The American Idol judge has signed on to produce his first feature film, the rather familiar sounding Star Struck . The music-themed project, inspired by 1980's classic Fame, will be set behind the scenes of a TV singing...
George Lopez is in talks to co-write, produce and star in one of the projects from Salma Hayek and partner Jose Tamez's new MGM-based shingle Ventanazul. Comedic fantasy " Bones Family " will be co-written and directed...
DreamWorks Animation and Paramount will release the fourth installment in the lucrative "Shrek" franchise May 21, 2010. So far, the animated green ogre has the date alone. Warner Bros. has set its release of filmmaker...
John Singleton will direct Lionsgate's legal drama " Tulia ," starring Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton. Pic centers on a lawyer's efforts to expose a rash of drug convictions in rural Tulia , Texas, in 1999. It's an...
Jim Broadbent and Miranda Richardson have joined the royal crowd in “ The Young Victoria ,” Graham King and Martin Scorsese’s look at the monarch’s tur-bulent rise to power. Broadbent will play King William, Victoria’s...
Universal Pictures has acquired "The Lost Adventures of Stone Perlmutter Jr.," a pitch that will be written by Peter Huyck and Alex Gregory as a star vehicle for Jack Black. Black and partner Ben Cooley will produce...
Ricky Gervais is getting ready for " Early Retirement " at Warner Bros. British comic is attached to star in the feature based on Mark Perez's comedy pitch about an work-obsessed man who quits his demanding job to spend...
Disney has signed Francis Lawrence ("Constantine") to helm fantasy-adventure " Snow and the Seven ," with Scott Rudin and Andrew Gunn producing. The live-action project inspired by the "Snow White" fairy tale focuses on...
Disney has picked up feature rights to the graphic novel " Pet Robots " and set it up with Chris Bender and JC Spink through their Benderspink banner. The " Pet Robots " graphic novel, written and created by Scott...
Steven Spielberg, who is directing the upcoming fourth Indiana Jones movie, revealed that Karen Allen will reprise the role of Marion Ravenwood in the movie via a live video remote appearance at Comic-Con International...
Zachary Quinto, the Heroes star who will be playing a young version of Spock in J.J. Abrams' upcoming Star Trek movie, told SCI FI Wire that he will approach the role from the inside out, rather than trying to mimic the...
Writer-director Henry Bean has landed " Down by the River " for Universal. Story revolves around a 1995 murder in El Paso, Texas, that was originally believed to be the result of a botched carjacking but was later tied...
Universal Pictures has acquired remake rights to the 2005 Japanese action hit " Shinobi " from Shochiku and set Max Makowski to write the script and direct. Makowski will begin scripting the " Shinobi " remake...
National Lampoon has acquired Intl. Danger Alliance's post-apocalyptic comedy " Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell " and plans a fall theatrical release. "Beach Party" is set 20 years after the fall of the U.S. and...
Strike Entertainment has hired Jenna McGrath to pen an adaptation of Bentley Little's horror novel " The Store ." The story centers on an evil corporation's takeover of a small town. Marc Abraham and Eric Newman are...
Johnny Depp will channel Hunter S. Thompson once again in Warner Independent's adaptation of " The Rum Diary ." Depp will play Paul Kemp, a freelance journo writing for a rundown newspaper in 1950s Puerto Rico and...
Cameron Diaz will star in " My Sister's Keeper ," a Nick Cassavetes-directed adaptation of the Jodi Picoult novel for New Line Cinema. Shooting will begin early next year. Thesp will play a former defense attorney who...
Keira Knightley will play the 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire, in Saul Dibb's " The Duchess ," co-financed by Pathe and BBC Films. Pic, set to shoot in October, is adapted from Amanda Foreman's...
After spending most of the year living a soap opera, Paris Hilton will be part of a real opera this fall. Hilton has joined Alexa Vega and Paul Sorvino in the cast of " Repo! The Genetic Opera ," a full-blown musical...
Carice van Houten ("Black Book") has joined the cast of Boris Damast's " Vivaldi ," alongside Joseph Fiennes and Gerard Depardieu. Financed by Future Films, and produced by Hand Picked Films and Mechaniks, the biopic of...
There will actually be two actors playing Mr. Spock in J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" -- newcomer Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy, who turned the character of Spock into an icon in the original television series. Storyline...
Tim Blake Nelson has joined the cast of Marvel Studios' " The Incredible Hulk ." The movie, which Louis Leterrier is directing, sees Bruce Banner/Hulk on the run, trying to avoid capture long enough to cure the condition...
There's a lot of action in and around the Weinstein Co.'s CG-animated monster movie " Igor ." Eddie Izzard has replaced Jeremy Piven as the insane Schadenfreude, and producer Exodus Film Group has inked a deal for a...
Johnny Depp is getting in touch with his inner vampire. Warner Bros. is teaming with Depp's Infinitum-Nihil and Graham King's GK Films to develop a feature based on the '60s daytime supernatural sudser " Dark Shadows ."...
Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon will star in New Line's holiday comedy " Four Christmases ," set up at Spyglass with Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum and Jonathan Glickman producing. Vaughn and Witherspoon are also...
Guy Ritchie plans to direct a film version of his Virgin Comics series " The Gamekeeper " at Warner Bros., with Joel Silver set to produce. Project revolves around the reclusive caretaker of a Scottish estate with...
Rpin Suwannath will make his directorial debut in Walden Media's adaptation of John Christopher novel " The Lotus Caves ." Sci-fi thriller is set in the year 2068, with humans living on the moon in vast colonies of...
Summit Entertainment has decided to go " Mental ," acquiring the comedy screenplay by Bear Aderhold and Tom Sullivan and setting it up with Mandalay Pictures. Story centers on a desperate orderly who has 10 hours to...
Jim Carrey has said yes to " Yes Man ," putting the Warner Bros. comedy first on his busy schedule, which has been amped up since his move to CAA. Based on a memoir by British author Danny Wallace, " Yes Man " casts...
In a boost for Pinewood Studios and the British film industry, Eon Prods. has confirmed that the next James Bond movie will return to its Pinewood home (Daily Variety, July 16). The last Bond film, “Casino Royale,” was...
" Watchmen ," the long-gestating big-screen adaptation of the seminal DC Comics limited series, has finally found its superheroes. Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and...
New Line's tapped Frank Coraci ("Click") to helm " Mild Things ," a comedy project set up with Peter Principato and Paul Young. Script by Michael Colton and John Aboud centers on a married couple who decide to go on a...
Walden Media has optioned Peter Craig's family comedy spec script " Relativity ." Story's set on the eve of a couple's 35th wedding anniversary. The disclosure of a secret sends shockwaves through the household.
Zachary Quinto's chances of being Spock in the upcoming Star Trek film are looking extremely good. I hear the deal is about to close. Best. Casting. Ever. Update: Jen here. Following up on K.G.'s brilliant scoop, I...
Carl Franklin is set to direct " The Maintenance Man ," the Screen Gems adaptation of Michael Baisden's novel about a gigolo in existential crisis. The protagonist is a handsome Juilliard grad who puts his musical...
New Line's tapped D.J. Caruso to helm and Carl Ellsworth to write the comicbook adaptation " Y: The Last Man " for producers Chris Bender, JC Spink, Mason Novick and David Goyer. Story centers on a mysterious plague...
Disney has set Brian Robbins to direct and produce " Jailhouse Rock ," a film based on the true story of an "American Idol"-like singing contest held in an Arizona jail. Studio has optioned an L.A. Weekly article by...
" Step Up 2 the Streets ," the sequel to Touchstone Pictures/Summit Entertainment's "Step Up," has announced its cast along with a MySpace talent competition where the winner might appear in the film. Jon Chu will direct...
The team behind Fox's hit animated show " Family Guy " has been looking at possibly working on a " Family Guy " movie down the line, creator Seth MacFarlane told The Hollywood Reporter here Saturday. He also said Fox...
Jackie Chan will produce and star in "The Shinjuku Incident ," a Japan-set immigrant drama to be helmed by Derek Yee Tung-sing. Pic will be produced by Chan's JCE group and repped in international markets by Emperor...
Andy Fickman is coming on board to direct " Witch Mountain ," Walt Disney Pictures' modern re-imagining of its classic 1975 adventure movie "Escape to Witch Mountain ." Disney-based Andrew Gunn is producing via his Gunn...
"The Sopranos" co-star Tony Sirico and Morgan Fairchild have been tapped to star in the indie "The Sno Cone Stand, Inc." The project, from newcomer writer-director-producer Travis Knapp, is a Texas-based comedy about...
Columbia Pictures is in negotiations with Terry George to direct " Edwin A. Salt ," a Kurt Wimmer-scripted drama that is being developed as a star vehicle for Tom Cruise. Col's hope is for Cruise to play the title...
David Duchovny has given credence to the persevering rumors that a second X-Files movie was in the works, telling reporters at Saturday's Television Critics Association tour that production on the long-gestating project...
Twentieth Century Fox has set Gavin Hood to direct Hugh Jackman in " Wolverine ," the "X-Men" spin-off film that was scripted by David Benioff. Using several resources that include the Marvel Comics lore, along with the...
Steve Carell, who stars as Agent Maxwell Smart in the upcoming feature adaptation of the 1960s television series Get Smart , told SCI FI Wire that the film will show how Max became an agent for the secret government...
Benicio del Toro will play Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara in a film directed by Steve Soderbergh, the film's production company said Thursday. The film reunites del Toro with Soderbergh for the first time...
Chris Pine, Rachael Taylor, Eliza Dushku, Bill Pullman and Alan Rickman are toasting " Bottle Shock ," a drama about the birth of the Napa Valley wine industry from filmmaker Randall M. Miller. Set in the 1970s, the film...
Ray Liotta will join Forest Whitaker and Jessica Biel in " Powder Blue ," which director Timothy Linh Bui begins shooting next month. Scripted by Bui, the drama concerns four troubled people who connect on Christmas Eve....
Colombian actress Catalina Sandino Moreno, Oscar-nommed for "Maria Full of Grace," has been added to the cast of Steven Soderbergh's two film project about Latin American revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, which begins...