Brandon Routh, who plays Superman in director Bryan Singer's upcoming Superman Returns , says he trained very hard for his role. "Well, I did a lot of things," told Sci-Fi Wire. "I lifted weights, obviously. I did this...
Jason Isaacs, who will play Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , says that he is set to start filming his part later this year. "They started in February, but they go until the end of the year...
20th Century Fox is set to adapt the BBC TV series Hustle for the bigscreen, says the Hollywood Reporter. The series follows a group of elite con artists, who each week pull off a complicated scam with several twists....
Ridley Scott is set to direct Paramount Pictures feature based on the Gucci family, according to Variety. The story, which will be penned by scribe Andrea Berloff, will span many years and several locales tracking the...
Natalie Portman and Eric Bana are in final talks to star in The Other Boleyn Girl , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Justin Chadwick has signed on to direct the historical drama, which is based on a novel by Philippa...
Dan Fogler to join Dane Cook and Jessica Alba in the comedy Good Luck Chuck , according to Variety. Mark Helfrich is directing. Fogler, who won a Tony for his role in "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," will...
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson ruptured his Achilles tendon rehearsing for his role as a pro quarterback causing Disney to postpone the start of its gridiron comedy The Game Plan , according to Variety. Johnson will undergo...
Chilean director Jorge Olguin is directing the horror movie Clock Tower , based on the Japanese vidgame franchise, according to Variety. Movie concerns a young woman who receives a disturbing phone call from her...
Larry Brown's final novel The Rabbit Factory is to be adapted by Lionsgate, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Vondie Curtis-Hall, who directed the upcoming urban gangster film "Waist Deep" for Rogue Pictures, is...
Owen Wilson is set to star in the high-concept comedy Drillbit Taylor , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows two high school freshmen who are targeted by the school bully on the first day of the school year....
Josh Lucas is set to star as GQ and Esquire magazine founder David Smart in Smart , says Variety. The biopic follows the magazine powerhouse whose life was almost entirely consumed by his germ phobia. He and a circle of...
Radha Mitchell is set to join Morgan Freeman and Greg Kinnear in Lakeshore Entertainment's drama Feast of Love , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Oscar winner Robert Benton, is based on a Charles...
Walt Disney Pictures are set to make the family comedy Mother of Invention , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is loosely based on a real-life spy who also is a San Francisco single soccer mom with two kids and a...
Regency Enterprises is set to make Wardogs , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers around four retired Vietnam vets who get called back into action when their former leader goes missing in Turkey. The script is...
Ian McShane ("Deadwood") has been cast in comedy Hot Rod , according to Variety. Andy Samberg stars as an accident-prone daredevil who plans to jump Snake River on a moped in an effort to emulate his hero Evel Knievel...
Brenda Blethyn, Vanessa Redgrave and Romola Garai have joined the cast of Joe Wright's Atonement , according to Variety. Movie stars Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, with a script by Christopher Hampton adapted from Ian...
Missy Elliott is to become the latest rapper to make a film based on her life story, according to Ananova. She will follow in Eminem and 50 Cent's footsteps by releasing a movie for Universal. The as yet untitled project...
Brandon Routh, who plays Superman in the upcoming Superman Returns, says that he's happy with the way the movie was shot. "It's weird, because we basically shot the film in chronological order, for Superman, anyway,"...
Josh Hartnett is in finals talks to topline Columbia Pictures 30 Days of Night , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, based the comic by Steve Niles, is set in Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost town in the U.S.,...
Sigourney Weaver is in talks to join the cast of Columbia Pictures' Vantage Point , says the Hollywood Reporter. Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, William Hurt and Forest Whitaker already have signed on to the thriller. The...
Cyan Pictures have bought the domestic rights to director Billy Kent's indie sex comedy The Oh in Ohio , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature stars an ensemble cast that includes Parker Posey, Paul Rudd, Mischa...
DreamWorks are set to make the comedy Shotgun Wedding , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows a woman who kidnaps a boyfriend and forces him to marry her in Las Vegas. It is written by scribe Tiffany Zehnal, who...
Jessica Alba is set to join Dane Cook in the comedy Good Luck Chuck , according to Variety. Directed by Mark Helfrich, Cook will play a serial dater who gets a rep that any woman dating him will rebound into meeting her...
Camilla Belle, Edie Falco, Martin Donovan, Elisha Cuthbert and Shawn Ashmore are to star in Jamie Babbit's sexually charged dramedy The Quiet , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Belle plays an orphaned deaf and mute...
Steven Spielberg is attached to direct an untitled sci-fi film which delves into Caltech physicist Kip Thorne's theories of gravity fields, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Although the project is considered...
Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio were engaged in a competitive bidding war over an upcoming zombie horror book by Max Brooks titled World War Z , which Brad Pitt won, according to the Hollywood Reporter. In 2003, Brooks...
Boaz Yakin is to write and potentially direct Conan the Barbarian , a new take on the Robert E. Howard-created character, according to Variety. Yakin's concept is more faithful to the Howard story than were the two Dino...
Roselyn Sanchez is set to star opposite Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in Walt Disney Pictures family comedy The Game Plan , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature follows a professional quarterback accustomed to the...
Catalina Sandino Moreno is in talks to join Javier Bardem and Giovanna Mezzogiorno in New Line Cinema's Love in the Time of Cholera , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Mike Newell, follows a romantic...
John Turturro, Camryn Manheim, Jeffrey Tambor, S. Epatha Merkerson, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Lawford and Michael Clarke Duncan have all joined the ensemble cast of the Anthony Hopkins-helmed indie Slipstream , says...
20th Century Fox is set to adapt Markus Zusak's bestselling young-adult novel The Book Thief , says Variety. The story, narrated by Death, follows Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken at age 9 to live with a foster...
Eminem is attached to star in a contemporary feature adaptation of the CBS series Have Gun -- Will Travel , according to Variety. Debuting in September 1957, the TV Western starred Richard Boone as Paladin, a...
Tim Burton is on the fast track with Sweeney Todd , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The movie is adapted by John Logan ("The Aviator") from the Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical. Burton already is talking with...
Universal Pictures is to adapt Ken Kalfus' short story The Moment They Were Waiting For , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Matthew Ryan Hoge to write the adaptation and John Crowley to direct. In the story, a killer...
Scottish director Paul McGuigan to direct the historical drama Four Knights , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The historical drama, set in 12th century England, follows a quartet of foul-mouthed knights sent by King...
Channing Tatum is set to join Ryan Phillippe in Paramount Pictures Iraq war drama Stop Loss , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Kimberly Peirce, tells the story of a soldier (Phillippe) who finishes a...
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sigourney Weaver, Freddie Prinze Jr., George Carlin, Wallace Shawn and Andy Dick are all to star in Lionsgate Films computer-animated family comedy Happily N'Ever After , says says the Hollywood...
Peter Weir has dropped out from the directors chair for Johnny Depps Shantaram , says the Hollywood Reporter. Depp is still expected to star as an Australian heroin addict who escapes a maximum-security prison, reinvents...
Stephen Herek is to write and direct Gold Circle Films Einstein's Children , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, which is based on Mike Kersjes' memoirs, is the story of a special ed teacher in Michigan, thought...
Walt Disney Pictures is set to make the Latino family comedy Mi Casa, Su Casa , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story is by Angela Robinson and Alex Martinez Kondracke. Kondracke's will make her feature directorial...
Amber Tamblyn has joined the cast of the comedy Spring Breakdown , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Ryan Shiraki wrote and is directing for Warner Bros. Pictures. The story revolves around three thirtysomething...
Colin and Greg Strause are to direct the sequel Alien vs. Predator 2 , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project marks the feature film directing debut of the brothers, who run award-winning special effects house...
Uma Thurman is to star in the thriller In Bloom , according to Variety. The movie is an adaptation of Laura Kasischke novel "The Life Before Her Eyes" that Vadim Perelman will direct. Thriller revolves about a woman...
Ryan Phillippe is in talks to star in Stop-Loss , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Movie centers on a soldier (Phillippe) who returns home to Texas and is called to duty again in Iraq through the military's...
Q'Orianka Kilcher has signed on to star in The Power of Few , according to Variety. Leone Marucci will direct from his script. Complex urban tale centers on terrorism and cloning told from five perspectives. Kilcher...
Oscar winners William Hurt and Marcia Gay Harden have both signed up for Sean Penn's Into the Wild , says the Hollywood Reporter. Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn and Catherine Keener have already signed up for the movie. The...
DreamWorks have snatch up the rights for Sean Anders and John Morris' romantic romp She's Out of My League , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature follows an average guy who is attracted to a perfect 10 until he finds...
Screen Gems is set to make the biblical feature film tentatively titled The Resurrection , says the Hollywood Reporter. It will pick up where the biblical story of Jesus Christ's passion leaves off. The feature, which...
Rob Minkoff is set to direct the talking-critter film Bad Dogs , says Variety. The feature follows a pair of mismatched mutts who are sent to obedience school, escape and head off on an adventure. Minkoff's credits...
20th Century Fox is set to bring the TV series 24 to the bigscreen, says Variety. The movie is thought will continue on from the sixth season, although plot wise it is not expected to contain any TV elements. Plans also...