Dakota Fanning is going to star alongside Tom Cruise for director Steven Spielberg in War of the Worlds . Fanning will portray the daughter of Cruise's character in the production, which is being fast-tracked to start...
Columbia Pictures bought the rights to Outsourced , a comedy pitch from Timothy Dowling with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson attached to star, according to Variety. Outsourced focuses on an American factory that is shut...
Nicky Hilton is to join her sister Paris Hilton in her debut National Lampoon's Pledge This , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The movie has just headed into production on Monday in Miami with a full cast with Simon...
Filmmaker Kevin Smith is set to make the sequel to his first film Clerks with his latest project The Passion of the Clerks , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story, written especially for the original stars of...
Indian-born director Mira Nair says that she's been offered the helming chair for Harry Potter 5 . "I'm getting offers to direct Harry Potter [and the] Order of the Phoenix," Nair told the Delhi Times newspaper. "I read...
Chris Evans says that he modeled his Fantastic Four character, Johnny Storm, aka the Human Torch, on Tom Cruise's 'Top Gun'. "I went to Top Gun," Evans told Sci-Fi Wire . "A lot of these guys are pretty cocky hotshots...
Serenade Films have come onboard to make director Michael Cuesta's drama 12 and Holding , says Variety. The project, based on a script by Anthony Ciriano, sees the story of an accidental murder of a 12-year-old boy and...
David Schwimmer is set to direct the indie feature Run, Fat Boy, Run , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Written by actor-scribe Michael Ian Black, the project centers on a charming but oblivious overweight guy who...
Elisha Cuthbert is to star and co-produce the indie dramatic thriller Dot for director Jamie Babbit, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Cuthbert stars in the project as a popular and beautiful girl in a typical...
Lucy Liu is in talks to join Josh Hartnett in the noir gangster film Lucky Number Sleven , which Paul McGuigan is set to direct, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Liu would play Lynda, a sexy coroner who falls in love...
After Sandra Bullock departure from writer-director Ben Younger's Prime , Uma Thurman is being eyed up as a possible replacement, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Bullock has signaled that she will not do the film...
Brett Ratner is to direct the MGM gambling caper Breaking Vegas , with Kevin Spacey producing, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Project is based on Ben Mezrich's nonfiction bestseller "Bringing Down the House," about...
Scarlett Johansson is in talks to star with Ewan McGregor in the Michael Bay-directed feature The Island , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The Island centers on a "harvested being" who suddenly becomes self-aware...
Sigourney Weaver says shes interested in making Alien 5 , provided that the movie explores her character Ellen Ripley's dark side. Weaver says that she wants the franchise to return to its small beginnings by focusing on...
Sandra Bullock has dropped out of Ben Younger's Prime , two weeks before it was set to begin filming, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Bullock had been set to star as a thirtysomething woman who falls for her...
Lauren Holly, Angus MacFadyen, Lacey Chabert, Rachel Dratch, Angelo Spizzirri, Jill Bennett, Jason Mewes and Meat Loaf have all signed up for the indepedent feature The Pleasure Drivers , says the Hollywood Reporter. The...
Lord of the Rings stars Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis are reuniting to lend their voices for Flushed Away , with Hugh Jackman in talks to join them, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The animated feature is being made...
Dakota Fanning is in talks to star in DreamWorks potential franchise in adaptations of Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and 'Through the Looking Glass', according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project will be adapted by...
Aaron Eckhart, star of the upcoming paranormal thriller Suspect Zero, says he now believes in the psychic phenomenon of "remote viewing." "I didn't have training sessions, because I didn't need to know how to do it in...
David Self is set to rewrite the big-screen version of the Marvel Comics property Deathlok for Paramount and Marvel Studios, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Stu Zicherman and Raven Metzner wrote the first draft of...
Oscar nominee Samantha Morton and Oscar winner Chris Cooper are in talks to star in an United Artists' Untitled Truman Capote feature , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film, which sees Philip Seymour Hoffman...
Filmmaker Menno Meyjes has signed on for New Line Cinema's The Martian Child , says the Hollywood Reporter. The project, which stars John Cusack, is about a sci-fi writer (Cusack) who, wanting to be a dad, adopts a...
Paramount has hired Alyssa Embree, Stacey Harman and Jessica Koosed to write the teen comedy Best Friends Forever , says Variety. The project centers on a pair of girlfriends known for their constant high school hijinks...
Keenen Ivory, Marlon and Shawn Wayans have struck a deal to take the 1960s television show The Munsters to the big screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based about a family of friendly monsters who never quite...
Construction of some large New York monuments has started for 20th Century Fox's Fantastic Four , as production reports reach Cinescape. Word has reached us of an important and rather large set that's been constructed...
Josh Hartnett to reteam with Wicker Park director Paul McGuigan in noir gangster film Lucky Number Sleven , according to Variety. The drama is set in a world where African-American and Jewish gangsters collide. Hartnett...
Director Sam Weisman ( George of the Jungle ) has signed on to direct the family comedy Widow's Broom , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Chris Van Allsburg is adapting the feature from his book of the same name. The...
Director Mark Pellington has decided not to direct the Harrison Ford starrer The Wrong Element , according to Variety. Pellington came aboard in early July and has bowed out due to the death of his wife last week after a...
Ray Romano is to play a meat salesman in the San Fernando Valley in his next film, Grilled , according to AP . "There's a great guy named Sonny who is the best salesman in California," Romano said. "We had a meat-ology...
Ellen DeGeneres is to star in a remake of the 1977 comedy Oh, God! as God, a role originally performed by George Burns, according to Variety. Oh, God! starred John Denver and spawned two sequels. "Ellen is a strong...
John Whitesell ( Malibu's Most Wanted ) is to direct the sequel to the 2000 Martin Lawrence hit, Big Momma's House 2 , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Lawrence is reprising his role as an FBI agent who goes...
'Sopranos' writer Terence Winter is to write the script for Tony Scott's remake The Warriors , according to Variety. The Warriors first gained traction two years ago when Scott signed to direct an updated version of 1979...
Piper Perabo ( Cheaper by the Dozen ), has also signed on for back-to-back indie projects. The actress will first star opposite James Marsden in 10th and Wolf . Bobby Moresco is directing based on a story he and Chazz...
"Alias" creator JJ Abrams (Jeffrey Abrams) talked to About on his directorial debut Mission: Impossible 3 and what his doing now that it has been delayed, due to War of the Worlds . Since Frank Darabont wrote the...
Dakota Fanning is to star opposite Kurt Russell in DreamWorks' Dreamer for director John Gatins, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Shooting is scheduled to start next month, with Fanning heading off for horse training...
Ken Watanabe ( The Last Samurai ) has signed on to play the male lead in the film adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha with Zhang Ziyi ( Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ) in final negotiations to play the title character,...
Christopher Masterson ( Malcolm in the Middle ) has signed onto two independent films Intellectual Property and Waterborne , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The actor has teamed with Martin Berneman and Nick...
Samantha Morton is in talks to play Diane Arbus in a biopic of the seminal American photographer's life to be titled Fur and to be directed by Steven Shainberg, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Arbus, considered one...
Director Paul W.S. Anderson talked to SCI FI Wire about the future of the Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse franchise. "I think it's a franchise that has legs, and I would very much like to see a third movie," the filmmaker...
Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton and Chloe Sevigny are joining the cast of director Jim Jarmusch's Untitled: Jim Jarmusch Project that is to begin shooting next month, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Bill...
The remake of The War of the Worlds is reportedly set to become Hollywood's most expensive blockbuster, according to UK newspaper The Sun. The budget for the new movie will exceed the £110m it took to make Titanic....
Denzel Washington is no longer directing In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis Jr but is instead directing The Great Debaters , according to MTV. Based on a true story about an all-black high school debate team in...
Greg Coolidge is to rewrite and make his feature directing debut on the comedy Employee of the Month , according to Variety. Movie is about a duel between two slackers who become model Costco workers when they hear a new...
Negotiations have begun with director-producer Sam Raimi for a project titled Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash , according to the Hollywood Reporter. In the proposed sequel, Freddy (the A Nightmare on Elm Street films) and Jason...
Michelle Rodriguez, Matt Davis and Michael Madsen have been cast in BloodRayne , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on the popular video game of the same name, joining Ben Kingsley and Kristanna Loken. Uwe Boll...
Director Eli Roth ( Cabin Fever ) is set to direct the remake of horror The Bad Seed , according to Variety The original, about an 8-year-old girl who seems all sugar and spice until she begins killing people, falls...
Nicholas Turturro (NYPD Blue)has joined the cast of "The Longest Yard." Turturro will play the role of Brucie, a quarterback, which stars Adam Sandler, Burt Reynolds and Chris Rock. A remake of the 1974 feature, The...
Ian McKellen has signed up to provide the voice for the magical character Zebedee in the movie version of classic kids TV show The Magic Roundabout , according to Variety. McKellen joins a voice cast that includes Robbie...
J.J. Abrams will direct the third installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise starring Tom Cruise. Abrams, the screenwriter of Armageddon , is also the creator of 'Alias' and 'Felicity' as well as a writer on the...
Calista Flockhart (TV 'Ally McBeal') has signed on to star in the independent feature Fragile , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Shooting starts in Barcelona at the end of the month with Jaume Balaguero directing...