Sam Nazarian is set to make the comedy College , says the Hollywood Reporter. The screenplay centers on three high school seniors who have the wildest weekend of their lives when they visit a nearby college as...
Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman and Adrien Brody are set to star in Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited , says the Hollywood Reporter. The three will play brothers on a spiritual journey through India after the death of...
Lauren German, Heather Matarazzo and Bijou Phillips are all in talks to star in Screen Gems Hostel 2, says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Eli Roth, follows three women who, while studying abroad for the...
Sony Pictures Animation is set to adapt the classic children's book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature would see a fanciful world where it rains juice and snows mashed potatoes...
David H. Steinberg has been hired by New Line Cinemas to rewrite the feature comedy Sprung , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story revolves around identical twin brothers -- one a straight-laced family man whose wife...
Elizabeth Banks and Rachel Weisz are in talks for the romantic comedy Definitely, Maybe , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Written and directed by Adam Brooks, "Maybe" centers on a soon-to-be-divorced political...
Bradley Cooper has joined the cast of Case 39 alongside Renee Zellweger, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Story centers on a social worker, to be played by Zellweger, who saves an abused girl from her parents but...
Morgan Creek has hired Jeff Sank and brothers Jason and Justin Heimberg to write a third installment of the hit franchise Ace Ventura , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The two previous "Ventura" comedies -- 1994's...
Fox is to make the autobiography of a star on the competitive bass fishing circuit, called Fishing on the Edge: The Mike Iaconelli Story , according to Variety. Book, penned by Iaconelli with Andrew Kamenetzky and Brian...
Mary McCormack is set to join John Cusack in Dimension Films' horror thriller 1408 , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is based on a short story by Stephen King, and tells the tale of Mike Enslin (Cusack), a...
Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave and Isabella Rossellini have all joined the voice cast of the indie animated feature My Dog Tulip , says Variety. The feature is based on the 1956 Brit novel by J.R. Ackerley. follows a...
Paul Dinello is set to direct the comedy Mr. Burnout , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows a small-town English teacher who spirals into bitterness and depression after a decade on the job. On a bet from an...
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Julie Delpy is set to write, direct and star in 2 Days in Paris , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, which also stars Adam Goldberg, is a European romantic comedy set over a 48-hour...
Scribe Todd Kessler has been hired by Paramount Pictures to adapt the Shannon Burke novel Black Flies , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Darren Aronofsky, follows a young man who becomes an emergency...
Hayden Christensen is starring in the big-budget thriller Jumper , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Doug Liman is directing with Tom Sturridge was to have played the lead role of David, which now will be played by...
Christopher Nolan is nearing a deal to direct a feature version of TV series classic The Prisoner , according to Variety. Series lasted only 17 episodes in 1967. Patrick McGoohan played a government agent who resigns, is...
Lasse Hallstrom is to direct its adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol , according to Variety. Story will be told through the eyes of a 40-year-old Scrooge. Lasse Hallstrom has previously directed Chocolat .
Mark Dindal ( Chicken Little ) will make his live-action directorial debut on Sherlock's Secretary , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story is based on the little-known fact that real letters are being sent to...
Mandate Pictures is to make Thomas Thonson's dark super-natural thriller 27 Times , according to Variety. Story follows a paranoid, overprotective young man caring for his shut-in teenage brother, who is tortured by...
After recent reports that U.K. helmer Roger Michell was in talks to direct the sequel to Casino Royale , currently called Bond 22 , the negotiations have fallen through due to "creative differences," according to Variety...
Director Brett Ratner is set to helm New Line Cinema's contemporized remake of 1978 thriller The Boys From Brazil , says Variety. The original, which was based on Ira Levin's novel, was a typical 1970s paranoid...
Columbia Pictures is set to make the comedy Walk Hard , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Jake Kasdan, is a story about fictional music legend Dewey Cox, whose life becomes as messy as the protagonists in 'Ray' and...
Neill Blomkamp has come aboard to direct Universal Pictures and 20th Century Fox's big-screen adaptation of the video game series Halo, says the Hollywood Reporter. The games follow a character named Master Chief and his...
Columbia Pictures is set to make comic-scribe Demetri Martin and James Bobin's comedy Moon People , says Variety. The story follows a group of people who return to assimilate on Earth years after they were sent to...
Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson are reuniting for the adventure comedy Fool's Gold , according to the Hollywoood Reporter. Andy Tennant will direct, the story revolves around a husband and wife who have spent eight...
Melissa George has been cast as the female lead opposite Josh Hartnett in the horror adaptation 30 Days of Night , according to the Hollywood Reporter. David Slade ("Hard Candy") is directing with shooting beginning this...
Jeremy Piven has been cast in The Kingdom , joining Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman in the Peter Berg-directed drama, according to Variety. Piven will play a conniving American diplomat in...
James Gray has been set to rewrite and direct the drama Alphabet City , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Drama is based on a novel by Steven Knight. Knight, the creator of the gameshow "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"...
Neal McDonough Neal McDonough has joined the cast of the horror The Hitcher , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The remake of the 1986 horror film directed by Dave Meyers. He will play a career lawman who tries to aid...
Natasha Bedingfield has been asked personally by film legend Sylvester Stallone to record the theme music for Rocky VI, says Ananova. Stallone, who is said to be a big fan of Bedingfield's debut album Unwritten , asked...
Jennifer Lopez has dropped out of the cast for the remake of famous TV show Dallas , says Ananova. J. Lo was set to appear on screen as Sue Ellen Ewing but has now decided to quit the role. Lopez's representative, Leslie...
Evan Rachel Wood is set to star opposite Uma Thurman in 2929 Prods's thriller In Bloom , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Vadim Perelman, will see Wood play a younger version of Thurman's character. It...
Director Adrian Lyne is set to helm the adaptation of Chuck Hogan's Prince of Thieves , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story is the tale of four men -- thieves, rivals and friends -- being hunted through the streets of...
Paul Giamatti is in talks to star as sci-fi author Philip K. Dick in an untitled biopic, says Variety. The author Dick, who died in 1982, wrote more than four dozen books, with many being adapted for the big screen....
Winona Ryder and Famke Janssen have joined the cast of The Ten , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Gretchen Mol, Liev Schreiber, Rob Corddry, Ron Silver and Oliver Platt have also joined the satire that spoofs the...
Liv Tyler has signed to star in Strangers for writer-director Bryan Bertino, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Strangers is a suspense thriller revolving around a couple in a remote suburban house who are targeted by...
George A. Romero has signed to write and direct the thriller Solitary Isle , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film, based on a short story by Koji Suzuki ( The Ring , Dark Water ), the story chronicles an...
Christian Bale is to star opposite Russell Crowe in James Mangold's 3:10 to Yuma , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The move is certain to give Mangold a sigh of relief as the Western remake is taking a tortuous...
Agnieszka Vosloo has signed on to write and direct the supernatural thriller After.Life , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story chronicles a young woman in a transitional state between life and death who fights...
Macaulay Culkin has signed up to star in the dark comedy Sex and Breakfast , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, written and directed by Miles Brandman, follows a couple with problems in the bedroom who seek solace...
20th Century Fox has renamed the fourth installment of the Die Hard series, Live Free or Die Hard, says the Hollywood Reporter. Bruce Willis will reprise his role as John McClane. The story centers on an attack on the...
Chris Noth is set to join actor-director Carl T. Evans in Frame of Mind , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature centers on a police detective who uncovers a widespread government conspiracy. Noth will play a college...
Universal Pictures are set to adapt the comic book The Leading Man , says the Hollywood Reporter. The comic follows the adventures of the world's biggest movie star, Nick Walter. Walter uses his celebrity, access,...
Monic Hendrickx and William McInnes have signed up to star in the Australian remake of the Dutch movie Unfinished Sky , says Variety. The story follows an Outback farmer who takes in an Afghan immigrant after she flees a...
Helena Bonham Carter is to star as the evil Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange in the next Harry Potter film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , according to the Daily Mail. The Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...
Hugh Jackman is to star in the remake of the musical Carousel , according to Variety. The original film, starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, was released in 1956 by Fox. Jackman would play Billy Bigelow, a carnival...
Bond girl Eva Green will star as the queen of witches in The Golden Compass , according to Variety. New Line's first installment of a potential trilogy based on Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials." Green will play...
Paul Dano will star opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in Paul Thomas Anderson's drama There Will Be Blood , according to the Hollywood Reporter. In the turn-of-the-century period piece, which Anderson is shrouding in secrecy,...
Gold Circle Films is to remake the Russian horror pic Dead Daughters , according to Variety. Writer Jared Rivet is to adapt. Directed by Pavel Ruminov, original film centered on three girls who are murdered by their...
Heath Ledger has signed on to play the sardonic and murderous villain the Joker, immortalized by Jack Nicholson in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman, in the upcoming sequel to Batman Begins - The Dark Knight , says the Hollywood...