A company that gave office space to Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock in return for a share in the company that made the hit film about eating fast food is suing him for $40 million, according to the Hollywood...
Dennis Hopper has signed on to star in America for Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski's adaptation of Susan Sontag's 2001 novel "In America," according to the Hollywood Reporter. Set in the late 19th century, the film...
Martin Freeman (The Office) is set to star in a film opposite Jude Law in Anthony Minghella's film Breaking and Entering , according to Ananova. He will play a partner in a London architecture firm. Martin said: "The...
Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy are in final talks to star in Bathory , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Delpy will make her directorial debut on the picture, working from her own script about the legendary Elizabeth...
MTV are in talks to buy Andrew Cochran's comedy script Adult World , according to Variety. Tale revolves around a Stanford coed who feels she's destined to be a poet and winds up working as a clerk in a mom-and-pop adult...
Video game adaptation Tekken goes into production in late fall with a budget of $50 million, according to Variety. Tekken is based on the videogame licensed from manufacturer Namco. Storyline centers on two childhood...
Michelle Pfeiffer has signed on to star in I Could Never Be Your Woman , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Amy Heckerling is directing the romantic comedy from her own script about a successful professional woman in...
Hilary Duff is joining the cast of Cheaper by the Dozen 2 , reprising the role she played in the 2003 hit, according to the Hollywood Reporter Duff returns as the daughter of the characters played by Steve Martin and...
Jordana Brewster ( The Fast and the Furious ) is to star in the horror-thriller Water's Edge , according to Variety. Movie follows a local girl (Brewster) hired by a group of young vacationers as their designated...
A number of the filmmakers behind last year's sleeper hit Napoleon Dynamite are reteaming on The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Tim Skousen, who served as first assistant director on...
Jamie Foxx and Usher are to join Beyonce in Dreamgirls , the Bill Condon-directed adaptation of the stage musical, according to Variety. Eddie Murphy is sought after to play singer James "Thunder" Early for the film,...
Hilary Swank is to star in the drama Freedom Writers for director Richard LaGravenese, according to Variety. Project is based on "The Freedom Writer's Diaries: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change...
Sharon Stone is to star in When a Man Falls in a Forest , for director Ryan Eslinger, according to Variety. Stone is to play an unhappily married woman who shoplifts to relieve her suffering. The woman is one of four...
Paul Walker will star in the feature adaptation of The Death and Life of Bobby Z , according to Variety. "Bobby Z" is the story of a first-rate loser who dodges prison by making a deal with the DEA that requires he pose...
Colin Firth and Sir Ben Kingsley are to star in the action-adventure The Last Legion , according to Variety. Movie is set during the fall of the Roman Empire when its last emperor, 12-year-old Romulus Augustus, ruled for...
Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher are teaming up for the action drama The Guardian , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a rebellious young man who (Kutcher) enlists in the Coast Guard where he forms...
Cillian Murphy ( 28 Days Later ) and Liam Cunningham are to star in an Ireland-set drama, The Wind That Shakes the Barley , according to Variety. Ken Loach is going to be directing with longtime collaborator Paul Laverty...
Paul Weitz is going to be direct the social satire American Dreamz , according to Variety. Actors from his previous movie About a Boy will reunite the director, star including Hugh Grant. Talks are under way to bring...
Music video director Chris Robinson to come aboard its Untitled: Rollerskating Comedy , previously known as "Jellybeans," according to Variety. Robinson is best known for helming musicvids for hip-hop artists including...
Here is the first picture of a bald Natalie Portman which appeared in Time magazine . She had shaved off her hair for a prison scene in V for Vendetta , here is an expert form the magazine: Level-headed young Natalie...
Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett are to star in Notes From a Scandal , according to Variety. Patrick Marber has written the adaptation of the Zoe Heller novel. Richard Eyre will direct the film, with shooting to begin Aug....
George Clooney is to star in the dramatic thriller Michael Clayton , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Michael Clayton will be written and directed by Tony Gilroy, which will mark his directing debut. The film is...
John Woo and Clive Barker are attached as producers for the horror Demonik , which will also be made into a game, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The video game already is under way from Tiger Hill, game developer...
Elisha Cuthbert is to star in Roland Joffe-directed thriller Captivity , according to Variety. Pic is set in Manhattan but will be shot in Moscow in late May. Cuthbert will play a fashion model who, along with a...
Hugo Weaving is joining cast as the lead role as V in V for Vendetta , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Will star opposite Natalie Portman, Stephen Rea, Rupert Graves and Stephen Fry. Weaving replaced James Purefoy,...
Helen Hunt is to star and make her feature directorial debut on a drama that she adapted from an Elinor Lipman novel called Then She Found Me , according to Variety. Talks are in process for Diane Keaton and Woody...
Eugene Levy has been set for comedy sequel Cheaper By the Dozen 2 , according to Variety. The comedy is to be directed by Adam Shankman for 20th Century Fox. Levy re-teams with Steve Martin after appearing with him in...
The young adult fantasy novel series Outcast is to be adapted by Charlie Mitchell for Universal Pictures, according to Variety. The Outcast books, by Christopher Golden and Thomas Sniegoski, explore a young adult world...
Baz Luhrmann is to direct Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman later this year in a as yet untitled period epic, according to Variety. Crowe and Kidman were Down Under and days away from making Fox Searchlight's Eucalyptus...
Gabriele Muccino is to direct Will Smith in Pursuit of Happyness , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Muccino most recently directed 2003's "Ricordati di me" (Remember Me, My Love). His credits include "L'Ultimo bacio"...
Shawn Levy is to direct which Nick Kurzon will write an as-yet untitled comedy project, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The high-concept comedy follows a selfish bachelor who wakes up to discover he has a biological...
Writer Chuck Leavitt is to adapt The Ha-Ha: A Novel , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Akiva Goldsman's is going to be make his directorial debut on the movie. The book, by Dave King, is written from the perspective...
Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett are in talls to star in the long-gestating adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , David Fincher is directing the project which centers on an elderly...
Sarah Michelle Gellar is set to star in the Untitled: Marc Klein Project , based on the stories from Melissa Bank's book, "A Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing," according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows a...
Adam McKay is to direct and produce CEO , which was written by Ian Roberts and Jay Martel, according to Variety. Story concerns the chief exec of a company who is demoted to the mailroom and has to work his way back up....
Music Director Sanji Senaka is to direct a horror Into the Mirror , according to Variety. Senaka directed for recording artists like Mary J. Blige, Tori Amos, Maxwell and Lauren Hill. Written by scribe Joe Gangemi that's...
Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired Nick Hornby's latest book A Long Way Down to adapt as a motion picture, according to the Hollywood Reporter. A Long Way Down is a darkly comic story about four desperate people who meet...
Reese Witherspoon Reese Witherspoon to produce Around the World in 80 Dates with an eye to star also, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Jeff Rake has signed on to write the adaptation of the book, which is part travel...
Matt Damon is to star in a historical epic based on Polo's autobiography "Travels," called Marco Polo , according to Variety. Damon is to play Polo, who ventured farther into Asia than any Westerner before him. His...
Zach Braff and Amanda Peet are in talks to star in the upcoming comedy Fast Track , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Jesse Peretz is set to direct the film, which will begin principal photography in July in Los...
Justin Timberlake is to provide the voice of Artie, King Harold's rebellious nephew in Shrek 3 , according to Variety. News of Timberlake's signing for the next installment of the studio's blockbuster CGI franchise was...
Meryl Streep has signed on to star in the upcoming fashionista comedy The Devil Wears Prada , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Movie is based on Lauren Weisberger's best-selling novel about a young woman who goes to...
'King Of Queens' star Kevin James ( Hitch ) is in talks to star in Man in Uniform , according to Variety. James would play a beleaguered everyman whose life radically changes after he takes possession of a policeman's...
An unconventional film bio of Bob Dylan called I'm Not There has attracted Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Adrien Brody, Richard Gere, Julianne Moore and Charlotte Gainsbourg to join the cast, according to Variety. Todd...
Clive Owen has signed on to topline Children of Men , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Alfonso Cuaron is directing the feature film adaptation of the book by mystery writer P.D. James. Children of Men takes place in...
Jerry O'Connell has been cast opposite Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo in Yours, Mine and Ours , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film is a remake of the 1968 Henry Fonda-Lucille Ball comedy in which a widower...
Mos Def has been cast opposite Bruce Willis in the upcoming 16 Blocks , according to Variety Directed by Richard Donner, script follows an aging cop (Willis) assigned the mundane task of escorting a fast-talking young...
Oliver Stone is in talks to direct The Night Watchman , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature film is an adaptation of James Ellroy's script about a disgraced police officer who sets out to rid the police...
Antonio Banderas is set to join Jennifer Lopez in the indie thriller Bordertown , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Set on the U.S.-Mexico border, the film centers on a journalist who investigates a series of murders...
Teri Polo ( Meet the Fockers ) has signed on to co-star in Nothing but the Truth , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film, to be directed by Christian Charles, centers on Sam (Ryan Pinkston), a 17-year-old with...