Director Jonathan Liebesman ('Darkness Falls') has signed up for New Line Cinema's Dead Asleep , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, penned by Carter Blanchard, centers on a small town that becomes infested...
Revolution Studios have preemptively bought the rights to the musical All You Need Is Love , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, which will utilize many classic Beatles songs, is a love story about a...
Walt Disney have bought the rights to Barry Stringfellow's Break a Leg , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on an ambitious but unruly high school soccer coach who gets axed from his job for...
Writer and director Trey Parker says that his satirical puppet movie Team America: World Police was inspired from watching reruns of Thunderbirds on television. "We were just sitting around watching TV, and Thunderbirds...
50 CentJim Sheridan has signed on to direct rapper '50 Cent' in MTV Films Locked and Loaded , says the Hollywood Reporter. The film, written by 'Sopranos' scribe Terence Winter, tells the story of an orphaned kid who...
Djimon HounsouDjimon Hounsou and Steve Buscemi have signed up for DreamWorks The Island , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film, helmed by Michael Bay and starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson, is the...
Anthony Hopkins is set to lead the cast of director Roger Donaldson's The World's Fastest Indian , says Variety. Hopkins stars as motorcycle legend Burt Munro, who, after perfecting and modifying his 1920 Indian Scout...
CFQ Films are to make the horror All Souls Day: Dia De Los Muertos , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is described as 'The Ring' meets 'Night of the Living Dead'. Laura Harring, Danny Trejo and David...
Christian Bale, star of Warner Bros' Batman Begins , talks about his experience shooting the movie in Iceland. "We were in a little wooden hotel with miles of nothing on either side," Bale told Sci-Fire Wire. "I would go...
Nicole Kidman has signed on to star opposite Russell Crowe in Eucalyptus , according to the Hollywood Reporter. In the adaptation, a widower (Geoffrey Rush) plants hundreds of varieties of eucalyptus trees and then...
Teen popstar JoJo is in talks to join Emma Roberts in 20th Century Fox' Aquamarine , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Elizabeth Allen, is based on Alice Hoffmans novel, and revolves around two teenage...
'Sex and the City' star Kristin Davis is in talks to star opposite Tim Allen in Walt Disney's remake The Shaggy Dog , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Davis would play the wife of Tim Allen's character, a man who...
New Line Cinemas has preemptively bought brothers Jim, Dan and Mike Redmond's comedy Fraternity Ward , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Described as 'Three Men and a Baby' meets 'Animal House', the story revolves...
Burt Reynolds and Willie Nelson have signed on to join the cast of Warner Bros. bigscreen remake of TV's The Dukes of Hazzard , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Jay Chandrasekhar, will be set in the present day but...
Robert Luketic is in talks to direct Regency Enterprises' big-screen version of the hit TV show Dallas , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The long-running primetime soap about a wealthy Texas oil family originally...
Chicago-based Lange Film are to release Uncle Nino , a family comedy starring Joe Mantegna and Anne Archer, says the Hollywood Reporter. The film will open February 11th on 300 screens in 10 cities, including New York,...
Danny DeVito and Kathy Bates have signed on to star in Relative Strangers , says the Hollywood Reporter. The project, helmed by Greg Glienna, centers on an uptight professional (Ron Livingston) who sets out to meet his...
Wellspring have bought the US rights to Todd Solondz's Palindromes , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows thirteen year old Aviva, who is awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as...
Mark Wahlberg is in talks to star in Paramount Pictures Four Brothers , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by John Singleton, concerns four brothers who set out to avenge the death of their mother....
Walt Disney Pictures have bought the rights to Jessica Bendinger's gymnastics comedy Stick It , says the Hollywood Reporter. Bendinger will make her directorial debut on the feature, which follows a renegade girl who...
James Bond scribe Bruce Feirstein is writing the movie version of popular 1980s television series The A-Team for Fox, according to Variety. The series, which starred George Peppard and Mr. T, concerned an unofficial team...
Sam Raimi, director of the first two SpiderMan movies, says that although he's working on making SpiderMan 3 he hasn't decided on a villain yet. "We're starting by determining what Peter Parker's journey is as a human...
Nicole Kidman is in talks to join Russell Crowe and Geoffrey Rush in Fox Searchlight's Australian fable Eucalyptus , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, is an adaptation of Murray Bail's novel about a...
Scribe Ehren Kruger has been hired by Paramount Pictures to write John Carter of Mars , says the Hollywood Reporter. The project, helmed by Kerry Conran, is based on the first book in Edgar Rice Burroughs' 11-book...
Allan Graf is set to direct Whitelight Entertainment's Turning the Tide , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature centers on the Sept. 12, 1970, college football showdown between the all-white Alabama Crimson...
Ben FosterDominique Swain, Ben Foster, Vincent Kartheiser, Sean Hatosy, Vincent Laresca, Shera Danese and David Thornton are all in talks to join Nick Cassavetes' upcoming feature Alpha Dog , says the Hollywood Reporter....
Revolution Studios has bought the rights to Dax Shepard's comedy script Guerrilla Photographer , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story, written by Shepard, centers on an aspiring National Geographic photographer...
Neve Campbell has landed the lead female role opposite Ron Livingston in the independent movie Relative Strangers , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project, directed by Greg Glienna and produced by Danny DeVito,...
Disney has bought the rights to Brad Gann's script Invincible for an estimated high six figure sum, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows a bartender from Philadelphia who went to an open tryout for the...
Julie Delpy is in final talks to star in Moody Street Pictures' psychological thriller The Legend of Lucy Keyes , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by John Stimpson, chronicles the chilling...
Peter Segal has signed on to direct Paramount Pictures comedy Dealbreaker , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story concerns a slick crisis PR guy who, in order to get out of jams, makes deals with God that he...
'Run Lola Run' director Tom Tykwer is in talks to direct Columbia Pictures The International , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story revolves around an obsessive Interpol investigator pursuing a powerful...
Troy director Wolfgang Petersen is to produce the comedy Schooled , says the Hollywood Reporter. 'Schooled' centers on a lifelong underachiever who is forced into the role of truant officer at a troubled junior high...
Tom Shadyac and scribe Michelle McGrath are teaming up for Universal Pictures comedy Chip on the Old Block , says the Hollywood Reporter. The plot centers on a man who returns to his hometown where he teaches a bunch of...
Christopher Walken, Lucy Liu, Mickey Rourke, Macy Gray, Jacqueline Bisset, Edgar Ramirez, Mo'Nique and Shondrella Avery have all joined Tony Scott's Domino , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature stars Keira...
Johnny Depp is set to star in Warner Bros. Pictures' adaptation of Gregory David Roberts' Shantaram , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Depp will play the novel's narrator, a young Australian man who escapes from a...
British director Richard Loncraine has signed on to direct Harrison Ford and Paul Bettany in Warner Bros. Pictures' The Wrong Element , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story revolves around the security chief...
John Cusack, Christopher Plummer, Stockard Channing and Dermot Mulroney are joining Diane Lane and Kyra Sedgwick in Warner Bros. Pictures' Must Love Dogs , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Gary...
James Vanderbilt has been hired by Columbia Pictures to adapt Richard Clarke's memoir of his days in the White House, Against All Enemies for the big screen, says the Hollywood Reporter. The book is a New York Times best...
Justin Chatwin is in talks to join Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds , says the Hollywood Reporter. The project is the big-screen adaptation of H.G. Wells' 1898 classic novel, one of the best-known...
Paramount Classics has bought the rights of hip-hop star Jay-Z's documentary Fade to Black , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, directed by Pat Paulson and Michael John Warren, focuses on the rise of Shawn Carter,...
Dimension Films are set to remake the Korean horror film 'Ryeong' ( The Ghost ), according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story revolves around a teenage girl suffering from amnesia who discovers that she is somehow...
Kyra Sedgwick has signed on to co-star with Diane Lane in Warner Bros. Pictures' Must Love Dogs , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story revolves around a divorcee whose Irish-American family enrolls her in a number of...
Gina Gershon, Amber Valletta and Kal Penn have all signed up to join Ben Affleck and Rebecca Romijn in Media 8 Entertainment's Man About Town , says the Hollywood Reporter. The project, written and helmed by Mike Binder,...
Tim Robbins and Miranda Otto are in talks to join Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds , says the Hollywood Reporter. The project is the big-screen adaptation of H.G. Wells' 1898 classic novel, one of the best-known...
Seventh Art Releasing has bought the rights to the documentary about Tibet and the Dalai Lama, What Remains of Us , says the Hollywood Reporter. The documentary, set for a December theatrical release, is about Tibetans...
Edward Furlong is set to lead the indie movie Jimmy and Judy , says the Hollywood Reporter. The project, written and helmed by Jon Schroder and Randall Rubin, revolves around two misfit youths who want to escape the...
The Baldwin Entertainment Group have bought the rights to Julia Butterfly Hill's book The Legacy of Luna , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The true-life story centers on Hill's two-year stint living in a tree she...
Paramount-based Alphaville is in final talks with Ripley Entertainment to make a series of adventure movies based Ripley's Believe It or Not! , says the Hollywood Reporter. "It's about the exploits of Robert Ripley, one...
Simon Kinberg has been hired by 20th Century Fox and Marvel Studios to write X-Men 3 for a high-six-against-seven-figure sum, says the Hollywood Reporter. Kinberg said that the story line for the third X-Men movie is...