Chuck actor Vik Sahay has joined the cast of American Reunion , the new American Pie movie from Universal currently shooting in Atlanta. Sahay will play the boss to Stiffler (Scott), the nerdy kid in high school who...
Columbia Pictures and Original Film are teaming to produce an English-language remake of helmer Hitoshi Matsumoto's " Big Man Japan ," a monster movie based on the Japanese comic. Set in a world where giant monsters...
Christopher Nolan's longtime casting director John Papsidera must have seen "Apollo 13" recently, as veteran character actors Brett Cullen and Chris Ellis are set to round out the ensemble of Warner Bros. and Legendary...
FilmDistrict has been tapped to release Angelina Jolie’s feature directorial debut In the Land of Blood and Honey , which is now slated to open Dec. 23 in the U.S. Land is set against the backdrop of the Bonsian Civil...
"Gossip Girl" star Ed Westwick is in final negotiations to play Tybalt in a new adaptation of William Shakespeare's " Romeo and Juliet ." Hailee Steinfeld is set to star as Juliet, while Holly Hunter was recently cast as...
Anonymous Content has found the first of several leading ladies for its edgy thriller " Loft ," as Aussie actress Isabel Lucas is in negotiations to join the ensemble cast. Indie follows five married friends who share a...
The battle between Warner Bros and Mike Tyson's tattoo artist is heating up. On Friday, the studio told a judge why S. Victor Whitmill, who is suing over a copyrighted tattoo on Ed Helms' face in Hangover Part II,...
Producer-director Peter Jackson's tapped British thesp Stephen Fry to play the role of Master of Laketown in " The Hobbit ." "I've known Stephen for several years, and we're developing a 'Dambusters' movie together,"...
Author Stephen Elliott is set to direct James Franco in the indie drama " Cherry ," with Heather Graham, Dev Patel and indie stalwart Lili Taylor in negotiations to star. Liz Destro ("Explicit Ills") is producing the...
Hot off of Fast Five, Vin Diesel has come aboard to star and produce The Machine , an action comedy from MGM. According to MGM, Diesel will play “a human-like machine created in secrecy by the Pentagon as the world's...
Tommy Lee Jones will star alongside Meryl Streep and Steve Carell in Great Hope Springs , the Mandate comedy being directed by David Frankel. The project, written by Vanessa Taylor, centers on a middle-aged couple...
Mel Gibson is in talks to join the cast of helmer Brad Mirman's heist comedy " Sleight of Hand ," opposite Kiefer Sutherland, Gerard Depardieu and Thomas Jane. Giancarlo Giannini, Jon Lovitz and Johnny Hallyday are also...
Australian actor Joel Edgerton has nabbed the role of Tom Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann’s all-star adaptation of The Great Gatsby , being made in 3D by Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow. THR reported last weekend that...
Danish thesp Mads Mikkelsen ("The Three Musketeers") and Germany's Til Schweiger are getting set to go mano a mano in World War II thriller " War Below Zero ." Icelandic helmer Agust Gudmundsson ("The Seagull's...
Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Katherine Heigl and Amanda Seyfried are set to star in the indie comedy " Gently Down the Stream ." De Niro and Keaton will play a long-divorced couple who, for the sake of their adopted...
Sexual thriller '' The Paperboy '' may be headed to the big screen via Millennium Films. In a deal announced by Millennium on Friday at Cannes, the production company said it's acquired the rights to the project, based...
U.S. rights to Meryl Streep's " The Iron Lady " have been picked up by The Weinstein Co., which plans to release the Margaret Thatcher biopic later this year. "Lady" is directed by Phyllida Lloyd and co-stars Jim...
TV scribe Zack Whedon has been brought on to adapt the graphic novel " Talent " for Universal. Story follows a professor who, after surviving a plane crash, finds he has inherited the abilities of the passengers who have...
Kiefer Sutherland and Kate Bosworth are heading for Gotham, boarding indie romancer " Fairytale of New York " with Lisa Katselas and Dan Reardon producing and Lee Cleary directing. Written by Jeff Murphy, " Fairytale of...
Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan have joined the cast of helmer Neil Jordan's " Byzantium ." The project, produced by Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen's London-based Number 9 Films, is based on "Tamara Drewe" scribe...
Sony has taken North American distribution on " Great Hope Springs ," the Meryl Streep domestic drama. " Great Hope Springs ," to be directed by David Frankel, centers on a middle-aged couple who, after 30 years of...
Cameron Diaz is in final negotiations to star in What to Expect When You’re Expecting, Lionsgate and Phoenix Pictures’ adaptation of the nonfiction pregnancy guidebook series. The story follows five couples who suffer...
Steven Spielberg is rounding out the large cast of his Abraham Lincoln biopic, DreamWorks' Lincoln. Tommy Lee Jones and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, along with Hal Holbrook, James Spader, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce...
Vince Vaughn is in talks to join the independent film " Lay the Favorite ." Pic is based on the life of Beth Raymer, a professional gambler who started as a cocktail waitress in Las Vegas but rose to become one of the...
Stephen Collins has joined the cast of the 20th Century Fox comedy The Three Stooges . Collins, who last appeared in ABC’s No Ordinary Family, has landed the role of the villain Mr. Harter. Directed by the Farrelly...
Thesp Tony Jaa is attached to reprise his role in " The Protector 2 ." Plot details are vague for the sequel but the first installment revolved around a young fighter on a journey through Australia to retrieve a stolen...
Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz is in negotiations to play the villainess in Oz: The Great and Powerful , Disney’s prequel-ish take on The Wizard of Oz tale that stars James Franco and Mila Kunis and is being directed...
Bokeem Woodbine is in talks to join Sony's " Total Recall " starring Colin Farrell. The film is a reboot of the 1990 Arnold Schwarznegger starrer follows Douglas Quaid, a man who believes he is a secret agent on a...
Actors Clive Owen and Anil Kapoor will star in Cities , a financial thriller that will be directed by Roger Donaldson. Cities is described as a cautionary tale about greed and ambition that takes place on a global scale...
Box office darling Saoirse Ronan has closed a deal to star in The Host , the film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s novel of the same name. Inferno Entertainment will begin shopping the project to foreign buyers at the...
Paramount Pictures has pre-bought U.K. rights to James Marsh’s Shadow Dancer , starring Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Aidan Gillen and Gillian Anderson. It details the story of a young mother who is heavily involved in...
Anna Faris is in talks to join Sacha Baron Cohen in Paramount's " The Dictator ." Story follows a heroic dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy never comes to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
James Bond could well be returning to India for a second time (after 1983's Octopussy) to shoot sequences for the 23rd installment of the franchise, according to local media reports Tuesday. The Mid-Day newspaper quoted...
Once the poster girl for the mu mblecore movement, Greta Gerwig has graduated to studio leading lady, as the "Arthur" actress is now set to topline Daryl Wein's romantic comedy " Lola Versus ," with Orlando Bloom in...
Barry Levinson is ready to return to crime, as the "Bugsy" helmer is in negotiations to direct Fiore Films' mob drama " Gotti: Three Generations ." Nick Cassavetes was previously onboard to direct before scheduling...
Lionsgate has dated Jason Statham starrer " Safe " for a Oct. 28 release. Set to go up against wide releases 20th Century Fox's "Now" and FilmDistrict's "The Rum Diary," " Safe " tells the story of a former elite agent...
Catherine Zeta-Jones is in final negotiations to join the cast of director Adam Shankman’s musical Rock of Ages . Julianne Hough to Star Opposite Tom Cruise in ' Rock of Ages ' Zeta-Jones, who won a best supporting...
Susan Sarandon and "Scream 4" stars David Arquette and Adam Brody are in negotiations to star in Rosanna Arquette's feature directorial debut " Hemlock Drive ." Jennifer Carta and Mandy Steckelberg wrote the script,...
Justin Long has signed on for Lumpy , writer Ted Koland’s directorial debut. Long plays Scott, a man who is about to wed. His wedding day ends on a tragic note when the life of the party - Lumpy ( Labine) - dies. Forced...
Julia Stiles, Taye Diggs, Melissa George and David Harbour will star in Between Us , an adaptation of the off-Broadway play being directed by Sundance Film Festival co-founder Dan Mirvish. Joe Hortua wrote the play and...
Rising star Jake Johnson is ready to re-team with Jonah Hill, as the up-and-coming thesp has been cast as a principal in Columbia Pictures' action comedy " 21 Jump Street ." Hill and Channing Tatum star in "21 Jump St."...
Sally Field will star as Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of the 16th president of the United States, in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln. Daniel Day-Lewis has already been cast to play the president. The film, which centers on the...
Olga Kurylenko and Liana Liberato are set to join Aaron Eckhart in the action thriller " The Expatriate ." Kurylenko will play a CIA agent assigned to track down her former CIA partner and lover (Eckhart), while Liberato...
After kickstarting the worldwide hit franchise "The Chronicles of Narnia," writer-director Andrew Adamson is returning to New Zealand with his independently produced and financed feature adaptation of Kiwi author Lloyd...
Daniel Burman, director of 2004 Berlin winner "Lost Embrace," is prepping romantic comedy " All In ." Set in the world of professional poker players, the pic is about a man trying to recover an old love after a failed...
Relativity Media is sticking with its "Limitless" star Bradley Cooper, who is in early negotiations to topline the studio's re-invention of " The Crow ." Brandon Lee starred in Alex Proyas' original 1994 cult classic,...
James McAvoy has signed to star in Welcome to the Punch , a London-set action thriller that will be directed by Eran Creevy, who made his directorial debut with 2008’s Shifty. He’ll play Max, a detective, who is pursuing...
Nico Tortorella, who is one of the key players in the class of 2011 actors in Scream 4, is in negotiations to nab the villain role in Odd Thomas , Stephen Sommers' adaptation of the Dean Koontz book series. The story...
Michael Clarke Duncan is finally in negotiations to voice the character of Kilowog in Warner Bros.’s Green Lantern movie. The movie, based on the DC Comics character and starring Ryan Reynolds, is deep in...
American Idiot , the Broadway musical based on Green Day’s acclaimed album of the same name, is finding a home at Universal. The studio is in negotiations to pick up the screen rights and has set Michael Mayer, the...