Jessica Biel has been cast as the lead in the romantic comedy " Easy Virtue ," based on the Noel Coward play, for London-based Ealing Studios. Biel plays an American divorcee, Larita Huntington, who travels to the South...
"High School Musical" star Ashley Tisdale will make her feature film debut in 20th Century Fox's adventure comedy " They Came From Upstairs ." John Schultz is directing with Barry Josephson producing. Also cast in the...
Max Von Sydow and Pete Postlethwaite are joining star James Purefoy in the cast of " Solomon Kane ." Planned as the first in a trilogy, " Solomon Kane " is an epic tale of a 16th century soldier tormented by his past...
Fox 2000 has added Alan Arkin to the cast of "Marley & Me" and has set a spring start date. [Owen] Wilson plays a Philadelphia newspaper columnist who decides with his wife to adopt a dog to give them a taste of...
British author Danny King's latest novel " School for Scumbags " has been optioned for feature development by producer David Matalon. Plot follows a teenage boy who, after being expelled from a long list of schools,...
James Middleton, an associate producer on the upcoming fourth Terminator film, told SCI FI Wire that California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will definitely not be in the movie or any of the contemplated sequels in...
Kate Winslet will replace Nicole Kidman in the lead of the Weinstein Co.'s Stephen Daldry pic " The Reader ." Kidman dropped out Monday, citing her pregnancy as the reason. Principal photography on the pic began late...
Phillip Noyce is set to direct and Scarlett Johansson to star in " Mary Queen of Scots ," putting the costumer on course to start production in April. Drama is a biography of the woman who became Scotland's queen at 9...
Michael Chiklis has joined the cast of " Eagle Eye ," the D.J. Caruso-directed thriller for DreamWorks. Chiklis ("The Shield") will play the U.S. secretary of defense in the story that revolves around a slacker (Shia...
Nicole Kidman has pulled out of Stephen Daldry’s “ The Reader ,” citing her pregnancy as the reason. Principal photography on the pic began late last year in Berlin and the Eastern city of Goerlitz and filming was set to...
Ukrainian actress Olga Kurylenko has been cast as the female lead in the new 007 movie, which will start principal photography under the working title " Bond 22 ." Returning from "Casino Royale" are Judi Dench as M,...
Fox Atomic is setting Karyn Kusama to helm " Jennifer's Body ," a quirky comedic thriller written by "Juno" scribe Diablo Cody. Fox Atomic bought the project as a spec in October when buzz had just begun building around...
Skeet Ulrich is returning to the big screen in Sony's Screen Gems drama " Armored ." Ulrich ("Jericho") will play Dobbs, a scruffy member of an armored truck company team who plans to empty a truck of its $10 million....
St Trinian's star Gemma Arterton has been cast as a Bond girl in the latest 007 film, according to industry paper The Hollywood Reporter. The 21-year-old actress will play a character called Fields in the movie, which...
Marlon Wayans has signed on to star in Paramount actioner " G.I. Joe ." Wayans will play Ripcord, leader of the military unit. War-themed story is set 10 years in the future. Stuart Beattie penned the screenplay, while...
Maggie Gyllenhaal, who replaced Katie Holmes in The Dark Knight , talks about her role as the love interest. Is your Batman character a damsel in distress? There are moments of that. Chris Nolan, the director, would joke...
Michael “Bully“ Herbig, Germany’s most successful director, will next shoot a live-action adaptation of the beloved Japanese-German animated series “ Vicky the Viking ” for the big screen. Originally based on the...
United Artists has paid seven figures to option the film rights for children's literature series " Ranger's Apprentice ." The fantasy series by Australian author John Flanagan follows the adventures of an orphan boy...
Variety columnist Anne Thompson reported that it is "highly unlikely" that Superman Returns helmer Bryan Singer will return to shoot the next Superman movie. Singer is finishing up Tom Cruise's Nazi film Valkyrie and...
Karl Urban, who will play a young Dr. Leonard McCoy in J.J. Abrams' upcoming Star Trek movie, told TV Guide that the film will be true to the original series' spirit. "The movie is very, very faithful to the spirit of...
From Hogwarts school to the hell of Somalia's civil war, Daniel Radcliffe is to make his biggest career leap yet. The Harry Potter actor has seen off competition from Hollywood's A-list to star in the true story of a...
Mathieu Amalric, who played a paralyzed stroke victim in "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," will face off against Agent 007 in the 22nd installment in the James Bond franchise, from Columbia Pictures and MGM. A studio...
Michael Bay has updated his blog, and gives an insight into Transformers 2 . I want to thank Nelson for running such a good site! For the millions of viewers that logged on this year I want to thank you for the support....
Tyler Perry will head the Starfleet Academy in J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" feature for Paramount. Perry joins an ensemble that includes Chris Pine, Eric Bana, Winona Ryder and Leonard Nimoy in the film, which chronicles the...
Korean helmer Kim Ki-duk has cast Japan's Joe Odagiri and Korea's Lee Na-young in his pic " Bi-mong ." Odagiri will play a man who dreams he caused a car crash -- then discovers a real hit-and-run accident. Lee plays the...
Producer MORITZ BORMAN has revealed that Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins is set before the famous fighting machine has been built. “We’re keeping the script under very tight security,” Borman told Empire...
Could " The Trial of the Chicago Seven " be Steven Spielberg's next picture? Spielberg has been developing the DreamWorks project, about anti-Vietnam War activists arrested at the 1968 Democratic Convention, for some...
Director Marc Forster has confirmed some details of the 22nd James Bond film in an interview with Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung. Principal photography will commence on Thursday 3rd January 2008 - a day earlier than...
Premiere recently sat down with John Hurt to talk about his role in Steven Spielberg's upcoming ' Indiana Jones 4: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ' movie. A recent report pegs you as Abner Ravenwood, the father of Karen...
Sacha Baron Cohen tells The Daily Telegraph that he's retiring the clueless Kazakh journalist, as well as his alter ego, aspiring rapper Ali G. "When I was being Ali G and Borat I was in character sometimes 14 hours a...
Dakota Fanning and Alicia Keys are in final negotiations to join the cast of " The Secret Life of Bees ," a female-oriented coming-of-age tale based on the Sue Monk Kidd best-seller. "Bees," a drama set in the Southern...
Roberto Orci, co-writer of director J.J. Abrams' highly anticipated Star Trek movie, told SCI FI Wire that there's still a possibility that original star William Shatner may appear in the movie, though that's less of a...
After helming three "Spider-Man" films, Sam Raimi will return to his genre roots to direct " Drag Me to Hell ," a supernatural thriller he wrote with his brother, Ivan Raimi. The morality tale about the unwitting...
Dwight Little has been set to direct " Tekken ," a futuristic martial arts actioner based on the bestselling Japanese vidgame from Namco. "The film plays out as a science fiction story set in the near future, about a...
The " G.I. Joe " brigade is growing larger. Rachel Nichols, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Said Taghmaoui will join Sienna Miller and Ray Park in Paramount's live action film " G.I. Joe ." Stephen Sommers is directing...
Nicole Kidman arrived under an umbrella with her husband, Keith Urban, holding hands like smitten teenagers. Hugh Jackman was walking around with a plate of broccolini, part of a dietary schedule that has him eating...
Columbia Pictures' spy caper Edwin A. Salt , with Tom Cruise attached, has been missing a director since Michael Mann left the project for Universal's Public Enemies with Johnny Depp. Now insiders tell EW that the studio...
Peter Jackson, Oscar-winning director of the Lord of the Rings movies, has signed a deal to produce two films based on JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit . The filmmaker had been in dispute with New Line Cinema over income...
Mischa Barton will star in the indie stalker thriller " Homecoming ." Morgan J. Freeman ("Hurricane," "Dawson's Creek") will direct the film, which will also star Matt Long, Jessica Stroup and Michael Landes. Story...
Jason Ritter, Jess Weixler, Jesse L. Martin and Tracie Thoms are starring in Jay DiPietro's romantic drama " Peter and Vandy ." Ritter and Weixler will play the title roles in a love story about the ups and downs of a...
Nicole Holofcener has signed to write and direct a movie about a group of New York women who live in the same apartment building, with Catherine Keener in final negotiations to play the main character. The movie,...
"Notes From the Underbelly" actress Rachael Harris has joined the cast of " The Soloist " for DreamWorks. Susannah Grant ("Erin Brockovich") penned the screenplay based on a 2005 series of articles by Los Angeles Times...
Edward Norton is exiting " State of Play ," and talks are under way for Ben Affleck to replace him in the Kevin Macdonald-directed drama for Universal Pictures and Working Title. Norton becomes the second high-profile...
Ewan McGregor will play the romantic lead opposite Jim Carrey in " I Love You Phillip Morris ," a dark comedy that marks the directing debut of "Bad Santa" scribes Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. Carrey signed earlier in...
Alec Baldwin will join Cameron Diaz, Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning in " My Sister's Keeper ," the Nick Cassavetes-directed adaptation of the Jodi Picoult novel for New Line. Baldwin will play the attorney who...
Josh Lucas and Jon Hamm will co-star in " The Boy in the Box " for A2 Entertainment Group and Code Entertainment. Thriller tells the story of an unsolved murder of a boy whose remains are found in a box. Anders Anderson...
Columbia Pictures has tapped frosh director Josh Greenbaum to helm its high school comedy " The Art of Cool ." Eric Gold is producing. Story centers on a geeky student who discovers the classic book "The Art of War" by...
Italian thesp Riccardo Scamarcio has been cast as the lead in Constantin Costa-Gavras' immigration drama " Eden Is West ," which will start shooting in March. Penned by Costa-Gavras with regular co-scribe Jean-Claude...
Roberto Orci, co-writer of director J.J. Abram's highly anticipated Star Trek movie, told SCI FI Wire that the tightly guarded story for the upcoming franchise reboot depends heavily on the appearance of original series...