Christian Bale is in talks to star in the revenge drama project, which was once known as The Low Dweller and is being directed by Crazy Heart helmer Scott Cooper. Relativity is behind the project. Furnace was a hot spec...
Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman has been offered the lead of MGM’s remake of Robocop, the 1987 sci-fi action movie about a cyborg policeman. Kinnaman is the male lead of AMC’s The Killing who came to Hollywood’s attention...
Ewen Bremner has joined the cast of the sci-fi thriller " Snow Piercer ." Bong Joon-ho is helming from a script he co-penned with Kelly Masterson; Park Chan-wook is producing. Set in a world covered in snow and ice, the...
Lea Seydoux, the rising French thesp last seen in "Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol" and Berlin opener "Farewell, My Queen," has joined the cast of Abdellatif Kechiche's " Blue Is a Hot Color ." "Blue," a €3.98...
"Piranha 3DD" star Matt Bush has joined the cast of Warner Bros.' " Trouble With the Curve ." Randy Brown wrote the script, in which Eastwood plays an aging baseball scout with vision problems who takes a road trip to...
DreamWorks Animation has assembled a massive voice cast for its latest animated production, Turbo . Paul Giamatti, Michael Pena, Luis Guzmán, Bill Hader, Richard Jenkins, Ken Jeong, Michelle Rodriguez, Maya Rudolph, Ben...
Guillermo del Toro has come onboard with Reel FX to produce a CG-animated film with the working title " Day of the Dead ." Story's a "Romeo and Juliet"-style tale set against a Mexican " Day of the Dead " backdrop. It's...
James Woods, Mary Louise Parker and Ving Rhames are joining Jamesy Boy , an indie prison drama being toplined by newcomer Spencer LoFranco. Inspired by the real life of troubled teenager James Burns, the redemption story...
Lily Collins is in early talks to join Fox 2000 pic " Rosaline ," a twist on the "Romeo and Juliet" story that's based on Rebecca Serle's debut novel "When You Were Mine." In Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," Rosaline is...
Walden Media is moving ahead on development of " Rex Libris ," tapping Ben Zazove to adapt the humorous sci-fi graphic novel. Walden acquired feature rights to "Rex" last year, which follows the zombie-slaying adventures...
Salma Hayek has teamed up with the Doha Film Institute and Participant Media to adapt Khalil Gibran’s classic novel The Prophet into an animated feature for the big screen. The book of 26 poetic essays written in English...
Dwayne Johnson is in talks to star in MGM's " Hercules ," to be directed by Brett Ratner. Scribe Ryan Condol adapted Steve Moore's graphic novel " Hercules : The Thracian War," which debuted in May 2008 via Radical...
Edgar Wright is in negotiations to direct The Night Stalker , Disney confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter Wednesday. Johnny Depp is attached to star in the Disney project, a big-screen update of the 1970s television...
YouTube hit series " Svengali " is being turned into a feature film starring Martin Freeman ("The Hobbit"). It's the story of a smalltown guy from Wales who travels to London to fulfill his dream of becoming the manager...
The muscled ensemble of Michael Bay's " Pain and Gain " continues to grow, as "The Hurt Locker" star Anthony Mackie is in talks to join Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson as the third lead in Michael Bay's low-budget...
Sony has picked up script " Invertigo " from "Transformers" scribe Ehren Kruger. Kruger co-wrote the screenplay with Bradley Cramp and will also exec produce with partner Daniel Bobker. Neal Moritz, who brought the pic...
Oprah Winfrey may return to acting in what would be her first live-action movie since 1998’s Beloved. Winfrey is mulling an offer to co-star in The Butler , Precious director Lee Daniels’ story of Eugene Allen, a black...
Guillermo del Toro will direct " Beast ," a new take on the "Beauty and the Beast " tale that Warners has tapped "Bridget Jones's Diary" scribe Andrew Davies to write. WB's "Harry Potter" star Emma Watson is in final...
Laurence Fishburne is in final negotiation to star in The Colony , a $16 million Canadian indie feature scheduled to shoot in Toronto through March 30. Kevin Zegers is also near to joining the cast for the sci-fi...
Brit thesps Anna Friel, Tamsin Egerton and Imogen Poots are set to star alongside Steve Coogan in Michael Winterbottom's " King of Soho ." Pic, which is penned by Matt Greenhalgh ("Nowhere Boy," "Control"), is a comedy...
Michael Fassbender and screenwriter Ronan Bennett are developing a feature film about the legendary Celtic warrior Cuchulain , with Fassbender set to play the leading role. Set in the northern part of Ireland, the saga...
The Weinstein Co finally seems ready to move ahead on its long-planned adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, August: Osage County . The company announced Wednesday that it has attached Julia...
Paramount's signed director Michael Bay to a two-picture deal for "Pain and Gain" and "Tranformers 4." Based on a true story, "Pain and Gain" follows a group of bodybuilders who engaged in a campaign of kidnapping,...
British auteur Terence Davies is poised to make his long-awaited feature based on the classic Scottish novel " Sunset Song ." " Sunset Song ," written by Lewis Grassic Gibson, was published in 1932. Set in the early 20th...
Sienna Miller and Brendan Fraser have joined the cast of the indie " A Case of You " starring Justin Long and Evan Rachel Wood. Story revolves around a young writer who tries to impress a girl he meets online with an...
Gilllian Jacobs will have a one-night stand with Steve Carell. The actress, best known for her work on NBC’s Community, is joining Burt Wonderstone , New Line’s magician comedy starring Carell as a traditional magician...
Douglas Smith is in final negotiations to co-star in Fox 2000's " Percy Jackson & the Olympians : The Sea of Monsters." In this latest installment, Jackson and his friends head into the Sea of Monsters to find the...
Jennifer Aniston is attached to star in Paul Andrew Williams' comedy drama Miss You Already , giving the project a healthy glow for buyers at the EFM. Entertainment One prebought U.K., Australian and Canadian rights to...
Evan Rachel Wood and Danish thesp Mads Mikkelsen have joined the cast of " The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman ," which will see them co-star alongside Shia LaBeouf. The gritty pulp romancer, which is produced by...
Reaching beyond its usual festivals and distribution ops, Poland's New Horizons Assn. has boarded " Comrade Jesus ," from helmer Urszula Antoniak. New Horizons is producing " Comrade Jesus ," starring Andrzej Chyra. Pic...
Warner Bros. is looking to make some magic, optioning Terry Brooks' " Magic Kingdom of Landover " series of books for Akiva Goldsman's Weed Road Pictures and Andy Cohen's Grade A Entertainment. The film will be based on...
French actor Tahar Rahim, star of Jacques Audiard’s Oscar-nominated A Prophet, will play the lead in The Cut , the final entry in the famed Love, Death and the Devil trilogy from German director Fatih Akin that includes...
Emma Thompson is the latest to join the cast of Beautiful Creatures , Alcon’s adaptation of a young adult novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. The project, written and being directed by Richard LaGravanese, has been...
Saoirse Ronan is in final talks to star in Disney's " Order of Seven ," a project that was originally developed as a Kung Fu retelling of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Ronan would play Olivia Sinclair, a British...
"Modern Family" star Ty Burrell will spend his first post-Emmy hiatus co-starring in writer-director Dan Schechter's Elmore Leonard adaptation " Switch ." Set 15 years before the events in "Jackie Brown," story follows...
Jenna Fischer, Rita Wilson, Emily Osment, Steven Weber and Davenia McFadden have joined the cast of Kiss Me , an indie coming-of-age drama that is serving as the return to the director’s chair of longtime Survivor host...
Marking the second major deal of the European Film Market, Alliance Films has snapped up U.K. and Canadian rights to Kate Hudson starrer " Everly ." Story is based on a concept created by Lynch ("Knights of Badassdom")....
Billy Connolly is joining the cast of Peter Jackson's two "Hobbit" films as Dain Ironfoot, a great dwarf warrior. The J.R.R. Tolkien novel is set 60 years before "Lord of the Rings," with Bilbo the unassuming Hobbit who...
Arnold Schwarzenegger has completed his deal to star in action-thriller " The Tomb ," opposite Sylvester Stallone with Mikael Hafstrom directing. Story follows the world's foremost authority on structural security --...
John Goodman is set to reteam with his "Inside Llewyn Davis" co-star Justin Timberlake, as he's joined the cast of Robert Lorenz's baseball pic " Trouble With the Curve ." Clint Eastwood toplines the Warner Bros. film,...
The trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man has landed online following a preview in theaters Monday night. The Sony Pictures would-be blockbuster, slated for release July 3 in 3D, stars Andrew Garfield as closet superhero...
Catherine Keener is attached to play Tom Hanks' wife in Paul Greengrass' " Captain Phillips " for Sony. Pic, which is based on true events, stars Hanks as Richard Phillips, who allowed himself to be taken hostage by...
"Red Riding Hood" star Shiloh Fernandez is venturing back into the woods to star in FilmDistrict and Mandate's "Evil Dead" reboot, and will also topline "Deep Powder" for Killer Films. Helmed and penned by Fede Alvarez,...
Scott Glenn, Adam Beach, Michaela McManus and Kelly Curran have rounded out the cast of David Hackl's " Red Machine ." Pic centers around two estranged brothers (Marsden, Jane) who reconcile on a camping trip with their...
Katherine Heigl is in final negotiations to star in the Jim Henson Co.'s " The Happytime Murders ," which Stuart Ford's IM Global will launch to buyers at the European Film Market next week. Pic, which is directed by...
Mark Ruffalo has joined Scarlett Johansson in the pic "Can A Song Save Your Life?," which Exclusive Media is shopping to buyers in Berlin next week. Story sees a young female singer, who has just moved to New York City...
Working Title Films has dismissed any industry speculation that the production of the latest "Bridget Jones" pic is in trouble. In response to rumors that Hugh Grant had ankled the project, Tim Bevan, co-chairman of...
Director Catherine Hardwicke and Evan Rachel Wood could be reteaming for the first time since Thirteen on Plush , an erotic thriller set in the L.A. music world. Hardwicke wrote the script with Artie Nelson, and is...
The movie commercial spots for the Super Bowl just keep on coming. While teasers for the trailers that will air during the Super Bowl have been released for John Carter and The Avengers, and a full ad for G.I. Joe 2:...
Shia LaBeouf is breathing life back into " The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman ," the actor's long-gestating passion project that briefly had Zac Efron attached to star back when the film was set up at Mandate...