Director Kathryn Bigelow has come aboard to helm the Iraq-set action drama The Hurt Locker , says Production Weekly. The feature is based on a screenplay Bigelow co-wrote with Mark Boal. The story follows the exploits of...
Vince Gilligan has come aboard to rewrite the Will Ferrell comedy Fly on the Wall , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on an anti-social man who gets his life on track, discovering how to have a successful...
IFC Entertainment have bought the domestic rights to Eric Byler's relationship drama Americanese , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is based on Shawn Wong's 1995 novel 'American Knees'. It follows a pair of...
Jim Henson's 1980 cult hit TV show Fraggle Rock is coming to the big screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Movie is being developed into a full-length live-action musical fantasy starring the classic characters....
Kelly Preston and Michelle Trachtenberg are to star in The Possibility of Fireflies , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Preston will play a single mother struggling to keep her life in order after her husband abandons...
Timothy Olyphant and Mary Elizabeth Winstead are to star in the fourth installment of the 'Die Hard' series Live Free or Die Hard , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Len Wiseman is directing with Bruce Willis...
Jeremy Piven and Molly Shannon are to voice charachters in the CG-animated comedy Igor , to the Hollywood Reporter. Igor centers on a mad scientist's hunchbacked lab assistant Igor, who has big dreams of becoming a...
Iain Softley is to direct the sex thriller The Boathouse , according to Variety. The supernatural thriller centers on a mysterious young woman whose new beau discovers that her past lovers died under suspicious...
Frank Darabont is set to adapt and direct Stephen King novella The Mist , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story takes place in a small town where a thick mist engulfs the area, killing those caught in its darkness....
Director Stuart Gordon has come aboard to direct the thriller Stuck , says Production Weekly. The feature, which is based on a true story, follows Brandi Helper, a young and compassionate caregiver at a retirement home...
Shawn Carter, also known as Jay-Z, is to develop Hit Men , says Production Weekly. The feature follow the lives of a multi-cultured group of struggling athletes who all work out at Hit Men Boxing Club, an inner-city gym...
Paul Haggis has come aboard to direct In The Valley of Elah , says Production Weekly. The feature, which stars Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron, is the follow up to last years Oscar winner Crash . It tells the true...
Helena Bonham Carter will play the diabolical meat pie-maker Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd , according to Variety. Director Tim Burton tapped Carter to co-star with Johnny Depp in the Stephen Sondheim musical. Mrs. Lovett,...
Jennifer Aniston may star in the drama comedy Counter Clockwise , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on noted Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer, who is known for her work in the illusion of control,...
Sam Shepard is attached to star in Descending From Heaven : The Strange and Extraordinary Tale of Claude Eatherly, A-Bomb Pilot, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Sandy Smolan is to direct the $10 million period...
Djimon HounsouDjimon Hounsou is to star in the urban drama The Trunk , according to Variety. Directed by Sylvain White and written by Joseph A. Elmore Jr., the story of an inner-city musical prodigy on the verge of...
Writer-director Randall Wallace is to direct Angelina Jolie in the adaptation of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged , according to Variety. A movie version of "Atlas Shrugged" has been long in the making. Producer Al Ruddy tried...
Victor Rasuk is set to join Salma Hayek in Keep Coming Back , says Production Weekly. The feature, which will mark William H. Macy's directional debut, follows a clean-cut Southern teenager with a good soul and a...
Sean McNamara has signed on to direct the live-action feature Bratz, says Production Weekly. The feature, which is based on the popular doll line, follows Yasmin, Ari, Cloe, and Jade, 4 very different teenage girls from...
Diane Lane is set to star in Screen Gems and Lakeshore Entertainment's Untraceable , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Gregory Hoblit, follows an FBI cyber cop (Lane) as she races to track down a...
Director Brian Robbins is set to helm Eddie Murphy in Starship Dave , says Variety. The story follows a crew of miniature, human-looking aliens who are seeking a way to save their doomed world. Murphy will play the human...
Rogue Pictures have pre-emptively bought film rights to an upcoming vampire comic book titled Blood on the Tracks , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, written and helmed by Neill Dela Llana and Ian Gamazon,...
Oliver Stone straight out of directing the 9/11 heroism tale World Trade Center is making the follow up Jawbreaker , according to Variety. Movie will focus on America's response to the terrorist attacks with the invasion...
Peter Berg is to direct Will Smith as a superhero in existential crisis in Tonight, He Comes , according to Variety. Berg is the third helmer to join the project, but the producers feel he'll be the one to bring the...
Rachel Bilson star alongside Hayden Christensen in the sci-fi adventure Jumper , according to Variey. Directed by Doug Liman. Bilson takes over the role from Teresa Palmer, who dropped out when the role was reconceived...
Maggie Q will join Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor in the sexual thriller The Tourist , according to Variety. Pic will lens in Gotham in coming weeks and Q (real name Quigley) will slot in her supporting role before she...
Dan Greaney and Jeff Poliquin are to write the comedy Shy Guy with Jay Roach producing, according to the Hollywood Reporter. "Guy" tells the story of a shy, retiring bookbinder who resists his impulsive, hard-partying...
Sacha Baron Cohen is in talks to star opposite Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd , says Production Weekly. The feature follows Benjamin Barker alias Sweeney Todd, (Depp) who returns to London after being deported...
John Goodman is set to join the cast of 20th Century Fox's vigilante drama Death Sentence , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by director James Wan, stars Kevin Bacon as a father out for revenge after his...
Jenna Dewan is joining Ryan Pinkston and Nick Zano in Fox Atomic's remake of the 1984 comedy Revenge of the Nerds , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Kyle Newman, will see Dewan play an 18-year-old...
New Line Cinema has picked up Justin Haythe's screenplay Snitch , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story is inspired by true events chronicled in a PBS 'Frontline' documentary. It follows a devoted father whose son faces...
Simon West is set to direct the adaptation of Mark Haskell Smith novel Salty , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story is about a reformed sex-addicted bass player who gets dragged to Thailand for a vacation by his...
Amber Tamblyn has signed on to star in the indie thriller Blackout , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Directed by Rigoberto Castaneda the movie revolves around three people who are trapped in a hospital elevator for...
Paddy Considine has joined the cast of The Bourne Ultimatum , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The third installment of the successful action series starring Matt Damon has Paul Greengrass returning to direct. The...
Randy Quaid is in final talks to star opposite Seann William Scott in the comedy Gary the Tennis Coach , according to the Hollywood Reporter. In Danny Leiner's feature, Quaid would play the coach who is a mentor and idol...
John Hamburg ( Meet the Parents ) is to direct the buddy action comedy Secret Agent Men , according to Variety. Hamburg hatched the idea and developed the story with Scott Turpel and Kyle Pennekamp. Turpel and Pennekamp...
Oscar winner Rachel Weisz is set to join the cast of the international con man adventure The Brothers Bloom , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, written and helmed by Rian Johnson, is the follow up to 2005's teen...
Scott Speedman is set to star opposite Liv Tyler in Rogue Pictures' suspense thriller Strangers , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, which will mark screenwriter Bryan Bertino's feature directorial debut, will see...
Rebecca Romijn and Keith Carradine are set to join Sissy Spacek, Troy Garity and Dave Matthews in the drama Lake City , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature will see Romijn play a small-town cop romantically involved...
Academy Award-nominated actress Amy Adams is in talks to star in the indie movie Sunshine Cleaning , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Christine Jeffs and Karen Moncrieff, follows a 30-year-old woman...
Gregory Hoblit is in talks to direct the techno-thriller Untraceable , says Production Weekly. The storyline follows a tech-savvy serial killer with a Web site that graphically displays his murders and the investigator...
Terrence Howard is joining the cast of Marvel's Iron Man , according to the Hollywood Reporter. He will play Jim "Rhodey" Rhodes, the best friend of Tony Stark, the billionaire industrialist who becomes the superhero...
Joseph Fiennes will play the eccentric priest and Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi in the biopic Vivaldi , according to Variety. Directed by Boris Damast from a script by journalist Steven Freedman. Freedman has spent...
Mira Sorvino will star opposite Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo in the drama Reservation Road , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Terry George is directing for Focus Features. In the film, two families collide when...
Jessica Chastain is to star in the title role in Jolene , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Dermot Mulroney, Donald Sutherland, Michael Vartan and Denise Richards have also joined the cast. Dan Ireland's is directing...
Lee Pace is to star opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in supernatural thriller Addicted , according to Variety Joel Bergvall and Simon Sandquist, who helmed Swedish film "The Invisible," will direct from a Michael Petroni...
Jack Black is set to produce and take a role in Universal Pictures In College Football, Big Paydays for Humiliation , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is based on a New York Times article by Pete Thamel, which...
Franka Potente will star in Constantin Film's big-screen version of Donna Cross' best-selling novel about a female pope, Pope Joan , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature will see Potente play Johanna von Ingelheim, a...
Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies are set to co-produce the action-adventure The Game of Sunken Places , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, based on a pitch by screenwriter Matt Nix, follows two boys who...
Robert Altman and writer Stephen Harrigan are said to be developing Hands on a Hard Body: The Documentary , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is inspired by the events depicted in S.R. Bindler's 1997 documentary...