Warner Bros. Pictures has paid mid-six against seven figures to pick up feature film rights to Richard Morgan's debut sci-fi crime novel, "Altered Carbon," reports The Hollywood Reporter . "Altered Carbon" is described...
Myriad Pictures has optioned best-selling author/television producer Stephen J. Cannell's novel "Riding the Snake," reports The Hollywood Reporter . J. Cannell is on board to produce and adapt for the big screen. "Riding...
Michael Madsen (Mr. Blonde in "Reservoir Dogs") is currently looking for British investors to raise £8 million ($11.6 million) for "Red Light Runners" a crime pic set in London, reports Variety . Madsen will star...
Jackie Chan will star in a remake of "Around the World in Eighty Days" with Frank Coraci to direct, reports Variety . Remake of "Eighty Days," is being penned by Michael D. Weiss and David Titcher. Like the 1956...
Dimension Films has made a preemptive mid-six-figure spec deal for "The Golden Tux," a comedy written by Jeremy Garelick and Jay Lavender, reports Variety . "Road Trip" director Todd Phillips is attached to produce the...
Kirby Atkins has sold his spec script "S.P.O.O.K.S." (Special Paranormal Organization of Kids) to Miramax Films in a six figure deal, reports Variety . Atkins is a senior character animator on the Nickelodeon feature and...
South African producer Anant Singh ("Mr. Bones," "The Long Run," "Sarafina") has acquired the much pursued film rights to mind-and-body guru Deepak Chopra's novels "The Return of Merlin" and "Soulmate," reports Variety...
Heres news direct from the Peter Wingfield fanclub where he states that he will play a bad guy henchmen: Peter has just announced that he has a role in the next X-Men movie. Here's what he told the club: "I am playing...
UK Harry Potter Homepage is now hosting the full teaser trailer for "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." Click Here to download the Quicktime trailer Click here to view other formats of the trailer. They also say...
"Gilmore Girls" star Lauren Graham is making her move to the big-screen, signing to play the female lead of "Bad Santa," the Terry Zwigoff-directed black comedy for Dimension, reports Vareity . She joins Billy Bob...
On the basis of a 42-page partial manuscript, DreamWorks bought screen rights to "The Big Year," a nonfiction book that Mark Obmascik is writing, reports Variety . The deal comes with the producing attachments of Ben...
Now we have the official announcement by Warner Bros. that the sequel to "Scooby-Doo" has been green-lit. They have set an accelerated schedule for a 2004 release. "Scooby-Doo" opened to a $54 million opening weekend...
Jeff Daniels, Portia de Rossi and James Spader will star in "Eye Witness," reports Variety . To be helmed by Rowdy Herrington, political thriller concerns an international aid worker who goes to Mexico and becomes...
Dark Horizons got the exclusive "Dreamcatcher" movie poster. "Dreamcatcher" is an adaptation of Stephen King's most recent bestseller. Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Timothy Olyphant and more star in this...
Universal Studios Home Video is extending its special edition DVD strategy to include a companion CD being released with "The Scorpion King", which will feature previews from The Rocks new film "Helldorado," reports...
Fox Searchlight Pictures is going to "Club Dread" with the Broken Lizard Comedy Troop, reports Variety . Deal calls for the six-member group to write and perform in a comedy set at a Club Med-style resort. Project marks...
Liv Tyler is in negotiations to join Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in Miramax Films' "Jersey Girl" for filmmaker Kevin Smith. The project reteams Affleck and Tyler, who worked together on the 1998 feature "Armageddon."...
Franky G. and Mos Def have been added to the cast of remake "The Italian Job" for director F. Gary Gray. Scripted by Donna and Wayne Powers, "Job" is a remake of the 1969 Paramount release of the same name that starred...
Greg Kinnear is in negotiations to star opposite Hayden Christensen in Lions Gate Films' "Shattered Glass" from screenwriter Billy Ray, who also will make his directorial debut on the project. The film tells the true...
"Legally Blonde" helmer Robert Luketic is again being courted by DreamWorks Pictures, this time for the project "Win a Date With Tad Hamilton," reports The Hollywood Reporter Luketic is in talks to direct the Vic...
Scribe Kate Boutilier, who has sole writing credit on the upcoming animated film "The Wild Thornberrys," has closed back-to-back writing deals with the studios to script the sequel to "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius" and the...
Victoria has just got back from the 'Daredevil' press conference and has brought back some cool new pictures. Nearly everyone was there from Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Michael Clark Duncan, Jon Favreau, Joe...
Harry at AICN received a letter from David Twohy director to the sequel to "Pitch Black," "Riddick." So I wrote a treatment for a sequel two years ago, and it was deemed too big, too rich of a follow-up. Well, that was...
AICN has recieved the new "Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams" poster direct from Miramax. And here it is: If you look in the background you can see some cool animals fighting.
Here is the first picture of Colin Farrell as the villian Bullseye in the comic book adaptation "Daredevil," the picture was published in USA Today Here is the article: They've tried their hands at good-guy roles. Now...
Canadian newspaper The Province was on the set of 'X2' at Hatley Castle or as in the film known as The School for the Gifted. They also have a set report and some more pictures of the set, click on the image above.
The prequel based on the Thomas Harris novel 'Red Dragon' has released the trailer online today. Click on the image above Or go direct to the apple website by click here
Star Trek fans attending Starbase 21's Trek Expo in Tulsa this weekend will be getting the very first peek at the teaser trailer for "Star Trek: Nemesis." Scheduled to be shown in Tulsa this Saturday, June 22, the actual...
Paramount-based MTV Films has optioned the rights to British filmmaker Ash's new feature pic "The Bush," reports Variety . The movie is a comic story about the multi-cultural explosion of hip-hop on the American music...
Eva Green, daughter of French film star Marlene Jobert, and Louis Garrel, the son of Gallic helmer Philippe Garrel, have inked to co-star alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Dreamers," reports Variety...
Jessica Biel, Eric Balfour, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen and Mike Vogel are set to star in the remake of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," reports The Hollywood Reporter . The reconceptualized version of the classic...
Rachel Weisz is in final negotiations to star in back-to-back in "Runaway Jury" and "Envy," reports The Hollywood Reporter . First, the actress is near a deal to join John Cusack, Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman in the...
Peta Wilson has nabbed the lead female role in the Steve Norrington-directed "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," reports The Hollywood Reporter . Shooting is scheduled to start Monday. Wilson is in Prague prepping for...
Sony Pictures-based Escape Artists has paid mid-six figures for Karl Bakke's spec thriller script "Again" (aka "Lethe"), reports The Hollywood Reporter . "Again" is about a man who comes home from a business trip to find...
Sci-Fi Wire reports that "X²", the sequel to X-Men, has brought Brian Cox ("The Bourne Identity") onboard to play chief villain Stryker. Victoria's Hatley Castle will stand in for Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters,...
Producer Dean Devlin told Cinescape Online that the events of Sept. 11 helped spur him and partner Roland Emmerich to reconsider mounting a sequel to their SF hit film "Independence Day". "The big point for us was the...
Dwayne Johnson ("The Scorpion King") or more commonly known as The Rock says he wants to play Hawaii's most famous warrior-king, Kamehameha the Great, reports AP . A movie about the warrior who united the islands into...
"The Greatest Game Ever Played," a nonfiction Hyperion book written by "Twin Peaks" co-creator Mark Frost about golfer Francis Ouimet's unlikely 1913 U.S. Open victory over Harry Vardon. Frost will write the script and...
Writer-producer John Fasano ("Werewolf by Night") has inked a deal with MDP Worldwide to make his directorial debut on the horror project "Dead People," reports The Hollywood Reporter . Penned by Fasano, the project...
New Line Cinema has optioned Modern Humorist 's first film project, "Maggie," reports The Hollywood Reporter The project is a comedy about a 30-year-old slacker who unknowingly enlists the services of a sixtysomething...
Universal Pictures has acquired film rights to Richard Alfieri's comedic stage play "Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks," with Arthur Allan Seidelman attached to direct, reports Variety . "Dance," which Alfieri will adapt...
Columbia Pictures has picked up Eric Kripke's comedy pitch "Raising Hell" for Original Films to produce, reports The Hollywood Reporter . The project is described as a comedic feature inspired by "Rosemary's Baby" in...
Trent Ford ("Gosford Park") has been cast as the male lead opposite Mandy Moore in the comedy "How to Deal," reports The Hollywood Reporter . "Deal," penned by Neena Beber, stars Moore as a teenager surrounded by...
EW have got screenshots from the upcoming Brett Ratner directed prequel "Red Dragon". Ralph Fiennes, Emily Watson Sir Anthony Hopkins Ralph Fiennes Edward Norton, Sir Anthony Hopkins Mary-Louise Parker, Edward Norton...
The rumored Spears-NASCAR project has officially been given a green light, reports The Hollywood Reporter . Britney Spears Prods. have closed a category-exclusive agreement with NASCAR to develop and produce a dramatic...
Anjelica Huston is in negotiations to star opposite Eddie Murphy in the Revolution Studios comedy "Daddy Day Care" for director Steve Carr, reports The Hollywood Reporter . In the project Huston would play a rival...
A "Scooby-Doo" sequel is in the works for 2004, said Warner Bros. distribution president Dan Fellman, reports The Official Matthew Lillard Website . Producer Charles Roven, who developed the project through his Mosaic...
Actor Yaphet Kotto has signed on to bring Stan Lee's 35-year-old poem "God Woke" to the big screen, reports The Hollywood Reporter . Kotto will adapt and star in a feature film version of Lee's poem. "This is a natural...
"Maneater," the latest book by novelist and screenwriter Gigi Levangie Grazer ("Stepmom") has been bought by Mandalay Entertainment, in a deal worth more than $1 million, reports Variety . Described as "Jackie Collins on...
Chris and Paul Weitz (directors of "About a Boy" and "American Pie") are to adapth Stanley Weintraub's account of a WWI Christmas cease-fire, "White Night," reports Variety . "Silent Night," they said, will be...