"Training Day" scribe David Ayer has been tapped to adapt the thriller " Deep Sea Cowboys " for DreamWorks based on an article that appeared in Wired magazine last March. Story chronicles a salvage crew that tries to...
Kevin James, fresh from "Paul Blart: Mall Cop," will star in the title role in MGM's " The Zookeeper " for director Frank Coraci. "Zookeeper," penned by Jay Scherick and David Ronn, centers on a lonely zookeeper who...
Film festival darling Jens Jonsson is on board to write and direct " The Leisure Seeker " for Sharp Independent at HarperCollins, the News Corp.-based banner of "Boys Don't Cry" producer Jeffrey Sharp. "Seeker," based on...
Spyglass has set Matthew Goode to star opposite Amy Adams in " Leap Year ," the romantic comedy Anand Tucker will direct from a script by Harry Elfont and Deb Kaplan. Adams plays a young woman who travels to Dublin to...
Kelly Reilly and Julian Rhindt-Tutt will star and Paul Breuls will direct " Meant to Be ," a romantic comedy shot and set in Puerto Rico. The whimsical tale concerns a guardian angle who falls in love with the woman he's...
"Men in Black" writer Ed Solomon has been hired to take a crack at " The Hardy Men ," a comic riff on the classic young-adult mystery novels about two brothers who solve crimes. The Hardy Boys adventures revolved around...
John Malkovich will square off against Josh Brolin in " Jonah Hex ," the Warner Bros. adaptation of the DC Comics property that begins production in April. Malkovich will play Turnbull, a wealthy Southern plantation...
Moviegoers hoping to see Denzel Washington and Tom Cruise face off on the big screen will get their chance with MGM's big-budget adaptation of " The Matarese Circle ." Cruise is in final negotiations to take on the role...
Christopher Nolan has set up his next project with Warner Bros., an original screenplay he wrote called " Inception ." The "Dark Knight" director hopes to shoot the sci-fi action film in the summer for a release during...
“Saw” helmer Darren Bousman will next helm “ Akula ,” a heist thriller scripted by Mark Distefano. Pic is a heist film set on a submarine, Bousman said. “The tone is dark, but very different from the films I’ve directed...
Freshman screenwriter Sam Esmail has been hired to adapt children's comic " The Ghouly Boys " for Mandate Pictures. Lindsay Doran ("Nanny McPhee") is producing through her Three Strange Angels shingle. In 2006, Mandate...
Robert Downey Jr. and Tina Fey are in negotiations to lead the voice cast for DreamWorks Animation's superhero lark " Master Mind ." Ben Stiller is a producer on the movie through his Red Hour Films. The satiric film,...
Michael Gambon is joining the cast of " The Book of Eli ," which stars Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman and is being directed by Allen and Albert Hughes. Gambon will play one half of a strangle couple that holds onto...
Zachary Levi, star of the NBC action comedy series "Chuck," has been cast opposite the computer-generated singing rodents of " Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel ." Betty Thomas is directing the follow-up to Fox...
New Line is just that into Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein. The studio has signed the duo to pen " Valentine's Day ," a love story revolving around five relationships in Los Angeles, all of which are put through the paces...
Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman are teaming for the romantic comedy " The Baster ," which Mandate Pictures will shoot in the spring in New York. Bateman and Aniston will play best friends Wally and Kassie. When Wally...
Ewan McGregor and Carey Mulligan are in talks to headline " The Electric Slide ," based on the true story of Los Angeles-based furniture salesman turned bank robber named Eddie Dodson. McGregor is in talks to play...
In a pairing designed to get tweens texting each other the news, teen stars Selena Gomez and Joey King have been cast as sisters in " Beezus and Ramona ," a film adaptation of the "Ramona" book series by Beverly Cleary....
Amber Heard is in negotiations to play the coveted female lead opposite Johnny Depp in " Rum Diary ," the adaptation of the Hunter S. Thompson novel, which Bruce Robinson is writing and directing. Heard is a relative...
Greta Gerwig is getting into " Greenberg ." The indie star has landed the lead role opposite Ben Stiller in the latest Noah Baumbach relationship dramedy. Baumbach, best known for the Oscar-nominated intergenerational...
Christian Bale—who was caught on audio ranting at a crew member during the filming of Terminator Salvation —apologized today in a surprise interview on Los Angeles radio station KROQ's Kevin and Bean morning show. (You...
Taylor Momsen of TV's "Gossip Girl" and Jacob Zachar of ABC Family's "Greek" are in talks to join Thora Birch in the cast of " Cavegirl ," a big-screen version of the 1980s BBC series. The action comedy is billed as...
Mickey Rourke is going from taking hits in the ring to doling out hits himself. The Oscar nominee for "The Wrestler" is set to star in " St. Vincent " for Occupant Films and Secret Handshake Entertainment. He'll play a...
Jessica Chastain will play a young Helen Mirren in " The Debt ," Miramax's Mossad-Nazi thriller being directed by John Madden. The script, written by Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman and Peter Straughan, tells the fictional...
Timothy Hutton has joined the cast of Roman Polanski's " The Ghost ." The film, which begins shooting this week in Berlin, tells the tale of a ghostwriter (Ewan McGregor) who is hired to complete the memoirs of a former...
Gemma Arterton, Eddie Marsan and Martin Compston will headline the cast of contemporary kidnap thriller " The Disappearance of Alice Creed ," backed by the Isle of Man's CinemaNX production and finance banner. "Creed"...
Alan Poul is going to " Plan B ." The "Six Feet Under" veteran is in final negotiations to direct the CBS Films fertility comedy. Jennifer Lopez is starring in the picture, which CBS will begin shooting in May. Escape...
It was only a matter of time before John Carpenter ended up in a mental institution. Yes, the master of horror will be running the asylum when he directs " The Ward ," a psychological thriller that will star Amber Heard....
Spike Lee is raising some hell. The hyphenate's production company 40 Acres and a Mule has acquired rights to Brendan Koerner's " Now the Hell Will Start ," a nonfiction tale about a private who went native in the...
Jason Segel is in negotiations and Emily Blunt has been offered to sign up for " Gulliver's Travels ," Fox's Jack Black-starring modern re-imagining of Jonathan Swift's classic tale. Rob Letterman is directing the story...
Indian writer-director Vidhu Vinod Chopra is in talks with Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke to star in Chopra's Hollywood debut, the gangster caper " Broken Horses ," the director said Friday. Co-produced by Mumbai-based...
What's that about cat-scratch fever? Well, TV scribe Tom Wheeler's got it. Wheeler has been hired to write the "Shrek" spinoff " Puss in Boots " for DreamWorks Animation, a stand-alone feature foray for the feline...
Jeffrey Dean Morgan will star opposite Hilary Swank in " The Resident ," a thriller Antti J. Jokinen is directing for Hammer Films. The story centers on a young doctor (Swank) who moves into a loft in Brooklyn where...
Columbia is in negotiations to pick up the movie rights to the bestseller " Eat, Pray, Love " in turnaround from Paramount Pictures. Columbia is also in the process of making deals with the attached talent, which include...
Anchor Bay has acquired all rights to " Not Forgotten ," Dror Soref's cult-themed thriller that played the 2009 Slamdance Film Festival. Simon Baker and Paz Vega star and Myriad Pictures and Skyline Pictures produced the...
In one of his first long interviews on his upcoming Star Trek movie, director J.J. Abrams reiterated to the Los Angeles Times that he's going to remain true to the spirit of the franchise, if not all of its details. And...
Amanda Seyfried has joined the cast of " A Woman of No Importance ," the Oscar Wilde adaptation that Bruce Beresford is directing for Myriad Pictures. Seyfried will star opposite Annette Bening in the class comedy,...
John Stevenson, the co-director of "Kung Fu Panda," has felt the power of Grayskull, signing on to direct " Masters of the Universe ," Warner Bros. and Silver Pictures' live-action version of the popular 1980s cartoon...
Universal has found its director for international thriller " The Sigma Protocol ": Berlin prize winner Jose Padilha. The studio is in negotiations with the helmer of "Elite Squad," the action movie that won the Golden...
The writer who took on Daniel Pearl will tackle the creator of 007. John Orloff, who penned Par Vantage's "A Mighty Heart," about the slain Wall Street Journal reporter, has been brought on to pen the screenplay for "...
Matt Johnson has been tapped to adapt the comic book " Afterburn " for Relativity Media. The film is being produced by Neal Moritz's Original Films and Toby Maguire's Maguire Entertainment banner. " Afterburn ," a sci-fi...
Fox's big-screen version of "A-Team" looks to be finally coming together. Joe Carnahan is in negotiations to helm the action movie with Ridley and Tony Scott's shingle Scott Free coming on board as producers. Stephen J....
Cheo Hodari Coker has been given the keys to write " Lowriders ," a drama set in the world of low-riding cars for Universal and Imagine. Imagine's Brian Grazer is producing. The project is based on an idea by Grazer, who...
Actor Charles Dance is following up his directorial debut, "Ladies in Lavender," by directing his own script based on Alice Thomas-Ellis' novel " The Inn at the Edge of the World ." Dance has already sealed the services...
"The Love Guru" director Marco Schnabel and "Little Fockers" writer Larry Stuckey are finding a girlfriend. The pair are teaming to write " Girlfriend in a Coma ," a satirical high school comedy that looks at an unlikely...
Shine Pictures, the new joint venture between U.K.-based Shine Group's Kudos Pictures and Arnon Milchan's New Regency, has hired "Gladiator" scribe William Nicholson to pen a big-screen version of the epic, era-defining...
Minnie Driver has joined Hilary Swank in " Betty Anne Waters ," a legal drama that Tony Goldwyn is directing for Omega Entertainment. The film is based on the true story of Waters (Swank), an unemployed single mother who...
The story of Bonnie and Clyde is getting a retelling, with Hilary Duff and Kevin Zegers in negotiations to play the infamous 1930s bank robbers. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were Depression-era lovers and outlaws whose...
Jennifer Beals is returning to the feature film world with a turn in " The Book of Eli ," the Denzel Washington action thriller from Warner Bros. and Alcon Entertainment. Albert and Allen Hughes are directing. The...
Plum Pictures is finding itself an " American Wife ." The New York shingle has optioned rights to the Curtis Sittenfeld novel about a presidential First Lady with a strong resemblance to Laura Bush. The story centers on...