Harald Zwart will direct "The Pink Panther 2" for Columbia Pictures and MGM. Steve Martin will reprise his role as the bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau in the modern-day farce. Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber...
Frank Langella, who won the Tony for his role as Richard Nixon in "Frost/Nixon," will star in "On the Hook," an indie thriller being produced by Linda Moran and Rene Bastian. Elliott Gould and Laura Harring have also...
The comedy feature "Escape From Planet Earth" will be produced at Rainmaker Animation for a 3-D stereoscopic digital cinema release. The film is being helmed by Tony Leech and was written by Leech and Cory Edwards. The...
Roadside Attractions has acquired worldwide rights to the drama "Starting Out in the Evening," starring Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose and Lili Taylor. Andrew Wagner's film, which premiered to positive reviews at...
Sony's local production arm in Mexico is starting production today on its second feature, the comedy "Casi Divas" ("Road to Fame"). Columbia Pictures Producciones Mexico has tapped Issa Lopez ("Efectos secundarios") to...
Mena Suvari will topline the indie drama "The Garden of Eden" opposite her "Factory Girl" co-star Jack Huston. John Irvin will helm the film, which is being produced and financed by U.K. company Berwick Street Prods....
Tea Leoni has joined the cast of the Ricky Gervais-Greg Kinnear romantic comedy "Ghost Town" for DreamWorks and Spyglass Entertainment. The story centers on a dentist who dies briefly during routine dental surgery and...
Josh Gad will star opposite Rainn Wilson in "The Rocker," a music-themed comedy Peter Cattaneo is directing for Fox Atomic. Shawn Levy and Tom McNulty are producing via their 21 Laps Entertainment banner. The film tells...
Paramount Pictures and Plan B Entertainment are putting their faith in Julian Farino. The helmer is attached to direct "The Year of Living Biblically" for the studio. Jay Reiss is adapting the screenplay from A.J....
Participant Prods. is teaming with some strange bedfellows -- Broken Lizard comedy producers Jay Chandrasekhar and Julia Dray -- to develop the broad comedy "Taildraggers." The feature, set to be scripted by Will Gluck,...
Several stars have thrown their hats into the ring to join Harrison Ford and Shia LaBeouf in Indiana Jones' latest whip-cracking adventure. Next year, when the new Indiana Jones movie opens worldwide on May 22, Indy will...
Two years after “Sin City” thrilled audiences with its revolutionary style, author and co-director Frank Miller was eager to tease fans with talk of the sequel. “Robert [Rodriguez] and I have a script and we’re all...
Matt Damon is looking to reteam with Paul Greengrass on an adaptation of "Imperial Life in the Emerald City" for Universal. Damon, who worked with Greengrass on the second and third installments in the "Bourne"...
Naomi Watts is attached to star in the adaptation of "We Are All the Same" for the Bureau of Moving Pictures. "Hotel Rwanda" co-writer Keir Pearson is adapting the story of Gail Johnson, a white South African woman who...
Spike Lee's latest film project, "Miracle at St. Anna," will start shooting in the summer in Tuscany, backed by new production company On My Own created by veteran Italian producers Roberto Cicutto and Luigi Musini....
John McTiernan is set to direct the Las Vegas action thriller "High Stakes" for Persistent Pictures and Velvet Octopus. Penned by Ronnie Christensen, the story revolves around two friends who find themselves in over...
DreamWorks and Parkes/MacDonald Prods. have acquired the spec script "Tester" by first-time scribe Colin Trevorrow. The story centers on a young war vet suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who is recruited for...
It's Thundercats, ho! at Warner Bros. Studio has optioned a script by tyro scribe Paul Sopocy to turn the popular 1980s animated series and toy line into a CGI-animated feature. Warner-based Paula Weinstein will produce...
Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson are taking their chances on the romantic drama "Last Chance Harvey" for Overture Films. The Oscar-winning actors have signed on to star, and BAFTA-winning British helmer Joel Hopkins...
Spike Lee will shoot an Italy-set World War II drama based on "Miracle at St. Anna," U.S. author James McBride's novel about black American soldiers fighting the German army in the mountains of Tuscany. High-profile...
“[We’re] trying to get back to the basics [with] the suspense and the gore,” actor Steven Pasquale told MTV News, revealing that “AVP2’ will be considerably scarier than its predecessor. “I think it’s going to be really...
Warner Bros. Pictures is bringing Terry Brooks' "Shannara" fantasy book series to the big screen, picking up the rights to the series. The Shannara series, which blends technology and magic, is set in a world decimated...
Joel Eisenberg and his Iron Mountain Media have picked up the life rights to renowned publisher William M. Gaines to co-produce a biopic based on the life of the man who was behind EC Comics' "Tales From the Crypt" and...
Russell Crowe has formed Fear of God Films and set up his first feature project as a producer. Using his own coin, Crowe optioned "Dolce's Inferno," a spec script by Mark Staufer. Crowe will develop the project as...
Hollywood tough nut Bruce Willis has confessed that he's finding it harder to do the stunts he was famed for in his youth. The 52-year-old said that one stunt in the forthcoming Die Hard 4.0 almost left him without an...
Director Fernando Meirelles has set his sights on Mark Ruffalo for "Blindness." Ruffalo will star with Julianne Moore in an adaptation of the Jose Saramago novel about an outbreak of blindness that sweeps an unidentified...
"American Idol" runner-up Katharine McPhee is set to make her feature film debut as the star of the indie dark romantic comedy "The Last Caller." Penned by Michael Albanese, the story is described as a coming-of-age tale...
Brian Helgeland has been brought on board to rewrite "Nottingham," Universal Pictures' revisionist take on the legend of Robin Hood. Russell Crowe is starring, Ridley Scott is directing and Imagine Entertainment's Brian...
Savage Steve Holland, the writer-director of 1980s classics like "Better Off Dead," is returning to the genre that made his career with "The Big One 3," his first feature film in more than 18 years. Holland wrote and...
Working Title Films has optioned the rights to the documentary "Young@Heart" with an aim to adapt it into feature film. The critically acclaimed docu, which originally was broadcast in the U.K. on Channel 4 and More4...
Jim Carrey will star in "I Love You Phillip Morris," a dark comedy that was written and will mark the directing debut of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, the writing team behind "Bad Santa." Carrey will play a conman whose...
It’s no secret that the cast and crew of “Indiana Jones 4” will be traveling to New Haven, Conn. to shoot a sequence for one of the most anticipated films of Steven Spielberg’s career, and now’s your chance to be a part...
Kimberly Elise and Nate Parker have joined "The Great Debaters," Denzel Washington's period tale for the Weinstein Co. now lensing in Louisiana. Elise (TV's "Close to Home") plays the wife of Forest Whitaker in the pic,...
Kevin Bacon has joined the cast of "Frost/Nixon," Working Title Films and Universal Pictures' adaptation of the hit Peter Morgan play. Ron Howard is directing, while Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are...
Jane O'Brien has been tapped to adapt "In the Stars," a comedic novel written by Eileen Cook that JC Spink, Mason Novick and Chris Bender are producing for New Line. The story follows a woman who, after being dumped by...
Jack Black and Michael Cera are attached to star in the comedy "Year One" from producer Apatow and director Harold Ramis. Penned by Ramis, Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg from a story by Ramis, plot details are being...
Ginnifer Goodwin has joined the cast of the indie comedy "Laws of Motion." Matthew Perry, Hilary Swank and Ben Foster already have boarded the Craig Lucas-helmed project, which is being produced by Plum Pictures, Ideal...
Walt Disney Pictures has pre-emptively acquired "All About Adam," a spec script by Alan Schoolcraft and Brent Simons for Scott Rudin to produce. Details are being kept under wraps, but the script is known to be a...
Lindsay Lohan has asked to remain in the indie project "Poor Things" despite having entered rehab. "Poor Things" producers Shirley MacLaine and Rob Hickman are revamping the shooting schedule to accommodate the thesp's...
Denise Richards will star in "A Beautiful Life," a drama to be directed by Argentine filmmaker Alejandro Chomski in Los Angeles this summer. Chomski recently helmed "Reggaeton" for Sony BMG and Jennifer Lopez's shingle...
Two of Japan's top moviemakers are teaming up for a horror project at 20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises. Hideo Nakata ("The Ring 2") is attached to direct "Inhuman," which pairs him with "The Grudge" producer Taka...
"Spy Hunter" is revving up again at Universal. "Resident Evil" and "Alien vs. Predator" director Paul W.S. Anderson will direct the big budget adaptation of the popular Midway video game that revolves around a...
The Weinstein Co. has acquired screen rights to "The Silver Linings Playbook," a not-yet-published comic novel from Matthew M. Quick. Mirage Prods. partners Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella will produce with Michelle...
DC Comics' superteam Teen Titans is getting the big-screen treatment courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. The live-action adaptation is being produced by Akiva Goldsman and Kerry Foster through their Weed Road banner,...
Rogue Pictures and Random House Films have picked up the rights to Scott Sigler's upcoming thriller novel "Infested" and its untitled sequel. "Infested," due to be published next spring, was picked up by Random House...
Darnell Martin is set to helm "Cadillac Records," which is being produced by Sofia Sondervan and Andrew Lack for Sony BMG Film. It will begin production this year in Chicago. The film, which Martin ("Their Eyes Were...
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, the duo behind critically acclaimed drama "Half Nelson," have signed on to adapt teen novel "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" for Miramax. Scott Rudin is producing. The novel, written by...
The Weinstein Co. has obtained U.S., Australian and New Zealand rights to Woody Allen's "Cassandra's Dream," starring Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell, Tom Wilkinson, Sally Hawkins and Hayley Atwell. The Oscar-winning...
The fourth Shrek instalment is in train, scheduled for release in 2010. The fifth, [Shrek producer Jeffrey Katzenberg] says, will be the last. "It's a finite story, has been from the beginning and I think that's part of...
Comic actor Patton Oswalt, who voices the lead character in Pixar's upcoming animated film Ratatouille, told SCI FI Wire that he and director Brad Bird bonded when Bird realized that Oswalt was obsessed with food and...