Tom Welling and Maggie Grace are set to star in the remake of John Carpenter's classic horror thriller The Fog , says the Hollywood Reporter. The movie, helmed by Rupert Wainwright, is set in a Northern California town...
Brothers Kevin and Dan Hageman have been hired by Warner Bros. to adapt Julie Kenner's upcoming novel Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story is an action-adventure...
Sarah Jessica Parker is to star the adaptation of poet Marisa de los Santos' first novel Love Walked In , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Love Walked In is the story of a sophisticated thirtysomething woman who...
Madonna is said to play transvestite Candy Darling in Untitled: Maddona Candy Darling Project , according to The Sun . Darling starred in a series of Andy Warhol's experimental films in the 1960s. She was the inspiration...
David Goyer ( Blade 3: Trinity ) has bought the rights to the graphic novel The Fall by Ed Brubaker and Jason Lutes, according to Variety. Written by Brubaker and illustrated by Lutes, The Fall is a modern-noir story of...
James Purefoy ( Vanity Fair ) is to star opposite Natalie Portman in V for Vendetta , according to the Hollywood Reporter. V for Vendetta is an adaptation of a 1980s Alan Moore comic book that Joel Silver and the...
Peter Fonda is in talks to join Nicolas Cage in the Ghost Rider , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Donal Logue has also joined the cast of the Ghost Rider , which is an action-adventure about Johnny Blaze (Cage), a...
Sahara co-stars Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz are to reteam in the romantic movie The Loop , according to the Hollywood Reporter The love story is written and to be directed by S.R. Bindler. Based on an...
Will Smith and director Jonathan Mostow ( Terminator 3 )are teaming up to bring the superhero drama Tonight He Comes , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Tonight He Comes is a script that has fallen on many execs'...
Robin Williams and Toni Collette will star in the adaptation of Armistead Maupin's novel The Night Listener , according to Variety. Director Patrick Stettner ( The Business of Strangers ) will direct with Sandra Oh, Rory...
Disney are gearing up to make a 3d CGI feature based around a prequel for Peter Pan , called Peter and the Starcatchers , according to Variety. Based on the bestselling children's book Peter and the Starcatchers , by...
Welsh author Jenny Nimmo's bestselling fantasy series are to be made into movies, with Midnight for Charlie Bone being the first, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Series concerns a youth who has the ability to look...
Brad Pitt is to star in the comedy Chad Schmidt which is written by Steve Conrad, according to the Hollywood Reporter. "Schmidt" centers on a talented young actor who moves to Los Angeles in the 1980s to pursue his dream...
Steven Spielberg is moving ahead with his Untitled: 1972 Munich Olympics , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Spielberg is to begin filming the Munich project in the summer with a Dec. 23 release date planned. The...
Scarlett Johansson is to star in the bigscreen adaptation of Arthur Miller's play A View From the Bridge The movie also co-stars Anthony LaPaglia and Frances McDormand which is going to be directed by Barry Levinson....
Missy Peregrym and Vanessa Lengies are to star in Stick It , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The sports comedy is going to be directed by Jessica Bendinger who is making her directorial debut. Story concerns a...
Universal Pictures has bought the rights to Terry Brooks' book series Magic Kingdom for Sale , says the Hollywood Reporter. Stephen Sommers will direct the series, that follows the story of a widowed attorney who leaves...
Meg Ryan has signed to star in Touchstone Pictures The Role of a Lifetime , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The movie sees a Hepburn/Tracy-like chemistry develop when a British theater director comes to Broadway...
Bruno Ganz, Rupert Everett and Catherine O'Hara are in final talks to star in the adaptation The Great Farrell , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is a period piece based on the novel 'Buried Alive' by British...
'Resident Evil' director Paul W.S. Anderson has signed on to helm Columbia Pictures Man With the Football , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature revolves around a group of terrorists who steal the U.S. president's...
Hayden Christensen has signed on to play the male lead in The Decameron , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Dino De Laurentiis is producing the upcoming adaptation of the 14th century Italian classic by Giovanni...
There is reportedly a "a strong element of cannibalism" in Pirates of the Caribbean 2 according to a report by the BBC. Carib Chief Charles Williams said talks with Disney's producers revealed there was "a strong element...
Kristin Kreuk has signed on to co-star with Jimi Mistry in Partition , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Partition is an epic romance set in India during the last days of the British Empire. Kreuk, whose credits...
Ryan Pinkston (TV's "Quintuplets") has signed on to take the lead role in the comedy Nothing But the Truth , according to Variety Pinkston plays a teen forced to live out a series of elaborate lies he told to impress...
Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman starrer Eucalyptus has postponed its production to allow further work on the script, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Shooting was scheduled to begin Monday in Northern New South...
Oscar winning writer Akiva Goldsman may direct the film adatation of 'The Ha-Ha: A Novel', written by first time writer Dave King, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Published last month the book is written from the...
Former Miss World Aishwarya Rai is to star opposite Dylan McDermott in The Mistress of Spices , according to Variety. The Mistress of Spices is an adaptation of Chitra Divakaruni's novel about an Indian woman who runs a...
Kal Penn ( Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle ) has joined the cast of Bryan Singer's Superman Returns where he will play Lex Luthor's right-hand man, a genius henchman named Stanford, according to the Hollywood...
Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and screenwriter John Logan are in early talks for a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1948 classic Drunken Angel , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The trio worked together on The Aviator...
Paul Giamatti has signed on to star opposite Edward Norton in The Illusionist , according to Variety. The Illusionist is the story of a magician in turn-of-the-century Vienna who falls in love with a woman who becomes...
Rene Russo is star opposite Dennis Quaid in the remake of Yours, Mine and Ours , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Russo is taking on the role played by Lucille Ball in the original. That film revolved around two...
Matt Long ("Jack & Bobby") is in talks to play a younger version of the title character played by Nicolas Cage in the Marvel Comics adaptation Ghost Rider , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The movie stars Cage as a...
Marcus Raboy ( Friday After Next ) is to direct Whitebread , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Whitebread tells the fish-out-of-water story of a wealthy white teenager who, in order to avoid losing his inheritance, is...
Tony Thomopoulos and George Hamilton are going to be making the sequel to the vampire comedy Love at First Bite , called Love at Second Bite , according to the Hollywood Reporter. First Bite was released in 1979 by MGM...
Edward Norton is to star in the period drama The Painted Veil which John Curran is to direct, according Variety. Set in 1922 London, story concerns a restless married woman who sets out on an odyssey of self-discovery...
Bruce Willis talked to the BBC about his commitment to Die Hard 4 : " Die Hard 4 is being written as we speak, and if all goes well we'll be shooting it in Autumn on the east coast of the United States." "John McClane...
Tim Roth, Nick Nolte and Neve Campbell have signed to star in the indie drama The Death of Harry Tobin , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The Death of Harry Tobin is set in an isolated community on an English island,...
Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Films are to remake the 1965 Jerry Lewis comedy Family Jewels , according to Variety. Writers Abdi Nazemian and Micah Schraft have been hired to write the project, which has been in...
Sean Hayes ('Will & Grace') has signed on to star in a Untitled bigscreen comedy, according to Variety. The untitled comedy is about a social misfit who seems like he'll finally be free of his domineering mother, until...
Paramount are going to adapt Michael Stadther's bestselling children's book A Treasure's Trove , according to Variety. A Treasure's Trove , caused a sensation over the clues in the book that lead to a dozen gold tokens...
Lindsay Lohan is to star in A Prairie Home Companion , according to The Insider 's Marc Malkin Lohan will play a down-home prairie girl in a small-town country music station. Meryl Streep is said to be playing her mother...
Famke Janssen was reportedly had doubts that she would star in X-Men 3 and may instead star in Superman Returns for Bryan Singer. Moviehole is reporting that she has now been confirmed as they saw on Australian TV Show...
The Fantastic Four pull out of July 1 box-office war with War of the Worlds and instead move to July 8, according to the Hollywood Reporter. 20th Century Fox, which had been planning a Fourth of July-themed launch for...
Writers Elizabeth Kruger and Craig Shapiro are to adapt Jennifer Weiner's novel Little Earthquakes for Universal Pictures, according to Variety." Little Earthquakes published last September by Atria Books, centers on a...
Elisha Cuthbert is to star in the comedy The Itty Bitty Titty Committee , according to Variety. She will be joined by Camilla Bell, Martin Donovan and Edie Falco with Jamie Babbit ( But I'm a Cheerleader! ) writing and...
John Cusack is to star in director Bruce Beresford thriller The Contract opposite Morgan Freeman, according to Variety. Budgeted at $37 million, The Contract is the story of a family outing that turns deadly when a...
Eva Mendes is to star alongside Nicolas Cage in the adaptation of the Marvel comic book Ghost Rider , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Cage plays the title character, a former motorcycle stuntman who agrees to let...
Director Sylvain Chomet ( The Triplets of Belleville ) has got Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi to write the adaptation of The Tale of Despereaux , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The book The Tale of Despereaux:...
The 21st James Bond movie will be based on Ian Fleming's first James Bond book, Casino Royale , with 'Goldeneye' director Martin Campbell at the helm. Rumors are still rife over who will play the lead in the movie, after...
Dustin Hoffman is set to join the cast of director Marc Forster's Stranger Than Fiction , says the Hollywood Reporter. Hoffman joins a comedy's cast including Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson and Queen...