Cameron Diaz is heading back to school for Columbia Pictures’ raunchy comedy “ Bad Teacher .” Story centers on a foulmouthed, gold-digging middle-school teacher who, after getting dumped by her boyfriend, competes with a...
Dougray Scott ("Hitman") will topline indie romantic fantasy " The Veil of Maya ," with Dana Lustig directing. Story, penned by Alex Kustanovich and Vadim Moldovan, is a Kafkaesque story of a woman who travels back in...
Tony-winning actress Donna Murphy is readying her hair stylist for " Rapunzel ," joining Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi in Disney's animated movie. Byron Howard and Nathan Greno ("Bolt") are directing the musical comedy,...
Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston might be playing pretend. Columbia is developing " Pretend Wife ," a romantic comedy that would serve as a Sandler vehicle and is in the process of gathering the wedding party. Aniston...
"Prison Break" actor Lane Garrison, out of jail after serving time for vehicular manslaughter, is taking on a project about troubled teens and the redemptive power of football. Garrison is writing the screenplay for "...
"Young Victoria" director Jean-Marc Vallee has found his next project: " Lost Girls and Love Hotels ." Kate Bosworth is attached to star and is also producing with Relativity Media. The story centers on a woman...
Elijah Wood and Robin Williams are in negotiations to reprise their roles as lead voices in " Happy Feet 2," Warner Bros.' sequel to Village Roadshow's 2006 Oscar-winning animated hit. George Miller is back in the...
Patricia Clarkson, Devon Graye, Madeleine Martin, Danny Glover and wrestling champ John Cena have been cast in " Brother's Keeper ," a PG-rated family drama from WWE Films. Mel Damski ("Mischief") will direct a...
Lone Scherfig is lining up her first project since directing "An Education." The Danish helmer is in negotiations to helm " One Day ," a romantic comedy based on a novel by British author David Nicholls set up at Focus....
Paramount is looking to "New Moon" hunk Taylor Lautner to help launch another action franchise with " Max Steel ," based on the Mattel toy property. The teenager has signed on to star in the project, which centers on a...
Bennett Miller is in negotiations to direct Columbia's " Moneyball ," the on-again, off-again baseball drama starring Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's who rewrote the unwritten rulebook of...
Overture Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to dramatic thriller " Stone ," starring Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Milla Jovovich and Frances Conroy. Project's directed by John Curran ("The Painted Veil") from...
Harold Perrineau has joined Nicolas Cage, January Jones and Guy Pearce in Endgame Entertainment's dramatic thriller " Hungry Rabbit Jumps ." Story's centered on a high school chemistry teacher, played by Cage, whose wife...
"There Will Be Blood" writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson is working on his next project, a period drama to star Philip Seymour Hoffman as a founder of a new religious organization in the 1950s. Hoffman, who has played...
Charles Shyer will direct the comedy " BFF " for Wind Dancer Films. The female buddy comedy follows childhood best friends who reunite years later in Manhattan and discover that one has become successful while the other...
Summit Entertainment, fresh off the success of "New Moon," has come onboard a feature version of Top Cow's comicbook " Alibi ," with Mandeville toppers David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman producing. Comicbook, published...
Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester are set to star in Screen Gems' country singing drama " Love Don't Let Me Down ," which Shana Feste wrote and is directing. In "Love," Hedlund plays a...
Keith Arem is heading to the front lines. The talent director of the record-breaking Activision Blizzard video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," which has now grossed $3 billion, will make his feature directing...
Peter Jackson is predicting production of " The Hobbit " films will start in the middle of next summer, a few months later than expected. Jackson made the projection in a recent interview with a German web site to...
Tom Cavanagh has signed on to play Ranger Smith in " Yogi Bear ," Warner Bros.' live- action/CG animated pic that has begun shooting in New Zealand. Cavanagh is the male lead and romantic interest of a documentary...
John Madden is in talks to direct Columbia Pictures' redo of the classic musical " My Fair Lady ." Madden, who is completing production on the Helen Mirren starrer "The Debt" for Miramax and Marv Films, will ramp up the...
Peter Stormare and Rolf Lassgard will star in “ The Hunters 2 ,” the long-awaited sequel to the 1996 Swedish hit thriller. Kjell Sundvall, who helmed “The Hunters,” will helm the sequel. In “ The Hunters 2 ,” Lassgard´s...
Thomas Dekker, Lynn Collins, Jeremy Piven and Kate Walsh are starring in " Waska ," an indie drama being produced by Tim Perell and Shirley Vercruysse of Process Film. Based on a novel by Leslie Schwartz, the story...
"Hairspray" helmer Adam Shankman is signing on to direct and choreograph the screen version of the Broadway musical " Rock of Ages " for New Line Cinema. The tuner tells of two people who meet at the Sunset Strip club...
Naomie Harris has boarded helmer Justin Chadwick’s Kenya-set drama “ The First Grader ,” based on the true story of 84-year-old Kenyan Kimani Nganga Maruge, who attempted to take advantage of a Kenyan government...
Roadside Attractions has picked up U.S. theatrical rights to social satire " The Joneses ," toplining Demi Moore and David Duchovny. Borte also scripted the film, about a seemingly perfect family that turns out to be a...
Brad Pitt's Plan B shingle and Indian media conglom Reliance Big Entertainment have inked a deal with vidgame company Capcom to develop a feature film based on the " Dark Void " computer game as a potential franchise and...
"The Mentalist" star Simon Baker and producer Mark Johnson have teamed to acquire feature rights to the Tim Winton novel " Breath ." Published in 2008, the novel is set in a small town in Western Australia where two...
Sally Hawkins and William H. Macy have boarded Abe Sylvia's feature directorial debut, " Dirty Girl ," a 1980s-set coming-of-age comedy that's being shopped at the American Film Market. Story revolves around a high...
Lakeshore Entertainment has signed Brazilian director Heitor Dhalia to helm the espionage thriller " April 23 ." " April 23 " is based on Erje Ayden's book "Sadness at Leaving: An Espionage Romance." Weg is penning the...
Roger Donaldson ("The Bank Job," "The World's Fastest Indian") has signed to helm and produce the period drama " Honor Among Men ," according to a source close to the production. The pic, which is being scripted by...
Warner Bros. is pre-emptively picking up an untitled comedy spec by Josh Cagan and Greg Coolidge to which Morgan Freeman is attached to star and Peter Segal is eyeing to direct. The script, which had a working title of "...
Terrel Seltzer has sold her original screenplay " Rule #1 " to Fox Searchlight, with Reese Witherspoon attached to star and produce. Brad Epstein ("About a Boy") is producing the project, about a New York woman who...
Kat Dennings ("Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist") has joined the cast of " Thor ," the Marvel Studios production that begins production in January. Anthony Hopkins, Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston have been cast,...
Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy are in negotiations to star in “ Fury Road ,” this century’s installment of the “Mad Max” movie series from writer-director George Miller. While story details are being kept under wraps, the...
Josh Klausner as been tapped to adapt Adena Halpern's novel " The Ten Best Days of My Life ," which Fox is developing as a starring vehicle for Amy Adams and possible directing vehicle for Shawn Levy. The book centers on...
Uma Thurman will soon be making time with Rob Pattinson. The actress has signed to star opposite the "Twilight" star in an adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story " Bel Ami ." "Ami" tells of George Duroy...
Sam Worthington is heading back to the future again. The "Avatar" star, who recently toplined "Terminator Salvation," is attached to star in yet another sci-fier: " The Last Days of American Crime ." Set in the...
Brett Ratner is re-editing an English-language version of Reliance BIG Pictures and Rakesh Roshan's " Kites ," which will be released internationally in both Hindi and English, while in India it will play only in Hindi....
Gravity Films has attached Katherine Brooks to direct " Freak ," based on the life of jockey Julie Krone. Brooks also adapted the screenplay from Krone's autobiography, "Riding for My Life," which details her history as...
Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer have been given the keys to " Uncharted: Drake Fortune ." "Uncharted" follows a treasure hunter named Nate Drake, a descendent of explorer Sir Francis Drake who believes he has...
Jennifer Hudson is set to star in “ Winnie ,” a drama that casts her as the former wife of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela. Hudson will play Winnie Mandela in a film that begins production May 30 in...
Justin Theroux is heading to space. The actor-cum-writer is on board to pen a draft of " Space Invader ," an astronaut romantic comedy set up at Fox. Mike Lisbe and Nate Reger sold the project and penned the original...
Demian Bichir has signed on to star in the Mexican film " Hidalgo-Moliere ," about the father of the Mexican independence movement. Antonio Serrano ("Sex, Shame and Tears") is directing " Hidalgo-Moliere ," which focuses...
Helmer Lee Daniels is in advanced negotiations to direct " Selma ," which will trace the historic 1965 march in the Alabama town that marked the political and emotional peak of the civil rights movement. Daniels, whose...
Lewis Colick has been tapped to pen the feature adaptation of " Three Little Words ," which James Mangold and Cathy Konrad are developing with Jami Gertz's Lime Orchard Prods. Colick's pic credits include "October Sky,"...
Owen Wilson has signed on to voice the rascally Great Dane " Marmaduke ," Fox and New Regency's adaptation of the long-running comic strip. In adapting the strip created in 1954 by Brad Anderson and Phil Leeming, the...
Anna Faris is in negotiations to star as Robin Williams' daughter in " Wedding Banned ," a romantic comedy for Touchstone. "Banned" revolves around a long-divorced couple who kidnap their daughter (Faris) on her wedding...
Keir Gilchrist has nabbed the lead role in " It's Kind of a Funny Story ," Focus' coming-of-age film from writer-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. The comedy-drama adaptation of Ned Vizzini's 2006 novel centers on...
"Grey's Anatomy" star Eric Dane has joined " Burlesque ," Screen Gems' musical drama which stars Christina Aguilera and Cher. " Burlesque " centers on the journey of an ambitious small-town girl (Aguilera) with a...