Katie Cassidy is in final talks to star in the remake of Revenge of the Nerds according to Variety. Kyle Newman is directing the McG-produced remake of the classic 1984 comedy. Cassidy recently beat out Jessica Simpson...
Jesse Bradford has signed on to star in the remake of the South Korean hit romantic comedy My Sassy Girl , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Yann Samuell is directing the movie with "Girl" tells the story of a...
Universal Pictures is to make the comedy written by Rick Overton Little Lover Boy , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based around a small-time crook who gets abducted by aliens, swipes their spaceship and teams with...
Drew Barrymore has signed up to star in the Warner Bros. thriller He Loves Me , says Variety. The script is by Ted Tally, who described it as a "taut, sexy thriller about contemporary infidelity, which strongly questions...
Lisa Kudrow and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are set to join Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler in Alcon Entertainment's P.S. I Love You , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Richard LaGravenese, centers on a widow whose life is...
Director Bennett Miller is set to helm Paramount Vantage's The Immortalist , says Variety. The feature is described as a contemporary, character-driven drama set in the world of life extension. Dante Harper will write...
Lionsgate and Sobini Films have bought the rights to scribe Stephen Susco's script Sanctuary , says Variety. The feature, which is based on John Connolly novel 'Bad Men', is a supernatural thriller that revolves around a...
Brad Pitt is said to have replaced Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 4 , according to the Daily Mail. It is a move that will make Pitt the highest-paid actor in Hollywood history. An insider told London Lite: "MI:IV will...
New Line Cinema has signed a two-year, first-look production deal with Snakes on a Plane star Samuel L. Jackson, according to The Hollywood Reporter. New Line approached Jackson after the success of Snakes, which was an...
Zooey Deschanel is set to replace Pink in the drama The Gospel According to Janis , according to Variety. Penelope Spheeris is directng with filming starting on Nov. 13 in Philadelphia. Spheeris wrote the script with...
John Hurt is to star in in Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia's Oxford Murders , according to Production Weekly. Based on an award-winning novel by the Argentinean writer Guillermo Martinez the English-language...
George Clooney is set to direct Universal Pictures football drama Leatherheads , says Variety. Renee Zellweger is also in talks to co-star in the romantic comedy set against the backdrop of pro football's formation in...
Aisha Tyler will star opposite Kevin Bacon in 20th Century Fox's vigilante drama Death Sentence , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a father (Bacon) out for revenge after his family is attacked in a...
Susanne Bier is set to direct 18th century love story The Duchess , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is based on Amanda Foreman's biography 'Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire'. It tells the story of Georgiana...
Writer Mike Dougherty will make his feature directorial on the horror movie Trick 'r Treat, says the Hollywood Reporter. The film will feature four interwoven stories that take place on Halloween with such characters as...
New Line Cinema has preemptively acquired David Hubbard's comedy God, the Devil, and Lucy , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows God and the Devil who, tired of eternally fighting for human souls, decide to...
The time-traveling cartoon adventures of Mr. Peabody & Sherman are to be brought to the big screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The classic animated television series -- centering on the genius dog Mr. Peabody...
Rachel Weisz says she wants to appear in The Mummy 3 , according to Ananova. Rachel, who won best supporting actress Oscar for The Constant Gardener, said: "I know there's a new script but I haven't read it yet....
Documentary filmmakers Douglas Gordon and Phlippe Parreno have spent 10 months with French soccer star Zinedine Zidane shooting Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait , according to the Hollywood Reporter. They were not...
Brian Koppelman and David Levien, who previously wrote Ocean's Thirteen , are to write the adaptation of the Don Winslow novel The Winter of Frankie Machine , which stars Robert De Niro, according to Variety. "Frankie...
Jonathan Mostow is set to write and direct the adaptation of one of Marvel Comics' oldest superheroes Sub-Mariner , says the Hollywood Reporter. Sub-Mariner's real name is Prince Namor, a half-man/half-amphibian from the...
Kyra Sedgwick is to star opposite Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in Walt Disney Pictures' family football comedy The Game Plan , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature follows a football player who learns that he...
Strand Releasing have bought the domestic rights to Julian Goldberger's The Hawk Is Dying , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature stars Paul Giamatti, Michelle Williams and Michael Pitt. In the quirky drama Giamatti...
Imagi Animation Studios is set to make the anime robot Astro Boy , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows the adventures of a boy-sized robot named Atom. Atom, who with the help of his friends battles enemies...
Jim Carrey has been cast as Horton and Steve Carell has been cast as the mayor of Who-ville in Dr. Seuss' in the CGI-animated feature film Horton Hears a Who , according to the Hollywood Reporter. "Horton" marks the...
Oliver Platt is to star in the one of the two lead male roles in the remake of the 1978 comedy Who is Killing the Great Chefs? , according to Variety. Gold told Daily Variety that it made perfect sense to have the film...
City of God director Fernando Meirelles is returning to Brazil to direct 'Blindness', an English-language film based on the 1995 novel by Portuguese Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago, according to Variety. Book is a...
Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Kline and Justin Long are to lend their voices to The Tale of Despereaux , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Directed by Mike Johnson, the movie is based on Kate DiCamillo's novel, a Newbery...
Magnolia Pictures is to release Johnny To's action thriller Exiled , according to Variety. Set in the Hong Kong underworld and modeled after To's 1999 "The Mission," had its North American premiere Thursday at the...
Kate Beckinsale is to replace Sarah Jessica Parker in the Screen Gems horror thriller Vacancy , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Nimrod Antal, follows a couple who find videocams in their motel room,...
Peter Jackson has bought the rights to Naomi Novik's historical fantasy series Temeraire , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on British naval Capt. Will Laurence, who captures a French ship, where he...
Danny Huston is set to join the cast of Columbia Pictures' adaptation of the horror comic book 30 Days of Night , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story takes place in an Alaskan town where 30 days of continual winter...
Joel Schumacher has signed on to direct Gold Circle's vampire horror movie Town Creek , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a West Virginia man who comes to terms with his moral qualms and helps his brother...
Jia Zhangke is set to adapt the novel by Su Tong The Time of Tattoos , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature will focus on the end of the Cultural Revolution. It will be set in 1975 in Suzhou, near Shanghai, at the...
Seann William Scott is in talks to star in the new comedy film Big Brother , according to Production Weekly. Scott is in negotiations to play a businessman who is forced to take part in a Big Brother mentoring program...
Dennis Quaid, Rachel Weisz and Thomas Haden Church are set to star in the indie dramedy Smart People , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Noam Murro, follows a recently widowed professor (Quaid) who must...
Meg Ryan is in talks to join Antonio Banderas and Annette Bening in Homeland Security , according to Production Weekly. Writer-director George Gallo is to make the mystery in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch...
National Geographic Films has taken a partnership stake in Christopher Quinn's God Grew Tired of Us , says the Hollywood Reporter. The movie won this year's Sundance Film Festival grand jury prize and Audience Award for...
Shawn Levy is in talks to direct 20th Century Fox's Matchbreaker , says the Hollywood Reporter. "It is a high-concept comedy about two guys and a girl set against a vibrant cultural backdrop, which we haven't seen in a...
Emma Bunton aka Baby Spice might be replacing Beyonce Knowles and joining Steve Martin in Pink Panther 2 , according to Sky.com. Emma Bunton, a former Spice Girl, could be in talks to replace Beyonce Knowles as the...
Kenneth Branagh has come on board to direct an adaptation of the Anthony Shaffer play Sleuth , according to Variety. Starring Jude Law and Michael Caine who is playing a major role in the drama that revolves around two...
Timothy Olyphant and Joseph Gordon-Levitt have joined Kimberly Peirce's Stop Loss , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on a true story adapted for the screen by Peirce, "Stop Loss" centers on Brandon (Ryan...
Tom McCarthy ( The Station Agent ) will write and direct the comedy drama The Visitor , according to Variety. The Visitor revolves around a widower who lives a mundane existence as a college economics professor. His...
Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz are set to star in Focus Features romantic comedy A Little Game , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Gabriele Muccino, will see Carrey and Diaz play an engaged Manhattan...
Alamode Film have bought the rights to Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr's Australian Oscar candidate Ten Canoes , says Variety. The feature follows Dayindi (played by Jamie Gulpilil, son of the great David Gulpilil), who...
Galan Entertainment are set to develop Richard Perez-Feria's memoirs to the bigscreen in It's Exhausting Being Fabulous ... And Other Things I Told My Mother , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story is of "a boy raised...
Snoot Entertainment are set to make Robert J. Sawyer's acclaimed futuristic novella Identity Theft , says Variety. The story revolves around a private eye working on Mars who is hired to find a beautiful woman's missing...
Warner Bros. has said they won't release Ed Zwick's Leonardo DiCaprio starrer Blood Diamond until Dec. 15, according to Variety The diamond industry is already going on the offensive. On Wednesday, the industry will take...
Truly Indie is to distribute Doug Block's docu 51 Birch Street , according to Variety. Film follows Block as he tries to make sense of his parents' marriage after his mother dies and his father announces he's going to...
Charlize Theron is set to join the cast of Battle in Seattle , says Production Weekly. In feature she will play a leading role in the film which aims to explore the chaotic events surrounding the 1999 World Trade...