Sam Jones is set to make his feature film directorial debut in Mandate Pictures' comedy Boomerang , says the Hollywood Reporter The feature follows a young man trying to reclaim his life from his controlling parents....
Halle Berry is to to star in the true life story Class Act , according to Variety Doug Atchison has come on board to write and direct the true life tale. Berry will play Tierney Cahill, a teacher from Reno, Nev., who...
Rapper Chris "Ludacris" Bridges has joined the cast of the the comedy Fred Claus , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Vince Vaughn is starring with David Dobkin directing the film, which has Vaughn as Santa's loser...
Sissy Spacek, Troy Garity and musician Dave Matthews are set to star in the family drama Lake City , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Perry Moore is directing the Lake City , with Spacek and Garity will play a mother...
Shareeka Epps, John Ortiz and Johnny Lewis have been cast in Alien vs. Predator 2 , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Fox's sequel to the monster showdown "Alien vs. Predator" marks the first studio role for Epps...
David Ayer has signed on to rewrite and direct Mafia Cop , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The true-life story, which has been called one of the worst police corruption scandals in New York history, centers on Louis...
After boarding the project only last month, both Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz have dropped out of Focus Features' A Little Game Without Consequence, says the Hollywood Reporter. The movie's director, Gabriele Muccino, has...
Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Martin Short and Joan Plowright are in talks to join the cast of Paramount's big-budget adaptation of The Spiderwick Chronicles , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Mack...
Ellen Page and Michael Cera have signed on to star in Mandate Pictures' coming-of-age comedy Juno , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Jason Reitman, will see Page play the title role, a quick-witted...
Paramount Vantage has bought the rights to writer Dan Kay's horror script Details , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is based on a short story by British fantasy writer China Mieville, and follows a girl who...
Film Movement has picked up the domestic rights to Aubrey Nealon's Canadian family drama A Simple Curve , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature revolves around twentysomething Caleb (Kris Lemche), who shares a small...
Beau Garrett and Andre Braugher have been cast in Fantastic Four 2 , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Tim Story is directing for 20th Century Fox with Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis are...
"Hustle & Flow" duo Terrence Howard and director Craig Brewer are to make the biopic of country singer Charley Pride, according to Variety. As Joaquin Phoenix did in "Walk the Line," Howard will sing the country icon's...
Gael Garcia Bernal is in talks to star as the nemesis in the third part The Bourne Ultimatum , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Shooting started this week in Tangier with Matt Damon back as Bourne, and Joan Allen and...
Om Puri is to star in Mike Nichols' Charlie Wilson's War opposite Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, according to Production Weekly. Aaron Sorkin adapted George Crile's book about the CIA's largest and most successful covert...
Seann William Scott and Topher Grace are set to star in the comedy Coxblocker , says Production Weekly. The feature, helmed by Greg Coolidge, will see Grace play William Cox, who has trouble with women until he finally...
Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain) is set to join Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman in the thriller The Tourist , according to The New York Daily News. The feature, helmed by Marcel Langenegger, will see McGregor play...
Kelly Preston (Broken Bridges) and Stuart Lafferty (One Tree Hill) are set to join the cast of 20th Century Fox's Death Sentence , says Variety. The feature stars Kevin Bacon as a father out for revenge after gang...
Director Andrzej Bartkowiak is in talks to helm the thriller Black and Blue , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story revolves around a Boston detective who is desperately trying to combat an escalating drug war between...
British documentary helmer Leslie Woodhead is to make Godless in America , says Variety. The movie will examine what it is like to be an atheist in contemporary America. It follows the struggle of American atheists...
Robert Downey Jr. is in talks to star in Iron Man , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Jon Favreau is directing the movie, Downey will portray Tony Stark, a billionaire industrialist and genius inventor who is...
Diane Kruger ( Troy ) has joined the cast of Richard Sheppard's Spring Break in Bosnia , according to to Variety. Starring Terrence Howard and Richard Gere, Kruger will travel to Croatia at the end of October to play...
New Line are to make an untitled comic vehicle for Ice Cube, according to Variety. He'll play a social climber whose aspirations are threatened by a youth who shows up and calls him daddy.
Warner Bros. Pictures are to adapt an upcoming children's novel by James A. Owen called Here, There Be Dragons , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The book brings together three strangers -- John, Jack and Charles --...
Hugh Jackman has joined the cast of indie A Plumm Summer , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Caroline Zelder, follows the aftermath of a famous puppet's kidnapping and two youngsters' bid to solve the case. The cast...
James Marsters has joined the cast of the Alcon Entertainment drama P.S. I Love You , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Richard LaGravenese, stars Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler in the adaptation of the...
Twentieth Century Fox has picked up film rights to the R.L. Stine children's book series The Rotten School , says Variety. The books are written as comedy for the kids. It centers on the zany boarding school adventures...
Director Mark Pellington has been hired to helm Universal Pictures supernatural thriller Night and Day You Are the One , says Variety. The feature is based on a short story by Ken Kalfus. It follows a man who can't tell...
Scandinavian-based NonStop Sales have picked up director Laurence Lamers Dutch/English-language thriller Paid , says Variety. The film noir-style debut feature is about underworld characters that have come to regret the...
Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon are to star in the Middle East political thriller Rendition , according to Variety. Gavin Hood ( Tsotsi ) will direct the multilayered story centers on a CIA analyst, based in the...
Rob Cohen has signed on to direct the prison thriller Scared Straight , according to the Hollywood Reporter. "Straight" centers on a governor's teenage son who is sent to prison as part of Scared Straight, a...
Bob Hoskins will star opposite Canadian actor Nicholas Campbell in The Englishman's Boy , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Hoskins will play an ambitious movie producer in 1920s Hollywood who asks a young Canadian...
George Tillman is to direct the thriller Stephon's Corner , according to Variety. Visceral thriller follows the story of two single mothers who form a friendship after their children die during useless acts of violence....
Jim Caviezel has signed on to star in the Weinstein Co.' science fiction adventure Outlander , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Howard McCain, centers on a man from another galaxy who crash-lands on...
Rob Schneider has signed to star in the children's fantasy Juliana and the Medicine Fish , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Jeremy Torrie, will see Schneider play a father who is trying to save his...
Billy Burke is set to take the lead role in Jennifer Chambers Lynch's supernatural cop thriller Surveillance , reports Production Weekly. The feature follows an FBI agent tracking a serial killer with the help of his...
Donald De Line's production company and Andrew Dean will produce family comedy Home School for Warner Bros. Pictures, says Variety. The feature, based on a script by Kara Holden, revolves around an absentee father who...
Lionsgate have bought the worldwide rights to the Mexican urban crime drama Fuera del cielo (Beyond the Sky), says Variety. The feature, helmed by Javier Patron Fox, is set against the devastated backdrop of Mexico City...
Cate Blanchett is to to star in the graphic memoir Cancer Vixen: A True Story , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Wrtitten by cartoonist Marisa Acocella Marchetto who is a cartoonist fashionista for Glamour and the...
Ron Howard is to direct an adaptation of Peter Morgan's play Frost/Nixon , according to Variety. Howard saw the show at the West End's Donmar Warehouse last week and was said to have helped hammer out the pact during his...
Max von Sydow, Noemie Lenoir and Hiroyuki Sanada have finished of the cast for the Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker starrer Rush Hour 3 , according to Variety. Four-month shoot is set to start Sunday in Paris, where Tucker's...
The massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha by U.S. Marines is the subject of Nick Broomfield's next movie, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Broomfield, known for documentaries like "Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam,"...
Liev Schreiber, Laura Harring, Angie Cepeda, Ana Claudia Talancon and Rubria Negrao have joined the cast of Love in the Time of Cholera , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Mike Newell is directing the story, based on...
Justin Long and Maggie Q are set to join the cast of 20th Century Fox's forth installment of the 'Die Hard' trilogy - Live Free or Die Hard , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Len Wiseman, will see...
Charlize Theron and Tommy Lee Jones are in talks to take starring roles in director Paul Haggis' follow-up to his Academy Award-winning hit 'Crash', says the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows a veteran father in...
Diane Keaton, Dax Shepard and Liv Tyler are joining the cast of the indie pic Smother , says Variety. The story revolves around a thirtysomething man who is fired from his job, pressured by his wife to have a baby and...
Tony Leondis has been hired to direct Exodus Film Group's CG-animated comedy Igor , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature follows hunchbacked lab assistant Igor (voiced by Christian Slater) who dreams of becoming a...
Frank Darabont's Darkwoods Prods. has bought the rights to comedic memoir "Rescue Me, He's Wearing a Moose Hat: And 40 Other Dates Over 50", says the Hollywood Reporter. The book was written by Sherry Halperin when she...
Angelina Jolie is to star in the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged , according to Variety. Jolie, a longtime fan of Rand's, was eager to play the role of Dagney Taggart, the most powerful female...
Alice Braga is to star as the leading lady for Will Smith in I Am Legend , according to Variety. Movie is to be directed by Francis Lawrence and is set to start shooting the long-gestating film in Gotham this fall....