Brit Andrew Douglas will helm " The Perfect Assassin ," being produced by "The Orphanage" co-producers Joaquin Padro and Mar Targarona at Barcelona's Rodar y Rodar, and Robyn Slovo at London's Company Pictures. Set in...
Melora Hardin, Mark Feuerstein and World Wrestling Entertainment star Paul "Big Show" Wight are starring in " Knucklehead ," a comedy-adventure Michael Watkins is directing from WWE Studios. The film centers on a fight...
Disney has preemptively picked up " Reel to Real ," a family fantasy pitch by Eric Saiet and Andrea Maywhort-Scully. The story involves a magical film projector. Casey Wolfe is overseeing for the studio. The deal was...
Quentin Tarantino confirmed he will be making the third installment of the "Kill Bill" series Saturday at the Morelia Film Festival. There to promote "Inglourious Basterds" -- the festival opener -- the filmmaker said he...
Mark Wahlberg is taking a global tour. The actor has come on board to star in " Reykjavik-Rotterdam ," a remake of an Icelandic thriller that has been set up at Working Title. The plot centers on a security guard and...
Liam Neeson has joined the cast of Lionsgate's Paul Haggis thriller " The Next Three Days ." Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks topline the movie, which revolves around a woman imprisoned for a murder she claims she...
Uma Thurman will star in " Ceremony ," a Max Winkler-directed comedy produced and financed by Nala Films. Michael Angarano is set to play a young man who falls for an older woman (Thurman) who is about to get married.
Rebecca Hall is in talks to star in " Liars (A-E)," the Richard Linklater-directed comedy for Miramax. Scott Rudin is producing. Hall will play a woman who is dumped by her rocker fiancé on the eve of Barack Obama's...
Warner Bros. has set Michelle Monaghan to star alongside Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis in " Due Date ," the Todd Phillips-directed comedy. Monaghan will portray the pregnant wife of a guy (Downey) who races...
Daniel Dae Kim and Michael Kelly have been cast in " The Adjustment Bureau ," an MRC project for Universal Pictures written and being directed by George Nolfi. John Slattery also has been cast. The story, which Nolfi...
CBS Films is in talks with George Tillman Jr. to direct " Faster ," an action drama that will star Dwayne Johnson. Production is set for early 2010. When Johnson began negotiating, his "Gridiron Gang" helmer Phil Joanou...
Alcon Entertainment are fast-tracking " Prisoners ," a thriller that Antoine Fuqua is in final negotiations to direct. Script by newcomer Aaron Guzikowski concerns a small-town carpenter whose wife and daughter are...
Jamie Foxx is boarding the cast of " Due Date ," Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures' latest Todd Phillips comedy. Foxx joins Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis in the road-trip movie about a high-strung...
Hugh Jackman is in talks to star in the Shawn Levy-directed " Real Steel " for DreamWorks. Project is a "Rocky"-esque tale of a fighter who has to reinvent himself when human boxers are replaced by robots. Jackman is...
Universal Pictures has set Josh Brolin to star in " Cartel ," the Asger Leth-directed drama that will begin shooting January in Mexico City. Brolin takes the role Sean Penn was to perform until he left the project in...
Canadian thesp Deborah Kara Unger ("88 Minutes," "Crash") and the U.K.'s James Nesbitt ("Bloody Sunday," "Match Point") have joined Martin Sheen to star in the Emilio Estevez-directed family drama " The Way ." It tells...
Unique Features has acquired screen rights to " Shiver ," a bestselling supernatural romance novel by Maggie Stiefvater that is the first of a three-book series. Book covers a bittersweet paranormal romance between a...
Jessica Alba is becoming a Focker. The actress is in negotiations to join the Ben Stiller-Robert DeNiro comedy " Little Fockers ." She'd play the role of an attractive pharmaceutical rep whose looks wreak havoc on male...
John C. Reilly is joining Ed Helms in " Cedar Rapids ," Fox Searchlight's ensemble road-trip comedy that Miguel Arteta is directing. The story, by Phil Johnston, centers on a wholesome and naive small-town Wisconsin man...
Marc Webb is feeling the love. The up-and-coming director of "(500) Days of Summer" is in negotiations to produce and direct " Just Another Love Story ," the remake of the Danish thriller that's been set up Mandate...
George Tillman is in final negotiations to helm " Faster ," the Dwayne Johnson-toplined revenge drama. " Faster " centers on Johnson, an ex-con named Driver who seeks to avenge the death of his brother in a bothcd heist...
Olivia Wilde and Jonathan Tucker have joined the cast of " The Next Three Days ," Paul Haggis' thriller at Lionsgate. Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks topline the movie, which revolves around a woman imprisoned for a...
In a high six-figure deal, Columbia Pictures has acquired screen rights to " Enron ," the Lucy Prebble-penned play that dramatizes the scandalous rise and fall of the Texas energy company. The play is a story of greed...
Columbia Pictures and director David Fincher have set the core cast for " The Social Network ," the Aaron Sorkin-scripted drama about the formation of Facebook. Jesse Eisenberg will play Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg;...
Dwayne Johnson, Samuel L. Jackson and Steve Coogan are joining the Columbia Pictures comedy " The Other Guys ." Johnson and Jackson will play super cops in the pic helmed by Adam McKay. Coogan is set as the villain.
The Marvel universe is going to be a very busy place for the next few years. Columbia Pictures is the latest studio to rev up a Marvel project on the heels of Disney's pact to acquire Marvel Entertainment in a $4 billion...
Warner Bros.' remake of " A Star Is Born " could finally be moving toward a due date. The studio has hired up-and-coming writer Will Fetters to do a draft of the script with the aim of pushing the long-gestating project...
Gold Circle Films is crying out for " Mercy ." The company has preemptively picked up the spec script from writer Chris Sparling. Peter Safran will produce along with Paul Brooks, who will oversee for Gold Circle. The...
Screen Gems has set Stanley Tucci to star alongside Cher and Christina Aguilera in " Burlesque ," the musical to be directed by Steve Antin. Aguilera plays an ambitious small-town girl with a big voice who finds success...
Nick Stahl, Rose McGowan and Amy Smart have been cast in the supernatural love story " Dylan's Wake ," directed by Omar Naim, which has begun filming in Des Moines, Iowa. Stahl plays a young man, working in a funeral...
Dylan Walsh, John Malkovich and Scott Glenn are saddling up for " Secretariat ," the story of the horse that won the 1973 Triple Crown. Diane Lane stars as the horse's owner Penny Tweedy, the housewife who broke though a...
Indie distributor Newmarket is back on the acquisitions scene, picking up U.S. rights to Toronto International Film Festival opener " Creation ." Chris Ball's and Robert Fyvolent's company has sealed the deal for Jon...
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has boarded " Machete ," the action-thriller pic from Robert Rodriguez. Produced by Hyde Park, the film tells the story of a Mexican police officer who exacts his revenge on...
Stephanie Szostak has been cast as the female lead in Paramount's " Dinner for Schmucks ." The actress also recently signed with CAA. Jay Roach is directing Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis and Lucy Punch in...
Henry Winkler and DJ Qualls ("CSI") have jumped on board " Running Mates ," the Canadian theatrical comedy from actor and director Thomas Michael. Winkler plays the incumbent mayor Weatherbee in the fictional town of...
Dennis Hopper, Scott Caan, Tricia Helfer and J.K. Simmons are boarding " A Beginner's Guide to Endings ," a dark comedy written and directed by newcomer Jonathan Sobol. Nicholas Tabarrok, whose "Defendor" was one of the...
Oscar-winning writer-director Bill Condon has been tapped to helm " The C-Word ," Showtime's comedy pilot starring Laura Linney. The project, from Sony TV and Original Film, stars Linney as a suburban wife and mother...
The world of " Thor " is filling up. Jaimie Alexander and Colm Feore are coming aboard the Marvel Studios adaptation of its comic book featuring the Norse god of thunder. Kenneth Branagh is directing. Alexander and Feore...
"Let the Right One In" helmer Tomas Alfredson will direct Nicole Kidman in true-life sex-change drama " The Danish Girl ." Lucinda Coxon penned the script based on David Ebershoff's novel about Danish painter Einar...
Zach Galifianakis is in negotiations to star in " It's Kind of a Funny Story ," the coming-of-age dramedy from "Half Nelson" writer-directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden. The pic, based on Ned Vizzini's young-adult novel,...
Cult comedy fave Jay Chandrasekhar will next direct comedy " Shotgun Wedding ." Script, co-written by the "Super Troopers" and "Beerfest" helmer and David Gilcreast, concerns an avowed bachelor who suddenly calls his...
Ed Harris, Emma Roberts and Amy Madigan have joined the cast of indie drama "What's Wrong With Virginia," directed and written by Dustin Lance Black, Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Milk." Harris is replacing Liam Neeson,...
Action director Peter Berg, who had been talking with DreamWorks about taking on the studio's futuristic robot boxing movie " Real Steel ," has moved on, opening up the gig to Shawn Levy. Levy is known for directing and...
Christoph Waltz, who is generating raves for his role as a Nazi in "Inglourious Basterds," has signed on to play the villain in Columbia Pictures' action comedy "The Green Hornet ." Waltz will play Chudnofsky, a Los...
Eva Mendes has joined the cast of Adam McKay's next comedy, " The Other Guys ," as have Michael Keaton and Damon Wayans Jr. Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg star as cops in the Gary Sanchez Prods.-Mosaic action-comedy...
Ed Zwick's " Love and Other Drugs " cast has swollen a bit further. Gabriel Macht, Hank Azaria and Oliver Platt have signed on to the romantic comedy that Zwick is directing for Fox 2000/New Regency. They join Anne...
Avast! Disney says a new "Pirates of the Caribbean" film is on yonder horizon. Depp will reprise his role as Capt. Jack Sparrow in "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," slated for summer of 2011. It's the fourth...
Josh Hartnett has signed on to star in "Gunslinger," a revenge-driven tale set in the near future in the snowy wasteland of a post-apocalyptic America. Hartnett will play a man who, along with his brother, sets out to...
"True Blood" co-star Sam Trammell will be featured in indie comedy " The Details ," with Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks and Laura Linney. Written and directed by Jacob Estes, the film centers on modern relationships and...
Isabella Rossellini and Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher are attached to star in helmer Saverio Costanzo's " The Solitude of Prime Numbers ," based on the bestselling Italo novel. Costanzo burst on the fest circuit with...