James McAvoy, who stars as a dweeb-turned-assassin in the upcoming SF action movie Wanted , told SCI FI Wire that he found himself doing some of his own sometimes perilous stunts. "Actually, the most enjoyable stunt--but...
Emily VanCamp, Dan Byrd and Adam Goldberg are starring in the indie coming-of-age drama " Norman ." Byrd plays the title character, a darkly comic teen who deals with his problems by pretending to be dying of cancer. The...
Justin Long, Fred Willard, Zach Galifinakis, Erik Knudsen and Mary Kay Place are joining Michael Cera in the Dimension Films comedy " Youth in Revolt ." Portia Doubleday will make her feature debut as Cera's love...
Kevin Bacon has signed on to star in " My One and Only ," joining Renee Zellweger, Chris Noth, Nick Stahl and Logan Lerman in the film, which director Richard Loncraine has begun shooting in Baltimore. Pic is inspired by...
Anthony Michael Hall, who plays a Gotham City newscaster in The Dark Knight , told SCI FI Wire that his appearance was a secret until he began showing up as Mike Engel, anchor of the Gotham Cable News program Gotham...
Universal Pictures has set up David Auburn time-travel thriller pitch " The Archive ," with the "Proof" playwright to pen the script as a directing vehicle for James Mangold. Scott Stuber will produce with Cathy Konrad....
MGM has gotten onboard " Le Car ," snapping up the comedy spec from Wayne McClammy and Will Burke, with McClammy attached to direct, and Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen producing through their Temple Hill shingle. " Le Car...
Universal Pictures has picked up the spy spec " Family Bond " from Jeff Lowell for Marc Platt, Miles Millar and Alfred Gough to produce. Action comedy's described as a relationship story between a spy and his daughter.
Sienna Miller will star opposite Russell Crowe in " Nottingham ," Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment's revisionist take on the Robin Hood tale. Miller will play Maid Marion in the drama that focuses on the...
Spike Lee will co-write and direct " Time Traveler ," a feature adaptation of a memoir by Ronald Mallett, one of the nation's first African-Americans to earn a Ph.D in theoretical physics. Mallett, who wrote the book...
Sacha Baron Cohen’s “ Bruno ” is ready for summer heat. Universal will release the film on May 15, 2009. So far, there are no other R-rated comedies near that date. Like Borat, the title character of the 2006 box office...
Universal has acquired the film rights to the children's book series " Dragonology ," setting Leonard Hartman to write and executive produce the adaptation. Hartman's fantasy adventure take revolves around a group of...
Lorraine Bracco and Jamie-Lynn Sigler will star in the satirical indie comedy " Son of Mourning ," marking a "Sopranos" mini-reunion. Bracco and Sigler will play the mother and love interest, respectively, of a...
Paramount has purchased a New York Times article, " Mystery on Fifth Avenue ," for a feature that J.J. Abrams will produce through his Bad Robot shingle. Writers Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky have been hired to adapt...
Veteran screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan has been hired to write " Robotech ," Warner Bros.' adaptation of the anime classic. " Robotech " was a 1980s cartoon series from Harmony Gold USA and Tatsunoko Prods. It was...
Aaron Yoo has joined the cast of the currently filming " Labor Pains ," starring Lindsay Lohan. Yoo will play Lohan's character's boyfriend. The actor, repped by Gersh and Blue Ridge Entertainment, also has roles in the...
IFC Films has nabbed worldwide rights to writer-director Barry Jenkins' romantic drama "Medicine for Melancholy ." Jenkins' feature debut, which premieres Friday in competition at the L.A. Film Festival, revolves around...
Robert Downey Jr. is in negotiations to star in DreamWorks/Universal's "Cowboys & Aliens," a pulpy mix of the sci-fi and Western genres that could serve as a potential 2010 tentpole. "Cowboys & Aliens" derives from a...
Kevin Spacey will lead the ensemble cast of indie " Shrink ," a Jonas Pate-directed drama that has just begun production in Los Angeles. Unable to come to grips with a recent personal tragedy, the shrink is a chronic pot...
Columbia and "Spider-Man" director Sam Raimi are reuniting on " The Given Day ," an adaptation of an upcoming novel by Dennis Lehane. Columbia has acquired the novel, and Raimi will develop it to direct. " The Given Day...
Gary Fleder soon could be saying hello to " The Deep Blue Good-by ." The director of "Runaway Jury" and "Kiss the Girls" is in talks to direct the Fox project, based on the first title in crime novelist John MacDonald's...
Producer Nick Wechsler has optioned screen rights to " Throttle ," a 60-page novella written by father-son authors Stephen King and Joe Hill. The protags in the King-Hill novella are father-son members of a motorcycle...
Eva Mendes is in negotiations to star opposite Nicolas Cage in the Werner Herzog-helmed reimagining of " Bad Lieutenant " for Nu Image/Millennium Films. The 1992 original pic starred Harvey Keitel as a corrupt cop...
Len Wiseman is suiting up to direct New Line's " Gears of War ," based on Microsoft and Epic Games' hit vidgame. Chris Morgan is penning a new draft of the actioner that Stuart Beattie originally tackled. Scribe's...
Warren Zide ("American Pie") is going back to " High School ," snapping up a comedy spec script of that title from John Stalberg Jr. and Stephen Susco ("The Grudge"), with Stalberg set to direct the project. Story...
Concert and sports promoter Frank J. Russo has acquired " Charlie Lucky ," a script by Joe Cortese that chronicles the criminal career of mobster Charles "Lucky" Luciano. " Charlie Lucky " covers Luciano's rise from...
Daniel Craig, star of the upcoming James Bond movie Quantum of Solace , suffered a hand injury requiring medical attention while shooting the film this week, a Columbia Pictures spokesman told the Reuters news service....
Amanda Peet has landed the female lead in Roland Emmerich's epic disaster project " 2012 ." " 2012 " revolves around a global cataclysm and the heroic struggle of the survivors. Peet is playing Cusack's ex-wife, newly...
Josh Meyers, Krysten Ritter and Ian Somerhalder are about to learn " How to Make Love to a Woman " -- with a little help from porn star Jenna Jameson. In Scott Culver's indie romantic comedy, Meyers plays a music...
Warner Bros. has set Anthony Peckham to adapt " The Tourist ," an Olen Steinhauer novel being developed as a potential star vehicle for George Clooney. Acquired by WB in the fall, " The Tourist " is a contemporary...
Christopher Eccleston will share the cockpit with Hilary Swank in " Amelia ," the Mira Nair-directed Amelia Earhart biopic for Avalon Pictures and Fox Searchlight. Eccleston, who jumped from the NBC series "Heroes" to...
Judd Apatow has rounded out the cast and picked a title and start date for his next directing vehicle. Eric Bana, Jason Schwartzman and Jonah Hill have joined the ensemble of " Funny People ," which will be co-financed...
Joel Tobeck, Sebastian Gregory, Sarah Woods, Rebecca Massey and Erik Thomson have joined the cast of indie dark comedy “ Accidents Happen ,” which toplines Geena Davis. The coming-of-ager, about how a 15-year-old boy is...
Universal Pictures has put on its galoshes and raincoat for " Raindrops All Around Me ," a comedy spec penned by Reed Agnew and Eli Jorne. Ben Stiller, Stuart Cornfeld and Jeremy Kramer will produce via their Red Hour...
Jack Black has fallen out of " Man-Witch ," Todd Phillips' supernatural comedy that's set up at Warner Bros. When the star was attached last year, it was hailed as notable because it was the first collaboration between...
The original cast from "Madagascar" will be joined by some new names in DreamWorks Animation and Paramount Pictures' "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa." They include Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd, Alec Baldwin and Will.i.am....
Connie Britton and Chris Parnell will star opposite Lindsay Lohan in " Labor Pains ," a Nu Image/Millennium comedy in which Lohan plays a woman who fakes being pregnant. Fearing she's about to be fired from her job at a...
If the world of " I Dream of Jeannie " really existed, Sid Ganis could just ask a genie to "blink" a new script. Instead, Ganis is bringing aboard "Mulan" scribe Rita Hsiao to rewrite the script for the big-screen...
Director Michael Corrente and producer Marisa Polvino are corralling the cast for their political biopic "The Prince of Providence ." Robin Williams is in talks to join Dermot Mulroney, Adam Goldberg, Bradley Cooper, Ed...
Marcus Raboy is set to direct " Janky Promoters ," the latest comedy from writer-actor-producer Ice Cube. Mike Epps and Terry Crews also have joined the cast. All four are alumni of the 2002 comedy "Friday After Next,"...
Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt are teaming up to tackle the Northern Ireland Troubles in “ Five Minutes of Heaven .” Project, which is currently shooting on location in Northern Ireland, tells the story of two men wracked...
Katherine Heigl will star in and produce the feature film adaptation of " Escape ," the bestselling memoir of Carolyn Jessop, whose testimony helped convict polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs. Jessop was born into the...
Wayne McClammy, the man behind the hit "I'm Fucking Matt Damon" and "I'm Fucking Ben Affleck" segments on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," will make his directorial debut on the Fox comedy " Cool School ." The story centers around a...
"National Treasure's" Diane Kruger has landed the female lead opposite Dermot Mulroney in Baltasar Kormakur's thriller " Run for Her Life ." Kruger and Mulroney play parents who attempt to get a lung transplant for their...
"Step Up 2 the Streets' " Briana Evigan has landed the lead role in Sobini Films' tiger-run-amok thriller " Burning Bright ." Evigan will play a woman who wakes in the midst of a hurricane to find a tiger roaming through...
Universal will release Clint Eastwood's period drama " Changeling ," starring Angelina Jolie, on Oct. 24 in a limited run before going wide one week later. " Changeling ," set in 1920s Los Angeles, is based on the true...
Hugh Grant and Ziyi Zhang will star in " Lost for Words ," a comedy that Susanne Bier will direct for Universal Pictures in September. Grant is in discussions to play a British film star approached to topline a pic by a...
Jesse Bradford has joined the cast of Oliver Stone's "W," playing a college buddy of George W. Bush (Josh Brolin). Bradford portrays Thatcher, president of Bush's fraternity.
Paramount Pictures has snapped up a pitch titled “ Atari ,” with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star. Written by Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman, project is a biopic about entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell, the creator of Atari...
Columbia Pictures is tuning up a " My Fair Lady " redo, with Keira Knightley in talks to star as the simple Cockney flower girl who is transformed into a lady. While it's being called an update, the film will use the...