Rodrigo Garcia, who is helming Sony's upcoming drama "Passengers," is aboard to write and direct an English-language remake of " Live-In Maid ." The small-scale Argentine pic is directed by tyro Jorge Gaggero and stars...
Two days after being hospitalized for an attempted suicide, Owen Wilson has dropped out of the DreamWorks' ensemble comedy " Tropic Thunder ." Both DreamWorks and Wilson's personal publicist declined comment. Wilson's...
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will star in “ Witch Mountain ” for Walt Disney Pictures. Andy Fickman is directing, and the studio will begin production in March. Johnson, who just teamed with Fickman in the Disney family...
New Line is in negotiations with Ben Affleck to round out the cast of ensemble comedy " He's Just Not That Into You ," with Drew Barrymore and Nancy Juvonen producing through their Flower Films banner. Shooting starts...
Danny and Christopher Masterson, Patrick Warburton, Bijou Phillips, Sam Levine and George Segal are starring in " Made for Each Other ," an independently financed comedy about infidelity that has just begun shooting in...
Warner Bros. has tattooed Zack Snyder's name on its redo of " The Illustrated Man ." The collection, first published in 1951, is narrated by a mysterious man with living tattoos that predict the future. Rod Steiger...
George Lucas has hired John Ridley to write " Red Tails ," a WWII action adventure about the Tuskegee Airmen based on a story by Lucas, who is financing development through his Lucasfilm production company and exec...
DreamWorks has set Robert Downey Jr. to star with Jamie Foxx in " The Soloist ," the Joe Wright-directed fact-based drama about a violin prodigy. Downey will play Steve Lopez, the Los Angeles Times columnist who...
Oliver Stone is in final negotiations with United Artists to direct " Pinkville ," a Vietnam War drama based on a true story set to star Bruce Willis and Channing Tatum. Michael Pena is in talks to play the third lead...
Johnny Depp will be singing in time for Christmas -- everywhere. DreamWorks and Paramount have decided to go wide with director Tim Burton's bigscreen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical " Sweeney Todd " on...
Intrepid Pictures has acquired supernatural thriller " The Fourth Horseman ," penned by Marshall Uzzle and Perry Fair, and set it up with Intrepid partners Marc D. Evans and Trevor Macy along with Mike Karz. "Horseman"...
Twentieth Century Fox has set Keanu Reeves to star in " The Day the Earth Stood Still ," its re-imagining of the 1951 Robert Wise-directed sci-fi classic. Reeves committed over the weekend to play Klaatu, a humanoid...
Brad Bird, who wrote and directed the Oscar-winning animated film The Incredibles , told SCI FI Wire that he still is working out a story good enough to justify a sequel. "I have to come up with a story that is as good...
Mexican thesp Demian Bichir is set to co-star as Fidel Castro in Steven Soderbergh's upcoming films "The Guerrilla" and " The Argentine ," opposite Benicio Del Toro's Che Guevara. The actor joins Catalina Sandino Moreno,...
Dark Horse Indie is developing a project titled " War Monkeys ." Cleve Nettles is writing the horror comedy, based on a story by producer Chris Patton. The story follows a janitor who, during a Christmas holiday, gets...
Icelandic producer-director Julius Kemp is poised to make his filmic comeback with " Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre ," a horror film that will star Gunnar Hansen, famous for his role as Leatherface in the 1974 cult...
Paramount Pictures has finally mobilized " G.I. Joe " into action, hiring Stephen Sommers to direct the live-action film based on the popular Hasbro military action figures. Lorenzo Di Bonaventura is producing. While...
A thirty-mile-long alien spaceship with mysterious origins is set adrift in our Solar System by an unknown intelligence. What is it? Who built it? What is it doing in our corner of the galaxy? Morgan Freeman thinks he’s...
David Schwimmer is joining the cast of the political thriller "Nothing but the Truth," being directed by Rod Lurie. Bob Yari and Marc Frydman are producing. Schwimmer joins a cast that includes Kate Beckinsale, Matt...
Regency and 20th Century Fox are overhauling the bigscreen adaptation of TV series " Dallas ," about the oil-rich Ewing clan, and this time they're drilling for laughs. Betty Thomas, the director who mined two spoof...
Adam Scott and Mary Steenburgen have joined the cast of the Judd Apatow-produced comedy " Step Brothers ," which Adam McKay is directing for Columbia Pictures. Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are starring as two...
Jason Isaacs and Melissa George will star opposite John Cusack in the Jan de Bont-helmed action thriller " Stopping Power " from Intermedia Films and Action Concepts. Cusack plays a man who races to rescue his kidnapped...
Justin Timberlake has joined the cast of Mike Myers starrer " The Love Guru " for Paramount Pictures. Storyline revolves around an American (Myers) raised by gurus on an Ashram in India. Returning to the U.S. to make a...
Matthew Lillard will star in the Lighthouse Entertainment 1980s-set teen comedy " Endless Bummer ," playing a surf shop owner who helps a group of teens track down a prized stolen surfboard. The actor joins rocker Joan...
Terrence Howard will join Channing Tatum ("Step Up") in Rogue's untitled street-fighting pic written and directed by Dito Montiel. Howard will play a veteran street-fighting coach who mentors Tatum's character, a young...
Greg Mottola, who ended a decade-long gap between feature directing gigs with "Superbad," is set to helm " Adventureland " for Miramax and Sidney Kimmel. Story, set in the summer of 1987, concerns an uptight recent...
Atom Egoyan's next project will star Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard, Devon Bostick plus his wife and longtime muse, Arsinee Khanjian. Egoyan described pic, titled " Adoration " and which begins lensing in Toronto in...
Mark Tonderai is to make his directorial debut with " Hush ," a psychological thriller from digital film studio Warp X. " Hush " is set on a deserted English freeway and sees a regular guy and his girlfriend become...
Regency has acquired " The Darkest Hour ," a spec script by Leslie Bohem and neophyte scribe M.T. Ahern. Tom Jacobson will produce, and 20th Century Fox will distribute. The action-thriller puts a twist on a classic...
Dimension Films has set a November 26 start date for “ Comeback ,” an inspirational sports drama that Ice Cube will star in and produce. Fred Durst is in negotiations to direct. Pic is based on a true story, and Cube...
Disney has acquired " Brothers ," a pitch for a Tim Allen comedy vehicle that Allen will write with Matt Carroll. Story concerns a racially mixed pair of adopted brothers who are framed for a crime and forced to team up.
Eva Mendes will round out the cast for Frank Miller's " The Spirit ," joining Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson and Gabriel Macht. Miller wrote the script and will direct the movie, which marks the start of a...
Rachael Leigh Cook, Steven Root, Grace Zabriskie, Amy Ryan, Eddie Jemison, Lucy Davis and Michael Leydon Campbell will star in romantic comedy " Bob Funk ." Pic begins shooting in Los Angeles later this month and marks...
New Line Cinema has acquired " New York State of Mind ," a Margaret Nagle-scripted film that will be produced by Arnold and Anne Kopelson. The producers describe the script as a fantastical love story, one that will be...
“ Adrift in Manhtattan ” has found a mooring. The Heather Graham drama will be distributed by Screen Media Films with a Sept. 21 theatrical release date New York. The film’s Los Angeles release will be through the Los...
Eleven extras playing German soldiers were injured Sunday evening when they fell off a truck on the set of Tom Cruise starrer " Valkyrie " in the center of Berlin, police said Monday. While 10 of the extras were treated...
Rob Marshall and Harvey Weinstein have begun assembling the cast for "Nine." The Weinstein Co. is in talks with Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard and Javier Bardem to star in the musical. Marshall, who wanted to set his...
Universal is the " Lone Survivor " in the tug of war over Marcus Luttrell's life story. Peter Berg will adapt and direct the feature about a Navy Seal who led a team into Afghanistan on a mission to kill a Taliban leader...
Natalie Martinez is negotiations to star as the romantic lead opposite Jason Statham in " Death Race ," Universal Pictures' remake of the Roger Corman cult classic being directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. " Death Race "...
Seth Gordon, who helmed the critically acclaimed "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters" documentary, is in final negotiations to direct " Four Christmases " for New Line Cinema. Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn are...
Nicole Kidman and Ralph Fiennes will star in love story " The Reader " for the Weinstein Co. Stephen Daldry will direct David Hare's adaptation of the bestselling novel by German writer Bernhard Schlink. The setting is...
Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston will star in "Marley & Me," the Fox 2000 adaptation of John Grogan's bestselling memoir about an incorrigible Labrador retriever. Marley is the yellow lab adopted by Grogan, a columnist...
It's official: Zac Efron has committed himself to a new romantic relationship. This time, it's his first leading-man role in New Line's fast-tracked love story, Seventeen . Capitalizing on the back-to-back successes of...
Paul Bettany and Thomas Kretschmann have joined " The Young Victoria ," the Graham King-Martin Scorsese production now lensing in the U.K. Bettany takes on the role of Lord Melbourne, Queen Victoria's most trusted...
Jason Biggs and Lizzy Caplan are diving into the dating game. The pair have joined the cast of the Dane Cook-Kate Hudson starrer " Bachelor No. 2 " for Lionsgate. The story centers on Tank (Cook), a master at seducing --...
Barcelona-based production house Mediapro has boarded " Salt of this Sea ," a MidEast-set drama that marks the feature film debut of multi-prized short filmmaker Annemarie Jacir. "Salt" is an incisive contempo drama that...
Jamie Foxx is set to star in " The Soloist ," a DreamWorks drama to be directed by Joe Wright. Project is based on the true story of musical prodigy Nathaniel Ayers, who developed schizophrenia in his second year at...
Nicole Kidman, who stars in the upcoming U.S. remake of the Colombian horror film Al Final del Espectro (At the End of the Spectra), told SCI FI Wire that she's looking forward to working with the original's director,...
Chris Evans, Djimon Hounsou, Dakota Fanning and Camilla Belle are set to star in " Push ," a supernatural thriller being directed by Paul McGuigan. " Push ," written by David Bourla, revolves around a group of young...
Jennifer Aniston is in final negotiations to star in " He's Just Not That Into You ," New Line Cinema's ensemble comedy being directed by Ken Kwapis. Drew Barrymore and Nancy Juvonen are producing via their Flower Films...