Director Chris Weitz ( American Pie ) left the post as director of the first installment of Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy, His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass , according to the Hollywood Reporter Weitz is said not...
Sean Bean ( The Lord of the Rings ) has come aboard the cast of The Island for director Michael Bay, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Bean will take on the part of Merick, the chief antagonist in the film, which...
Chris Cooper (Oscar-winning performance in Adaptation )has joined the cast of Jarhead for Sam Mendes, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx and Peter Sarsgaard lead the cast of the adaptation...
Minnie Driver says she's very interested in playing the lead role in Wonder Woman , although she has her doubts. "I think you're probably going to see Catherine Zeta-Jones squished into a corset and a pair of shorts...
Hilary Swank is to play a femme fatale in The Black Dahlia , according to Variety. The feature, helmed by Brian De Palma, revolves around two boxers-turned-cops investigating the brutal murder of Elizabeth Short, a crime...
Robert Duvall and Katie Holmes have signed up to join Aaron Eckhart in the comedy Thank You for Smoking , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Jason Reitman, follows the machinations of Big...
Sunrise Entertainment have bought the rights to Nancy Lieberman's comic novel Admissions , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story, based in private-school admissions, follows a family that gets caught up in the antics...
Rob Letterman, co-writer and co-director of DreamWorks' Shark Tale , has signed on to write Universal's live-action feature The Unprofessionals , says Variety. The feature is a military comedy in the vein of 'Stripes';...
Here are the nominations for the 62nd Annual Golden Globe, Jamie Foxx leads the nominations with three nominations (two for movies and one for TV film Redemption): Picture - Drama The Aviator , Closer , Finding Neverland...
Writer Sheldon Turner ( The Longest Yard ) is to write a draft version of the X-Men spin-off Magneto which is to be based on the villain played by Ian McKellen, according to Variety. Magneto follows the development of...
Director Luke Greenfield ( The Girl Next Door ) is to direct and produce an untitled comedy drama for Regency Enterprises, according to Variety. Untitled: Greenfield Drama Comedy Project storyline follows an egocentric,...
Phobos Entertainment is to adapt Ursula K. Le Guin's sci-fi novel The Left Hand of Darkness for the big screen and also as a videogame, according to Variety. First published in 1969, The Left Hand of Darkness is set on...
Shawn Ashmore, who plays Bobby 'Iceman' Drake in the X-Men movies, says he's signed up for X-Men 3 , but is unsure of the status of the third movie after director Bryan Singer jumped projects to helm Superman . "I'm...
Jennifer Lopez is said to have taken a substantial pay cut in order to play her new role as a down-on-her-luck mum in Miramax's An Unfinished Life . Past poor film performances with films such as Gigli and Jersey Girl...
Snoop Dogg is to star in and executive produce 20th Century Fox's Coach Snoop , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is based on Snoop Dogg's real-life experience of coaching his son's youth football team....
Director Matthew Vaughn is in talks to helm Warner Bros. Pictures big-screen adaptation of the classic TV series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. , says the Hollywood Reporter. The series, which ran on NBC from 1964-68, featured...
Alec Baldwin has signed on to topline MGM's basketball flick Street , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Michael Shapiro, is described as an underdog story about street basketball players in the...
Jeff Nathanson has signed on to direct Ghosts of Girlfriends Past for Walt Disney Studios. Nathanson is replacing Mark Waters, who joined the project in June. The feature centers on a bachelor who goes to his younger...
Colin Firth says that there won't be a third installment of Bridget Jones' Diary. Firth, who played Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason , says that the story has nowhere left to go, and that all the lead...
DreamWorks has pushed back the release date of Shrek 3 from a November 2006 release to May 2007. The date shift comes after a similar move by Walt Disney/Pixar Animation to push the date of Cars from a November 2005...
Leonardo DiCaprio says he had a near-death experience during a parachute jump for his role as Howard Hughes in The Aviator . He says he still shudders when he remembers when the parachute adventure went wrong. "I pulled...
'Resident Evil' director Paul W.S. Anderson says that Resident Evil 3 is currently being planned. "It's still just a concept at the moment," Anderson told Now Playing Magazine. "The second movie did better business than...
'The O.C.' star Mischa Barton is in talks to join the cast of Dino De Laurentiis' adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th century literary classic The Decameron , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Barton would play...
Director Mike Figgis is set to helm New Line Cinema's Guilty Pleasure , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is about a young couple who engage in a menage a trois as a last sexual fling before their wedding.
10 year-old Dakota Fanning is set to star in Paramount Pictures' adaptation of E.B. White's classic children's tale Charlotte's Web , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project, helmed by Gary Winick, follows a...
Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies have bought the rights to N.E. Bode's bestselling children's book series The Anybodies , says Variety. The story is a whimsical adventure about an 11-year-old who learns she was...
Castle Hill Prods. has bought the rights to the Ian McKellen starrer Emile , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The movie, by Carl Bessai, is described as an exploration of an older man's struggle to reconnect with his...
Dimension Films is set to develop the comicbook series The Darkness , says Variety. The story revolves around a 21-year-old former assassin who inherits a family secret, an unholy power known as "the darkness," which...
Paramount Pictures have bought the rights to Nicholas Stoller's romantic comedy Palms Fitness , says Variety. The story centers on star-crossed lovers -- a young man from a humble Nebraska background who takes a job as a...
Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios have announced that they have postponed the theatrical release of their animated feature Cars to June 2006 from November 2005, says the Hollywood Reporter. The move is said to be...
Universal Pictures are set to adapt the award-winning BBC miniseries State of Play for the big screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature tackles the intersection of politics and journalism, and revolves...
Paramount Pictures is set to adapt Cormac McCarthy's upcoming novel No Country for Old Men , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story is a noir thriller set in West Texas, and follows the blood-soaked tale of a man...
Julianne Moore is in talks to play the female lead opposite Nicolas Cage in Revolution Studios Next , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project, a sci-fi thriller helmed by Lee Tamahori, would see Moore play a...
Natalie Portman, who plays Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, says that the final Star Wars movie Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith is even darker than previous installments. "As far as the...
Superman scribe Dan Harris says that the upcoming fifth Superman movie will improve on the previous movies. "We're not operating on the same playing field," Harris told Sci-Fi Wire. "We didn't each pitch our stories to...
Ashton Kutcher has been lined up to star in Beacon Communications Random Acts of Kindness , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature centers on a suicidal young man rescued by a reclusive novelist who inspires...
David Arquette and Kristin Davis have signed up for Robert Rodriguez's The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 3-D , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story tells the tale about a 10-year-old outcast shunned...
Jack Warden, George Segal, Ossie Davis, Rip Torn and Billy Burke are all set for Retirement , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The comedy, written by Michael Pietrzak and Jon Warner, revolves around four grumpy old...
Nicole Kidman is to star in the adaptation of the Darcy Cosper romantic comedy novel Wedding Season , according to Variety. Story is about a cynical woman and a longtime boyfriend who are dedicated to remaining...
Timothy Hutton joins Queen Latifah and LL Cool J in the remake of The Last Holiday , where he will portray the villain Kragen, according to Variety. The Last Holiday is an update of the 1950 comedy starring Alec...
Writer David Ayer ( Training Day ) is to direct Christian Bale, Eva Longoria and Freddy Rodriguez in the indie feature Harsh Times , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Ayer wrote the script which takes place in South...
Chris Columbus is to direct and produce Sub-Mariner , an adaptation of one of Marvel Comics' oldest superheroes, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The Sub-Mariner's other identity is that of Prince Namor, a...
Jerry Bruckheimer is to produce the live-action/CGI family feature film G-Force , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Movie revolves around a top secret unit of the NSA comprised of intelligent, talking animals. G-Force...
Al Pacino is in talks to star in the remake of the classic courtroom drama Witness for the Prosecution , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on the Agatha Christie play, which was filmed in 1957 with Billy Wilder...
Ving Rhames is to star in the urban drama Animal , according to Variety. Rhames plays a violent felon nicknamed Animal, who is released from prison on a technicality. Led to reconsider the futility of the life he is...
Dennis Quaid is to make his feature directorial debut while also starring and writing a biopic on the controversial 1940s Western swing star Spade Cooley called Shame on You , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Katie...
British director Rupert Wainwright ( Stigmata ) is to direct the remake of John Carpenter's classic horror thriller The Fog , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The Fog is set in a Northern Californian town about 100...
Usher Raymond is to star in his first drama role in Lion Gates Film Dying for Dolly , according to Variety. Usher will star as the loyal right-hand man to a Mafia don. He's been assigned to watch over the don's daughter,...
Mira Nair ( Vanity Fair ) is to direct a Bollywood remake called Gangsta M.D. , according to Variety. Writer Jason Filardi ( Bringing Down The House ) is going to adapt the movie for western audiences. The original film...
Paul Giamatti ( Sideways ) is to star in the comedy Paper Man , according to Variety. Giamatti will play a man struggling to recapture the spark that made him a successful novelist. His marriage also is disintegrating,...