Justin Timberlake, Sharon Stone and Emile Hirsch have all signed up to star in the Nick Cassavetes Alpha Dog , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The movie is inspired by the real-life story of Jesse James Hollywood, a...
Sean Hayes is set to star in Revolution Studios comedy Simon Says , say Hollywood Reporter sources. 'Simon Says' will see Hayes star as Simon Christopher, winner of a prestigious national teacher of the year award. There...
Catherine Keener is in talks to play novelist Harper Lee in United Artists' Untitled: Truman Capote feature, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as Capote, sees the author's...
Tom Dey ( Shanghai Noon ) is in talks to direct Paramount Pictures' Failure to Launch , according to the Hollywood Reporter The comedy centers on a thirtysomething guy who begins to suspect that his parents actually set...
Revolution Studios is set to adapt the Broadway musical Rent for the big screen, says the Hollywood Reporter. 'Rent' tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to survive in New York's East Village. Chris...
MGM has stopped development on the next James Bond movie, says the Hollywood Reporter. The studio, which is in the process of being sold to Sony, says that business no longer involves the immediate production of a new...
'Harry Potter' director Chris Columbus is set to develop and direct Slanted and Enchanted , according to the Hollywood Reporter. "Slanted" is described as a dramedy about a recovered pathological liar who must return...
Laurence Dunmore is set to direct Warner Bros. Pictures' A Million Little Pieces , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project, based on the book by James Frey, is described as a first-person nonfiction account of a...
Wellspring have bought the U.S. rights to director Arnaud Desplechin's Kings and Queen , says the Hollywood Reporter. The movie, starring Mathieu Almaric, Emmanuelle Devos and Catherine Deneuve, tells the parallel...
Meryl Streep is in negotiations to join the cast in the remake of the gritty social drama All the King's Men , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Headed by Sean Penn and Jude Law, while Kate Winslet and Mark Ruffalo...
Director Mike Nichols ( Angels in America ) and Julia Roberts are in talks to develop romantic comedy Seven-Year Switch , according to Variety. Roberts would play a woman coming up on the seventh year of a relationship....
Mel Brooks told the Hollywood Reporter that his movie musical The Producers will begin filming in February at a new studio in Brooklyn because of a new tax credit designed to bring more movies to New York. The Universal...
Geoffrey Rush is in talks to join Russell Crowe in the big-screen adaptation of Australian author Murray Bail's award winning novel Eucalyptus , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Rush would play the Australian widower...
Sacha Baron Cohen (aka Ali G) is to star in Dinner for Schmucks , a remake of Francis Veber's French comic hit "Le Diner de cons" ("The Dinner Game"), according to Variety. TV scribe Jon Vitti has been hired to write. In...
Steve Zahn is set to join Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz in 20th Century Fox's comic Western Bandidas , says the Hollywood Reporter. The project, helmed by Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg, see Zahn play a New York...
Mena Suvari is set to join Keira Knightley in Tony Scott's Domino , according to the Hollywood Reporter. 'Domino' tells the real-life story of Domino Harvey, daughter of actor Laurence Harvey, who starred in the original...
Paramount Pictures have bought the rights to Rob Greenberg and Bill Corbett's script Starship Dave , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The comedy centers on a man who emerges in New York's Central Park unscathed from...
Dimension Films have bought the film rights to Japanese author Koji Suzuki's short story Adrift , says the Hollywood Reporter. Suzuki is the author of the novel Ring , which was later adapted by Dreamworks. 'Adrift', is...
Kirsten Sheridan is set to direct Southpaw Entertainment's August Rush , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story is described as a modern-day fairy tale about an orphaned musical prodigy who tries to find his...
Paramount Pictures is in talks to bring back The Italian Job stars Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Seth Green, Mos Def and Jason Statham for the sequel The Italian Job 2 , according to Variety. Though the script isn't...
Cheryl Hines will play the love interest of Michael Keaton's character in the Angela Robinson-directed Herbie: Fully Loaded , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Lindsay Lohan toplines the project along with Matt...
Director Zak Penn ( Incident at Loch Ness ) is to direct an impromptu style comic feature set around an international poker tournament, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Ben Affleck, David Schwimmer, William H. Macy,...
Punk'd pair Dax Shepard and Al Shearer are to star in an untitled movie, which is to be written by Chris Pappas and Mike Bernier, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The duo also might direct. The project is based on an...
Mischa Barton (TV's 'The O.C.') has signed on to topline horror Hexxx , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Mark Gibson and John Raffo penned the horror thriller, which revolves around the world of voodoo and is set...
A year after The Terminator 3 was released, Terminator 4 is now being mobilized for a 2005 production start, according to Variety. Scribes John Brancato and Michael Ferris are said to have completed a draft of a script....
Simon Baker, John Leguizamo and Dennis Hopper have all signed up for George A. Romero's The Land of the Dead , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project, written and directed by Romero, sees a world overrun by...
Oscar-nominated writer Scott Frank is set to make his directorial debut on DreamWorks' The Lookout , says the Hollywood Reporter. The movie, written by Frank, is about a former high school hockey star, disabled in a car...
Paramount Pictures have bought the rights to Midway Games' new Fear and Respect game, says the Hollywood Reporter. The urban-action adventure game is a third-person game about a young man who has to make survival choices...
Newly launched distribution label, Possible Films Collection, is set to release Richard Sylvarnes' The Cloud of Unknowing as its first film on September 29th in New York, according to the Hollywood Reporter. "Cloud"...
Milla Jovovich is teaming with Billy Bob Thornton for director Michael Cristofer for the feature Fade Out , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Kate Beckinsale and Thornton had been attached to the project since early...
Adrien Brody will star in Truth, Justice and the American Way for director Allen Coulter, according to Variety. Written by Paul Bernbaum, it's a story about the man who portrayed TV's Superman, George Reeves. Bernbaum's...
Writer Alan Ball ( American Beauty , TV series creator 'Six Feet Under') has bought the rights to Towelhead , a provocative debut novel by Alicia Erian to be published in April, according to Variety. Ball will write the...
Usher (Usher Raymond) is to make his feature starring debut in an untitled drama being scripted by "American Dreams" showrunner Jonathan Prince, according to Variety. Though it doesn't yet have a title, the film sounds...
Nick Lachey (TV 'Newlyweds') to make his movie to the big screen with a role in the indie film The Hard Easy , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film also stars Henry Thomas, David Boreanaz, Vera Farmiga, Bruce...
Eric Bana has landed the lead role of Huck Cheever in Warner Bros. Pictures Lucky You , says the Hollywood Reporter. The project, helmed by Curtis Hanson, is set in the world of high-stakes professional poker. Production...
Rosamund Pike is set to join Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson in Universal Pictures' upcoming video game adaptation Doom , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project, helmed by Polish director Andrzej Bartkowiak, will see...
Jeremy Renner is in talks to join Charlize Theron in Warner Bros. Pictures Class Action , says the Hollywood Reporter. The project, helmed by Niki Caro, is scheduled to begin shooting next year once Theron wraps her...
Jim Rygiel, who won three visual effects Oscars for his work on the Lord of the Rings films, will make his directorial debut on the indie feature Bunyan and Babe , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on the...
DreamWorks has bought the rights to scribe Adam Sztykiel's comedy Power Trip , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story revolves around an executive who travels with his tyrannical boss on a one-day business trip...
Director David Zucker is to direct the spoof movie Superhero! , with his Scary Movie 3 team, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The comedy will poke fun at the multitude of superhero films, from Spider-Man to next...
Here is Jessica Alba as Sue Storm aka The Invisable Woman, in the upcoming comin book adaptation Fantastic Four , posted on USA Today . Director Tim Story ( Barbershop ) takes a leap into the big leagues with his first...
Pete Hewitt ( Garfield ) will direct Tim Allen in the comedy Zoom's Academy , according to Variety. Based on an out-of-shape former superhero called back into action to save the world. Scripted by Adam Rifkin and...
Karl Yune ( Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid ) is joining the cast of Memoirs of a Geisha , which includes Zhang Ziyi, Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li and Ken Watanabe, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Yune will play...
Director Charles Stone III says that his video-game adaptation of 'Tekken' is still in early stages of development. "We got the writers going on it," Stone told Sci-Fi Wire . "But I do want to investigate K-1...
Milla Jovovich ( Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse ) is in talks to star in .45 , according to the Hollywood Reporter. .45 is an indie about a married couple involved in small-time crime in New York's Hell's Kitchen during the...
Composers James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer are in talks to collaborate on Warner Bros. Pictures' Batman Begins , according to the Hollywood Reporter. A spokeswoman for Howard confirmed that the co-composing plan for...
'Alias' writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are set to reteam with director J.J. Abrams to write the script for Mission: Impossible 3 , according to the Hollywood Reporter. This follows on from the announcement made...
Parker Posey is to find sexual bliss with Danny DeVito in romantic comedy The OH in Ohio , according to Variety, with Billy Kent making his directorial debut. The OH in Ohio is the tale of a young woman married to her...
David Boreanaz (TV 'Angel'), Henry Thomas ( Gangs of New York ), Vera Farmiga ( Touching Evil ) and Bruce Dern ( Monster ) have been cast in the indie heist film The Hard Easy , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Ari...
Kristen Stewart ( Panic Room ) has signed on to join Meg Ryan and Adam Brody in In the Land of Women , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Jonathan Kasdan is making his directorial debut on the film, described as a...