Mike Newell is gearing up to direct a fresh take on Great Expectations , based on the book by Charles Dickens. The work was tackled by British directing legend David Lean in a black and white adaptation in 1948 which...
Frances Fisher has joined Robin Wright in the indie film " The Congress ." Pic is helmed and penned by Ari Folman and also stars Kodi Smit-McPhee. Fisher plays mother to Wright's character.
Viggo Mortensen, as first reported on Variety.com, is in talks to star in Universal's " Snow White and the Huntsman ," an original retelling of the Grimm fairy tale. In this new version, the huntsman (who, in the...
Naomi Watts has joined the cast of Warner Bros.' " J. Edgar ," opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, Ed Westwick, Damon Herriman, Armie Hammer, Ken Howard and Josh Lucas. Watts will portray Helen Gandy, the longtime personal...
Mark Ivanir has replaced Jeremy Northam in indie drama " A Late Quartet ." Ivanir joins Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener and Christopher Walken for "Quartet," from writer-director Yaron Zilberman. Hoffman,...
David Milch is heading into " Heavy Rain ," signing to adapt the noir-style videogame with Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne producing through their Unique Features banner. " Heavy Rain ," based on the Sony Computer...
Looking more and more like a summer tentpole, 20th Century Fox's 2012 pic " Prometheus " has moved from March 9 release date to June 8. Fox is negotiating with Michael Fassbender to star as David. Pic, to be directed by...
Jon Bon Jovi's heading for " New Year's Eve ," joining the cast of New Line's ensemble comedy. The singer's the latest addition to the pic, to be directed by Garry Marshall with production starting next week. Other cast...
James Gandolfini is re-teaming with "Sopranos" cohorts David Chase and Steven Van Zandt in Paramount's coming-of-age drama " The Twylight Zones ." Gandolfini's on board to portray the father of a teen in a rock band, set...
Thora Birch, Christine Lahti, Michael Urie, Brittany Snow, David Rasche and newcomer Tobias Segal have signed to star in indie dark comedy " Petunia ," with shooting starting this week in New York City. Script centers on...
Jason Clarke has joined the cast of the Prohibition-era pic " The Wettest County in the World ." Mia Wasikowska is circling, but is holding off negotiations to try and reconcile a scheduling conflict with another film,...
Screen Actors Guild president Ken Howard has joined the cast of Warner Bros.' " J. Edgar ," opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, Ed Westwick, Damon Herriman, Armie Hammer and Josh Lucas. Howard will portray Harlan F. Stone, who...
A new James Bond film has been given the go-ahead and is due to be released on 9 November 2012, film studio MGM and EON Productions have announced. Producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli and MGM said the 23rd Bond...
Michelle Pfeiffer will play Chris Pine’s mother in Welcome to People , the DreamWorks movie that is acting as the feature-directing debut of screenwriter Alex Kurtzman. People follows a businessman who returns home after...
Ian McKellen has signed on to return as wizard Gandalf in The Hobbit , the two-pic adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien novel being directed by Peter Jackson. The dealmaking on Hobbit for a slew of Jackson veterans from his...
Indian helmer Dibakar Banerjee is to adapt Vassilis Vassilikos' novel "Z," which was the source for Costa-Gavras' 1970 Oscar-winning pic. The film, "Shanghai," will topline Abhay Deol, who is filming Roland Joffe's...
Jeremy Piven and Mike O'Malley ("Glee") have signed on to Exclusive Films' Miley Cyrus topliner " So Undercover ." Storyline follows a P.I. (Cyrus) sent undercover at a college sorority. Piven will play a special agent,...
Molly Parker and John Hawkes ("Winter's Bone") have been signed to star in indie drama " The Playroom ," written by Gretchen Dyer and directed by her sister Julia Dyer. Parker and Hawkes, who worked together on...
It's official -- Elijah Wood is returning to Middle-earth to star in Peter Jackson's " The Hobbit ," currently in pre-production in New Zealand. Reps for Wood, who starred as Frodo Baggins in the "Lord of the Rings"...
Ivan Reitman, who directed and produced the first two Ghostbusters movies, has confirmed that Ghostbusters 3 is ready to go. "All the original characters have parts," he said about the plot. "As well as a whole bunch of...
Sam Rockwell is in talks to join heist comedy "Cogan's Trade" alongside Brad Pitt. "Trade" reteams Pitt with Dominik, who wrote and directed 2007's "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford." Story...
Paramount has set up " Wheeler Dealers ," acquiring Michael Lerner's pitch based on the tale of a recent munitions contract gone awry. Lerner sold his spec script "Game Theory" last year to Summit, which set up the...
Relativity Media is turning to the Bible, setting up a " Goliath " project as an action film with Scott Derrickson ("The Exorcism of Emily Rose") in negotiations to direct. Story will focus on Goliath being sent to track...
Robert Pattinson has signed to star in Cosmopolis , David Cronenberg's adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel, stepping into the shoes that were to be worn by Colin Farrell. The project centers on a 28-year-old financial...
Barbra Streisand is in talks to star in Gypsy , a new film adaptation of the 1959 Broadway play. The project is set up at Warner Bros., which made the 1962 adaptation that starred Rosalind Russell and Natalie Wood, and...
Sienna Miller's heading to New York and " New Year's Eve ," joining New Line's ensemble comedy. The British actress is the latest addition to the pic, to be directed by Garry Marshall. Other cast includes Jessica Biel,...
Ricky Gervais will voice the lead character of Mole in " The Wind in the Willows ," the live-action/animatronic indie feature directed by Ray Griggs ("I Want Your Money") through his RG Entertainment banner. Radar...
The studio is on the cusp of triggering production on the Gary Sanchez project Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters , a dark action movie that picks up with the fairy tale siblings years after the traumatic childhood...
John Goodman is joining the cast of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close , Stephen Daldry's adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer novel. The drama centers on Oskar, a 10-year old boy (being played by unknown Thomas Horn)...
McG has won the contest for the gig to direct Ouija for Universal and is now in negotiations. The studio's planned film adaptation of the classic Hasbro board game about conjuring up spirits of the dead has had a tough...
Ulrich Thomsen is set to topline " The Face ," a thriller set in Germany in the weeks following the end of World War II. Set just weeks after the end of the war, the story opens with a man on the run who is suffering...
DreamWorks has added Olivia Wilde to family drama " Welcome to People ," opposite Chris Pine and Elizabeth Banks. " Welcome to People " tells the story of a young businessman (Pine) who returns home after his estranged...
George Clooney's come on board opposite Sandra Bullock for Alfonso Cuaron's 3D space station thriller " Gravity " for Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures. Pic revolves around two astronauts fighting to survive on a...
Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde and Charlie Hunnam are in talks to star in the crime thriller " Kin " for 2929 Entertainment and Mutual Film Co. Based on an original script from Zach Dean, " Kin " tells the story of two...
Dennis Quaid is toplining indie thriller " Beneath the Darkness " as a mysterious mortician with Martin Guigui directing. Set in a small Texas town, story centers on a teen (Oller) who struggles to expose the grim...
Sienna Miller and Danny Huston are toplining indie drama " Two Jacks ," based on Leo Tolstoy short story "The Two Hussars," which Bernard Rose has adapted and is directing. " Two Jacks " centers around two different...
Sarah Jessica Parker's heading to New York and " New Year's Eve ," joining New Line's ensemble comedy. Halle Berry's become the latest thesp to enter into negotiations for the pic, to be directed by Garry Marshall. Other...
Precocious Thomas Horn will play Oskar Schell in the Sandra Bullock-Tom Hanks starrer. 13-year-old Thomas Horn -- who won $31,800 in prize money on Jeopardy in October -- has been cast to play the young lead in Extremely...
Oscar Isaac has been cast in the ensemble drama Ten Year , the directing debut of screenwriter Jamie Linden (We Are Marshall). Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan, Kate Mara, Brian Geraghty, Justin Long, Anna Faris, Chris Pratt,...
Vendome Pictures is joining Raffaella Prods. to produce Max Botkin's futuristic thriller "What Happened to Monday?" Project follows the story of identical septuplet brothers who struggle to stay alive in an overpopulated...
Jessica Biel's in final negotations to join New Line's ensemble comedy " New Year's Eve ." Robert De Niro and Ashton Kutcher have signed and Michelle Pfeiffer, Hilary Swank, Lea Michele and Abigail Breslin are in talks...
Benicio del Toro is among seven helmers attached to direct a segment for " 7 Days in Havana ," an omnibus feature capturing contempo Cuba. He will be joined by France's Laurent Cantet and Gaspar Noe, Argentina's Pablo...
Russell Brand will star in Warner Bros.' " RentaGhost ," based on the British comedy series about a temp agency for the dead. The original BBC series, created by Bob Block, ran for 58 episodes between 1976 and 1984 and...
Vanguard Films has tapped Mike Johnson, co-director of "Corpse Bride," to helm its CG/stop-motion feature " Oz Wars ." Script, written by Rob Moreland and Athena Gam, is a transformation of the Oz narrative, with Dorothy...
Producer Peter Safran has set Kyle Patrick Alvarez to direct thriller " Girls ." " Girls ," penned by Alvarez and Adam Shazar, brings a fresh twist to a conventional thriller in telling the story of a slumber party gone...
Marvel Studios has geared up its search for a new director to build the third installment of its "Iron Man" franchise after Jon Favreau has opted not to helm the pic. Favreau launched the franchise for Marvel in 2008,...
Angus MacFadyen is in talks to co-star in the Cameron Crowe-helmed " We Bought a Zoo " for Twentieth Century Fox. Pic, based on a true story, centers around Benjamin Mee, a struggling single father who moves his family...
The dramedy, which Sacha Bennett is helming, centers on a group of friends during the Fleet Street print workers strikes in the 1980s. The comedy/drama, which Sacha Bennett is directing, concerns seven friends during the...
Universal Pictures International has boarded Detlev Buck's upcoming project starring Matthias Schweighoefer ("Friendship"). Based on a screenplay by Anika Decker ("Rabbit Without Ears"), the comedy, previously known as...
Helmer Lee Daniels will develop the screenplay for the pic adaptation of Nilo Cruz's Broadway play " Anna in the Tropics ." The play, set in Tampa, Fla., takes place during the Great Depression -- in a Cuban cigar...