Columbia Pictures have confirmed that Bond 22 , currently the untitled sequel to the upcoming Casino Royale , will open Nov. 7, 2008, rather than the original date of May 2, 2008, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The...
Angela Bettis is set to star in the psychological horror Scar , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Jed Weintrob, follows a young woman who returns to her small hometown for her niece's high-school graduation. In town...
Supermodel Gemma Ward is set to make her feature debut opposite Liv Tyler in Rogue Pictures' suspense thriller The Strangers , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Bryan Bertino, revolves around a couple...
Emily Mortimer is to star opposite Ryan Gosling in Sidney Kimmel Entertainment's offbeat indie Lars and the Real Girl , says Variety. The story is about a lonely, delusional young man who buys a life-size sex doll on the...
Peter Jackson is to remake British war film The Dam Busters , according to the BBC. He said it would be "as authentic as possible and as close to the spirit of the original as possible". The 1954 film told the true story...
Harold Perrineau ("Lost") is star in the drama sequel 28 Weeks Later , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The follow-up to the hit sci-fi indie "28 Days Later." In the sequel, directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo...
Eva Birthistle, Nathalie Press, Emily Holmes and Jodhi May have joined the cast of Peter Greenaway's Rembrandt biopic Nightwatching , according to Variety. Movie which sets out to shed new light on the painter's life...
Intrepid Pictures is to develop Mercy written by Carolyn Townsend and Eddie Hartman, according to Variety. Story follows a college student who sets out to debunk the urban legend of the Mercy Killer -- a killer who makes...
Kevin Feige, the new president of production for Marvel Studios, says that the next Spider-Man movie, Spider-Man 3 , will not be the last in the Spider-Man franchise. "There will be many more Spider-Man films to come,"...
Sarah Michelle Gellar has signed to star in the Hitchcockian thriller Addicted , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Swedish filmmakers Joel Bergvall and Simon Sandquist, follows a woman whose husband and...
Anna Faris is set to star in a Paramount Pictures untitled comedy project, says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is being described as a fish-out-of-water comedy about a naive centerfold model who loses her job and...
Vincent Cassel has signed on to star in David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises , says the Hollywood Reporter. The London-based thriller follows a nurse (Naomi Watts) investigating the identity of a young Russian prostitute...
Alison Lohman has signed to star opposite Benicio Del Toro and Halle Berry in DreamWorks' drama Things We Lost in the Fire , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Susanne Bier, follows a woman (Berry) whose...
Ashton KutcherAshton Kutcher is to star in The Engineer for Twentieth Century Fox, according to Variety. Mike Finch will write the movie which covers 24 frantic hours in the life of an American engineer in Tokyo after...
West Wing star Allison Janney has joined the cast of the musical Hairspray , according to Variety. Janney, who won four Emmys for her role as White House chief of staff C.J. Gregg, will start rehearsals on the Adam...
Max Thieriot will play a younger version of Hayden Christensen in the sci-fi action Jumper , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Thieriot's character is a young man from an abusive home who develops the ability to...
Dermot Mulroney has joined the cast of Davis Guggenheim's Gracie , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story inspired by events in the life of actors Elisabeth and Andrew Shue centers on a young girl's battle to...
Firm Films is to make the movie The Other Side of the Story , according to Variety. Based on the Marian Keyes novel that topped the bestseller lists in London in 2004. Tale looks at three women and their intersecting...
Scott Stuber and Mary Parent are to produce the horror Agony , according to the Hollywood Reporter. While plot details are being kept under wraps, the story is set in the world of urban legends on college campuses, with...
Jason Behr has signed to star in thriller The Tattooist , says Variety. The feature will see Behr as a tattoo artist who becomes fascinated by the Samoan tatau tradition, but his desire to learn the ancient skill brings...
Gerard Butler has been cast opposite Hilary Swank in the Alcon Entertainment drama PS I Love You , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Richard LaGravenese, is based on the best-selling Cecelia Ahern...
New Line Cinema is set to adapt a book by ex-L.A. homicide detective Steve Hodel Black Dahlia Avenger , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story details Hodel's investigation into Hollywood's most infamous unsolved crime...
Celluloid Dreams has bought the rights to director Guy Maddin's black-and-white, comedy-horror movie Brand Upon the Brain! , says Variety. The silent, semi-autobiographical drama follows a 12-year-old boy and his teenage...
Blue Star Pictures and Mandalay Pictures are set to make T.S. Faull's Living Dead Girl , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Eric Tessier, follows a dead woman who rises from the grave as a zombie to...
Paul Bettany is set to star opposite Brendan Fraser in New Line Cinema's family fantasy Inkheart , The feature, helmed by Iain Softley, follows a girl whose father has the power to bring characters from books to life by...
Jeremy Renner has been cast in a lead role for the zombie thriller 28 Weeks Later , sequel to 28 Days Later , says Variety. The story picks up six months after the end of the first pic, in which a virus spreads, leaving...
Tim Roth is to star alongside Naomi Watts in the director Michael Haneke's drama Funny Games , says Variety. The feature will see Roth play a father and husband who tries to protect his family after two psychos invade...
George A. Romero is set to write and direct George Romero's Diary of the Dead , says the Hollywood Reporter. The storyline revolves around a group of film students who encounter real zombies when making a horror pic in...
The Weinstein Co. and IFC Films are teaming up to bring Rachid Bouchareb's French World War II drama Indigenes to America, says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature follows four men who enlist in the French army along...
Brendan Fraser is set to star in New Line Cinema's Inkheart , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is an adaptation of Cornelia Funke's best-selling children's novel. It follows a girl whose father, a bookbinder, has...
Steve Buscemi and Dan Aykroyd have joined the cast of Universal's comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry , says the Hollywood Reporter. The join a cast that includes Adam Sandler, Kevin James and Jessica Biel. The...
20th Century Fox Animation is to adapt William Joyce's illustrated children's book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, which will see Oscar winner Chris Wedge direct, is...
Rogue Pictures has picked up the comic book Lost Squad , says the Hollywood Reporter. The miniseries revolves around the supernatural action adventures of a squad of American soldiers who take on weird missions during...
Sony Pictures Classics has bought the North American rights to Ray Lawrence's drama Jindabyne , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature follows a group of friends (Byrne, John Howard, Stelios Yiakmis and Simon Stone) on...
Peter Sarsgaard, Sienna Miller, Nick Nolte, Jon Foster and Mena Suvari are set to star in the comedy The Mysteries of Pittsburgh , says Variety. The feature, an adaptation of Michael Chabon's debut novel, is about a...
Director Richard Laxton is set to helm the quirky comedy The Allotment , says Variety. The feature follows a green-thumbed refugee family who face hostility from English locals when they're granted a plot of land to grow...
Chiwetel Ejiofor and the rappers Common, TI and RZA are set to join Universal Pictures drama American Gangster , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Ridley Scott, revolves around the empire of Harlem drug kingpin Frank...
Paramount Pictures is set to make the untitled action drama to be written by Dave Callaham and directed by Max Makowski, says Variety. The noir-style project begins with the murder of a mob boss. His current and former...
The Weinstein Co. has preemptively bought the rights to the documentary Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck, follows the female country music trio over...
Marlon Wayans is set to develop, produce and star in DreamWorks Studios Pretty Ugly , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature tells the story about a handsome lifestyle mogul who wakes up hideously ugly because of a...
Bruce Beresford is set to write and direct the new Australian feature based on the Battle of Long Tan , says the Hollywood Reporter. The conflict was one of the seminal battles of the Vietnam War for Australian and New...
Paramount Pictures have bought the rights to the Latin American romantic comedy Pretendiendo , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature centers around a beauty (Barbara Mori), who makes herself unattractive to shield...
Daniel Craig is set to join Nicole Kidman in New Line Cinema's The Golden Compass , says Variety. The feature, written and directed by Chris Weitz, is the the first installment of an intended trilogy based on the Philip...
Mia Farrow, Danny Glover, Mos Def and Melonie Diaz have joined Jack Black in the comedy Be Kind Rewind , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Michel Gondry, will see Black play a goofball who becomes magnetized trying to...
James McAvoy is set to star in the lead role for Universal Pictures' sci-fi actioner Wanted , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, which marks the English-language debut of Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov,...
Producer Susan Stewart Potter and writer-director Simon Monjack are set to make The White Hotel , says the Hollywood Reporter. The project is based on D.M. Thomas's novel, published in 1981, revolves around an opera...
Matthew Aldrich has been hired by Alcon Entertainment to adapt the Elaine Marie Alphin novel Counterfeit Son , says the Hollywood Reporter. The thriller follows a young man who tries to con a family out of their deceased...
The crew of James Bond film Casino Royale are said to be refusing to board a stunt jumbo jet for the movie, claiming its haunted. The workers say the fear the spirit of a passenger who died from a heart attack on board....
Wilmer Valderrama is set to produce and possibily star in Universal Pictures PartyBuddys , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is based on the life stories of James King and Jason Roefaro. King and Roefaro are...
Josh Brolin is set to join Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington in Ridley Scott's 1970s crime drama American Gangster , says the Hollywood Reporter. The movie is based on the life of drug-kingpin-turned-informant Frank...