Lucy Liu and Cillian Murphy are to star in the romantic comedy Watching the Detectives , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Paul Soter of Broken Lizard fame wrote the script and is making his directorial debut on the...
Paul Haggis wants Vince Vaughn to star in his political drama Against All Enemies , according to the Hollywood Reporter. It will be the film version of Richard Clarke's inside-Washington memoir. Sean Penn, who recently...
Intermedia are to make Adam Alleca's sci-fi action-thriller spec The Drowning Man , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on Hideshi Hino's manga "Living Corpse," the story centers on a man who wakes up without a...
Magnolia Pictures is to bring Billy Corben's Cocaine Cowboys , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The movie which chronicles the Miami-based drug trade explosion of the 1980s and its impact on society. The documentary...
Universal Pictures is to make Dracula Year Zero , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, the script chronicles the epic origin of Dracula, weaving vampire mythology with the true...
Samuel L. Jackson is set to star in Regency Enterprises' sci-fi thriller Jumper , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Doug Liman, follows a kid from a broken home who discovers that he has the ability to...
Angelina Jolie has signed on to voice a role in DreamWorks Animation's Kung Fu Panda , says Variety. Jolie joins Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu and Ian McShane in the CGI pic. Jolie will voice Tigress,...
Malin Akerman has come aboard to play the bride from hell in DreamWorks comedy Seven Day Itch , says Variety. Akerman is joining a cast that includes Ben Stiller and Michelle Monaghan. Stiller plays a man who hastily...
John Leguizamo, Tyrese Gibson, Rosie Perez, Bobby Cannavale, RZA and Meagan Good will star in the Los Angeles-set indie The Take , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Brad Furman, follows an armored-truck...
Terry Zwigoff is set to direct Happy Days for Johnny Depp's production company Infinitum Nihil, says the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows a thirtysomething man who decides to leave his wife and children and check...
Cary Elwes has joined the all-star cast of the dark comedy Georgia Rule , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Garry Marshall is to direct the movie which centers on a rebellious young woman (Lindsay Lohan) who is sent...
Oscar-winning Crash writer Bobby Moresco is to make his feature directing debut in 10th & Wolf , says the Hollywood Reporter. The mob drama is inspired by the true story of a Marine (James Marsden) who returns home to...
20th Century Fox is to make an untitled comedy based on a crash course in cool, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project is based on a real-life seminar class where adults, mostly executives who have lost touch...
Italian author Robert Girardi's Venetian mystery novel Vaporetto 13 is to be adapated for the big screen, according to Variety. The movie is set to begin shooting in Venice in late October, will be directed by Gregor von...
Sanaa Hamri will direct Iraqi war drama Dreams of a Dying Heart , according to Variety. Movie centers on a journey through the mind of a female chopper pilot who's shot down in Iraq and finds herself in a race against...
Gwyneth Paltrow is in talks to join Ben Stiller in DreamWorks Pictures romantic comedy Seven Day Itch . The Farrelly brothers say they want her to star in the movie, loosely inspired remake of 1972 film The Heartbreak...
David Duchovny has signed on to star opposite Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro in DreamWorks' drama Things We Lost in the Fire , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Susanne Bier, follows a woman (Berry)...
Warner Bros. Pictures have hired Tom Pabst to adapt Joe Hill's upcoming novel Heart-Shaped Box , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story is a supernatural thriller about a rock star who collects occult artifacts and bids...
Zeitgeist Films has bought the rights to the relationship drama The Climate , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, which stars and is helmed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, follows Ceylan as a college teacher and his...
Bristol Bay Prods. has tapped Suzanne Francis and Gabe Grifoni to write the untitled tech school project , says the Hollywood Reporter. The comedy revolves around a group of underdog nerds at a top engineering school who...
Michelle Monaghan is set to star opposite Ben Stiller in the comedy Seven Day Itch , according to Variety. The comedy is inspired by The Heartbreak Kid . Peter and Bobby Farrelly are directing. Monaghan will play a young...
America Ferrera (TV's "Betty the Ugly") has signed on to star in and produce Hacia la oscuridad (Toward Darkness), according to Variety. Antonio Negret is to write and direct the Bilingual thriller concerns the last 90...
Director of the 1998 movie version of The X-Files , Rob Bowman has told SCI FI Wire that he wants to direct the sequel but he hasn't been asked yet. "I would be honored to direct it," Bowman said. "The only thing is I...
Dimension Films is to make the tennis country club comedy Pony Bush , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Brandon Murphy is to write the movie, with Broken Lizard in negotiations to produce. The story follows deadbeat...
British actress Emily Blunt, star of the upcoming supernatural thriller film Wind Chill , says that braving the Canadian winter wasn't easy. "It's hard," told Sci-Fi Wire. "You talk about reaction acting, but it's much...
Jesse Eisenberg will star alongside Richard Gere and Terrence Howard in Weinstein Co.'s comic thriller Spring Break in Bosnia , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Richard Shepard, follows a young...
Focus Features have bought the domestic rights to Keira Knightley's romantic drama Atonement , says the Hollywood Reporter. Th feature, helmed by Joe Wright, tells the story of Briony (Saoirse Ronancq), a 13-year-old...
Xenon Pictures have bought the domestic rights to Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror , says the Hollywood Reporter. The film's ensemble cast includes Snoop Dogg, Ernie Hudson, Danny Trejo, Method Man, Jason Alexander and Billy...
Alan Parker is set to direct Charlize Theron in World for Picturehouse and New Line International's drama The Ice at the Bottom , says Variety. The story is set in Chesapeake Bay, where a grizzled Navy captain...
Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman are to star in The Bucket List , according to Variety. Rob Reiner will direct The Bucket List which refers to a wish list that two terminally ill men try to fulfill before each kicks the...
Leonardo DiCaprio is to make the biopic on Timothy Leary, according to Variety. The DiCaprio-produced take on the life of the writer-psychologist will follow him from his enrollment at West Point in the early 1940s...
20th Century Fox have said during the Cine Expo that the planned X-Men spinoff Wolverine is to start production early next year, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Hugh Jackman has already signed on to play the lead...
Sienna Miller and Peter Sarsgaard are in talks to star in The Mysteries of Pittsburgh , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on Michael Chabon's 1988 debut novel. Rawson Marshall Thurber ("Dodgeball") is on board...
Paramount Pictures is to make the comedy 'Frenemies', according to the Hollywood Reporter. Dyanne Stempel and Jennifer Robinson wrote the main storyline and Caitlin Scanlon ("Coach Carter") will produce. Described as in...
Sony Pictures have released the teaser trailer for Sam Raimi's upcoming Spider-Man 3 . The trailer reveals Topher Grace's new villain character, thought to be Eddie Brock from the Marvel Comics Venom storyline, and...
Alison Eastwood is set to make her directorial debut on Warner Independent Pictures drama Rails and Ties , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature follows two families and their physical, emotional and psychological...
Dimension Films have bought the rights to first-time feature directors Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson's multisketch sex comedy Parental Guidance Suggested , says the Hollywood Reporter. The ensemble cast includes...
Megan Mullally are to adapt Sally MacLeod's novel Passing Strange , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows an ugly ducking woman who is persuaded by her husband's family to have major cosmetic surgery. When the...
Craven/Maddalena Films are set to make the horror thriller Ambrose Fountain , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows the owners of a Napa Valley, Calif., vineyard who begin to experience strange phenomena and...
Author JK Rowling told the BBC that two characters will die in the seventh and final Harry Potter book, but she has been careful not to reveal which ones. She told the Richard and Judy show that she had long known how...
Antonio Banderas and Annette Bening are to star 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 a Thief....
The Rolling Stone Keith Richards says that he is to star in Pirates of the Caribbean 3 , according to The Mirror. He revealed he has signed up to appear in the film titled At World's End. He will portray the father of...
Orlando Bloom is to join Kate Bosworth in the Depression-era drama Seasons of Dust , says Production Weekly. The feature, helmed by Tim Blake Nelson, sees Janey (Bosworth) takes refuge with a farm family after...
Zac Efron is set to star in New Line Cinemas Hairspray , says Variety. Efron will play Link, the hunky heartthrob of 'The Corny Collins Show', in the screen adaptation of the Broadway musical. "I was a bit dismissive,...
Gerard Butler and Steven Strait are in talks to join Screen Gems' postapocalyptic vampire Western Priest , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Andrew Douglas, is based on a comic book by Min-Woo Hyung. It...
20th Century Fox are set to adapt the young adult fantasy book series Uglies , says Variety. The futuristic tale follows teen angst over conformity and acceptance. Kids are called 'Uglies' until they reach 16 and get...
Matthew McConaughey is to star in the romantic comedy Ghosts of Girlfriends Past , according to Variety. The plan coming together is for McConaughey to play a bachelor who goes to his younger brother's wedding and gets...
Shane Morris is to write the mobster action comedy Committed for Life for Warner Bros., according to Variety. True story revolves around two undercover FBI agents who pretend to fall and whose wedding turns into a law...
Griffin Dunne is attached to direct the romantic comedy Only Ever You , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The romantic comedy centers on a young widower who can't get over the death of his wife. It isn't until his...
Zach Snyder is to direct the DC Comics adaptation of Watchmen , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The DC Comics limited series created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, for Warner Bros. Pictures. "Watchmen" has a...