James Schamus and Ang Lee will reunite on Focus Features' " Taking Woodstock ." Set during the politically turbulent summer of '69, story follows an Everyman working at his parents' motel in the Catskills who...
MGM has acquired domestic rights to "How To Lose Friends and Alienate People" and plans to release the comedy on Oct. 3 in conjunction with Autonomous Films. Pic, based on Toby Young’s memoir, centers on an English...
HandMade Films has found its Eloise for the upcoming adaptation of the children's book " Eloise in Paris ": Australian actress Jordana Beatty. HandMade anticipates an ongoing franchise for the character, based on the...
Phoenix Pictures and the Gold Co. are partnering on " Amish Gone Wild ," centered on two Amish teenage brothers who go to Las Vegas for one last hurrah before joining the church. Project will focus on the Rumspringa...
Halle Berry will star in and produce psychological drama " Frankie and Alice " for indie shingle Access Motion Pictures in association with Reality Pictures in Motion. Story follows a young woman struggling with multiple...
Ridley Scott will produce period noir drama " The Kind One " for Warner Bros. Casey Affleck is attached to star in the film, which is based on a novel by Tom Epperson, who will pen the screenplay. Story, set in 1930s Los...
Val Kilmer, 50 Cent, Sharon Stone, Dylan McDermott and Brian Presley will topline Nu Image/Millennium's action-drama " Streets of Blood ," with Irwin Winkler, Avi Lerner and Randall Emmett producing. "Streets" centers on...
Lakeshore Entertainment has found its leading lady and villain for sequel “ Crank 2: High Voltage ,” starring Jason Statham as hitman Chev Chelios. Amy Smart will reprise her role as Chelios’ girlfriend and Clifton...
Rob Schneider, Tania Raymonde, Kristin Cavallari, Rumer Willis and Ryan Merriman will star in indie ensemble comedy " Wild Cherry " for Redwood Palms, Rampage Entertainment and Farpoint Films. Dana Lustig will helm from...
Brett Ratner is in negotiations to direct Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment's remake of " The Incredible Shrinking Man ." Brian Grazer is producing the project, which has Eddie Murphy attached to star. An...
"Jumper" star Max Thierot will replace Henry Lee Hopper as the lead in Wes Craven's tentatively titled horror thriller " 25/8 " for Rogue Pictures. There were no creative differences between Craven and Dennis Hopper's...
Director Johnnie To is eyeing Orlando Bloom to star in " Red Circle " for France's Studio Canal, a spokesperson from To's production shingle Milkyway Image said Tuesday. While an offer has gone out to the actor,...
Keshia Knight Pulliam will star as an imprisoned prostitute in " Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail ." Derek Luke also stars, along with Tamela Mann and David Mann. The Lionsgate comedy centers on Madea (Perry), whose...
Sophie Monk is aiming to break some hearts. The "Sex and Death 101" actress has signed on to star in the indie comedy " Hardbreakers ," which revolves around two hot single girls who navigate the Los Angeles dating...
The truth is finally out there about the new "X-Files" movie title. The second big-screen spinoff of the paranormal TV adventure will be called "The X-Files: I Want to Believe," Chris Carter, the series' creator and the...
Uma Thurman, Minnie Driver and Anthony Edwards will star in indie laffer “ Motherhood ,” written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann. The day-in-the-life feature has Thurman as a harried mother of two prepping for her...
Jessica Chastain has been cast opposite Brad Pitt in the drama " Tree of Life ," written and directed by Terrence Malick. The story concerns the loss of innocence as seen through the eyes of the son of the characters...
Fox has preemptively bought Mike Arnold and Chris Poole's spec " Beaujolais " for Bobby and Peter Farrelly to produce through their Conundrum banner as a potential directing vehicle. Project has been dubbed a redneck...
Universal has tapped Shane Abbess to helm " Source Code ," a sci-fi thriller that Mark Gordon's shingle is producing for the studio. The studio project is a big step up for the Oz helmer, who made "Gabriel," his first...
Jackie Chan, who co-stars for the first time with fellow martial-arts star Jet Li in The Forbidden Kingdom , told reporters that he had tried unsuccessfully to work with Li for the past two decades. "We talked about it a...
Barra Grant's romantic comedy " Hanging Out, Hooking Up, Falling in Love " has signed an ensemble cast of Richard E. Grant, Carrie-Anne Moss, Janeane Garofalo, Jenna Elfman, Rita Rudner, Camryn Manheim, Caroline Aaron...
Zack Snyder is set to direct " Guardians of Ga'Hoole ," an animated feature film based on the series of children's books by Kathryn Lasky. Pic is set in the Forest of Tyto, where Barn Owls live in peace until their...
DreamWorks has tapped David DiGilio to adapt the Oni Press graphic novel " The Damned ," by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt. Described as horror-noir, "Damned" follows a Los Angeles detective who discovers that a new gang...
Lakeshore Entertainment and France's TF1 Intl. will co-produce a film based on Jean-Christophe Rufin's bestselling eco-spy novel "Le Parfum d'Adam" ( The Scent of Adam ). Story centers on a young activist who frees lab...
Shia LaBeouf is making a trip to " The Dark Fields ," a thriller Neil Burger is directing for Universal. Leslie Dixon and Scott Kroopf are producing. The story, by Dixon, follows a loser (LaBeouf) who gets his hands on a...
Danny DeVito will woo Kristen Bell in his own inimitable style in Disney's romantic comedy " When in Rome ." Mark Steven Johnson is directing "Rome," which centers on a love-starved New York curator (Bell) who steals...
Kristen Johnston has entered the bridal war zone. The actress has joined the cast of the Regency Enterprises and Fox comedy " Bride Wars ," starring Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway and Candice Bergen. Johnston will play Deb,...
Country star Trace Adkins will make a ghostly appearance opposite Kelsey Grammer in David Zucker's indie Christmas comedy "American Carol." Jon Voight, Leslie Nielsen and Dennis Hopper have cameos in the takeoff on...
Scott Rudin and Miramax will be taking another stab at glory, bringing the high-society memoir " Oh the Glory of It All " to the screen. Mike White will also produce and write the adapted screenplay. Sean Wilsey's book...
Adrien Brody, Emmanuelle Seigner and Elsa Pataky have signed on to star in " Giallo ," the latest thriller from Italian horrormeister Dario Argento. " Giallo " revolves around an American flight attendant who teams with...
Natalie Portman is attached as the lead in a new film version of " Wuthering Heights ." U.K. production company Ecosse Films, whose projects include "Mrs. Brown," "Becoming Jane" and the upcoming "Brideshead Revisited,"...
Shekhar Kapur has signed on to develop and direct " Larklight ," a period fantasy Di Novi Pictures is producing for Warner Bros. The 2006 book, set in aVictorian-era alternate universe in which mankind has been exploring...
Producers Steven Siebert and Christian Taylor have optioned the best-selling novel " Hick ," by first-time author Andrea Portes. The coming-of-age story centers on 13-year-old Luli McMullen, who runs away from her...
Making its first comedy acquisition under new chairman Mary Parent and the first acquisition involving newly hired executive vp production Cale Boyter, MGM has picked up Ben Wexler's comedy spec " Bobism ." In " Bobism...
Colin Farrell will star with Paz Vega and veteran Christopher Lee in Danis Tanovic's " Triage " and will also take an executive producer credit on the film based on the novel by Scott Anderson. Farrell will star as a...
An eclectic group of thesps and helmers are fanning out across Gotham's five boroughs to shoot " New York, I Love You ." Orlando Bloom, Olivia Thirlby, Hayden Christensen and Ethan Hawke are among those who have boarded...
Warner Bros. has won the bidding war for " Treehouse Gang ," a spec by Timothy Dowling. The studio acquired it for David Heyman's Heyday Films. The story revolves around a group of kids -- four boys and two girls -- who...
The Weinstein Co. has closed a deal on North American rights to helmer Andrew Jarecki's love story-cum-murder mystery " All Good Things ," about a Gotham real estate dynasty in the 1980s. Pic is the debut feature helming...
Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is negotiating, and Danny Huston, John Ortiz and Kelli Garner are set to star, in " Spectacular Regret ." Jackson will play a death row inmate whose imminent execution has made him a cause...
Chloe Sevigny and Zooey Deschanel will star in indie comedy " Divorce Ranch ," produced, directed and written by veteran helmer Michael Lindsay-Hogg. " Divorce Ranch " is set in Nevada just after WWII, when a quickie...
Daniel Alfredson will helm " The Girl Who Played With Fire ," the second film in the Millennium trilogy, based on the bestselling crime novels by Stieg Larsson. The first, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," is being...
Scribe Justin Marks has been tapped to tackle " Hack/Slash ," Rogue Pictures' adaptation of the Devil's Due Publishing comicbook Todd Lincoln will helm. Comicbook, created by Tim Seeley and Stefano Caselli, revolves...
Universal Pictures Intl. has acquired the overseas distribution rights to “ This Side of the Truth ,” a comedy written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson. Gervais stars as a storyteller who lives in a...
Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell are set to star in the Kirk Jones-directed " Everybody's Fine ." De Niro will play a widower who realizes that his deceased wife was his only connection to...
Jeffrey Dean Morgan has been cast to star opposite Kirsten Dunst and Ryan Gosling in " All Good Things " for Michael London's Groundswell Prods. The film -- written by Marcus Hinchey, Marc Smerling and Jarecki -- is a...
Ving Rhames, Radha Mitchell and Rosamund Pike have joined Bruce Willis in the sci-fi thriller " The Surrogates " for Disney. Jonathan Mostow is directing the film based on the graphic novel by Robert Venditti and artist...
Werner Herzog will write and direct " The Piano Tuner ," a lush Victorian-era drama about a Brit's journey to war-torn Burma, for Focus Features. Mandalay Independent Pictures' Cathy Schulman is a producer on the...
Mary Lynn Rajskub has joined Amy Adams and Meryl Streep in Columbia Pictures' " Julie and Julia ," currently filming in New York. The film is the true story of Julie Powell (Adams), who spent a year cooking all 524...
Andrew Daly and Gretchen Mol will form an Ivy League love triangle with Luke Wilson in the indie comedy " Tenure ." Meanwhile, Daly and Geoff Stultz have joined the DreamWorks comedy "She's Out of My League." In Mike...
Endgame Entertainment has picked up Robert Tannen’s spec “ Hungry Rabbit Jumps ” for Tobey Maguire to topline. Project is described as a dramatic thriller in the vein of David Fincher’s “The Game.” Endgame’s James Stern...