While Universal Pictures waits for the next “Bourne Identity” installment, the studio has stepped up to secure Matt Damon’s next film. Universal is finalizing a deal with Media Rights Capital for “ The Adjustment Bureau...
" The 28th Amendment ," a long-gestating Warners project about conspiracy and intimidation at the White House, is close to landing a new director. "The Lives of Others" helmer Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck is in talks...
Leonardo DiCaprio is set to star in " Inception ," the sci-fi action film Christopher Nolan wrote and is directing for Warner Bros. " Inception " is described as a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within "the...
Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan will star in Warner Bros.' detective comedy " A Couple of Cops ," with Kevin Smith directing his first major studio pic. Marc Platt's producing the project, formerly titled "A Couple of...
Alfred Molina is readying his potions for " The Sorcerer's Apprentice ." The actor has signed on to play the evil magician Horvath in the Disney tentpole starring Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel. Jon Turteltaub is...
Ginnifer Goodwin, John Corbett and Bridget Moynahan have joined the cast of " Ramona and Beezus ," a film based on the classic children's book series. Elizabeth Allen ("Aquamarine") is directing the Fox 2000/Walden Media...
Michael Brandt and Derek Haas have signed on to adapt upcoming Richard Doetsch novel "The Thirteenth Hour " for New Line Cinema and producer Michael De Luca. New Line acquired the book last fall. Story follows a man...
Loren Dean has joined the cast of the indie drama directed by Tony Goldwyn ("The Last Kiss"). He will play Rick Miller, the resentful husband of the crusading title character (Hilary Swank), who is fighting to get her...
Seth Green will star in Walt Disney Pictures' " Mars Needs Moms ," Disney and Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers' adaptation of the Berkeley Breathed children's novel. Simon Wells is directing the performance-capture movie,...
Woody Allen has been throwing some international flavor into his latest casting gumbo. The Oscar-winning writer-director has just hired Antonio Banderas for his untitled project. The Spaniard joins Indian Freido Pinto,...
Neal H. Moritz and his Original Films banner are in final negotiations to develop and produce for Columbia a contemporary version of " Total Recall ," the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi action movie directed by Paul...
Stellan Skarsgard will star in Norwegian helmer Hans Petter Moland's black comedy " Regnskap ." Film is about a man recently released from a 12-year jail term for killing his wife, who must decide whether to try to...
Former "Married With Children" star David Faustino has taken the lead in the comedy " The Bollywood Boys ," written and directed by James L. Bills. He will star with Corin Nemec in the story of a couple of struggling...
Universal is moving several spaces up the board with " Clue ," a big-screen take on the classic game, and is in final negotiations with "Pirates of the Caribbean" helmer Gore Verbinski to direct and produce. The project...
Director Alan Poul and screenwriter Craig Wright are planning a feature film version of the documentary " Must Read After My Death ," which opened in New York on Friday. Morgan Dews' film is drawn from 8mm films, tape...
Universal's Robin Hood movie is slowly getting its arrows lined up in the quiver. The untitled production, which was at one point named " Nottingham ," is casting its Maid Marian, with Cate Blanchett in final...
Amanda Hutchinson is rewriting some vows. The freshman scribe has been hired to redraft " Oh Brother ," a marriage-centered comedy at Gold Circle Films. The company purchased Cathy McCarthy's original script in October....
Greg Reitman, one of the producers of the Sundance audience award-winning documentary "Fields of Fuel," plans to make his narrative feature film directorial debut with " A New Life Experience ," a dramatic comedy written...
Mark Verheiden has been hired to pen the DreamWorks project " Quartermain ." The sci-fi adventure springs from an original idea, though no plot details are available. Holly Bario and Jonathan Eirich are overseeing the...
Fox Atomic has signed up " Shimmer Lake ," a murder mystery with a bank heist at its center. "Lake" centers on a sheriff investigating a series of murders as well as the disappearance of a bank robber, with clues and the...
" Fair Game ," the drama about the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, has come together with Naomi Watts starring, "Mrs. and Mrs. Smith" helmer Doug Liman directing and William Pohlad's River Road financing. But...
Columbia Pictures has set Michel Gondry to direct " Green Hornet ," with production to begin later this year. Seth Rogen is starring, and wrote the script with Evan Goldberg. Neal Moritz is producing.
Elisabeth Harnois ("Pretty Persuasion") will star in Robert Zemeckis' motion-capture pic " Mars Needs Moms " for Disney. Simon Wells directs. Harnois recently starred in indie "Keith." Her credits include "Strangers With...
Chiwetel Ejiofor will star with Angelina Jolie and Liev Schreiber in " Salt ," the Phillip Noyce-directed Columbia Pictures spy thriller. Ejiofor will play Peabody, a young CIA agent who works for Winter (Schreiber), the...
Tom Bezucha is attached to direct the coming-of-age comedy " The Way Back " for Mandate Pictures. Story centers on a teenage boy who, during one amazing summer, forms an unlikely friendship that gives him the strength to...
Best picture: Slumdog Millionaire Also nominated: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Frost/Nixon; Milk; The Reader Best director: Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire Also nominated: Stephen Daldry - The Reader; David...
Fresh off the success of “Twilight,” Summit Entertainment has set “ Eclipse ” as the third pic in the vampire series, with a mid-summer release date of June 30, 2010. “Twilight,” which launched Nov. 21, has generated...
Just as the acclaimed Sci Fi Channel series " Battlestar Galactica " enters its final episodes, Universal has quietly entered into negotiations with Glen A. Larson to write and produce a big-screen version of the...
German actress Julia Dietze will topline “ Iron Sky ,” a dark sci-fi romp about moon-based Nazis who invade Earth. In the pic, German scientists make a breakthrough in anti-gravity research toward the end of World War II...
Dimension Films is developing a modern-day high school-set take on Agatha Christie's " Ten Little Indians ." The untitled pic, whose plot details are being kept under wraps, involves a teen social networking site. T.S....
There’s a reason MTV News just named Sarah Connor our #8 Movie Badass of All Time. 24 years after she battled Arnold’s T-800 cyborg and 17 years after she donned a revealing tank top to do sweaty pull-ups in a mental...
Halle Berry has become attached to star in " Who Is Doris Payne ," a Eunetta Boone-scripted fact-based film about an international jewel thief whose career spanned five decades. The project is being developed by J2...
Jeffrey Dean Morgan wants to be a loser. The "Watchmen" star is in negotiations to board another comic book project, " The Losers ," from Warner Bros. and Silver Pictures. Sylvain White is directing the adaptation of the...
Stephen Gaghan has been tapped to pen the adaptation of " Dead Spy Running ," an espionage novel to which McG is attached to direct for Warner Bros. Based on a book by British author Jon Stock, the film is meant to be...
Fox has picked up the rights to " We Bought a Zoo ," a memoir by Benjamin Mee, for Julie Yorn to produce. "Zoo," published by Weinstein Books in September, tells the true account of how the author and his family used...
Sandra Bullock is set to star in " The Blindside ," a sports dramedy John Lee Hancock is directing for Alcon Entertainment. Based on the best-selling novel by Michael Lewis, "The Blind Side: Evolution of the Game,"...
Katherine Heigl has signed on to star opposite Ashton Kutcher in the Lionsgate thriller " Five Killers ." Story kicks off when a woman meets the man of her dreams while on vacation. Married bliss is turned upside down...
Kevin Zegers is packing his mittens and long underwear. The "Transamerica" actor has been cast in the snowy survival tale " Frozen ." Written and directed by Adam Green, the film will be produced by Peter Block through...
Liev Schreiber is in talks to star opposite Angelina Jolie in the spy thriller " Salt " for Columbia Pictures. Story centers on Evelyn Salt , a CIA officer who is fingered as a Russian sleeper spy. She eludes capture by...
Warner Bros. has picked up the North American rights to " Edge of Darkness ," the Mel Gibson thriller directed by Martin Campbell, from Graham King's GK Films. Based on a BBC miniseries, "Darkness" sees Gibson return to...
Ashton Kutcher is looking to tackle a football comedy for Paramount Pictures. Thesp is in final negotiations to star in the sports-themed pic " Traded ," which had been developed at DreamWorks but became the property of...
Ang Lee is in talks to direct " Life of Pi ," the Fox 2000 adaptation of Yann Martel's coming-of-age survival tale. Novel revolves around a youth who is the lone survivor of a sunken freighter and winds up sharing a...
Alcon Entertainment has acquired " Back to America ," a pitch that will be drafted as a potential star vehicle for Martin Lawrence. The comedy centers on a working-class man from Queens who discovers he is heir to the...
Robert Rodriguez is set to reteam with Dimension for his next film, the futuristic thriller " Nerverackers ." Set in 2085, the story centers on a character named Joe Tezca who is part of an elite unit dispatched to quell...
"Brothers & Sisters" star Dave Annable has been cast in the romantic comedy " Wedlocked " opposite "American Idol" runner-up Katharine McPhee. Rob Hedden ("The Condemned") will direct from his own script. Annable will...
Marc-Andre Grondin, Ellen Barkin and Famke Janssen are starring in " The Chameleon ," a psychological thriller being directed by Jean Paul Salome. The script, written by Salome and Natalie Carter, revolves around the...
David Matalon and Andy Vajna have tapped the scripting team of Aaron Rapke and Stewart Kaye to adapt action comedy " School for Scumbags ," based on Danny King's novel. " School for Scumbags " centers on a teen who,...
Because Emily Blunt's commitment to Twentieth Century Fox and the studio's upcoming Gulliver's Travels movie may prohibit her from costarring in Iron Man 2 , Marvel is in discussions with other actresses, most...
Columbia Pictures is bringing a time-traveling Jane Austen drama to the bigscreen, with Sam Mendes aboard as producer. Based on the Brit miniseries " Lost in Austen ," film will center on Amanda, an ardent Jane Austen...
Curtis Hanson is negotiating with Disney to direct " Gemini Man ," an action thriller that will be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. An NSA agent tries to retire and is targeted for death. He discovers that his assassin is...