Eric Bana has joined the cast of The Golden Compass , according to Ananova. He will join Nicole Kidman, Kevin Bacon and John Hurt in the movie. The film is based on the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. The...
France's minister of culture decided on Tuesday to bar minors from seeing the horror movie Saw III after personally viewing the film which he said contained "incessant and unbearable sadism," according to the Hollywood...
Robert Mark Kamen is to adapt journalist George M. Tabor's nonfiction novel Judgment of Paris , according to Variety. The story of how California wines landed on the map after besting their French cousins in a 1976 blind...
Steve Stockman is to write and direct the comedy Two Weeks , according to the Hollywood Reporter. "Weeks" stars Sally Field, Ben Chaplin, Tom Cavanagh, Julianne Nicholson, Glenn Howerton and Clea DuVall and revolves...
Peter Jackson has said that he will not be making the next film adaptation of the JRR Tolkien novel, The Hobbit . Jackson, who has been in a dispute with New Line Cinemas regarding the income of the 'Rings' trilogy, said...
Anne Hathaway is set to join Steve Carell in Get Smart , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Peter Segal, follows a hapless secret agent Maxwell Smart, who was played by the late Don Adams on the small screen. Created...
Nicolas Cage is to reprise his role as treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates National Treasure 2: The Book of Secrets , says Production Weekly. The feature, which will see the return of director Jon Turteltaub, takes...
New Line Cinema is set to make the Michael Scott-penned fantasy series The Immortal Nicholas Flamel , says Variety. The story follows two teenage twins find themselves in the adventure of a lifetime when legendary...
Nicolas Cage is set to star in the action-thriller Crazy Dog , says Production Weekly. The feature, helmed by Joe Ruben , revolves around a New York City cop (Cage) who causes the death of a friend in a moment of...
Pierce Brosnan is to star as another spy in the comedy Spy vs. Stu , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on an original screenplay from the writing team of Keith Mitchell and Allie Dvorin, the comedy centers on...
Rainn Wilson (The Office) is to star and write Bonzai Shadowhands , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Jason Reitman is directing the dark comedy, while plot details are being kept under wraps, it is known to be about...
Anjelica Huston is to direct the adapation of the Daniel Woodrell novel Give Us a Kiss , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows a struggling crime writer named Doyle who travels to his Ozarks hometown to...
Armin Mueller-Stahl and Sinead Cusack will co-star opposite Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts in David Cronenberg's crime drama Eastern Promises , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The Oscar-nominated Mueller-Stahl...
Damian Lewis, Daryl Hannah, Virginie Ledoyen and John Malkovich have signed up for Raoul Ruiz's period movie Love and Virtue , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The cast also includes Peter O'Toole, Saffron Burrows,...
Sin City writer and co-director Frank Miller says that he will co-direct the upcoming sequel Sin City 2 . "Yes and yes," he told Sci-Fi Wire. "We have all kinds of technical things we want to do, but there's a major...
Tori Spelling, Joanna Cassidy, Tess Harper, Philipp Karner and James O'Shea are all set to star in Here Films romantic comedy Kiss the Bride , says Variety. The feature, helmed by C. Jay Cox, follows the upcoming...
Director of Rush Hour 3 Brett Ratner is set to helm the heist drama being alongside Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock, says Production Weekly. The feature is a thriller about a pair of Trump Tower janitors (Murphy & Rock) who...
Tim Firth has been hired by Walt Disney Pictures to adapt Ahmet Zappa's kids' book The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless , says Variety. The story follows a young brother and sister who learn their family is part...
Director Peter Weir is in talks to helm Fox 2000's Shadow Divers , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story revolves around two of the world's foremost deep-sea wreck divers who discover a sunken U-boat 60 miles off the...
Sacha Baron Cohen is to star in the screen version of the Stephen Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd , according to Variety. Tim Burton will direct with Cohen playing Signor Adolfo Pirelli, a barber who becomes the nemesis of...
Nicolas Cage is to star in the adaptation of the comic The Sadhu , according to Variety. The script will be written by spiritual author and Virgin Comics co-founder Deepak Chopra. "The Sadhu," created and written by...
The Farrelly Brothers are to make National Lampoon's Bag Boy , according to Variety. Based on an underdog teen who discovers he's got the talent to excel in the world of competitive grocery bagging. Project, originally...
Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise are to star in the drama Lions for Lambs with Robert Redford to direct and star, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The drama is set in Afghanistan and will be written by Matthew Michael...
Dominic Purcell and Jesse Metcalfe to star in the horror movie for director Joel Schumacher in Town Creek , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The two will star as brothers on a mission of revenge who become trapped in...
Jay Baruchel and Rose Byrne are set to star in the indie black comedy Pushing Up Daisies , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, which is being directed by Chaz Thorne, follows a young man (Baruchel) who inherits a...
Bob Giraldi has been hired to direct the indie feature The Lion's Share , says the Hollywood Reporter. This feature is about the complexities of suburban family life that often go unnoticed until pushed to the brink. The...
Chase Palmer is to write and direct the adaptation of Focus Feature's historical biography Evolution's Captain , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, based on the book by Peter Nichols, revolves around Robert...
Producer Mark Williams has bought the movie rights to the novel Double Cross , says the Hollywood Reporter. The book, which is about the life of mobster Sam Giancana, tells the story of how the gangster rose from being a...
Tartan Films has bought the domestic US rights to the hallucinogenic Hungarian film Taxidermia , says the Hollywood Reporter. The grotesque tale uses special effects to track three generations of men, including an...
Colin Firth, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Sam Shepard have joined Uma Thurman in the romantic comedy The Accidental Husband , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Isabella Rossellini, Lindsay Sloane ("The Stones") and Justina...
Kate Hudson is to star in the romantic comedy Bride Wars , according to Variety. The comedy pits best friends against one another when the prospective brides have a wedding-date clash and neither will step aside. Hudson...
Bond girl Eva Green is to star in the postapocalyptic In the Country of Last Things , according to Production Weekly. The postapocalyptic quest is set against a backdrop of urban deprivation. Alejandro Chomski will...
Jodie Markell is to make her feature directing debut on Lindsay Lohan starrer The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond , according to Variety. Described as a dramatic, sometimes downbeat work, it centers on class tensions in 1920s...
Fox is to make the comedy Captain Awesome from script by writers Mike Arnold and Chris Poole, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The logline to the high-concept project is being kept under wraps though it is understood...
James Bond star Daniel Craig says that the upcoming James Bond movie Casino Royale will be low on gadgets and high on action. "It was not a debatable issue, and that was from all of us," Craig told Sci-Fi Wire. "That was...
Edgar Ramirez has joined the cast of Universal Pictures' The Bourne Ultimatum, says the Hollywood Reporter. Matt Damon will return as amnesiac spy hero Jason Bourne in the third installment. Joan Allen, Julia Stiles,...
Lionsgate Films has acquired the US domestic rights to the first Bratz live-action theatrical movie, says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, which is based on the popular doll line, follows Yasmin, Ari, Cloe, and Jade,...
Director Chris Palmer is set to helm Warner Bros. Pictures A Spell for Chameleon , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story, which is based on the Piers Anthony novel, is set in the kingdom of Xanth, where everyone has...
The Weinstein Co. has taken the US domestic rights to Wong Kar Wai's romantic comedy My Blueberry Nights , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature stars Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz, Tim Roth...
Hugh Jackman is to star in the adaptation of the Robert Littell spy novel The Amateur , according to Variety. Jackman will play a CIA cryptographer whose fiancee is killed in a suspicious plane crash. When he discovers...
Meg Ryan is to star in the remake of The Women , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Diane English is to write and direct the movie and she described it as George Cukor's original 1939 film adaptation of Clare Boothe...
Borat movie has been banned in Russia because the film pokes fun at Kazakhstan, according to Ananova. The film stars Sacha Baron Cohen as a spoof reporter on a trip to the US. Russia's culture ministry say they will not...
Clive Barker is to write and produce the remake of the 1980s horror Hellraiser , according to Variety. Barker will not direct the new movie as he did the original; a director has not yet been announced. Original 1987...
Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan will star in the psychological thriller I Know Who Killed Me , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Chris Sivertson is directing the movie which revolves around Aubrey Fleming (Lohan), a young...
Matt Lanter is set to star in the sequel War Games 2: The Dead Code , says Production Weekly. The movie, which is the sequel to 1983 film starring Matthew Broderick, follows computer hacker Will Farmer who begins to play...
Christian Slater and Elle Fanning have joined the feature adaptation of Karen Kingsbury’s novel Gideon’s Gift , says Production Weekly. The feature follows Big Earl Gibson (Slater), who lost the two things most precious...
The Weinstein Co. have bought the US domestic rights to Gillian Armstrong's fictionalized Harry Houdini biopic Death Defying Acts, says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, which stars Catherine Zeta-Jones and Guy...
Yam Laranas is to direct Vertigo Entertainment's remake thriller The Echo , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, which is a remake of Filipino title 'Sigaw', follows a story that involves an ex-con who becomes...
Morgan Freeman is in final talks to star opposite James McAvoy in the sci-fi action Wanted , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov is to make his English-language debut. Wanted is based...
Kirsten Dunst is to star in and produce the adaptation of A.N. Wilson's novel A Jealous Ghost , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The supernatural thriller is a dark, elevated psychological thriller in the vein of...