Sacha Baron Cohen ( Borat ) is to star in the comedy Dinner With Schmucks a remake of French hit "Le Diner de cons," according to Variety. In the Gallic pic, a Paris publisher urges his friends to invite the most...
Anthony Hopkins is to star in James Ivory latest film The City Of Your Final Destination , according to Production Weekly. Based on the novel by Peter Cameron and stars stars Omar Metwally as an Iranian-born graduate...
Peter Tolan ("Rescue Me" co-creator) will make his feature directorial debut on Finding Amanda , according to Variety. Matthew Broderick is set to star. Story concerns a TV producer with alcohol and gambling addictions...
Lindsay Lohan has signed up to join the cast of Chris Sivertson’s Who Killed Me , says Production Week. The feature will see Lohan play Aubrey, the young daughter of affluent parents who is abducted and mutilated by a...
Mischa Barton has signed up to join the cast of Simon Fellows’ Malice In Sunderland , says Production Weekly. The feature will be a contemporary look on the Lewis Carroll classic 'Alice in Wonderland'. It will follow an...
Rodrigo Santoro, Paz Vega and Shakira are set to join Alfonso Arau’s romantic epic Dare to Love Me , says Production Weekly. The story is set in the seedy underworld of 1920s Buenos Aires, Tango legend Carlos Gardel is...
Miramax Films has bought the domestic rights to Italian foreign-language Oscar hopeful Golden Door , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, written and directed by Emanuele Crialese, is set in 1913 and tells a...
GreeneStreet Films has bought the rights to the 2006 novel by Daniel Handler Adverbs , says Variety. The novel is a series of interconnected stories about love, with characters fading in and dropping out of storylines....
Lynn Redgrave, Kathy Baker and Marc Blucas are to star in The Jane Austen Book Club , according to Variety. Robin Swicord will direct from her adaptation of the Karen Joy Fowler novel. They join Maria Bello, Emily Blunt,...
Catherine Deneuve and Gena Rowlands have signed on to voice characters in the English-language version of the French animated film Persepolis , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Deneuve will voice the lead character's...
Gabe Nevins is to star in Gus Van Sant Paranoid Park , according to Variety. Based on Blake Nelson's dark coming-of-age tale. Jake Miller, Taylor Momsen, Lauren McKinney and Daniel Lui also star. Story revolves around a...
Andrew Niccol is attached to direct Dali & I: The Surreal Story , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on the Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali that will serve as the company's follow-up to the successful...
Robert De Niro and 50 Cent are in final talks to co-star in the police thriller New Orleans , according to the Hollywood Reporter. To be directed by Tim Hunter the movie will center on a cop who thinks his partner has...
Julia Roberts is to star in the family drama The Friday Night Knitting Club , according to Variety. "Friday," based on Kate Jacobs' upcoming novel, centers on a single mom who juggles the demands of running a Manhattan...
Directors Allen and Albert Hughes are to direct the bigscreen adaptation of the 1970s classic TV series Kung Fu , according to Variety. The Hughes brothers, who blazed onto the scene with "Menace 2 Society," haven't...
Jesse Metcalfe is set to star as a rich club kid in Loaded , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Metcalfe plays a character whose life takes a downward spiral into a world of drugs, sex and violence. Production on the...
Fina Torres is set to direct a contemporary, Latino version of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" to be called Sense and Senibilidad , according to the Hollywood Reporter. "Fina and Luis have crafted a moving and...
Larry and Andy Wachowski are to direct the live-action version of Speed Racer , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The Wachowski brothers are writing and will direct the movie, which will be produced by Joel Silver....
Dennis Quaid and Ziyi Zhang are to cast in director Jonas Akerlund Horsemen , according to Variety. Quaid will play a bitter detective grieving over his wife's recent death. While investigating a case, he discovers a...
Ben Kingsley is attached to star opposite John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Joan Cusack and Marisa Tomei in the political satire Brand Hauser: Stuff Happens , according to the Hollywood Reporter. In the comedy Kingsley will play...
Donald Sutherland is joining the cast of the adventure comedy Fool's Gold , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Andy Tennant is directing with Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson starring in which the story revolves...
Robert Schwentke is in final negotiations to direct "The Time Traveler's Wife" from New Line Cinema. Based on the celebrated book by Audrey Niffenegger, the love story focuses on a couple in which the man has a genetic...
Bryan Singer is to return to direct the sequel to Superman Returns , according to Variety. Movie will be intended for release in summer 2009, although the studio stressed that there's not even a script or budget yet....
Jackie Chan and Jet Li will star together for the first time in a $70 million untitled family pic, according to Variety. Robert Minkoff will direct, while martial arts expert Yuen Woo-Ping ("The Master") will create the...
Lindsay Lohan is joining Keira Knightley in The Best Time of Our Lives , according to Variety. John Maybury is in talks to direct with shooting scheduled to begin in April. Script by Knightley's mother, playwright...
Steven Soderbergh is to direct two movie based on Che Guevara, according to Variety. Soderbergh will shoot them back to back, using mostly Spanish dialogue. Production begins next May in Mexico and other South American...
Gary Winick is to direct the adaptation of the the upcoming book Letters to Juliet , according to Variety. To be published Wednesday by Henry Holt, Letters to Juliet -- written by Lise and Ceil Friedman -- is a...
Ben Kingsley has signed up to join Ewan McGregor, Emily Mortimer and Dan Fogler in the thriller Number Thirteen , says Production Weekly. The feature, written and helmed by Chase Palmer follows the imagined story of the...
John Cho and Kal Penn have signed up to reprise their roles in the sequel to Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle , says Production Weekly. The feature, helmed by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, follows the...
British director Ken Russell has signed to to helm the thriller Kings X , says Production Weekly. The feature, which stars Robert Carlyle, Kevin Spacey and Ray Winstone, is set in a bustling inner city area where...
Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Kevin Zegers, Hugh Dancy, Maggie Grace, Amy Brenneman and Jimmy Smits are all set to join the cast of Robin Swicord's adaptation of the Karen Joy Fowler novel, The Jane Austen Book Club , says...
Lorne Lanning is set to make his directional debut on the Oddworld-set CG animated sci-fi action thriller Citizen Siege , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story is set in a video game Oddworld universe where current...
Samuel L. Jackson has signed up to take the lead in the thriller The Cleaner , says Production Weekly. The feature follows Tom (Jackson), an extremely hygienic man who uses this urge in his professional life as a crime...
Will Ferrell is set to join New Line Cinema's basketball comedy Semi-Pro , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Kent Alterman, is set in the last year of the now-defunct world of the American Basketball...
Jonathan Rhys Meyers is set to join the cast of The Children of Huang Shi , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Roger Spottiswoode, is set in war-ravaged China during the late 1930s. It's the true story of a young...
Directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly have come aboard to direct the romantic comedy Baster , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, which is based on a short story by Jeffrey Eugenides, is a narrative that is described...
Roger Donaldson is set to to direct the thriller Baker Street , says Production Weekly. The feature, which stars Jason Statham, tells how one of the biggest robberies in British history took place with no arrests ever...
Charlize Theron is to star in the independent drama Ferris Wheel , says Variety. The feature follows an 11-year-old girl's struggle to come to terms with her mother's abandonment. Theron will be joining a cast that...
Kim Basinger is set to star in Susan Montford’s thriller While She Was Out , says Production Weekly. The feature will see Basinger play a typical suburban housewife forced to fend for herself when she becomes stranded in...
Fox Animation has bought the rights to Roald Dahl's classic childrens book Fantastic Mr. Fox , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Wes Anderson, tells the story of a fox who uses its wits and cunning to outfox three...
Andre Benjamin, Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta and Martin Henderson are set to join Charlize Theron in Battle In Seattle, says Production Weekly. The feature, written and helmed by actor Stuart Townsend, will be a...
Sarah Jessica Parker will star opposite Dennis Quaid in the comedy Smart People , according to Variety. Thomas Haden Church co-stars; Ellen Page ("Hard Candy") and Ashton Holmes ("A History of Violence") also have been...
Microsoft are adament that they want Halo to go to the big screen even though Fox and Universal Pictures pulled out, according to the Hollywood Reporter. "We are disappointed that Universal and Fox wanted to...
Eric Bana and Terrence Howard are attached to star in the thriller Factor X , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Movie tells the true tale of how the BTK killer was captured. Ridley Scott will produce the pro-ject,...
Helen Mirren and Andy Serkis join the cast of the family fantasy Inkheart , according to Variety. Rafi Gavron and Sienna Guillory are also cast in the first in Cornelia Funke's kidlit fantasy trilogy. They join star...
Zack Snyder is to direct the adaptation of the cult comic book Cobalt 60 , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Taking place in a postapocalyptic world inhabited by mutants and fantastical creatures, the story follows...
Rachel McAdams is set to join the cast of The Time Traveler's Wife , says Production Weekly. The feature, written by Audrey Niffenegger, follows on a man with a time-traveling gene that allows him to appear and reappear...
George Clooney has come aboard for the contemporary East Coast caper Burn After Reading , says Production Weekly. The story is loosely based on the novel by Admiral Stansfield Turner, 'Burn Before Reading: Presidents,...
The Weinstein Co. have bought the rights to Martin Sweeney's irreverent comedy script Muskrat Love , says Variety. The story revolves around a self-absorbed player who dumps the perfect woman, only to be injected with a...
Matthew Broderick is set to star in Finding Amanda , says Production Weekly. The feature, which will mark the directorial debut of Peter Tolan, will see Broderick play a TV producer currently trying to reconstruct his...