Julie Taymor is set to direct Revolution Studios musical All You Need Is Love , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The movie will feature 18 songs by the Beatles, and is a love story about a British boy and an American...
Columbia Pictures and Mandate Pictures are to make Year of Wonders , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a father who is recovering from the death of his wife and takes his daughter on a trip to experience...
Walt Disney Pictures is to make a movie based on the San Diego Marine Mammals base, Navy SEALs , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The base is where in years past the Navy researched the hydrodynamics of torpedoes by...
Eva Marie Saint has signed up to play Martha Kent, the adoptive mother of Clark Kent/Superman in Bryan Singer's Superman Returns film, says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Bryan Singer, includes Brandon...
Antonio Banderas is set to play a professional dancer in New Line Cinema's Take the Lead , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Liz Friedlander, is inspired by the true story of international ballroom...
Thomas Dean Donnelly and Josh Oppenheimer are to adapt Kenneth Oppel's children's book Airborn for Universal Pictures, says the Hollywood Reporter. The project tells the tale of a 15-year-old boy who works on a luxury...
Cinematographer Ericson Core is to make his feature directorial debut in Walt Disney Pictures football drama Invincible , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature tells the true story of Vince Papale, a member of the...
Here! Films has bought the rights to Julien Hernandez's comedy Sex, Politics & Cocktails , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, which stars Marisa Petroro and Paul Lekakis, follows the romantic travails of a...
Catherine Zeta-Jones is in talks to star in Universal's adaptation of Marian Keyes' novel about a woman's drug addiction, Rachel's Holiday , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Francesca Joseph, is a dramatic story with...
Tim Roth has joined the cast of the gambling drama Jump Shot , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Mark Rydell, is described as a series of intertwining stories on how gambling and drugs destroy...
Director Edgar Wright ( Shaun of the Dead ) is in talks to helm Universal Pictures Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life . The feature tells the story of a young slacker who meets the woman of his dreams but finds that he...
Jacinda Barrett is to replace Rachel McAdams and join Zach Braff in Dreamworks The Last Kiss , says the Hollywood Reporter. The 2001 remake of Italian film 'L'Ultimo bacio', revolves around a group of 30-year-olds who...
Nick Stahl, who played John Connor in Terminator 3 , says that neither he nor co-star Claire Danes will appear in the proposed Terminator 4 movie. "I'm not going to be in T4," Stahl told Sci-Fi Wire. "None of the cast is...
Sissy Spacek and Woody Harrelson are set to join Charlize Theron and Frances McDormand in the Warner Bros. drama Untitled Niki Caro Project , according to Variety. Spacek and Jenkins play the parents of Josie Aimes...
Paul Greengrass has signed up to write and direct Universal Pictures They Marched Into Sunlight , says Variety. The feature, based on the Vietnam War-era book by David Maraniss, focuses on parallel stories that took...
DreamWorks has preemptively bought the comedy spec Blades of Glory , says Variety. The story, written by first-time scribes Craig and Jeff Cox, is a high-concept comedy set in the world of professional ice skating. It...
Capitol Films has bought the rights to the Mexican-U.K. political thriller Rabbit on the Moon , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Mexican director Jorge Ramirez-Suarez, follows an English woman (Lorraine Polkington),...
Alan Cumming, who plays Nightcrawler in the X-Men series, says he's not too worried that Bryan Singer won't be returning to direct X-Men 3 . "I'm not, and I can't deny it," Cumming told Sci-Fi Wire. "I think he's really...
Sam Huntington has been cast to play Supermans sidekick as Daily Planet cub reporter Jimmy Olsen in Warner Bros. Superman Returns , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Bryan Singer, includes...
Dylan Walsh, William H. Macy and Julia Stiles are set to star in director Stuart Gordon's play adaptation Edmond , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on Edmond Burke (Macy), a successful businessman who walks...
Oscar nominated Virginia Madsen has signed on to star in Warner Bros. Pictures The Wrong Element , says the Hollywood Reporter. Madsen will plays the wife of the already-cast Harrison Ford, a security expert who...
Focus Features has bought the rights to director Rian Johnson's high-school mystery Brick , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, a classic noir with fast, hard-boiled dialogue, is set in modern-day LA, and...
The Grudge producers Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert say they are working with director Takashi Shimizu to make the sequel The Grudge 2 . "We just came from a big story conference this whole last week," Raimi told Now Playing...
Angelina Jolie is set to join Matt Damon in the Robert De Niro-directed The Good Shepherd , says Variety. The feature follows the history of the CIA as seen through the eyes of a career agent whose marriage is destroyed...
Hot on the heels of Stellan Skarsgard, Naomie Harris has signed up for Walt Disney' Pirates of the Caribbean 2 , says the Hollywood Reporter. Skarsgard plays Bloom's long-lost father, and Harris will play a gypsy queen....
Warner Independent Pictures have bought the rights to the Amy Sedaris starrer Strangers With Candy , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Paul Dinello, is a prequel to the Comedy Central series of the same...
The official Star Wars website has revealed the opening crawler text for the final installment in the Star Wars trilogy Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith . Episode III REVENGE OF THE SITH War! The Republic is...
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson says that he's signed up for Universal Pictures sci-fi Species Human , about a human in an interplanetary zoo. "I never actually talked about this," Johnson told Sci-Fi Wire. "It is a great...
The Will Smith starrer 'untitled Chris Gardner project' has acquired a title, Pursuit of Happyness , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story is based on the real life rags-to-riches story of a Chicago businessman which...
Focus Features have bought the rights to director Gaby Dellal's On a Clear Day , says the Hollywood Reporter. The film, which stars Peter Mullan and Brenda Blethyn, centers on Mullan's middle-aged character, who seeks to...
Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard has signed on to join the cast of the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean 2 sequel, according to Sci-Fi Wire. Skarsgard will play the long-lost pirate father of Orlando Bloom's character,...
Alfonso Cuaron is developing a film version of Ron McLarty's 1988 novel The Memory of Running , says Variety. The feature follows an obese Vietnam vet who, still reeling from the death of his parents, finds out his...
Lions Gate Films has bought the rights to the angry teen revenge flick Hard Candy , says the Hollywood Reporter. The movie is a provocative drama about a 32 year-old man who takes home a 14 year-old girl he meets on the...
Jon Felson and Rusty Gorman are set to write Cinergi Pictures Entertainment's No Quarter Given , says Variety. The feature is based on the true story of the 1924 U.S. Olympic rugby team, and follows a group of college...
Martin Scorsese's film The Aviator has become this years front runner for the Oscars by receiving 11 nominations. Categories include the prestigious best picture, best director, best actor, best supporting actor and best...
Ice Cube, who stars in xXx 2: State of the Union , says the sequel will be totally different to the original. "I'm a totally new agent," Cube told Sci-Fi Wire. "I'm not trying to be the same guy. It's a whole other...
Robin Williams is set to star in Paramount Pictures and Nick Movies comic fantasy adaptation based on the preschool book The Krazees , says the Hollywood Reporter. In the movie, Williams will have a specially created...
William H. Macy, Adam Brody and Sam Elliott have all signed up on for director Jason Reitman's Thank You for Smoking , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows Nick Naylor, a regular guy trying to earn a...
German director Katja von Garnier is in talks to replace Rupert Wainwright in MGM's werewolf movie Blood and Chocolate , says the Hollywood Reporter. The movie is based on the book by Annette Curtis Klause and is set in...
French actress Audrey Tautou is about to make her American film debut in Columbia Pictures' The Da Vinci Code , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Tautou is in talks to star opposite Tom Hanks, with Ron Howard...
Stephen Fry has joined the cast of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy , says Ananova. Fry will provide the voice of The Guide, an electronic book which accompanies the story's hero Arthur Dent on his travels around the...
Mark Wahlberg is in talks to join Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon in Martin Scorsese's The Departed , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is a police thriller, a remake of the Hong Kong film 'Infernal Affairs', and...
Elizabeth Banks and Michael Rooker have signed up to topline the horror Slither , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The creature feature, written and being directed by James Gunn, revolves around an alien plague that...
Picture This! Entertainment has bought the rights to Ivo Trajkov's The Great Water , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film concerns a communist government official who, as he is dying, recalls his boyhood in...
Director Alfonso Cuaron ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ) has signed onto direct the adaptation of Nicole Krauss' upcoming novel The History of Love , according to Variety. The History of Love tells the story...
Ryan Murphy (TV's "Nip/Tuck" Creator) is to write and direct an adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' bestselling memoir Running With Scissors , according to Variety. Currently on the cast are Annette Bening, Gwyneth...
Robert Zemeckis is to direct Beowulf , a motion-capture film for Sony Pictures, according to Variety. Beowulf is one of the oldest surviving pieces of Anglo-Saxon literature, penned sometime before the 10th century...
Wes Bentley ( American Beauty ) is to play the bad guy in Ghost Rider in which Nicolas Cage has the lead role, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Bentley will play Black Heart in the Marvel Comics adaptation. The film...
Robert DeNiro says he's teaming up with Martin Scorsese to make the sequel, Taxi Driver 2 . DeNiro, who starred as disturbed Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle in the 1976 film, says the duo are looking over script ideas for...
Maggie Gyllenhaal has signed on to star opposite Will Ferrell in Mandate Pictures comedy Stranger Than Fiction , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Marc Forster, sees Ferrell play an IRS auditor who finds himself the...