Rod Lurie will next direct his script "Nothing but the Truth," a drama about a D.C.-based female newspaper reporter who outs a CIA agent and is imprisoned for refusing to reveal her source. Cast is mobilizing for an...
Barcelona production house Rodar y Rodar has teamed with London-based Becker Intl. to produce an English-language remake of Guillem Morales' 2005 psychological thriller "El habitante incierto" ( The Uncertain Guest )....
John Leguizamo has been cast in 20th Century Fox thriller " The Happening ," directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Pic stars Mark Wahlberg as a man who takes his family on the run when a natural disaster threatens to end the...
Ron Howard has said yes to another directing assignment for Universal. Imagine Entertainment's co-topper will helm U's adaptation of " The Emperor's Children ," Claire Messud's 2006 novel about Gotham's upper crust,...
The Weinstein Co. has added another high-profile name to "Nine," tapping Oscar-nommed screenwriter and novelist Michael Tolkin to pen the screen adaptation. "Nine" follows the life of famous film director Guido Contini...
Josh Flitter will topline Morgan Creek comedy " Ace Ventura 3 ," directed by David M. Evans. Principal photography will begin Sept. 17 in Orlando, Fla. Screenplay, penned by Jason Heimberg, Justin Heimberg and Jeff Sank,...
Brittany Murphy, Jason Lee, Giovanni Ribisi, Jim Broadbent, Tim Roth and Lili Taylor are signed for Myriad Pictures' fantasy comedy " The Other Side ," to be directed by producer David Michaels. Script by Michaels and...
Jared Leto and Sarah Polley are set to star in " Mr. Nobody ," a romantic drama from writer-director Jaco Van Dormael. "Nobody" is described as a multilayered love story inspired by the "butterfly effect," the...
Fox 2000 has set John Carney to direct " Town House ," a Doug Wright-scripted comedy that begins production in January. Pic marks the studio debut for the director of the Sundance prize-winning film "Once." Story...
The Weinstein Co. is making one of its first attempts at book-film synergy. Gotham outfit has acquired the book rights to " The Mad Ones ," an as-yet-unwritten tale from author Tom Folsom about the notorious Gallo...
The Cinema Guild has acquired U.S. distribution rights to " Yella ." German film bowed earlier this year at the Berlin Film Festival, where pic's star, Nina Hoss, nabbed the Silver Bear for actress. Christian...
Many fans are curious to see if, 18 years after "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," Ford can live up to the physical rigors of the globe-trotting archaeologist in the long-awaited fourth installment of the epic series....
Citing the lack of financial incentives in the country, 007 production company Eon has informed Prague's Barrandov it will not be using the studios for " Bond 22 ," according to Barrandov head Vladimir Kuba. The "Casino...
Universal and Tribeca partners Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal will make a film about the rise of Mao Zedong and communism in China, using as a resource one of the only Western journalists on the ground to watch the...
Vivica A. Fox and Rachel Miner will star and Laura Ramsey and Toby Hemingway are in final negotiations to star in York Shackleton's " Street ," the true story of a 16-year-old runaway, from producer Insomnia Media Group....
Peyton Reed has said yes to directing " Yes Man ," a Warner Bros. Pictures comedy being produced by David Heyman and Richard Zanuck. Based on a memoir by British author Danny Wallace, the story centers on a man who...
Goodnight Film has begun production in Connecticut on supernatural thriller " The Other Side of the Tracks ," starring Brendan Fehr ("Roswell" and "CSI: Miami") and Tania Raymonde ("Lost"). Story centers on the life of a...
Having toughened up the character of James Bond for Casino Royale to huge critical acclaim, Daniel Craig has surprisingly revealed that the next Bond outing will mark a return to the comedy that Roger Moore brought to...
DreamWorks has made a deal with Aaron Sorkin to write three films, the first of which will be " The Trial of the Chicago 7 ," a drama Steven Spielberg hopes to direct. The drama focuses on the trials of protestors at the...
Tim Robbins, Martin Landau, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and newcomer Harry Treadaway have joined the cast of Walden Media and Playtone's " The City of Ember ." "Ember," based on Caroline Thompson's script, centers on an...
Cheryl Hines has joined the cast of romantic laffer " Henry Poole Was Here ," toplining Luke Wilson, for Lakeshore Entertainment. Story revolves around a man who retreats into a life of debauchery, feasting on liquor and...
Alan Parker is in negotiations to write and adapt the film adaptation of Jamila Gavin's award-winning book " The Coram Boy ," which Scott Rudin and Allison Owen are producing for Miramax Films. Set in 18th century...
Paramount Vantage has pre-emptively picked up " Playing House ," a horror project that Scott Glosserman will direct and co-write with Macy Raymond, who penned the original short story that the film will be based on. The...
Charlize Theron will star in " The Burning Plain ," a drama that marks the feature directing debut of "Babel" screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. "There are very intense love stories here that take place in different places...
Sean Penn and Iggy Pop have signed on as voice talent for the English-language version of Sony Picture Classics' toon " Persepolis ." The recruits join the already-announced Gena Rowlands and Catherine Deneuve for the...
Young Irish actress Saoirse Ronan will star alongside Rachel Weisz and Ryan Gosling in director Peter Jackson's bigscreen adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestselling tome " The Lovely Bones " for DreamWorks. Ronan will play...
Walden Media has snapped up feature rights to Ingrid Law's debut novel " Savvy ," a tale of an adolescent girl with supernatural powers. Story centers on a family whose members discover, upon turning 13, that they...
Disney has acquired " Six Month Curse ," a romantic comedy spec script by Julie Golden. Jennifer Klein will produce through Apartment 3B Prods. Story follows a bride who discovers she was cursed at birth so that her...
Paramount Vantage has set Scott Glosserman to direct horror pic " Playing House ." Glosserman will pen the script with Macy Raymond based on their pitch. ContraFilm's Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson are producing. Story...
Kevin Spacey will return as Lex Luthor in " Superman: Man of Steel " and appear in "Telstar," Nick Moran's film version of Moran and James Hicks' 2005 darkly comic West End play about flamboyant '60s record mogul Joe...
Paramount is plotting a musical remake of the 1984 film " Footloose " and will develop it for "High School Musical" star Zac Efron and director Kenny Ortega. Dylan Sellers will produce. Ortega is in negotiations to helm...
The US town of Springfield, Vermont, has beaten 13 rivals and will host the premiere of the film about the animated family The Simpsons. The show is set in a fictional Springfield because its creator, Matt Groening,...
Alan Parker will direct and write " Coram Boy ," the feature version of Jamila Gavin's novel with Scott Rudin and Allison Owen producing. Novel, winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award, is an epic adventure about...
Anton Yelchin, Justin Chatwin and Willa Holland have been set by director John Stockwell to join Susan Sarandon and her daughter, Eva Amurri, in " Middle of Nowhere ." Michelle Morgan wrote the romantic comedy, in which...
Director John Moore ("The Omen") has optioned feature rights to dark fantasy " The Book of Lost Things " by bestselling Irish author John Connolly. Published last year, book centers on a 12-year-old English boy whose...
Fox Atomic has nabbed " Don't Lean on Me ," a comedy pitch from scribe Ryan Jaffe, and set it up with producers Jon Berg, Todd Komarnicki and Matthew Weinberg at their Guy Walks Into a Bar shingle. Pic tells the story of...
David Yates, director of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , told reporters that he and star Daniel Radcliffe mined real-life grief scenarios to depict Harry's initial state of mind in the wake of the death of...
Nicole Kidman is attached to star in and produce " Monte Carlo ," a romantic comedy that Fox 2000 and New Regency are co-financing. Pic will be directed and co-written by Tom Bezucha. Kidman, who'll produce with Rick...
William Shatner has revealed in an online video that fellow Star Trek actor, Leonard Nimoy, has been cast for Star Trek 11 . He also revealed that although Nimoy had been cast, he himself has not. Star Trek 11 is...
Universal Pictures has acquired screen rights to " Gone Like the Wind ," a Buzz Bissinger-penned article in the August issue of Vanity Fair about 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro. Barbaro won the 2006 Kentucky Derby so...
Gustaf Skarsgard will play the lead in Swedish helmer Ella Lemhagen's " Patrik 1,5 ." Skarsgard, one of Variety's 10 Euro actors to watch, will play a gay man who, with his partner (Torkel Pettersson), adopts an orphaned...
Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, Kelsey Grammer, Stanley Tucci, George Lopez and newcomer Madeline Carroll are joining Kevin Costner in “ Swing Vote ,” the populist comedy that begins shooting in Albuquerque, N.M., on July...
Graham King and Martin Scorsese have found their Prince Albert. Rupert Friend (“Pride and Prejudice”) will star opposite Emily Blunt in “ The Young Victoria ,” a pic chronicling the royal’s turbulent early rule as well...
Film rights to “ Water for Elephants ,” Sara Gruen’s Depression-era circus novel that has climbed atop the paperback bestseller lists, have been optioned by Andrew R. Tennenbaum, a producer of “The Bourne Ultimatum.”...
Warner Bros. has sleuthed out bigscreen rights to David Morrell’s “ The Brotherhood of the Rose ,” an espionage tome previously developed into an NBC mini in the late 1980s. Story centers on two orphans raised by a CIA...
Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment have set the scripting team of John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky to write “ Brothers of Invention .” Strike’s Eric Newman and Marc Abraham will produce. In “ Brothers of...
Helmers Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein are reteaming on Swedish thriller " Ballastexistensen ," due to start production in spring. The 35 million kroner ($5.2 million) pic is a co-production from Sweden's Breidablick,...
Jim Carrey will play Ebenezer Scrooge and the three ghosts that haunt him in " A Christmas Carol ," an adaptation of the Charles Dickens tale that Robert Zemeckis wrote and will direct for Walt Disney Pictures. Zemeckis...
The four women who spiced up Manhattan's singles scene for six years on the HBO television series " Sex and the City " appear headed for a big-screen reunion after all. New Line Cinema, a corporate sibling of HBO under...
Screenwriter-turned-comic book publisher Andrew Cosby and Johanna Stokes have been hired to do a rewrite on Walt Disney Pictures' " First Ascent ." The film is described as a supernatural action adventure that revolves...