Brittany Murphy, Thora Birch and Tammy Blanchard are starring in the psychological thriller " Deadline ." In the "Shining"-style feature, Murphy plays a scribe who travels to an abandoned house to write a screenplay. A...
Josh Zetumer is in negotiations to pen the latest incarnation of " Dune ," Frank Herbert's sprawling sci-fi epic, for Paramount Pictures. The award-winning 1965 novel -- the first in a series of six books about a...
Darko Entertainment has signed on to produce and finance the bigscreen adaptation of Tucker Max's bestseller " I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell ." Bob Gosse ("Niagara, Niagara") will direct the film, which is based on...
Matt Damon has committed to star in " Human Factor ," joining Morgan Freeman in the Clint Eastwood-directed film for Warner Bros. Damon will play rugby star Francois Pienaar, who created, with Nelson Mandela, an event...
Guy Ritchie has come aboard to direct Warner Bros.' " Sherlock Holmes " for Lionel Wigram and Dan Lin. Arthur Conan Doyle's stories about Holmes, written in the late 19th century, emphasized the detective's intellectual...
Emmy Rossum is toplining " Dare ," an independent film lensing in Philadelphia. Directed by Adam Salky and scripted by David Brind, the film is about three privileged high school seniors who decide they can no longer...
Ryan Condal has been hired to adapt " Ocean ," a comic miniseries by Warren Ellis that is set up at Warner Bros. Nick Wechsler and Hollywood Gang's Gianni Nunnari are producing. The story revolves around the discovery of...
Lake Bell is the latest to join the orgy. The actress has signed on to the indie comedy " A Good Old Fashioned Orgy " in North Carolina, starring alongside a cast that includes Leslie Bibb, Michelle Borth, Will Forte,...
Rescuing a film that was placed in limbo by the Capitol Films cash crunch, Nu Image/Millennium Films Overnight Productions has set a June 9 production start on the comedy " Labor Pains ." The romantic comedy stars...
Ben Kingsley will play the villain in Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer's bigscreen adapatation of the Ubisoft vidgame " Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time ." In the fantasy actioner, Kingsley portrays Nizam, who plots to...
Kevin Zegers will star in indie " The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll " alongside Jason Ritter. Story centers on a rock star (Zegers) who retreats to his Long Island hometown after his sophomore album flops.
John Moore is attached to direct a remake of the 1978 conspiracy thriller " Capricorn One " for New Regency. Peter Buchman, who wrote Steven Soderbergh's two-part Che Guevara biopic, penned the screenplay, which is...
Warner Bros. has signed commercial director and visual artist Matthijs van Heijningen to make his feature directing debut on " Army of the Dead ," an action thriller that takes place in zombie-infested Las Vegas. Script...
Lionsgate has acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to "Transporter 3." In the film, Jason Statham returns as Frank Martin, the ex-Special Forces operative who specializes in high-risk deliveries. Lionsgate will...
Elizabeth Berkley and Briana Evigan have boarded " S. Darko " (aka "Samantha D"), the sequel to "Donnie Darko" being directed by Chris Fisher. Ash R. Shah is producing. The story, set seven years after the first film,...
Jon Cryer and James Spader are returning to the big-screen, signing up to star in Robert Rodriguez's " Shorts ," a family adventure movie that also stars William H. Macy and Leslie Mann. " Shorts " is set in fictional...
Logan Lerman will play a young George Hamilton, starring in " My One and Only " opposite Renee Zellweger. Richard Loncraine is directing; Aaron Ryder is producing. The movie is based on the story of the actor's early...
Kerr Smith will star as Axle Palmer in Lionsgate's " My Bloody Valentine 3-D ," alongside Jamie King and Jenson Ackles. Patrick Lussier is helming the remake of the 1981 slasher film about a murderer who kills those who...
Bruce Willis is in negotiations to star in Lionsgate's "Kane & Lynch," a video game adaptation that veteran stunt coordinator and second unit director Simon Crane will helm. The game follows Kane (Willis), a death row...
Bryce Dallas Howard is in negotiations to replace Charlotte Gainsbourg in " Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins ." Gainsbourg was originally set to play Kate Connor, the wife of human resistance hero John Connor,...
Alfred Molina will join Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton and Ben Kingsley in Disney's "Prince of Persia," the Mike Newell-directed adaptation of the Ubisoft fantasy actioner. Jerry Bruckheimer is producing. Molina will...
Roland Suso Richter will helm an adaptation of Sabine Kuegler's bestseller "Dschungelkind" ( Jungle Child ), a biography of Christian missionaries who move to Papua New Guinea with their children to live with the Stone...
Hollywood Gang Prods. has set Hany Abu-Assad to direct " Eleven Minutes ," an adaptation of the steamy bestselling novel by Paulo Coelho. Coelho's novel revolves around Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village who is...
Danny Glover, Thandie Newton and Oliver Platt may be making a date with " 2012 ." The actors are in discussions to join Columbia's epic disaster project, which Roland Emmerich is directing. " 2012 " centers on a global...
Katharine McPhee and Wes Bentley are starring in the indie psychological drama " The Storyteller ," which Robert Angelo Masciantonio is directing for Feverpitch Pictures. Anita Briem also is on board. Bentley, repped by...
Platinum Studios has teamed with Valhalla Motion Pictures to turn the thriller comicbook " Final Orbit " into a feature film. Russell Gewirtz ("Inside Man") will write the script. " Final Orbit ," which will be published...
Universal has put the adaptation of Robert Ludlum's " The Sigma Protocol " on the front burner. " The Sigma Protocol " revolves around a young investment banker who discovers a secret organization, Sigma, which has been...
Holding Pictures has acquired rights to Steve Niles' graphic novel " Wake the Dead " and set James V. Hart to write the script and Jay Russell to direct. "The idea is to make a classic horror film, and what I liked was...
Actor Eddie Murphy is to reprise his role as Detroit detective Axel Foley in a fourth instalment of Beverley Hills Cop, according to reports. Rush Hour director Brett Ratner is also in negotiations to direct the film,...
Sony Pictures Classics is in final negotiations for James Toback's boxing documentary " Tyson ," which chronicles the illustrious but often troubled life of former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson . The buy would be one...
Steven Soderbergh said Thursday that he was willing to split his epic four-hour, two-part " Che " into two separate movies upon release -- with one caveat. "What I'd like to do is that if it opens in a town, you can see...
The life and career of Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister is being celebrated in a new documentary, tentatively titled " Lemmy " and slated for release in 2009. The film promises fans more access than ever before to...
That would be Rainn Wilson, who will have a small role in “ Transformers 2 ,” as some kind of professor, “The Office” star revealed exclusively to MTV News during an MTV Sneak Peek Week screening of his new film “The...
David Berenbaum and Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes have been brought on deck to bring Hasbro's supernatural game " Ouija Board " to the big screen. The project is set up at Universal, where Hasbro has a six-year strategic...
DreamWorks has hired Dario Scardapane to delve back into " Ancient History " for producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. Developed from an original idea by Di Bonaventura Pictures production president Mark Vahradian, "History"...
Sharp Independent at HarperCollins and Killer Films are partnering for a screen adaptation of the memoir of Elissa Wall, the woman whose testimony helped convict polygamist Warren Jeffs last year. Wall's memoir, " Stolen...
United Artists has hired writer Charles Randolph to adapt Stanley N. Alpert's nonfiction work, " The Birthday Party ." In " The Birthday Party : A Memoir of Survival," Alpert, a former assistant U.S. attorney, describes...
Writing-directing duo Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont are going back to school. The two are set to helm and rewrite the teen comedy " Big Man on Campus " for Sony's Columbia Pictures. The story concerns the most popular...
Lionsgate has acquired worldwide rights to " Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty ," a spec script by first-time screenwriter Adam Sachs. The script -- described as a quirky, elevated comedy in the vein of "Thank You for...
Producers David Permut and Steve Binder have acquired screen rights to Alanna Nash's 2003 book " The Colonel : The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley." Permut and Binder will develop a feature...
In a preemptive deal worth $850,000 against $1.6 million, Touchstone Pictures has sprung big for " Wedding Banned ," a comedy spec script by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler. A long-divorced couple kidnap their daughter on...
Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Dillane, Joanne Whalley and Melvil Poupaud have boarded the cast of Brit gangster drama “ 44 Inch Chest .” Photographer and commercials helmer Malcolm Venville is making his feature directorial...
Ewan McGregor has signed on to co-star in the Amelia Earhart biopic " Amelia " for Fox Searchlight. Story centers on the legendary aviatrix (Swank) and chronicles her rise to fame, marriage to publisher George Putnam...
Starz Prods. has launched production of ensemble comedy " Table for Three ," with Brandon Routh, Sophia Bush, Jesse Bradford, Jennifer Morrison, Johnny Galecki and Lisa Lapira. Michael Samonek directs from his own...
Lindsay Sloane has been cast as one of the female leads in " A Good Old Fashioned Orgy ." The Endgame Entertainment comedy stars Jason Sudeikis, Will Forte and Leslie Bibb and follows a 30-year-old man who is forced to...
Regent Releasing has acquired distribution rights to ensemble comedy " Kabluey ," starring Lisa Kudrow, Scott Prendergast, Teri Garr, Christine Taylor, Conchata Ferrell, Chris Parnell and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Prendergast...
"Lost" director Jack Bender has signed on to helm ABC's drama pilot " The Prince of Motor City ." Project, set to start shooting at the end of June, is a gothic family sudser set in the world of Detroit's auto business....
Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton will star in " Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time ," Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer Films' adaptation of Ubisoft's popular video game. Mike Newell is directing. In the fantasy adventure,...
Sam Huntington and Haylie Duff are in negotiations to star in " Tug ," an indie film from writer-director Abram Makowka that will be one of the first features to film in Michigan since the announcement in April of the...
Michelle Borth of HBO's "Tell Me You Love Me" has signed on for the indie film " A Good Old Fashioned Orgy " for Endgame Entertainment. The film centers on eight friends, all heading into their 30s and all on the verge...