Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden has joined the cast of IFC Films' ensemble drama American Gun , says the Hollywood Reporter. The movie, helmed by Aric Avelino, explores the lives of a set of people and how the...
Jamie Bell and Evan Parke have both signed up for Peter Jackson's King Kong , according to the Hollywood Reporter. They will join stars including Naomi Watts, Jack Black and Adrien Brody. Bell will play a young cameraman...
Spike Lee is in talks to direct the Los Angeles cop thriller The Night Watchman , says the Hollywood Reporter The project, based on a screenplay James Ellroy, is set in Los Angeles in the early '90s, and revolves around...
Naomi Watts talked to SciFi Wire about her character in the sequel The Ring 2 . Watts' character is now dealing with the deaths she caused in the first Ring, while still trying to save her son from the curse of Samara...
Julia Stiles is to join Forest Whitaker in psychological thriller A Little Trip to Heaven , according to Variety. Jeremy Renner ('S.W.A.T.', Lords of Dogtown ) also appears in the pic, the first English-lingo project for...
Kevin Costner and Meg Ryan will join in The Tortilla Curtain , an adaptation of the T.C. Boyle novel, according to Variety. Based on the story of two families, one wealthy and experiencing suburban angst, the other...
Director Fernando Meirelles' is developing a sequel to multiple Oscar nominee City of God , called City of Men , according to Variety. Douglas Silva and Darlan Cunha, two of the young actors in City of God , are expected...
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos is in negotiations to be the woman to Ben Affleck's Man About Town , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Mike Binder directing from his script, Man About Town is the story of a top Hollywood talent...
Derek Luke ( Friday Night Lights ) has signed on for the 1960s hoops drama Glory Road for producer Jerry Bruckheimer, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Also joining the cast is The Day After Tomorrow 's Austin...
Pierce Brosnan told Entertainment Weekly that he is quiting James Bond, "That's it," says the actor otherwise known as Bond, James Bond. "I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond." Brosnan said that "Bond...
Andrew Bryniarski, who played Leatherface in the remake The Texas Chainsaw Massacre talked to MTV about his return to the role for the recently announced prequel. "I just talked to the executive producers, and 2005 is...
Twentieth Century Fox has hired Doug Richardson to rewrite Die Hard 4 , according to Variety. Which is being developed under the supervision of star Bruce Willis. Die Hard With A Vengeance grossed $100 million domestic...
Michael Moore has decided on his next documentary which is called Sicko , his critique of health-maintenance organizations, according to AP. Moore would not provide details but said financing of his next movie was in the...
Billy Bob Thornton is set to star in New Line Cinema's comedy Mr. Woodcock for director Craig Gillespie, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The script centers on a young man who returns to his hometown to stop his...
Vin Diesel will star in Find Me Guilty , a drama to be directed by Sidney Lumet in New York this October, according to Variety Based on a true story concerns a mobster who refuses to play the rat and instead defends...
Jordana Brewster is set to star opposite James Franco in Walt Disney's drama Annapolis , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project, helmed by Justin Lin, follows a boy from the wrong side of the tracks whose dream...
Columbia Pictures have bought the rights to director Luke Greenfield's Soul Mates , says the Hollywood Reporter. 'Soul Mates' is described as a romantic comedy that charts a relationship between a man and woman who fall...
Twenty stars have signed up for helmer Rodrigo Garcia's indie drama Nine Lives , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story is a series of vignettes, offering glimpses into the lives of nine women, played by Kathy...
Ben Affleck is set to join Walt Disney's adventure feature Nowhere Men , says the Hollywood Reporter. The adventure is described as 'Ocean's Eleven' meets 'Men in Black'. It revolves around a group of people, one of whom...
British actor Rufus Sewell is set to join the cast of Columbia Pictures' 'Mask of Zorro' sequel Legend of Zorro , says the Hollywood Reporter. Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones have also signed on to reprise...
Lucasfilm have officially announced the title for Star Wars: Episode III as Revenge of the Sith , at Comic-Con International in San Diego REVENGE OF THE SITH "For some time now, the naming of a new Star Wars movie has...
Matt Damon is in talks to star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in The Departed , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The Departed is Warner Bros. Pictures' English-language remake of "Infernal Affairs" which Martin Scorsese...
Jennifer Aniston will star opposite Clive Owen in Derailed , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on James Siegel's best-selling novel. The film will mark Academy Award winner Mikael Hafstrom's English-language...
Darren Aronofsky will develop and direct Watchmen , which is being written by David Hayter, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Watchmen , created by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, was released as a 12-issue...
Jude Law has been cast as Jack Burden, the journo-narrator of Robert Penn Warren's novel All the King's Men , according to Variety. Sean Penn is in negotiations to star as Willie Stark, the Huey Long-like politician...
Natalie Portman, who plays Padme Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III , says she is set for reshoots next month with director George Lucas. "I haven't been told anything, so for all I know, it could be [simply] walking or...
Tea Leoni is in talks to replace Cameron Diaz in Columbia Pictures' Fun With Dick and Jane , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Diaz is said to be stepping aside because of a scheduling conflict arising from a change...
Monica Bellucci says she was excited to work with director Terry Gilliam in The Brothers Grimm . "He has the same fantasies as a baby," Bellucci told Sci-Fi Wire. "In the film we are in a fantasy world, and I play an...
The World Wrestling Entertainment is making its first foray into the feature film ring with a project called The Marine , says the Hollywood Reporter. Wrestler John Cena, also known as the 'Doctor of Thuganomics', will...
Scott Rudin and Paramount Pictures have pre-emptively bought the rights to Matt Ember and Tom Astle's Failure to Launch script, says the Hollywood Reporter. The story revolves around a thirtysomething guy and his...
Michael Bay is to make a prequel to their remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , according to Variety. After staving off a Dimension bid for the project that wound up costing New Line an extra $3 million to keep the...
Rick Berman talked to Sci Fi Wire about talks he has had with Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek: The Next Generation star and director) about a new Star Trek movie. Berman also said that the talks were "very, very early," and...
Ron Howard may direct the adaptation of John Steinbeck's East of Eden , according to Variety. Paul Attanasio will adapt the novel. Steinbeck's modern retelling of the Cain and Abel story was published in 1952, and was...
MTV Films is set to produce a film built around the Usher, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project was brought to MTV by the performer's mother and manager, Jonnetta Patton. While the story line is being kept...
Wesley Snipes is to star in action Seven Seconds , according to Variety. Simon Fellows directs from a script by Martin Wheeler. Follows a heist expert who accidentally steals a bag containing a Van Gogh and must find a...
Cruel World has started filming which stars Edward Furlong ( Terminator 2: Judgment Day ), Susan Ward and Jaime Pressley, according to Variety. Follows a scorned reality TV show runnerup who traps nine college students...
A sequel to The Italian Job is being planned by Paramount Pictures, according to Variety. The F. Gary Gray directed remake starred Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron and Edward Norton. The original 1969 heist hit starred...
French director Sylvain Chomet ( The Triplets of Belleville ) has been tapped to helm Universal Pictures The Tale of Despereaux , says the Hollywood Reporter. The script for the film will be based on Kate DiCamillo's...
Day After Tomorrow scribe Jeffrey Nachmanoff and director Roland Emmerich are teaming up again for Columbia Pictures One Nation , says the Hollywood Reporter. The project's plot line involves an impeached president who...
Will Ferrell is in talks to star in Marc Forster's comedy Stranger Than Fiction , says Variety. The project, scripted by Zach Helm, revolves around an IRS auditor whose life is interrupted by the sound of a personal...
Writer/producer Ronald Shusett and Daniel Alter have teamed up to preemtively buy the feature film rights to Jordan Raskin's Industry of War , says the Hollywood Reporter. The book is about undercover government agents...
Palm Pictures have bought the rights to Kevin Fitzgerald's 2000 feature documentary Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film explores the world of improvisational rap and specifically...
Screenwriter Jonathan Davis has signed on for Universal Pictures to rewrite Eli Roth's Scavenger Hunt , says the Hollywood Reporter. The first draft was originally written by Roth, who will direct the feature, and is...
Bryan Singer ( X-Men ) has signed on to direct the Warner Bros.' Superman , after McG left just a few days ago, according to Variety. A tug-of-war over Singer's next project had been going on for weeks, with the third...
Nick Cannon is teaming up with Lindsay Lohan for an untitled romantic comedy, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Tom Brady will write and direct the feature. The story centers on a young girl (Lohan) trying to make it...
Colin Farrell talked to About.com about Alexander , during an interview they had for A Home at the End of the World , here is what he had to say: What did you think when there were several competing Alexander the Great...
Russell Crowe is in negotiations to topline the big-screen adaptation of Australian author Murray Bail's award-winning novel Eucalyptus , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project would reunite Crowe with director...
Peter Jackson may actually direct The Hobbit , the prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Jackson has on many occasions expressed his interest in directing the sequel but due to legal issues of the rights to the J.R.R...
Joe Carnahan ( Narc ) has dropped out of directing Mission: Impossible 3 , due to creative differences, according to the Hollywood Reporter. According to Rob Friedman, vice chairman of the Paramount Pictures Motion...
Producer Frank Marshall says that ongoing script changes will delay Indiana Jones 4 for at least another year. "Indiana Jones [IV] is still in the writing stage," Marshall told Sci-Fi Wire . "It's still a live project,...