Laurence Fishburne and Philip Seymour Hoffman are to star in Mission: Impossible 3 , according to the Hollywood Reporter. They join Tom Cruise, Michelle Monaghan, Ving Rhames, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Keri Russell in the...
Willem DafoeWillem Dafoe is set to join Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid and Mandy Moore in the social satire American Dreamz , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Dafoe will play the role of vice president Sutter. Paul Weitz...
Walt Disney Pictures are starting to develop sequel National Treasure 2 , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Disney has hired Gregory Poirier to write the movie, which will be directed by returning helmer Jon...
Julianne Moore is in talks to star opposite Clive Owen in the Alfonso Cuaron-directed sci-fi movie Children of Men , according to Variety. The adaptation of P.D. James' novel is eyeing a September start date. The...
Luke Wilson is in talks to star in Super Ex , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Ivan Reitman is on board to direct the feature with the story centers on a man who finds out that the woman he is dating is a superhero;...
Tony Award-winning director-producer George C. Wolfe is to direct the Untitled: Usher Project , according to Variety. Usher Raymond, who has been recording for more than 10 years, had last year's biggest-selling album,...
Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, Ted Levine and Vinessa Shaw are set to star in the The Hills Have Eyes for writer-director Alexandre Aja, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project is a remake of the 1977 film...
Amber Valletta ( Hitch ) and Ryan Kwanten are set to star in the horror Silence , according to the Hollywood Reporter. James Wan ( Saw ) is directing with Kwanten playing a man who returns to his hometown in order to...
John Woo has signed to direct an Untitled: John Woo Thriller in China, according to Variety. No start date or cast has been set for the film, which will shoot in Beijing and focus on the clash between communism and...
Keri Russell has joined the cast of Mission: Impossible 3 , for director J.J. Abrams, according to Variety. Russell will portray a trainee agent mentored by Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt character in the pic, set to begin...
Daniel RadcliffeDaniel Radcliffe has signed on to star in December Boys , first project outside the Harry Potter franchise, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on the novel of the same title by Michael Noonan,...
Vin Diesel is to play Agent 47 in the upcoming adaptation of the best-selling video game franchise Hitman , according to the Hollywood Reporter " Hitman is a project that by the virtue of its DNA can and will reach far...
Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep are in talks to star in the comedy First Man , according to Variety. Diane English will make her feature directing debut on the movie which is being eyed for a 2006 production start. De...
Tim Robbins is in talks for a leading role in Phillip Noyce's political thriller Hot Stuff , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Although the film is based on a true story, Robbins will play a fictional role as a...
Johnny Knoxville is in talks to star as the lead in the baseball movie Stolen Season , according to Variety. "Stolen" borrows a page from the real-life childhood of former Baltimore Orioles catcher Rick Dempsey, who fell...
Tobey Maguire is in talks to star in the romantic comedy Quiet Type for New Line Cinema, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on an unassuming mute from a small town who moves to New York to pursue his...
Hugh Jackman is to take the lead in the X-Men spinoff movie Wolverine , based on character played by Jackman, according to Variety. Hugh Jackman will produce the movie also and will start production after X-Men 3...
Donald Faison ('Scrubs') is to star in indie comedy Homie Spumoni , according to the Hollywood Reporter, Mike Cerrone ( Me, Myself & Irene ) is directing with Jamie-Lynn DiScala, Joey Fatone and Whoopi Goldberg also are...
Nicole Kidman is going to be providing a voice for director George Miller's ( Mad Max ) upcoming animated musical Happy Feet , according to SCI FI Wire . "I got to sing a little bit," Kidman said in an interview while...
Ryan Murphy ('Nip/Tuck') is in talks to rewrite and direct Need , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Need is based on Lawrence David's novel that centers on a psychiatrist who discovers that her new patient, a...
John H. Williams ( Shrek 2 ) is to make an animated feature revolving around a group of rejected lab animals called Phreex , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Phreex tells the story of a group of animals that set out...
Lexi Alexander ( Hooligans ) is to direct the thriller Labor Day , according to Variety. Script revolves around a hotshot D.A. who gets the career-making job of prosecuting the son of an elusive crime lord. When his wife...
Justin Lin ( Better Luck Tomorrow ) is to direct the sequel Fast and the Furious 3 , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The new film will be set in Tokyo amid the underground world of Japanese drift racing. Its plot...
Principal photography is to start this Tuesday (July 18) on Mission: Impossible 3 , In recent weeks, several press reports speculated that the film might not be given a green light even though casting was under way...
Billy Connolly is set to star in the horror comedy Fido , according to the Hollywood Reporter He joins Dylan Baker, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tim Blake Nelson and Henry Czerny, which begins shooting Wednesday in Canada. Andrew...
Writer Grant Morrison is in talks to adapt his We3 comic book into a feature film, according to the Hollywood Reporter. We3 was a three-issue limited series written by Morrison and drawn by Frank Quitely. It revolved...
A trailer date for Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong has been confirmed as the 28th June, reports Kong Is King . There are thousands of games on the floor at E3, yet still, there are just a handful it seems nearly...
Ben StillerBen Stiller and Steve Coogan are to star in a feature remake of 1971 British TV series The Persuaders , according to Variety. Stiller will play the role originated by Tony Curtis, and British comic actor Steve...
Nicolas Cage and Will Smith are to co-star in Time Share , according to Variety. Comedy concerns two fathers who lock horns when they discover their families are booked into the same time-share residence during what...
Ron Brinkerhoff ("D-Tox")is to write Warner Bros. Pictures' action-heist Fort Knox , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story line, which is being kept close to the vest, deals with a team of specialists that is...
Brett Ratner is to replace Matthew Vaughn as the director of X-Men 3 , according to Variety. Vaughn dropped out less than a week ago. Official reason was that the Layer Cake director didn't want to uproot his family, but...
Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum and Mike Vogel are to star in Wolfgang Petersen's big-budget remake of The Poseidon Adventure , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Like the 1972 original, the story follows...
Rosario DawsonRosario Dawson is to star in the psychological thriller Descent , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Dawson will play Maya, a college coed who turns into a vengeful seductress after a shocking act of...
Owen Wilson is to star in the comedy You, Me and Dupree for directing team Joe and Anthony Russo, according to Variety. The comedy is about a best man who stays on as a houseguest with the newlywed couple, ultimately...
Christina Milian has been cast opposite Kristen Bell in Pulse -- a remake of cult Japanese helmer Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Kairo," according to Variety. Based on an adaptation by Wes Craven and Ray Wright. Jim Sonzero is...
Leonardo DiCaprio is in talks to star in For Whom the Bell Tolls which Troy scribe David Benioff is scripting the adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel, according to Variety. DiCaprio -- who's toplining Warner's The...
Kerry Washington is to star opposite Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland , a political drama that that Kevin Macdonald is directing, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Set in the 1970s, "King" is based on...
Camilla Belle has been cast in remake of When a Stranger Calls , to be directed by Simon West, according to Variety. Jake Wade Wall penned the remake of the 1979 Columbia Pictures cult horror pic, which starred Carol...
Director Matthew Vaughn ( Layer Cake ) has left X-Men 3 , with only nine weeks before principal photography, according to [a http://www.aintitcool.com]AICN[/a]. The reasons behind Vaughn's departure are both surprising...
Sylvester Stallone is set to start work on Rambo IV next year, according to Ananova. This time, Rambo has settled down, got married and had a family. The action starts when his 10-year-old daughter is held hostage by...
Peter and Bobby Farrelly are to rewrte and direct DreamWorks' The Heartbreak Kid , which will likely be their next film, according to Variety. The romantic comedy is a loosely inspired remake of the 1972 pic written by...
Ewan McGregor has signed onto four movie roles, all in a single film -- an untitled British comedy written and to be directed by fellow Scot Peter Capaldi, according to Variety. In the period film within a period film,...
Chris Rock is to co-write and star in the comedy The Gilmores of Beverly Hills , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on the misadventures of a lower-income black family living in Beverly Hills. There...
Don Cheadle is to star in American Gangster for director Terry George, according to the Hollywood Reporter. An offer won't be made to Cheadle for "Gangster" until George completes the script, but the studio and producer...
Thomas Rockwell young-adult novel How to Eat Fried Worms is going to get adapted with Bob Dolman ( The Banger Sisters ) directing a script he wrote, according to the Hollywood Reporter. "Fried Worms" is a comedy about an...
Singer-actress Ashanti has signed onto John Tucker Must Die , according tothe Hollywood Reporter. Described as a high school take on The First Wives Club , revolves around a trio of girls from different social groups who...
Chevy Chase is to star in the comedy Zoom , marking his first turn in a studio film since 2002's Orange County , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film, which stars Tim Allen and Courteney Cox and is being...
Trent Cooper is to direct Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector , a feature starring comedian Larry the Cable Guy, one of the four stars of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Cooper is a...
Topher Grace is to play the villian in the new Spider-Man 3 , which Sam Raimi is directing, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Grace is to play one of two villains and is joining the returning cast members Tobey...
Amanda Peet and Dermot Mulroney are to star in the love story Griffen and Phoenix , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Ed Stone, one of the writers and producers of 1999's Happy, Texas , in which he also appeared as an...