Clifton Collins Jr. ( Mindhunters ) has signed onto a starring role in the Untitled: Truman Capote feature , according to the Hollywood Reporter.. Philip Seymour Hoffman is already on board to topline as Capote in the...
Both Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox are planning to release major sci-fi movies on one of the most lucrative moviegoing weekend of the year, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Fox is set to release its Marvel...
Johnny Knoxville is in talks to take the lead role in Miramax Films Daltry Calhoun , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project is described as a dark comedy about a father (Knoxville) struggling to keep his once...
Uma Thurman is set to replace Sandra Bullock in Universal Pictures Prime , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Thurman entered the picture late last month after Bullock withdrew over issues regarding script approval....
Spainish director Fernando Leon has begun principal photography on his follow-up to 'Mondays in the Sun,' entitled Princesas , says Variety. "The film's about discoveries, of oneself in another person, and of friendship...
Karl Urban ( The Bourne Supremacy ) is to star in Doom for Universal Pictures, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The video game adaptation is being directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak. Urban will play John Grimm, the...
Alvin and the Chipmunks is to be developed into a live-action/CGI feature film based on the popular characters, which have appeared on the radio, the small screen and numerous albums, according to the Hollywood Reporter...
New Line Cinema has bought the comedy script Heckled from the writing team of Jeremy Haft and Ed Gonzalez, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project has been developed with an eye for Vince Vaughn to star as the...
Maria Menounos ("Entertainment Tonight's") has signed on for a part on the big screen in 20th Century Fox's Fantastic Four , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Menounos joins Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans,...
Anthony Daniels, who plays the droid C-3PO in the Star Wars movies, filmed his last scene for Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith last week. Daniels says he got emotional at the shoot, "Oh yes, it was with...
Fox Searchlight is to remake the 1984 college comedy Revenge of the Nerds , according to Variety. The story follows a frat for the socially awkward, thick-glasses-sporting set that exacts revenge on the football players...
Hong Kong's Oxide and Danny Pang are set to make their English-language debut directing Scarecrow , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Spider-Man director Sam Raimi is set to produce. 'Scarecrow' is a horror tale that...
Jessica Simpson is set to join Seann William Scott and Johnny Knoxville in Warner Bros.' The Dukes of Hazzard , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Simpson will play the role of Daisy Duke, while Scott and Knoxville...
Scribe Ann Peacock is set to write the feature script Enlisted for Dreamworks, says the Hollywood Reporter. The story, based on an idea by production head Adam Goodman, is set in the Navy and centers on a female officer...
Paramount Pictures have signed a deal with Archie Comics Entertainment for the rights to co-produce a live-action film Sabrina, the Teenage Witch , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on the hit comic book...
George Lucas talked to MTV about the recent rumors of three more sequels, heres what he had to say to them. Don't expect any more "Star Wars" flicks after "Revenge of the Sith" — George Lucas says he's done. "This was...
Gren Wells is to script the romantic comedy How to Tell He's Not the One in 10 Days , the sequel to How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days , according to Variety. "We waited until we had the right material, the right idea, and the...
Winona Ryder is to team up with director Michael Lehmann once again on the independent comedy Mary Warner , according to Variety. Ryder will play a slacker actress who trips her way through a series of life-changing...
Dania Ramirez ( She Hate Me ) is in talks for a coveted role in the Brian Grazer-produced American Gangster opposite Denzel Washington and Benicio Del Toro, according to the Hollywood Reporter. American Gangster ,...
Milla Jovovich, who stars in the upcoming Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse , says shes ready to make the third movie. "Listen, we never expected part one to do as good as it did," she told Sci-Fi Wire. "I always imagined it...
Director Jim Sheridan ( In America ) has signed on to direct DreamWorks remake of the 1952 Akira Kurosawa film, Ikiru , says Variety. Tom Hanks is expected to take the lead role as his next project. The feature, which...
Johnny Knoxville has signed on to play Luke Duke opposite Seann William Scott's Bo Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project, helmed by Jay Chandrasekhar, is based on the 1980s...
Michael Caton-Jones in talks to direct MGM's Basic Instinct 2 , according to the Hollywood Reporter. This comes after 3 years of legal battles between Sharon Stone and the producers over their failure to produce the...
Andrzej Bartkowiak has signed on to take over the directors chair from Enda McCallion in Universal's video game adaptation Doom , says the Hollywood Reporter. McCallion, who had been attached to the project, excused...
Dave Chappelle has teamed up with director Michel Gondry ( Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ) to produce and star in an untitled feature to be directed by Gondry, according to Variety. Pic, whose exact content is...
Heath Ledger will appear alongside Geoffrey Rush and rising star Abbie Cornish ( Somersault ) in Candy , according to Variety. Luke Davies adapted screenplay from his bestselling novel. It will be helmed by stage...
Toni Collette is to star in the lead role in Like Minds , which will mark writer Gregory Read's feature debut, according to Variety. She will play a forensic psychologist appointed by police to determine whether there's...
Chris Koch is to direct the action comedy Ride Along for New Line Cinema, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Ride Along tells the story of a risk-averse teacher who plans to marry the girl of his dreams but first has...
Robert and Michelle King have come onboard to adapt sci-fi thriller Cosmonaut for Warner Bros. Pictures, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on the bestselling Australian novel by Peter McAllister, Cosmonaut is...
Ron Livingston is in talks to star in the lead role in Relative Strangers , for director Greg Glienna, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on an uptight professional (Livingston) who sets out to meet...
Penelope Cruz has joined an ensemble of British actors in a the psychological drama Chromophobia , according to Variety, Set in contemporary London it is written and directed by Martha Fiennes. The rest of the cast...
Edie Falco, Camilla Belle, Shawn Ashmore and Martin Donovan are to join Elisha Cuthbert in the indie dramatic thriller Dot for helmer Jamie Babbit, according to the Hollywood Reporter. "Dot" will see Belle playing the...
Writer Lisa Loomer has come aboard the Halle Berry starrer Nappily Ever After , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Loomer will rewrite the script, to be directed by Patricia Cardoso. The story, based on Trisha Thomas'...
Producer Tom Rosenberg says activity on Underworld 2 is starting to gear up. He says the story for the sequel will follow on from the original. "I think the real intense followers of the whole saga will really love the...
Jeff Bridges has signed on to join Terry Gilliam's Tideland , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Bridges and Gilliam have previously worked on the Oscar-winning feature 'The Fisher King'. Based on Mitch Cullin's...
First Look Media have bought the rights to writer-helmer John Simpson's futuristic thriller Freeze Frame , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project, starring Lee Evans, Rachael Stirling and Colin Salmon, follows...
Jude Law, who plays the lead role in the upcoming Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow , says that shooting for the movie using blue screen presented many difficulties. "I think that every film you make, there's always...
Peter Jackson, director of the King Kong remake, says his version of the film will be different from the original, in that it will focus more on character development, especially Kong. "He's a very old gorilla and he's...
Elisabeth Shue has signed on to star in DreamWorks Dreamer , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project, helmed by John Gatins, follows the story of a Kentucky horse trainer and his daughter, who rescue a horse...
Angie Harmon is set to join Tea Leoni and Jim Carrey in Columbia Pictures' Fun With Dick and Jane , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The original, which starred George Segal and Jane Fonda, followed an upwardly...
Jennifer Tilly and 9-year-old Jodelle Ferland have signed up to star in Terry Gilliam's upcoming feature Tideland , says the Hollywood Reporter. The project, based on Mitch Cullin's Southern gothic novel, follows the...
Eddie Murphy is starring in and likely producing an untitled comedy for DreamWorks, according to Variety. Scribes Josh Sternin and Jeffrey Ventimilia have been hired to write the pic, in a high six- against low-seven...
Rachel McAdams ( The Notebook ) and Cillian Murphy ( 28 Days Later ) are set to lead the DreamWorks' thriller Red Eye , which Wes Craven is directing, according to Variety. Concerns a woman (McAdams) who is held captive...
KaDee Strickland ( Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid ) and Ione Skye ( Say Anything... ) are signing on to play opposite Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon in the Farrelly brothers movie Fever Pitch , according to...
Brent Forrester is to adapt The Spiderwick Chronicles for Nickelodeon Movies with Mark Waters directing, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Spiderwick is a best-selling children's book series that details the...
Jeremy Piven has joined Al Pacino, Matthew McConaughey and Rene Russo in the Morgan Creek's Two for the Money , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by D.J. Caruso, sees McConaughey as a star college football...
Charlize Theron has suffered an injury on the set of Paramount Pictures/MTV Films' Aeon Flux , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project is said to have been forced to shut down for an indefinite number of weeks....
Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball) has signed on to rewrite and direct Fox 2000's I Know This Much Is True , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project, based on the Wally Lamb novel, spans several...
Director Mark Waters and scribe Harley Peyton have signed up for New Line Cinemas Henry's List of Wrongs , says the Hollywood Reporter. 'Wrongs' tells the tale of a shy boy who gets dumped at the prom, with the incident...
Palm Pictures have bought the rights to Ecuadorian-born writer-helmer Sebastian Cordero's Spanish-language crime thriller 'Cronicas', according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film, which screened at this year's Festival...