McG, who recently quit as director of Warner Bros. upcoming Superman movie, says that he and the executives at the studio could not agree on the focus of the story. "I was passionate about telling the genesis story, and...
Jessica Yu has signed on to make the offbeat comic drama The Cake Eaters , according to Variety. The project, scripted by and starring Jayce Bartok, is set in small-town America over the course of two days, the contempo...
Clark Johnson has signed on to direct New Line Cinema's thriller Killing Floor , according to Variety. The project, adapted by John Rogers, will be based on the novel by Lee Child. The story concerns an ex-military...
Warner Bros. Pictures are set to adapt one of the oldest poems in English literature - Beowulf - for the big screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Written in Old English and dating back to the eighth century, the...
Lions Gate Films have bought the rights to Josh Lieb's Party Boys , says the Hollywood Reporter. Braxton Pope and Andrew Weiner are set to produce. "We are proud to work with such a funny, talented writer as Josh Lieb...
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are teaming up with Wes Craven ( Scream ) to produce horror movie Feast , according to USA Today. Written by first-timers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, Feast takes place in a remote bar...
Lindsay Lohan is in final talks to topline Lady Luck for a fee of $7 million, according to Variety. Director Donald Petrie ( How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days ) is to direct the comedy, which concerns the luckiest girl in...
David Hasselhoff talked about the Knight Rider movie to Empire Magazine during an interview with them. "Right now we're still working on a script," he Empire. "The first couple of scripts came in and just weren't what we...
Writer John Brancato ( Terminator 3 ) talked to Latino Review about the development of Terminator 4 without Arnold Schwarzenegger in the lead role. He also talked about a possible new character taking his lead. "We did...
George Romero is set to direct the zombie horror sequel Land of the Dead , according to Variety. The horror film will pick up on the zombie saga he hatched with "Night of the Living Dead" and continued with "Dawn of the...
Writers Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen ( Garfield ) are to write the script to The Partridge Family movie, according to the Hollywood Reporter. They have come on board to adapt the big-screen adaptation of the popular...
Jessica Alba has signed on to play the Invisible Girl for 20th Century Fox's upcoming Marvel Comics adaptation Fantastic Four , says the Hollywood Reporter. Alba is said to have competed with Rachel McAdams and Elizabeth...
Ben Affleck has dropped out of Disney's Glory Road , which was set to start shooting in less than a month. According to Reuters sources, his departure had to do with his deal, not the $5 million payday, but the...
Frances McDormand is in talks to join Charlize Theron in Warner Bros. Pictures drama Class Action , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project, helmed by Niki Caro, is a fictionalized account of the first...
Maria Bello is in talks to join Viggo Mortensen in New Line Cinema's adaptation of A History of Violence , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project, to be helmed by David Cronenberg, tells the story of an...
Tommy Lee Jones is set to make his feature directing debut with The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada , in which he will also star, according to Reuters. The story follows ranch hand Pete Perkins (Jones), who attempts...
Kristin Chenoweth and Reese Witherspoon are in talks for voice roles in Walt Disney's animation Rapunzel: Unbraided , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Chenoweth would play the classic role of Rapunzel, the...
Chris Carter (creator "The X-Files") is set to direct the big-screen adaptation of British author Philip Kerr's A Philosophical Investigation , according to the Hollywood Reporter. "The property was brought to me while...
Steve Carell ( Anchorman ) is to lead in the comedy Furry Vengeance , according to the Hollywood Reporter. He will play a cutthroat real estate developer who meets his match in the animals that will be rendered homeless...
Kurt Russell is to star and make his directorial debut with Dreamer , according to the Hollywood Reporter. True story-inspired project about a Kentucky horse trainer and his 11-year-old son who rescue a horse with a...
David Letterman has come aboard Amy Sedaris's Strangers With Candy: The Movie as a producer, the first time the talk show host has done that, according to Variety, Based on the Comedy Central of the same name. Letterman...
Paramount Pictures are to remake The Ten Commandments for the third time, according to The Hollywood Reporter. While a new Moses movie could tap into some of the same religious fervor that blessed Mel Gibson's The...
Rapstar Nelly (Cornell Haynes Jr.) will make his bigscreen debut in The Longest Yard , according to Variety. With Adam Sandler, Chris Rock and Burt Reynolds starring in the lead roles, Nelly will portray a running back...
Sharon Stone will reprise her role in the sequel Basic Instinct 2 , after ending a dispute with the film's producers, according to the Herald Sun. And she may appear nude again in the follow-up. "I'm like, 'Does anybody...
Director McG has dropped out of Warner Bros.' Superman franchise, says Variety. McG is the second director to have quit the project after Brett Ratner. McG and studio are said to have been unable to reach an agreement...
Will Smith, who stars in the upcoming I, Robot movie, says that the film features his first full nude scene. He adds that the scene was very important for the plot. "Oh, absolutely, absolutely," Smith told Sci-Fi Wire ....
Alec Baldwin has signed on to join Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy Elizabethtown , according to Variety. The project, which stars Kirsten Dunst, Orlando Bloom and Susan Sarandon, centers on an unexpected romance that...
Anthony Mackie has signed on to join JC Barros' indie ensemble drama Uptown Stories , says the Hollywood Reporter. The movie is a drama centering on a New York neighborhood and the intertwining lives of its residents.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson talked to Empire Online about his interest in starring in the proposed video game adaptation of Doom which he might squeeze in before his movie Spy Hunter . "Spy-Hunter’s great. John Woo’s on...
Clint Eastwood is set to direct an adaptation of Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima which Steven Spielberg will produce, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The battle, which took place in the winter of 1945, was...
Shia LaBeouf I, Robot talked to USA Today about his possibly playing the role of Jimmy Olsen in McG's Superman . "I met with McG (the director) today and talked about Jimmy Olsen and who's going to be playing who," said...
Here is the first look from the sequel Seed of Chucky . The movie stars Brad Dourif, Jennifer Tilly and Billy Boyd, in the horror movie. The picture was featured in Judao a Brazilian website.
Tom Hanks is to star in the biopic of the American singer Dean Reed, according to Variety. Dean Reed was an American singer, actor and filmmaker whose 15-year career in East Germany was halted by his mysterious death in...
'Police Academy' is set to make a comeback after an absence of a decade. Warner Bros/Village Roadshow are gearing up to make the eighth sequel, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project is currently out to...
Director Jonathan Frakes has been speaking about Thunderbirds , calling it a film with a little something for everyone. "It's a coming-of-age story," Frakes told Sci-Fi Wire . "There are three kids at the center of it,...
Chris Evans and Ioan Gruffudd have signed on to join 20th Century Fox' Fantastic Four , says the Hollywood Reporter. The Marvel comic adaptation follows the adventure-seeking quartet of scientist Reed Richards/Mr....
Mena Suvari is set to join Jennifer Aniston in an untitled Ted Griffin project , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Suvari will play Annie, the younger sister of Aniston's character, whose wedding brings all the...
Jonathan Liebesman has signed on to direct Phoenix Pictures thriller Mile Zero , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film follows a young woman's efforts to clear her father's name in a series of murders at a remote...
Mark Pellington ( Arlington Road ) has come onboard to direct the Harrison Ford starrer The Wrong Element , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Penned by Joe Forte, the project revolves around the kidnapping of the wife...
Brendan Fraser is talks to provide the voice of the title character in feature toon Big Bug Man , which has begun production, according to Variety. The movie concerns a hapless guy who works for a crooked candy company...
Peter Sarsgaard is in negotiations to star in Flight Plan opposite Jodie Foster, according to the Hollywood Reporter, with Robert Schwentke directing. Described as a Hitchcockian thriller, Flight Plan follows the in-air...
Charlie Matthau has begun directing Her Minor Thing , starring Estella Warren, Michael Weatherly, Christian Kane and Rachel Dratch, according to Variety. The movie follows the comic misadventures that develop when a...
The remake of Alfie is going to be called Alfie , according to Variety, which is to star Jude Law, Marisa Tomei, Susan Sarandon, Nia Long and Omar Epps, with Charles Shyer directing. Paramount's decided against using...
Denzel Washington is to direct the life story of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., based on Wil Haygood's book In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis Jr , according to Variety. Washington is not planning to act in the...
Jennifer Garner, who plays Elektra in the 'Daredevil'-spinoff, says that the movie will remain true to Frank Miller's graphic novels, on which the movie is based. "Elektra is lethal," Garner told Sci-Fi Wire . "In...
Vera Farmiga and Johnny Messner have signed up to star in Wayne Kramer's Running Scared , says the Hollywood Reporter. They will be joining Paul Walker in the project, which is currently shooting in the Czech Republic....
Jason Hoffs is set to make the family project Unleashed for DreamWorks, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project, penned by Caroline Case, revolves around a show dog who, after losing the preliminaries on the dog...
Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio are set to rewrite 12 Days of Christmas for Universal Pictures, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The writing duo will give the original script a complete overhaul. Previously, 'Christmas'...
Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg are to write the comedy All You Can Eat for New Line Cinema, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project is a broad comedy set in the world of eating contests.
Brian De Palma's 1987 The Untouchables is getting a prequel spinoff in the form of The Untouchables: Mother's Day , according to Variety. Antoine Fuqua is looking to direct the project which will focus on the rise of...