Emily Blunt is in talks to play the female lead in Bristol Bay Prods.' The Great Buck Howard , says Variety. She would join Tom Hanks, John Malkovich and Colin Hanks in the movie. The feature, written and directed by...
Director Udayan Prasad has been hired by K5 Film to helm the feature adaptation of Doris Lessing's novel The Fifth Child , says Variety. The story follows four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives and...
Sony Pictures have given the greenlight for the monster comedy Hotel Transylvania , says Variety. The story is about a group of classic monsters including Frankenstein, the Mummy, Dracula and the Werewolf who are hiding...
Fortissimo Films are set to take on the Japanese movie Hula Girls , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Lee Sang-Il, is based on the true story of a Japanese town in 1965 that decided to revive its declining fortunes by...
Jessica Biel has signed on to star opposite Adam Sandler and Kevin James in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Dennis Dugan is directing the comedy, which revolves around two...
Nicole Kidman is in final talks to star in The Golden Compass , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Adaptation of the first installment of author Philip Pullman's best-selling "His Dark Materials" trilogy being directed...
Fire has ravaged the giant Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios, the production home of the Bond franchise, according to Variety. Filming for the latest Bond pic Casino Royale has concluded and workers had...
Rob Corddry has sold a pitch to Paramount Pictures titled The Donor , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Corddry, a regular on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," will topline the comedy. The story,...
John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky are to rewrite the comedy Leisureworld , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a burnt-out young man who seeks to escape the rat race of New York and moves into a...
Thomas Haden Church, who plays Flint Marko/Sandman in Spider-Man 3 , says that he got into great physical shape for his role. "It was physically daunting to show up last year with the physique of a fishwife and, weirdly,...
Shaun of the Dead star Simon Pegg is in talks to star in Gold Circle Films' romantic comedy Run, Fat Boy, Run , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, which will see David Schwimmer make his feature directorial debut,...
Amy Adams is in talks to star opposite Tom Hanks in Universal Pictures drama Charlie Wilson's War , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Mike Nichols, follows the CIA's largest and most successful covert...
Ed Burns and Shannyn Sossamon have signed up to star in Warner Bros. Pictures One Missed Call , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Eric Valette, follows a college student (Sossamon) whose friends begin receiving cell...
Universal Pictures is set to make the high-concept family comedy Mr. Machine , says Variety. The feature is described as a throwback to the high-concept Amblin family comedies of the 1980s, revolves around three brainy...
Hilary Swank is to star in the remake of the 2003 French thriller Labyrinth , according to Variety. The psychological thriller revolves around a mental patient with multiple personalities who holds clues to the...
Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell is to write and record the theme tune to the new James Bond film, Casino Royale , according to the BBC. The theme for the 21st Bond film, in which Daniel Craig will debut as 007, is...
Brad Pitt has commited to star in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , according to the Hollywood Reporter. "Button," which has been on Pitt's radar for at least a year, re-teams the thesp with his "Fight Club" director...
Jay Chandrasekhar will direct the comedy The Babymaker , according to Variety. Kevin Hefferman, one of Chandrasekhar's cohorts in comedy troupe Broken Lizard, will star. Story centers on a guy who fails in his attempts...
Walt Disney Feature Animation is getting back into the business of traditional animation with Frog Princess , a new twist on a classic fairy tale, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Disney Animation's new leaders Ed...
Chris Klein and Freddie Prinze Jr. will star and Jamie-Lynn Sigler is in final negotiations to co-star in New York City Serenade , says the Hollywood Reporter. The movie is loosely inspired by a bittersweet period in the...
'Scrubs' creator Bill Lawrence is writing and directing a prequel to the '80s franchise 'Fletch', called Fletch Won , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows the irreverent detective from his early days as a...
James Le Gros, Enrico Colantoni and Lacey Chabert are set to star in the indie movie Sherman's Way , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Craig Saavedra, is set in California's Napa Valley centers on an...
Regency Enterprises are set to make Joe Gazzam's heist movie Straight and Narrow , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows a parolee who is forced to pull off one last heist for his future father-in-law. Ralph...
Emily VanCamp has signed on to star opposite Chris Pine in the untitled Pastor brothers thriller, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film, written and directed by Alex and David Pastor, revolves around four friends...
Guy Ritchie has signed on to rewrite and direct the gangster odyssey Static , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a wrongly imprisoned gangster who, with the help of his loyal posse, must make his...
Filmmaker Billy Ray has signed on to write and direct Universal Pictures' Hurricane Season , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on an upcoming documentary by Franklin Martin titled "Walking on Dead Fish."...
Enid Zentelis has signed to direct the comedy Detroit Diva , according to Variety. The comedy is following an awkward, unwitting blues sensation. The movie centers on a thirtysomething white woman who learns she has a...
Elisha Cuthbert is in final talks to take the title role in Gold Circle Films My Sassy Girl , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Yann Samuell, would see Cuthbert play a reckless, brazen girl who turns the life of a...
Freddie Highmore and Sarah Bolger have been cast as the three Grace children in Paramount Pictures fantasy film The Spiderwick Chronicles , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Mark Waters, is based on the...
Tammy Blanchard is in talks to star opposite Brittany Murphy in the romantic comedy drama The Ramen Girl , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Robert Allan Ackerman, sees Murphy stars as an American...
Jane Alexander, Alexa Davalos, Toby Hemingway, Selma Blair, Stana Katic, Billy Burke, Fred Ward and Erika Marozsan have joined the cast of Lakeshore Entertainment's ensemble drama The Feast of Love , says the Hollywood...
Bryan Bertino is set to make his directional debut on Rogue Pictures Strangers , says Variety. The feature, based on Bertino's screenplay, follows three mysterious strangers who terrorize a young couple in a remote house...
Danny Glover has joined the cast of the period musical drama Honeydripper , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, written and to be helmed by John Sayles, is set in 1950s Alabama, and follows Tyrone (Glover), owner...
Ryan Reynolds and Isla Fisher have signed on to star in Universal Pictures and Working Title's romantic comedy Definitely, Maybe , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, written and directed by Adam Brooks, follows a...
Wes Bentley and Rachel Nichols have signed on to topline Summit Entertainment's stalker thriller P2 , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, which will see Franck Khalfoun make his directional debut, follows a...
Guillermo del Toro is in talks with Warner Bros. Pictures to bring cult DC Comics superhero Deadman to the big screen, says the Hollywood Reporter. Deadman is the ghost of a circus acrobat named Boston Brand, who was...
Brit director Michael Winterbottom is to direct A Mighty Heart , according to Variety. A Mighty Heart , based on Mariane Pearl's memoir about the kidnap-murder of her journalist husband Daniel Pearl, will star Angelina...
Rapper T.I. is to star in a comedy based on an Atlanta used car lot, according to Variety. "For Sale" is set at an Atlanta used-car lot considered the last place in town a car would go; T.I. would play one of the...
Michelle Pfeiffer is in final talks to join the cast of the adaptation of the hit Broadway musical comedy Hairspray , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Hairspray was based on the 1988 John Waters comedy about...
Frank Miller is to adapt and direct The Spirit , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Producer said Miller was the ideal choice for the project. "What makes Frank's involvement with 'The Spirit' particularly poignant was...
Although the next James Bond movie, Casino Royale , is yet to be released, producers are already working on the next chapter by holding talks with director Roger Michell for James Bond 22 . According to Hollywood...
Scarlett Johansson will join Natalie Portman and Eric Bana in The Other Boleyn Girl , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Justin Chadwick, follows two ferociously ambitious sisters, Mary and Anne Boleyn, who were rivals...
Ving Rhames, Mena Suvari and Nick Cannon have been cast in the remake of George Romero's cult horror classic Day of the Dead , says Variety. The story follows a group of military personnel and scientists who hole up in a...
British actress Christina Cole is set to join the cast of Stan Winston Prods.' gory horror The Deaths of Ian , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Dario Piana, will see Mike Vogel play an American who wakes up every day...
Tony Leung and newcomer Tang Wei are set to star in Ang Lee's espionage thriller Lust, Caution , says Variety. Set in WWII-era Shanghai, Leung will star as a powerful political figure in 1940s Shanghai, while Tang plays...
Raven-Symone is attached to star in the Walt Disney Pictures remake of Adventures in Babysitting , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The original "Babysitting," an '80s cult favorite, follows a high school senior who...
Vanessa Redgrave, Claire Danes and Toni Collette are in talks to star in Evening , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Focus Features' screen adaptation of Susan Minot's best-selling novel of the same name. Directed by...
Jeff Goldblum is to star in the lead role in the World War II Holocaust drama Adam Resurrected , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Paul Schrader is directing "Resurrected" which is based on the acclaimed 2000 book by...
Bradley Whitford has joined the cast of An American Crime , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The gritty true-crime drama is being directed by Tommy O'Haver. The film, written by O'Haver and Irene Turner, tells the...
Ziad Doueiri is attached to direct the adaptation of the French novel The Attack , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The novel is based on an Arab surgeon in Tel Aviv who learns a devastating secret about his wife's...