J.J. Abrams has tapped veteran thesp Peter Weller for the ensemble cast of Paramount's upcoming "Star Trek" sequel. Specifics of Weller's role are under wraps. His selection came on the heels of Abrams choosing Alice Eve...
"True Grit" star Hailee Steinfeld is in negotiations to star as the female lead in OddLot Entertainment's sci-fi tentpole " Ender's Game ." "Hugo" star Asa Butterfield is set to play the title character, a gifted young...
Actor and director Dexter Fletcher’s directorial debut Wild Bill has secured a theatrical rollout plan in the U.K. Fletcher’s fledgling outing stars Charlie Creed-Miles, Liz White, Andy Serkis and Jaime Winstone and...
Tony Peckham is in final negotiations to come onboard to rewrite " The Twilight Zone " for Warner Bros. and Appian Way. Warner Bros. sees the project as a tentpole, and unlike the 1983 feature that had four separate...
British actor Ben Whishaw has been cast as Q in the new Bond film Skyfall, his agent has confirmed. The role of 007's gadget designer was played by Desmond Llewelyn in From Russia With Love and most recently by John...
Steven Spielberg has placed another Brit in a key role for the DreamWorks drama " Lincoln ," as Jared Harris has been cast as Ulysses S. Grant. Based on "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin, the " Lincoln "...
"Super 8" star Kyle Chandler will join Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe in Allen Hughes' political thriller " Broken City ." Wahlberg stars as a Gotham detective hired by a powerful politician (Crowe) to identify his...
Polish actress Agnieszka Grochowska has joined the cast of Andrezej Wajda’s highly-anticipated Walesa biopic, playing Danuta Wałesa the wife of Solidarity leader Lech Walesa . Robert Wieckiewicz stars as Walesa in the...
Millennium Films is going on a " Guys Night ," acquiring rights to Chris Baldi's comedy spec and targeting a spring production start. Story centers on four guys stuck in dead-end jobs and not-much-better relationships...
Paramount has plotted a course for May 17, 2013, for its next Star Trek sequel, which it plans to shoot in 3D. The release date slots the sci-fi franchise into a very busy tentpole-filled May 2013, coming right after...
First he took on Mark Zuckerberg and now, Aaron Sorkin could be bringing the late Steve Jobs to the big screen. “Sony has asked me to write the movie and it’s something I’m strongly considering,” Sorkin told E! Online on...
Anthony Hopkins and Judi Dench are in talks for the lead roles in " Italian Shoes ," which Kenneth Branagh will direct. It's the story of a retired surgeon living on a remote island in Sweden, who is forced to confront...
After dealing with highly intelligent primates in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," John Lithgow is transitioning to highly unintelligent politicians in the cast of Warner Bros. " Dog Fight ." Will Ferrell and Zach...
Jeffrey Wright has joined cast of Allen Hughes' " Broken City ," joining Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe in the New York City crime thriller. Wahlberg stars as a Brooklyn detective hired by a powerful politician (Crowe)...
Will Kristen Stewart accept the offer to star in Akira ? Stewart’s camp is mulling an offer from Warner Bros. for the in-demand actress to join the cast of the adaptation of classic manga and anime in the role of Ky...
Patrick Fabian ("Big Love"), Kelly Carlson ("Nip/Tuck"), Ian Colletti, Ted Levine, Bob Gunton ("The Lincoln Lawyer"), Greg Alan Williams, Chuck Carrington and Burgess Jenkins have joined the cast of indie fantasy-drama "...
Shirley MacLaine and Jacki Weaver will topline indie comedy " Wild Oats " with Alan Arkin in negotiations to join the Wild Pictures production, to be directed by Howard Deutch. Story centers on MacLaine's character...
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" scribe Eric Roth is in early discussions to reteam with producer Scott Rudin on Sony Pictures' " Cleopatra ," which has Angelina Jolie attached to star as the Egyptian queen. David...
Norman Reedus is set to co-star in the indie pic "Sunlight Jr." with Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon. Pic revolves around a Florida couple dealing with an unexpected pregnancy while holding minimum wage jobs.
Amber Entertainment is heading to Paris, snapping up rights to Paula McClain's " The Paris Wife : A Novel," centered on the relationship between Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley during the 1920s in Paris. Amber's...
"The Proposal" helmer Anne Fletcher is set to direct " The Fight Before Christmas " for Shawn Levy's 21 Laps banner. Now that Fletcher is attached, filmmakers will rev up casting -- looking at thesps including Bradley...
"Harry Potter" director David Yates is teaming up with the BBC to turn its iconic sci-fi TV series " Doctor Who " into a bigscreen franchise. Yates, who directed the last four Potter films, told Daily Variety that he is...
Columbia Pictures is in final discussions to acquire feature film rights to Evan Mandery's novel "Q" for writer/director David Gordon Green and producer Matt Tolmach. Story finds a man visited by a future version of...
Sony Pictures Classics has closed its deal for all U.S. and South African rights to Hysteria , Tanya Wexler's Toronto Film Festival entry about the invention of the vibrator starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy. The...
Sacha Baron Cohen is in final negotiations to join the cast of Quentin Tarantino's " Django Unchained ." Story follows a slave-turned-bounty hunter (Foxx) on a mission to rescue his wife from her sadistic slavemaster. In...
Russell Brand is attached to star in and produce The President Stole My Girlfriend , a comedy project Warner Bros. has just picked up from writer Matt Portenoy. Producing with Brand is his Branded Films partner Nik...
Lena Olin and Finnish actor Tobias Zilliacus have joined Mikael Persbrandt as the leading cast in Lasse Hallstrom's " The Hypnotist ," his first Swedish film for 24 years. Adapted from Lars Kepler's international...
Rachel Korine, the wife of indie filmmaker Harmony Korine, has landed the last lead in his next project, " Spring Breakers ." The girls gone wild pic follows four college girls who who rob a fast food restaurant to...
Marc Rothemund, director of the Oscar-nominated Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, has signed on to direct Galapagos , the true-story adaptation of a mysterious series of killings on the Galapagos islands in the 1930s....
John Cusack is set to star in The Numbers Station , a thriller in which he will play a disgraced black ops agent charged with protecting a CIA code operator, played by Malin Akerman. Danish director Kasper Barfoed is...
Roman Coppola has tapped Katheryn Winnick as the female lead opposite Charlie Sheen in the indie " A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charlie Swan III ." "Glimpse" follows a successful graphic designer whose fame, money and...
Andy Garcia, Eva Longoria and Forest Whitaker are top-lining the action thriller The Truth from writer/director Damian Lee, now shooting in Ontario, Canada and the Dominican Republic. Garcia plays a former CIA...
Michelle Monaghan will portray a veteran of the war in Afghanistan as the star of indie drama " Fort Bliss ," with Claudia Myers directing from her own script. Story centers on a female soldier transferred home after a...
Phillip Noyce is set to direct " The Arrangement " for Mandate Pictures. Story follows a married woman who makes a deal to spend three days with a wealthy man in exchange for a loan and must choose between him and her...
German production outfit Bavariapool has greenlit its first English-language production, the psycho-thriller Black Butterfly with Nicolas Cage and German actress Veronica Ferres attached to star. Cage will play the...
Summit Entertainment has come aboard to remake the Dutch horror thriller Zwart Water with Charlize Theron attached to produce and star. Zwart Water centers on a nine-year girl old who discovers that her new friend is not...
Marley Shelton ("Scream 4") has joined the cast of indie pic " Decoding Annie Parker ." Story is based on the true life story of Annie Parker, a breast-cancer patient whose belief that her illness had a genetic component...
Smash Media Films has tapped Lior Chefetz and Joe Swanson to script the horror pic " Zombie Blondes ." Pic is based on the book by Brian James and follows a girl at a new high school who hopes to find acceptance with the...
Warner Bros. has preemptively purchased the high-concept pitch " Rome, Sweet Rome " from first-time scribe James Erwin, an author and two-time "Jeopardy!" champion from Des Moines, Iowa. Erwin's pitch sale came about as...
Quentin Tarantino has gone back to the TV archives with his latest casting for " Django Unchained ," bringing "Miami Vice" and "Nash Bridges" star Don Johnson to the ensemble. Johnson joins a cast that already includes...
Call it a three-peat for Michael Fassbender and Steve McQueen, as the thesp and multi-hyphenate are reteaming again on McQueen's next pic " 12 Years a Slave ." Pic also stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and tells the true story of...
Just as she did in "Easy A," Patricia Clarkson will add a veteran presence to the youthful ensemble of Zal Batmanglij's eco-terrorist thriller " The East ." Sundance breakout Brit Marling stars an employee of a private...
Javier Bardem is in negotiations to voice a new villain in Despicable Me 2 , the sequel to Universal and Illumination’s surprise 2010 hit. The first movie followed a villainous mastermind, voiced by Steve Carell, who...
Billy Ray, the writer-director of Shattered Glass and Breach, has been tapped to write The Thin Man , an adaptation of the classic Dashiell Hammett novel. Johnny Depp is attached to star and Rob Marshall is attached to...
Tamara Tunie ("Law & Order: SVU") has been tapped to co-star opposite Denzel Washington in Paramount's " Flight ." Robert Zemeckis is helming with production starting later this month in Atlanta. Written by John Gatins,...
Capitalizing on the heat generated by her role on AMC's "The Killing," Kristin Lehman has signed on to join Colin Firth and Emily Blunt in Cross Creek Pictures' dark comedy " Arthur Newman , Golf Pro." Firth stars as...
Tess Rafferty ("The Soup") has set up comedy feature script " Thicker Than Water ," with director-producer Scott Freeman and his partner Adam Grossman. The story deals with a dysfunctional family of social climbers...
The latest release in the franchise, Bond 23, could well have a name now, according to Fusible.com. The site reported that the MGM and Sony Pictures release, slated for late 2012, will likely be called Skyfall, according...
Clint Eastwood said "Gran Torino" would be his final film in front of the camera, but with his next directorial effort, "A Star Is Born," delayed, he's decided to un-retire as a thesp for " Trouble With the Curve ."...
After romancing Uma Thurman in "Ceremony," Michael Angarano is taking on another indie comedy's young romantic lead, as he's set to star opposite Julianne Moore in Craig Zisk's " The English Teacher ." Moore stars as a...