Peter Jackson invited 200 people to give them a sneak peek at footage of King Kong , according to Variety. Just don't ask any of that privileged group about what they saw. Jackson is "paranoid about anyone taking...
Peter Craig drama novel Blood Father is to be adapted by Warner Bros. Pictures, according to Variety. Story concerns a runaway who turns to her reformed ex-con father after she witnesses a murder. To protect his...
Nicolas Cage is set to star in director Neil LaBute's remake of the 1973 thriller The Wicker Man , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature follows a sheriff who investigates the disappearance of a young girl on a remote...
Academy Award winner Robert Duvall is to play Eric Bana's father and poker opponent in Warner Bros. Pictures drama Lucky You , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Curtis Hanson, follows a...
Molly Shannon has signed on to join Kirsten Dunst in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette , according to the Hollywood Reporter Shannon will play a lady of the court, Anne Victoire, who also is Marie-Antoinette's aunt, with...
Director Ed Zwick has signed on to direct Warner Bros. Pictures adventure drama Diamond , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The movie, previously known as 'Diamond', recounts the story of a poor African farmer who...
Warner Bros. has bought the rights to the upcoming novel romantic comedy The High Impact Infidelity Diet , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The novel by Eric Pfeffinger and Lou Harry's, revolves around three portly...
Shannyn Sossamon and Alecia Moore, better known as pop singer Pink, will are to star in Catacombs , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Catacombs is the story of a young woman who, while on a visit to Paris, is taken to...
Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett are in talks to team up in the drama Babel , for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu to direct, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The drama will reteam Inarritu with screenwriter Guillermo...
Jennifer Aniston and Meryl Streep are in talks to star in Wanted , according to Variety. The film will tell a story about a female policewoman who is framed for drug trafficking. Aniston is to play the cop, while Streep...
New Line Cinemas are looking to make Elf 2 but only if Will Ferrell takes the lead, according to Variety. Ferrell would receive $20 million for the project if he were to commit. Also up in the air is whether or not Jon...
Paramount Pictures is set to bring Robert Kirkman's teen-superhero comic Invincible to the big screen, according to Variety. Kirkman will write the story, based on the bestselling Image Comics series about the coming of...
Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins will premiere on IMAX on the same day of its theatrical release, says the Hollywood Reporter. This follows on from The Matrix Reloaded , which marked the first simultaneous IMAX release...
Michael Davis' is to direct Shoot-Em-Up from his own script, for New Line Cinemas, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is a violent action pic in the vein of a John Woo movie about a mysterious man...
'Million Dollar Baby' scribe Paul Haggis is to write and direct Warner Bros. drama Death and Dishonor , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story is based on a Mark Boal investigative article that appeared in...
Director Walt Becker is set to helm Touchstone Pictures comedy In the Navy , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project is about a wily, scamming Navy clerk who accidentally switches places with a legendary Navy...
Here is a press release from the Star Wars official site relating to the release of the full trailer for Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith : The much anticipated full release trailer for Star Wars: Episode III...
Antoine Fuqua ( Training Day ) is in talks to direct Mel Gibson in his next Under and Alone , according to Variety. Under and Alone is based on the true story of Vietnam vet William Queen. He channeled his Special Forces...
Susan Sarandon is to star in thriller Irresistible , according to Variety Sarandon has been working on the thriller's script for six months with writer-director Ann Turner ('Celia'). She'll play a woman tortured by the...
Keri Russell is set to star in Butterfly, a Grimm Love Story with German actor Thomas Kretschmann is in negotiations to join, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Butterfly, a Grimm Love Story is based on the Internet...
Zach Braff is said to be the frontrunner for the role of Fletch in Kevin Smiths Fletch Won , according to NewsAskew Writer/director Kevin Smith spoke on the official ViewAskew message board about his preference of Braff,...
Robert Evans and Stan Lee are to produce a new superhero franchise Foreverman , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Writer Peter Briggs ( Hellboy ) has been hired to write the screenplay in collaboration with Lee, who...
The 77th Annual Academy Awards were held on Sunday, February 27th, 2005, hosted by Chris Rock. Below are the complete list of 2005 oscar winners and nominees. Best film Million Dollar Baby The Aviator Finding Neverland...
LucasFilm have released 22 images from the last installment in the Star Wars trilogy Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith . Check them all out by clicking on one of the images below!
TV's Nip/Tuck star Julian McMahon says he is on a shortlist of two to become the next James Bond in MGM's Casino Royale . "I met the producers for a final audition," he told Ananova. "They told me to expect a decision in...
Halle Berry is said to have turned up at the Razzie Awards to pick up her award for Worst Actress in Catwoman , says Ananova. Accepting her award, she said, ""I want to thank Warner Brothers for casting me in this piece...
Martin Lawrence is set to star in 20th Century Fox comedy sequel Big Momma's House 2 Directly disobeying orders to steer clear of the case, Turner disguises himself as his robust alter-ego, Big Momma, in order to nail...
Rip Torn is set to star in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette , says Variety. The biopic is about the 18th century Gallic queen, and will see Torn play Louis XV, father of Louis XVI, played by Jason Schwartzman. Kirsten...
Scarlett Johansson is attached to star in the romantic comedy Forget About It , according to Variety. Movie concerns a woman who fakes amnesia in order to dodge her life's responsibilities and discovers it's the most...
Jason Biggs ( American Pie ) has joined the cast of the rescue adventure Antarctica , according to Variety. Also joining the ensemble of the Paul Walker starrer are Bruce Greenwood ( I, Robot ) and Moon Bloodgood with...
Shrek 2 spin-off Puss in Boots which is based on the character voiced by Antonio Banderas has hired screenwriter David H. Steinberg to write the animated movie, according to Variety. Banderas will return to voice the...
Debra Messing (TV's 'Will & Grace') has joined the cast of Lucky You , with Curtis Hanson directing, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Set in the world of high-stakes professional poker, the dramedy-love story is...
Edward P. Jones' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Known World is going to be adapted for the big screen, according to Variety. Anna Deavere Smith is to write the adaptation. The historical novel is based on the...
Jude Law is to star in Anthony Minghella's Breaking and Entering , according to Variety. Law is to play Will, a London architect in personal and professional crisis whose life collides with that of a young immigrant....
John Travolta is to star in Hairspray as the zaftig Edna Turnblad in the movie version of the Broadway show, according to Variety. Harvey Fierstein created the stage role of the Baltimore laundress-housewife, played by...
Christopher Walken is to star opposite Adam Sandler in the upcoming comedy Click , according to Variety. Directed by Juan Jose Campanella story centers on a workaholic architect who finds a universal remote that allows...
Barry Sonnenfeld is to direct Robin Williams in the vacation comedy RV , according to the Hollywood Reporter. RV revolves around a dysfunctional family that decides to rent an RV that is almost as dysfunctional. En route...
Universal has bought an untitled romantic comedy project by writer Gina Wendkos ( Coyote Ugly ) which will most likely star Jim Carrey and Angelina Jolie, according to Variety. Impetus for the project was a mutual desire...
Christopher Plummer has joined the cast of Il Mare with Argentinian Alejandro Agresti directing, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Plummer will play the father of Keanu Reeves' character in the film, which co-stars...
Edie Falco (TV's 'The Sopranos') has joined Julianne Moore and Samuel L. Jackson in Freedomland , according to Variety. Based on an adaptation of Richard Price's bestselling novel which Joe Roth is directing, tells the...
Ben Affleck is to play George Reeves in Truth, Justice and the American Way , according to Variety. Diane Lane has also come aboard the story of a Los Angeles gumshoe trying to solve Reeves' mysterious death. Reeves met...
Ice Cube is to take Cary Grant role in the remake of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House , according to Variety. Steve Carr ( Next Friday ) will direct the remake this summer. The original 1948 comedy starred Grant and...
Joy Bryant ( Antwone Fisher ) is to star opposite rapper 50 Cent in the action-adventure Locked and Loaded , according to Variety. Bryant will portray the love interest of the main character in the pic, directed by Jim...
Susan Sarandon is joining the cast of comedy Mr. Woodcock , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Craig Gillespie is directing the comedy which centers on a young man (Seann William Scott) who returns to his hometown to...
Joel Silver wants Kim Basinger for the heroic title role in his film remake of classic comic book Wonder Woman , according to NY Times . Silver is targetting Basinger to portray a more mature Wonder Woman, but will...
Mel Gibson is to star in Sam and George , written by Ned Zeman and Daniel Barnz, according to Variety. Story is about what happens when two lifelong friends renew their connection after one of them (Gibson) spends 20...
Michael Bay is to produce the long-in-development psychological thriller, Molly's World , according to Variety. Story concerns a psychiatrist who gets drawn into the world of a patient who killed her family in an effort...
After months of negotiations between George Lucas and festival officials, Star Wars: Episode III - The Revenge of the Sith will open the Cannes Film Festival according to ThisIsLondon. Star Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan Kenobi)...
Elizabeth Hurley is reportedly being considered to play the wicked witch in Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix . The 39-year-old is being lined up to play evil Bellatrix Lestrange, a member of Potter nemesis...
Producer Joel Silver says he wants Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon to write and direct a new film version of Wonder Woman . "I'm trying," Silver told Sci-Fi Wire. "I'm trying to work a deal with Joss. ... I...