Warner Bros. is in talks with Christopher Meloni for a role in "Man of Steel." Zack Snyder's directing for Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures. Brit thesp Henry Cavill is set to play Superman with Amy Adams, Kevin...
Ray Liotta is pinning the badge back on for "A Place Beyond the Pines," starring opposite Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper as a corrupt police officer. Pic follows around a pro motorcycle rider (Gosling) who starts...
NBC may not have picked up "Wonder Woman" but Adrianne Palicki is gearing up for action regardless, as the "Friday Night Lights" thesp has joined the cast of Paramount's "G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes." Palicki will play Lady...
Noomi Rapace -- who broke out in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and will next be seen in Warner Bros.' "Sherlock Holmes" sequel -- has been tapped to play Swedish pop star Anita Lindblom in " Knockout ," which...
Clifton Collins Jr. and Wendell Pierce have come aboard the thriller " Parker ." Based on the book series by Donald Westlake, story revolves around a thief who, though at times is forced to be a killer, still lives by a...
Vince Vaughn is in negotiations to join Ben Stiller in Neighborhood Watch , the high-concept, long-in-development comedy from Fox and production shingle 21 Laps. Akiva Schaffer is directing the sci-fi comedy about a...
"Detroit 1-8-7" star D.J. Cotrona is in negotiations for one of the lead roles in Paramount's "G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes." Cotrona is in talks to play Flint, the warrant officer for the Joes. Character is a Rhodes Scholar...
Brendan Fehr has been tapped to play the lead in indie romantic comedy " Roswell FM " opposite Mirelly Taylor. " Roswell FM " is a lighthearted story about Fehr's character deciding between his dream job hosting a...
Development on an " Angry Birds " movie is taking flight now that Rovio has tapped former Marvel Studios chairman David Maisel as a special adviser to the company behind the blockbuster mobile game. Maisel was...
Disney and Marvel Studios are ready to wield Thor's hammer again, with " Thor 2 " being prepped for a July 26, 2013 wide release. A sequel had already been a high priority at Marvel with Don Payne, one of the scribes of...
"Thor" star Chris Hemsworth is attached to topline Columbia Pictures' action thriller " Shadow Runner ." Pic is based on an original idea by Hossein Amini, who will exec produce. Studio is keeping the pic's plot...
Drew Barrymore is attached to produce with an eye to direct Heist Society , a young adult thriller being made by Warner Bros. The book follows a young woman named Katarina Bishop who hails from an extended family of cat...
Bryan Cranston is in negotiations to join the cast of "The Gangster Squad ," the Warner Bros.-Village Roadshow period police saga opposite Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Michael Pena and Anthony Mackie. Cranston...
Universal Pictures has acquired the worldwide distribution rights to the Gold Circle Films musical comedy " Pitch Perfect ." Jason Moore will direct from a script by Kay Cannon, which she based on the nonfiction book by...
Having wrapped the final season of Disney Channel's "Wizards of Waverly Place," star Jake T. Austin is in final negotiations to join "Super 8" thesp Joel Courtney in "Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn." Austin will play Huck...
Bryan Cranston is in negotiations to play one of the co-leads in Warner Bros. hostage-rescue true story " Argo ," which Ben Affleck is set to direct and topline. Chris Terrio is adapting Joshuah Bearman's April 2007...
Giancarlo Esposito, who appears regularly on AMC’s hit drama Breaking Bad, has been cast in I, Alex Cross , being made by Summit Entertainment and QED. The adaptation of the popular James Patterson book is being directed...
Finding a leading man can be difficult these days, but director Ben Affleck has found the perfect one for " Argo ": He cast himself. Affleck is set to star as Tony Mendez, the CIA exfiltration expert who created a fake...
Rapper-turned-actor RZA and D.J. Cotrona, best known as one of the cast members of TV’s Detroit 1-8-7, are in negotiations to board Paramount’s new G.I. Joe movie being directed by Jon Chu. Other than Channing Tatum, the...
Steven Spielberg has tapped David Strathairn to play William Seward, Abraham Lincoln 's Secretary of State, in the DreamWorks drama " Lincoln ." Seward was an outspoken abolitionist and one of the most loyal members of...
Julia Ormond is the choice to play Superman’s Kryptonian mother in Warners’ Man of Steel, the new Superman movie being directed by Zack Snyder. With Ormond boarding to play Lara, the lineup of Superman’s parents, both...
The controversial documentary alleging a cover-up following the 1997 deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed is getting closer to being seen by the public. Keith Allen's Unlawful Killing , financed by Al-Fayed's...
Emma Stone may be heading back to the world of zombies. The actress, who memorably appeared as Jesse Eisenberg’s love interest in Zombieland, has been offered the lead in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies . The Lionsgate...
MGM's 1980s revival continues apace, as the studio is launching development of a remake of 1983 thriller " WarGames " with Seth Gordon attached to direct. The original " WarGames ," starring Matthew Broderick and Ally...
Megan Fox and John C. Reilly are making cameos in Paramount’s The Dictator , the latest Sacha Baron Cohen comedy currently in production in New York with Borat director Larry Charles at the helm. The movie has been...
British thesp Douglas Booth has been cast as Romeo opposite Hailee Steinfeld in Carlo Carlei's " Romeo and Juliet ." 19-year-old Booth beat out more than 300 other young thesps for the coveted role of Romeo, an...
Riki Lindhome has joined the cast of Paramount's " Fun Size ." Max Werner penned the script, which revolves around a teen who is forced to take her brother out trick-or-treating, loses him and must find him before their...
"Spring Awakening" star Skylar Astin and "Twilight" thesp Justin Chon are in early negotiations to join Miles Teller in toplining Relativity Media and Mandeville Films' comedy " 21 and Over ." "The Hangover" scribes Jon...
Eric Nazarian and Sergei Bodrov have sold a pitch to Chernin Entertainment titled " Blood Brothers ," with Channing Tatum attached to star, sources tell Variety. While no logline was immediately available, pitch was...
Greta Gerwig and Alison Pill have joined the cast of Woody Allen’s newest movie, The Bop Decameron , which begins filming July 11 in Rome. The Bop Decameron promises a modern-day riff on Giovanni Boccaccio’s medieval...
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to Snow White and Huntsman that Ian McShane will go. The actor, currently seen on screen as Blackbeard in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, has signed to play one of the...
"Gossip Girl" star Penn Badgley has come on board to star in indie biopic " Greetings From Tim Buckley " from Smuggler Films, A-Z Prods. and Second Chance Prods. Badgley will portray Tim Buckley's son Jeff, centering on...
Anton Corbijn is set to helm an adaptation of John le Carre's terrorism bestseller, " A Most Wanted Man ." Pic follows a British banker who tries to help a young Muslim immigrant -- the son of a Chechen peasant and a...
Christopher Nolan is bringing his Batman trilogy full circle, as "Batman Begins" star Liam Neeson has joined the cast of Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures' sequel " The Dark Knight Rises ." Warner Bros. had no comment...
Hugh Jackman is gearing up to revive his song-and-dance routine in epic fashion, as thesp is in talks for a lead role in " Les Miserables ," which Tom Hooper is onboard to direct for Universal. Jackman is most likely to...
Twentieth Century Fox has finally found a director for "Wolverine," tapping "Knight and Day" helmer James Mangold to helm the superhero actioner. Mangold emerged from an eclectic list of choices that included Gavin...
Late-night host and comedienne Chelsea Handler is in negotiations to join the cast of Fun Size , Paramount’s teen comedy starring Nickelodeon star Victoria Justice. The pic is serving as the directorial debut of TV...
Brit director Simon West is coming on board to helm an "Expendables" sequel for Lionsgate and Avi Lerner's Nu Image/Millennium Films. " The Expendables 2 " has been in active development in recent months with Lionsgate...
Anna Kendrick and Natalie Martinez are in negotiations to co-star in " End of Watch " starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena. Story follows the longtime partnership of two LAPD officers as they confront marriage,...
Multihyphenate Fisher Stevens will sit behind the camera to direct Stand Up Guys , a Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Lakeshore comedy. The project, which was formerly known as Old Timers, is a dramedy centering on two...
David O. Russell has surfaced as one of the directors circling Disney’s fantasy Maleficent , from scribe Linda Woolverton. Maleficent is a live-action version of the Sleeping Beauty story, told from the point of view of...
Paramount has made a pre-emptive purchase of the spec " Bastards ," which was penned by Justin Malen. Story follows two brothers who go on a road trip to find their real father after their mother confesses she slept...
Ashley Hinshaw is set to star in the indie " Cherry " starring James Franco, Heather Graham, Lili Taylor and Dev Patel. The pic follows Hinshaw's character's journey in the porn industry. Liz Destro is producing.
"The Collector" star Josh Stewart is the last thesp to join the cast of Christopher Nolan's " The Dark Knight Rises ." In typical Nolan fashion, Stewart's role is being kept under wraps. He joins Matthew Modine, Tom...
Tom Cruise is in negotiations to star in " One Shot " for Paramount Pictures and David Ellison's Skydance Productions. Based on the book series by Lee Child, the series follows Jack Reacher, a former military policeman...
Jason Clarke has nabbed one of the final key roles in Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby for Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow. The filmmaker has lined up an A-list cast that includes Leonardo DiCaprio as the...
Groundswell Productions and Fox Searchlight has tapped Joel Kinnaman for '' Lola Versus ,'' joining a cast which includes Greta Gerwig, Zoe Lister-Jones and Hamish Linklater. Debra Winger and Bill Pullman lead the cast...
Al Pacino is in talks to star as an aging rocker in Warner Bros.' " Imagine ," directed by Dan Fogelman. Story, penned by Fogelman, centers on a rocker who decides to change his life after discovering a letter written to...
Dwayne Johnson is in talks to join Paramount’s sequel to G.I. Joe, being directed by John Chu. The studio and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura are rebuilding the franchise title and are bringing in a viper’s nest of new...
Italo A-list thesps Riccardo Scamarcio, Isabella Ferrari and Sergio Rubini are in advanced negotiations to join Woody Allen's Rome-set project, which is working-titled " Bop Decameron ." Scamarcio, a local heartthrob who...