of being a pilot and eventually...
Elizabeth Banks has signed to appear opposite Mark Wahlberg in Walt Disney Pictures' Invincible , says Variety. The feature, helmed by first-time director Ericson Core, is based on a Philadelphia Eagles fan who went to...
The Weinstein Co. and IFC Films have bought the North American rights to the thriller Unknown , according to Variety. The feature, helmed by Simon Brand, revolves around five men who wake up in a locked-down warehouse...
Kate Hudson has signed to star opposite Owen Wilson in Universal Pictures' comedy You, Me and Dupree , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Joe and Anthony Russo, revolves around a newlywed couple...
Ray Liotta has joined the cast of Uwe Boll's video game-derived sword and sorcery movie, Dungeon Siege , says Variety. Liotta will play the film's villain, Gallian. Liotta joins Leelee Sobieski, Will Sanderson, Jason...
Steve Buscemi, John Cleese and Jay Leno have joined the cast of Exodus Film Group's computer-animated short film Igor: Unholy Frijoles , says Variety. The feautre is the prequel to 'Igor', an animated comedy revolving...
Paramount Pictures and MTV Films have bought the rights to Gordon Korman's novel Born to Rock , says Variety. The comedy revolves around a teenager whose Harvard dreams get dashed when his scholarship is revoked after an...
Superman Returns director Bryan Singer says that his star, newcomer Brandon Routh, brings a new interpretation to the iconic superhero. "We looked at some of the original Superman [films and TV shows] just to take a look...
Director Jon Avnet has come aboard to direct Al Pacino in Millenium Films 88 Minutes , says Variety. The feature focuses on a college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI. The prof must use his...
The production of Mission: Impossible 3 is set to move to China, according to Variety. The project is reportedly set to shoot for up to a month in Shanghai in November. The film's climactic final scenes will apparently...
Andy Serkis and Stephen Fry have joined the cast of Stormbreaker , says Variety. The movie, helmed by Geoffrey Sax, is based on the first book in Anthony Horowitz's bestselling series about teen spy Alex Rider. Serkis...
'The OC' creator Josh Schwartz is set to write and direct Paramount Pictures coming-of-age comedy-drama Looking for Alaska , according to Variety. The feature, based on John Green's novel, follows the love and loss among...
Hellboy creator Mike Mignola says that the upcoming sequel Hellboy 2 will deal with folklore and mythology. "Wherein the first film was sort of the H.P. Lovecraft kind of monsters and the Nazis and the mad-scientist...
Susan Sarandon and Ralph Fiennes are in final talks to star in Bob Balaban's Doris and Bernard , says Variety. The feature tells the story of tobacco billionairness Doris Duke and her butler. It will focus on the latter...
Director Takashi Shimizu is set to helm New Line Cinemas Parasyte , says Variety. The feature sees alien spores land on Earth and start taking over human bodies. One young man manages to isolate his "parasyste" in his...
Paramount Pictures has paid mid-six against high-six figures for Johnny Rosenthal's comedy pitch about a pilot-turned-steward The Pilot , according to Variety. The feature, set in 1983, centers on a misogynistic pilot...
Universal Studios are said to be planning the third movie in the 'Meet The Parents' series - Meet the Little Focker . Studio bosses are said to be keen to cash in on the success of the first two movies, with director Jay...
Jordana Brewster is in talks to star in New Line Cinemas upcoming Texas Chainsaw Massacre prequel , says Variety. The prequel will once again follow a group of kids who encounter a chainsaw-wielding killer. It will also...
Chris Cooper is set to star in Fortress Entertainment's The Road Back , says Variety. The feature, written by scribe Matthew McDuffie, is the story of a man dealing with the breakdown of his marriage and an increasingly...
20th Century Fox is taking on Reckless from Shane Salerno, for high-six against low-seven figures, according to Variety. The sexual thriller centers on a 30-ish married couple who start playing a dangerous game in an...
Uma Thurman and Luke Wilson are set to star in Regency Enterprises romantic comedy Super Ex , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Ivan Reitman, has Thurman playing a superhero who falls for a regular guy....
Owen Wilson is in final talks to star in Paramount Pictures 1947 classic remake The Secret Life of Walter Mitty , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Mark Waters, would see Wilson star as the...
Anthony LaPaglia, Viola Davis, Isabella Rossellini and Hayden Panettiere are all set to star in HDNet Films' All Fall Down , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, written and directed by Matthew Tauber, is about a...
Capital Entertainment have bought the rights to writer and helmer Ira Sach's Forty Shades of Blue , says Variety. The feature follows the story of a Russian woman living in Memphis with a legendary music producer twice...
Blake Lively is set to star opposite Justin Long in Universal Pictures comedy Accepted , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Steve Pink, centers on a high school senior (Long) who finds a unique way to...
Warner Bros. has bought the movie rights to the book ' One of a Kind : The Rise and Fall of Stuey 'The Kid' Ungar', according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story is about one of poker's biggest stars and its most tragic...