Magnolia Films has picked up North American rights to " The Warlords ," a big-budget historical actioner that features Asian superstars Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro. The deal was struck after protracted...
Ewan McGregor is reteaming with "Young Adam" director David Mackenzie for the romantic drama " The Last Word ," with shooting set to start in September. TrustNordisk is preselling the Scottish-German-Danish...
Milla Jovovich has signed on to star alongside Robert De Niro and Edward Norton in the psychological thriller " Stone ," which will be directed by John Curran. Project is being produced by the newly formed Mimran Schur...
Jim Caviezel will take up the crossbow to star in " William Tell: The Legend " for newly formed Flagship Films. Til Schweiger also will star in the project, to be directed by Nick Hurran from a script by Hurran and Scott...
Hugh Hudson will direct the bigscreen adaptation of George Orwell's " Catalonia ," with Colin Firth and Kevin Spacey attached to star. Arclight Films is repping the film at the Cannes market. Orwell's book revolves...
Overture appeared Monday to have locked up rights to the star-driven " The Men Who Stare at Goats " at the Festival de Cannes. After sources indicated earlier in the day that an Overture deal was in place, some insiders...
Tilda Swinton is attached to take the lead in Lynne Ramsay's big-screen adaptation " We Need to Talk About Kevin ." The movie, based on Lionel Shriver's novel, tells the story of a smart, educated New York mother who...
Ed Speleers and Alfred Molina will don World War II uniforms and do battle with the Germans in " The Good War ," a film being put together by indie U.K. production company Firefly Films. The movie, budgeted at $18...
William Hurt and Jessica Chastain have signed up to star in Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut, " Coriolanus ," alongside Vanessa Redgrave. Billed as a political thriller, John Logan's script brings the story into a...
Vincent D'Onofrio, Vinnie Jones, Paul Sorvino, Fionnula Flanagan, Laura Ramsey, Steve Schirripa, Linda Cardellini and Bob Gunton have been added to the cast of Jonathan Hensleigh's " The Irishman ." They join Ray...
Jason Statham will star in the $40 million action thriller " The Killer Elite ." Based on real events, story follows a group of former British special forces members who are being hunted by assassins. Statham will play a...
Monica Bellucci has joined the cast of Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer's " The Sorcerer's Apprentice ." Pic, which revolves around a sorcerer who recruits and trains a young protege to help him fight the forces of darkness...
In his first leading role in more than 25 years, Jerry Lewis will star in indie drama " Max Rose " for Lightstream Pictures. " Max Rose " centers on a widower who revisits key moments in his life to unlock the mysteries...
Cylk Cozart will direct indie drama " The Sandy Creek Girls ," about a high school girls basketball team that goes from perennial loser to eight-time Nebraska state champion. Brian Austin Green, Heather Chadwell, Dean...
Kirk Ellis has been tapped to adapt the bestselling Ernest Hemingway memoir " Papa Hemingway " by A.E. Hotchner. Hotchner's memoir about the last 14 years of Hemingway's life focuses on the literary giant's close...
Lindsay Lohan will topline indie fantasy comedy " The Other Side " alongside Woody Harrelson, Giovanni Ribisi, Dave Matthews and Alanis Morissette. Story centers on a grad student who must spend the summer working at a...
Ray Liotta, Mila Kunis and Mark Ruffalo will join Tina Fey and Steve Carell on their comedic " Date Night " for Fox. The three will be among the characters Fey and Carell encounter as a couple on a date gone awry. Mark...
Russell Mulcahy has been tapped to write and direct " Bait ," a 3-D action adventure shark movie. Upping the ante on peril, the film is set in a coastal town where a freak tsunami floods and traps shoppers in a...
Action stars Jean Claude Van Damme and Vinnie Jones will play rival assassins who form an uneasy alliance in " Weapon ," which Russell Mulcahy will direct for new production company Flagship Films. Founded by producers...
Producer Ed Bass is making his directorial debut with " Belle ," the story of Belle Gunness, America's most prolific female serial killer, which is being produced and financed by First Line Media. Working mainly from her...
Warner Bros. and Silver Pictures have tapped newcomer Evan Daugherty to pen the latest draft of " Grayskull ," the studio's big-screen take on Mattel's "Masters of the Universe" cartoon and toy line. John Stevenson...
Bruce Beresford will direct the romantic comedy " Get It at Goode's ," an adaptation of Madeleine St. John's novel "The Women in Black." Guy Pearce, Monica Bellucci and Miranda Otto will star in the pic, which looks at a...
Warner Bros. is looking for revenge, snapping up spec script " The Gunslinger " by John Hlavin. Andrew Lazar is producing via his Mad Chance banner. "Gunslinger" follows an ex-Texas Ranger who will stop at nothing to...
Rachel Weisz may be going Old Hollywood. The British actress is loosely attached to play MGM icon Hedy Lamarr in Amy Redford's indie tale " Face Value ." "Value" centers on Lamarr's eccentric life, particularly her...
Simon Baker, star of CBS hit "The Mentalist," is playing an attorney on the trail of a murderer in " The Killer Inside Me ," Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of the Jim Thompson noir classic that stars Casey Affleck....
Dermot Mulroney will make his directorial debut with " Keep It Together ," a family comedy-drama about love and divorce. In the project, an idealistic young newlywed who is also a marriage counselor returns from her...
New Line is putting together an all-star cast for its latest romantic comedy, " Valentine's Day ," to be directed by Garry Marshall. Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Shirley...
Antonio Banderas is set to star in " The Big Bang ," a neo-noir detective story to be directed by Tony Krantz. Banderas stars as an L.A. private detective who's hired to find a missing stripper. The trail leads to the...
Michael Madsen, Rachel Hunter and Jennifer Tisdale are starring in " Nictophobia ," a horror thriller being directed by Doug Elford-Argent and produced by David Frank Fletcher Jr. The story follows a murderer (Madsen)...
Matthew Goode is bound for the cemetery. The actor has been cast in " Cemetery Junction ," the Ricky Gervais-Stephen Merchant dramedy about 1970s insurance salesmen. "Cemetery" takes a period look at a group of...
Warner Bros. has set Alex Holmes to rewrite and direct " The Interpretation of Murder ," an adaptation of the Jed Rubenfeld novel. Story follows a Sigmund Freud protege who discovers a trail of sadistic murders in...
Anchor Bay is hitting the road, picking up theatrical and home video rights to Michael Meredith family dramedy " The Open Road ." Wim Wenders exec produced the film, which unfolds over the course of a road trip that a...
Universal is developing a modern retelling of the classic novella " The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ," with Keanu Reeves attached to star and Justin Haythe, writer of "Revolutionary Road," penning the script....
James McAvoy, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney and Anna Friel are set to star in “ The Details ,” a black comedy scripted and directed by Jacob Estes. Story concerns a couple, to be played by McAvoy and Banks, who discover...
Minka Kelly has joined Leighton Meester to topline Screen Gems' thriller " The Roommate ," being directed by Christian E. Christiansen. "Roommate" is a psychological thriller about a deranged college freshman, Rebecca...
Chris Gorak ("Right at Your Door") will direct thriller " Dead Loss " for Palmer West and Jonah Smith and their Thousand Words banner. Script, penned by Josh Baizer and Marshall Johnson, is set in the dangerous world of...
Paramount Pictures has purchased film rights to " Swim the Fly ," a young-adult novel by Don Calame. The book, the first in a proposed trilogy, is a teen comedy in the "American Pie" mold about three high school friends...
Three years after the studio pulled the plug on the futuristic comedy that had Jim Carrey and Ben Stiller onboard to star and Jay Roach directing, Fox is aiming to rebirth "Guys," originally centered on a pair of...
British helmer Julien Temple ("Pandaemonium") will direct period crime drama " Gun Girl " for Moonstone Entertainment, with John Strong producing. Story centers on a young woman who assists authorities in bringing down...
Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken and Val Kilmer will play the leads in " The Irishman ," a crime story that Jonathan Hensleigh will direct. Greene was a violent Irish-American gangster who competed with the Italian mob...
Aussie actress Yvonne Strahovski (NBC's "Chuck"), Brendan Cowell ("Noise") and Peter Dinklage topline romantic comedy " I Love You Too " for Roadshow Films. Cowell plays a commitment-phobe and Dinklage a gifted New Ager,...
Jeffrey Nachmanoff, the writer-director behind "Traitor," is puffing " Billy Smoke ," signing up to direct the adaptation of the Oni Press comic book for Warner Bros. The story centers on an elite hit man who is nearly...
Twentieth Century Fox has begun development on " Deadpool ," an "X-Men" spinoff that will be crafted as a star vehicle for Ryan Reynolds, who played the character in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." The character is one of...
Rachel Weisz has signed on to star in indie political drama " The Whistleblower " in a part recalling the thesp's role as a crusading truth-seeker in "The Constant Gardener." Based on a true story, "Whistleblower"...
Christina Aguilera will make her screen debut for Screen Gems in " Burlesque ," a contemporary musical that Steven Antin will direct. Antin wrote a script that was revised by "Erin Brockovich" scribe Susannah Grant....
Will Ferrell is in talks to topline and David Dobkin is in negotiations to direct the comedy " Neighborhood Watch " at 20th Century Fox. Story chronicles an urbanite's journey as he moves to a suburban community, joins...
Kaitlin Olson has joined the cast of Spyglass Entertainment's " Leap Year ." Amy Adams, Bill Nighy, Matthew Goode and Adam Scott also star in the romantic comedy about an American woman (Adams) who goes in search of her...
Ken Watanabe and Tom Hardy are boarding Christopher Nolan's " Inception " for Warner Bros. The story, which Nolan wrote, is a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind, with Leonardo DiCaprio...
Wilmer Valderrama and Jason Ritter have joined the cast of " The Dry Land ," an indie drama from Maya Entertainment. Ryan Piers Williams wrote the script and is making his directorial debut on the feature, which is...
Warner Bros. has picked up " Everybody Loves Whales ," a spec based on a true story from "Shaggy Dog" scribes Jack Amiel and Michael Begler. The script tells the story of three California gray whales who were found...