Russian director Alexei Sidorov ("Shadow Boxing") has signed to helm the tentatively titled "The Tourist," a $5 million action thriller about amateur snipers who travel to war zones to act out their computer game...
"Downfall" producer Constantin Film has signed on to produce "Anonyma -- A Woman in Berlin" based on the best-selling autobiography of a woman living in Berlin at the time of Germany's capitulation in spring 1945....
Rising star Johanna Wokalek has joined the cast of Bernd Eichinger's terrorist drama "The Baader-Meinhof Complex" in the role of infamous left-wing terrorist Gudrun Ensslin. Wokalek, a theater actress who starred...
Academy Award nominee Adriana Barraza is in advanced talks and Radha Mitchell is set to appear in Lakeshore's "Henry Poole Is Here" with Luke Wilson. The Mark Pellington-directed dramedy is scheduled to go into...
Jeff Bridges, whose turn as the Dude in "The Big Lebowski" gave him instant cult status, has joined the cast of "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" alongside "Spider-Man" star Kirsten Dunst and British comedy actor...
The second in a series of X-Men spin-off movies will be made by Blade: Trinity director David Goyer. He will direct Magneto, which will focus on the character played in the three X-Men films by Ian McKellen. The new film...
Madonna is taking a leaf out of husband Guy Ritchie's book and directing a film. Madge is due to start the filming of comedy Filth And Wisdom in London towards the end of April. It's Madonna's first return to the film...
Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman are to star in a move version of the award-winning stage play Doubt. Streep will play the principal of a Catholic school who accuses a priest of being a paedophile. Playwright John...
Tom Hanks is in final talks to star in a Da Vinci Code prequel. He is reported to be close to agreeing to return as Harvard professor Robert Langdon. Ron Howard is also in final negotiations to direct Angels and Demons,...
Lakeshore Entertainment is reuniting with "Crank" creators Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor for the Gerard Butler starrer "Game." The high-concept thriller takes place in the near future, when mind-control technology has...
Nickelodeon Movies has picked up "Bro-jitsu," a book proposal from pop scientist Daniel H. Wilson, for an adaptation to be produced by Marc Rosen and Lynda Obst. Wilson, who holds a doctorate in robotics, is the author...
Mischa Barton has joined the cast of ���St. Trinians,��� British movie production, finance and sales company Ealing Studios said. British-born Barton joins Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Lena Headey, Caterina Murino,...
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American rights for "My Blueberry Nights" director Wong Kar Wai's reworking of his martial arts-themed "Ashes of Time." The film, which was repped by Fortissimo Films, is in the...
Director Craig Lucas and screenwriter Elyse Friedman have signed on to the Matthew Perry, Ben Foster and Hilary Swank comedy "Laws of Motion." Lucas, best known as the writer of "Prelude to a Kiss," "The Secret Lives of...
Warner Bros. Pictures is planning to re-release the award-winning crime drama “The Departed” on Friday, January 26, 2006, in more than 1,300 theatres nationwide. The announcement was made today by Dan Fellman, President...
Catherine Hardwicke will next direct “The Monkey Wrench Gang,” based on Edward Abbey’s anti-establishment classic of the same name. Publication of Abbey’s novel in 1975 gave rise to a new generation of environmentalists...
Salma Hayek will topline and produce Spanish-language romantic comedy "La Banda," aiming the project at her Latin American fan base and as a potential crossover vehicle in the United States. "La Banda" is the first...
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has announced the full shortlist for the 79th Academy Awards, which is to take place at the Kodak Theatre, Los Angeles on February 25th. Performance by an actor in a...
Five years after apparently closing the dressing room door on his acting career, Connery has confirmed he is considering returning to the silver screen to reprise one of his most popular roles. The actor says he will...
Shortly after getting their first look at "Spider-Man 3," Columbia Pictures execs have begun negotiating with David Koepp to pen the script for a fourth installment of the franchise. Koepp, who most recently wrote the...
Al Gough, who is co-writing the third installment in the Mummy film franchise with partner Miles Millar, told SCI FI Wire that the sequel will unwrap a new mummy and feature a character who is the grown son of Rick and...
Columbia Pictures has tapped first-time feature helmer Mark Teitelman to direct its teen comedy "Big Man on Campus." The story is set in motion as beauty and brains duke it out in high school, changing the perception of...
Universal Pictures has bought all North American rights to Japanese period actioner "Dororo," the pic's production company, the TBS web, announced Friday. "Dororo" stars Kou Shibasaki ("The Sinking of Japan") as femme...
Rogue Pictures and Intrepid Pictures have picked up the movie rights to "Couriers," a series of action graphic novels, and have set writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach to adapt. Written by Brian Wood and illustrated by Rob G,...
Fox Searchlight confirmed late Sunday night that they have purchased virtually all worldwide rights minus Canada to "Joshua," a psychological thriller from co-writer and director David Ratliff, the documentary filmmaker...
Al Pacino will play artist Salvador Dali in "Dali & I: The Surreal Story," with Andrew Niccol directing. Room 9 Entertainment has set a June start date in New York and Spain. The film covers the latter days of Dali and...
Screen Gems has set Samuel L. Jackson and Kerry Washington to star in "Lakeview Terrace," a thriller that will begin production in May. Overbrook Entertainment partners James Lassiter and Will Smith will produce. An...
Pixar is building a robot for 2008. Disney-owned toon studio's release next year, titled "WALL-E," is believed to be about a young robot looking for a home in outer space. Andrew Stanton, who won an Oscar for directing...
Universal Pictures and Darren Aronofsky have turned to the world of ballet for what they hope will be his next directing effort. Aronofsky is attached to direct, and John McLaughlin has begun writing a thriller that...
Laurence Fishburne is in final negotiations to board Columbia Pictures' Vegas-set thriller "21." Liza Lapira and Josh Gad also have joined the cast of the blackjack tale. The film is based on Ben Mezrich's best-seller,...
Jennifer Garner will topline coming-of-age comedy "Juno" opposite Ellen Page, with Jason Reitman ("Thank You for Smoking") directing. Diablo Cody penned the script, centered on a teenager faced with an unplanned...
Wes Bentley and Joe Mantegna have been the cast in "Hank and Mike," a dark comedy about two Easter bunnies being produced by Canada-based Darius Films and Shoreline Entertainment. Matthiew Klinck is directing the film....
Dennie Gordon will helm the indie political satire "Harrison for America," the first project produced by Johnson-Roessler Co., a new film and TV production company in Santa Monica headed by David Johnson and Craig...
Although screenwriter David Koepp jokes that the Dreamworks secret police will track him down if he reveals anything about the upcoming sequel Indiana Jones 4, he was able during a recent interview with FilmStew to drop...
Pierce Brosnan has teamed with Maloof Motion Pictures to turn Leonard Wise novel "The Big Biazarro" into a starring vehicle for himself. Pic will be scripted and directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall. Drama is set in the...
Universal has picked up sci-fi thriller "Source Code," with Topher Grace attached to star. Ben Ripley wrote the spec; Mark Gordon is producing. While the plot revolves around time travel, other details are being kept...
Timothy Olyphant has been cast in the lead role, Agent 47, in the Luc Besson-produced pic "Hitman" at Twentieth Century Fox. Tyro Xavier Gens will helm. Fox sees the film as having franchise potential, and Olyphant's...
Michael Pena has joined "Lions for Lambs," the Robert Redford-directed drama that marks the first film for United Artists since Tom Cruise and C/W partner Paula Wagner signed on to revive the shingle for Harry Sloan's...
New Line has acquired the Don Winston-scripted political thriller "Material Breach" and is negotiating with John Moore to direct. Contemporary thriller concerns a secret government group that brings in a man once accused...
Eliza Dushku ("Bring It On") has joined the cast of Rob Schmidt's thriller "The Alphabet Killer." Pic is lensing in Rochester with a cast including Timothy Hutton and Cary Elwes. Paranoid Films and Wideye Films produce.
Gwyneth Paltrow will join Robert Downey Jr. and Terrence Howard in "Iron Man," the Jon Favreau-directed film that is being financed by Marvel Studios and released by Paramount Pictures in May 2008. Paltrow will play...
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Terence Stamp are set to join Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway in "Get Smart." Shooting begins next month on the Peter Segal-directed comedy for Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures....
Actress Danielle Savre is making the leap from HEROES to victim. The young actress has scored a leading role in Ghost House Pictures and Mandate Pictures’ BOOGEYMAN 2, which is currently in preproduction under the...
Amy Redford is making her feature directing debut on "The Guitar," an indie film just getting under way in New York. Amos Poe's script concerns the transformation of a woman after she is diagnosed with terminal cancer,...
Ewan McGregor and Richard Griffiths have joined the voice cast of "Jackboots on Whitehall," a WW2 comedy spoof using action figures to imagine what would have happened if the Germans had won the Battle of Britain....
Mischa Barton will topline coming-of-age drama "Don't Fade Away" for newly minted production shingle Origin Entertainment Group. Project, about an engaged Manhattan couple forced to deal with a father's unexpected...
Tara Reid is attached to star in and executive produce the indie romantic comedy "Honestly." Penned by Tom Vaughan ("Unstoppable"), the film centers on Monica Hennessey, a hard-boiled private eye who works as a temptress...
...the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs is in negotiations with Walt Disney Pictures to turn the eleven volume "John Carter of Mars" series of books into a motion picture franchise -- some ninety years after it first...
Ben Stiller plans to star in and direct ‘Tropic Thunder’, a high concept comedy that he’s been developing ever since he worked on Steven Spielberg’s “Empire of the Sun” way back in 1987. The script Stiller wrote with...
Kate Bosworth is close to a deal to star in Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo’s supernatural thriller “After.Life.” Vosloo, will direct from her own script which chronicles a young woman in a transitional state between life and...