Peter Medak has been tapped to direct the erotic thriller " Addicted " for Lionsgate. Based on a novel by Zane, whose sex-themed tomes have developed a cult following, the story centers on Zoe, a successful black art...
DreamWorks and Universal Pictures will join to turn the graphic novel "Cowboys & Aliens" into a live action feature. The graphic novel mixes Western and science fiction genres. Set in 1800s Arizona, a skirmish between...
Toon auteur Mamoru Oshii's next pic will be futuristic gladiator tale " The Sky Crawlers ," based on the eponymous sci-fi novels by Hiroshi Mori. Skedded for release in 2008, " The Sky Crawlers " will center on Japanese...
Brit thesp Jim Broadbent has signed up to star in " Indiana Jones 4 ," saying he will play a Yale University professor. Steven Spielberg began lensing the pic on Monday in New Mexico from a script by David Koepp. Film...
Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment have set Frank Miller to adapt the Raymond Chandler novella " Trouble Is My Business " as a star vehicle for Clive Owen. "Sin City" was Miller's first collaboration with Owen....
Donnie Yen is to star in " Painted Skin ," a rare Chinese supernatural actioner being put together as a China-Singapore co-production. Story about a love hate relationship between a vixen spirit and a group of humans is...
National Lampoon has acquired worldwide rights to Adam Rifkin's caveman comedy " Homo Erectus " and set a theatrical release for September. Rifkin wrote, directed and stars in " Homo Erectus ," centered on a...
Anonymous Content ("Babel") and T&C Pictures have signed Mark Blucas, Nicki Aycox, Eva Amurri, Andy Comeau and Naveen Andrews for the horror film " Animals ," which begins production this week in Salt Lake City. Story...
Bond producers have chosen a 007 newbie as the latest steward of their action franchise. Marc Forster, best known for intimate dramas such as "Finding Neverland" and "Monster's Ball," will direct the 22nd James Bond film...
Jack Black and Todd Phillips are teaming for the first time on Warner Bros. laffer " Man-Witch ." Duo are developing for Black to star and Phillips to direct. In the comedy, Black will play a schoolteacher who suddenly...
Disney Pictures and Walden Media have tapped Michael Apted to direct "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader," the third installment in the series. Mark Johnson will produce along with Andrew Adamson,...
Mischa Barton and Rumer Willis have been cast opposite Bruce Willis, Rumer's father, in the dark comedy " The Sophomore " for Yari Film Group. In this teenage take on "Chinatown," Barton plays the most popular girl in...
YouTube has removed clips of Michael Moore's U.S. health-care expose " Sicko " that appeared on the site during the weekend, two weeks before the film's June 29 opening. A 124-minute version of " Sicko " was available on...
New Line has bought " The $40,000 Man ," a comedy spoof penned by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein and set it up with Benderspink. Story centers on a legendary astronaut and true American hero who finds himself...
Newmarket Films is making a rush toward " Bull Rush ," buying Matt O'Neil's spec and setting up the drama with producers Aaron Ryder and Vertigo's Doug Davison and Roy Lee. Story centers on a self-starter in his late 20s...
Jude Law and Forest Whitaker are set to star in " The Repossession Mambo " for Universal Pictures. Thriller marks the feature directing debut of Miguel Sapochnik. Stuber/Parent's Scott Stuber and Mary Parent produce....
Owen Wilson and Nick Nolte have enlisted in " Tropic Thunder ," the Ben Stiller-directed DreamWorks comedy about a group of actors who go on location to shoot a war movie, only to find that reality replicates their plot....
Guy Pearce, Miranda Otto and Sam Neill have boarded true- crime feature "How to Change in Nine Weeks," which will mark the directorial debut of TV producer Simon North. Pic, which began shooting June 12 in Brisbane,...
Paramount Pictures Australia has inked its first Aussie pickup, "The Final Winter," a privately financed football feature from tyro production company the Three Scallywags. Pic centers around a man at the end of his...
Less than a year after its plans to co-produce with Universal a movie based on Microsoft's hit videogame franchise were abruptly canceled, 20th Century Fox has signed a deal to become the primary licensor for "Halo."...
Jean Simmons and James Wilby ("Gosford Park") will star in 1960s set family drama "The Wreck." Simmons plays Hannah, an elderly widower living in a large, remote house in East Anglia, England, who develops a close...
Screen Media Films has acquired Joe Pantoliano and Marcia Gay Harden starrer "Canvas" for theatrical release. The first film from writer-director Joseph Greco, pic will open in Gotham, Boston, Fort Lauderdale and Phoenix...
Jessica Alba, who stars in the supernatural horror movie The Eye, told SCI FI Wire that the English-language remake of the Pang brothers' Hong Kong movie provided her with one of her most challenging acting roles to...
Ioan Gruffudd, who reprises his role as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, told SCI FI Wire that he got to stretch a little in the sequel, driving the Fantasticar and cutting a rug...
Danny DeVito will topline indie comedy "No Place Like Home" for Capacity Pictures with Wayne Rice and Rich Heller producing. Lensing will start Aug. 1 in Los Angeles with Sam Harper directing from his own script. Story...
Patrick Wilson has joined Samuel L. Jackson and Kerry Washington in Screen Gems thriller "Lakeview Terrace," which Neil LaBute is directing. Overbrook Entertainment partners James Lassiter and Will Smith are producing...
Universal Pictures and Spyglass have set Greg Kinnear and Lauren Graham to star in "Flash of Genius," a drama that marks the feature directing debut of producer Marc Abraham. Kinnear plays Robert Kearns, the inventor of...
On the eve of the opening of "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer," Marvel Studios has begun the process of bringing another of its comics to the big screen: the elite superhero team the Avengers. Zak Penn, who...
Collin Chou is joining Jackie Chan and Jet Li in "The Forbidden Kingdom." Lionsgate is the lead distributor on the co-release with the Weinstein Co. Principle photography has started, with Rob Minkoff directing from a...
Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have set David Goyer to write and direct "The Invisible Man," a new take on the H.G. Wells classic. Brian Grazer will produce. Conceived as a sequel to Wells' original tale,...
Sylvain White has been set to direct "Castlevania," a live-action adaptation of the Konami vampire videogame that's co-produced by Rogue Pictures and Crystal Sky Entertainment. Deal was worth seven-figures for White, who...
Margot Kidder, Noah Segan and Michael Bowen will star in John Daly's thriller "The Box Collector," which is financed and produced by Belgium-based outfit Corsan. The pic about a brooding young artist who falls for a...
Ron Perlman and Barbara Hershey are toplining the indie dramedy "Vacuuming the Cat." Daniel Gillies ("Spider-Man 2"), Irma P. Hall and Pat Crawford Brown also star. Story follows a young man who, after suffering the...
20th Century Fox has tapped Erica Rothschild to adapt R.L. Stine's multi-tome juvenile fiction series "Rotten School." Set at a zany boarding school, the story centers on class punk Bernie Bridges as he schemes against...
Feeling bullish on the eve of the release of its Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer, Fox has already put a feature spinoff into development that will star the enigmatic Surfer, with J. Michael Straczynski...
Jennifer Aniston is tuning up a period musical at DreamWorks titled "Goree Girls," which she will produce as a potential starring vehicle. The project is based on a true story about a group of eight women serving time in...
Greg Kinnear and Maura Tierney have joined the cast of Universal Pictures' "Baby Mama," written and directed by Michael McCullers. The duo join Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver and Dax Shepard in the comedy, which...
Martin Campbell is attached to direct Paramount Pictures' "36," a remake of the 2004 French-language thriller "36 quai des orfevres." Author-screenwriter Richard Price has been tapped to do a rewrite. The story revolves...
Andrea Berloff has been tapped to write "The Fugees," an adaptation of a New York Times article revolving around a group of soccer-playing refugee kids who settled near Atlanta. The article told the story of a group of...
Sam Neill, Guy Pearce and Miranda Otto will star in new Australian crime drama "How to Change in 9 Weeks," which begins shooting in Queensland this week, distributor Icon Film Distribution said Wednesday. The thriller is...
Andy Samberg, Jeff Daniels, Kenan Thompson, Stanley Tucci and Patrick Warburton will voice characters in the CG-animated comedy "Space Chimps," a Vanguard Animation and Starz Media production for 20th Century Fox....
Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany will star in "Born," a psychological thriller that Guillermo del Toro, Lawrence Gordon and Lloyd Levin will produce, and horror vet Clive Barker will exec produce. Daniel Simpson will...
Pixar is going a little older in 2009 than its typical demo. The Disney-owned toon studio's release that year will be "Up," about a 70-year-old man who teams with a wilderness ranger to fight beasts and villains....
Harry Eden and newcomer Angie Ruiz will star opposite Daniel Craig in the coming-of-age indie "Flashbacks of a Fool." Penned by Baillie Walsh, the film centers on an aging movie star (Craig) who returns to his English...
Christina Applegate has been cast as the female lead opposite Rainn Wilson in "The Rocker," which Peter Cattaneo is directing for Fox Atomic. Shawn Levy and Tom McNulty are producing via their 21 Laps Entertainment...
Rachel Weisz has signed on to star in Peter Jackson's adaptation of "The Lovely Bones" for DreamWorks. Based on Alice Sebold's 2002 best-seller, the story is told through the voice of Susie Salmon, a young girl who is...
Gold Circle Films has picked up feature rights to Thomas Wheeler's fantasy-adventure "The Arcanum" out of turnaround from Miramax. "The Arcanum," Wheeler's debut novel, is set in 1919 and follows the titular secret...
Spain's top arthouse distributor-exhibitor Alta Films has closed Spanish rights on William H. Macy's directorial debut, the coming-of-age comedy "Keep Coming Back," starring Salma Hayek and Steve Buscemi. Written and...
Bill Murray will star in "City of Ember," the Walden Media adaptation of the Jeanne DuPrau young adult novel. Caroline Thompson wrote the script about an insular, dark place where the only light comes from street lamps....
Elizabeth Banks will star in the horror remake "A Tale of Two Sisters" for DreamWorks. Based on the Kim Jee-Woon's 2003 Korean horror film of the same name, the story revolves around two sisters who return home to their...