Chris Weitz is back on board to direct the adaptation of the first installment of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Anand Tucker, who had replaced Weitz, recently exited...
Hellboy star Ron Perlman says that work on the proposed sequel, Hellboy 2 could have started on May 1st, as it was a "great day in the genesis of turning of Hellboy 2 into a reality," he told Sci-Fi Wire. "What that...
Jennifer Garner is in talks to star opposite Jamie Foxx in the thriller The Kingdom , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Peter Berg, revolves around an FBI team on assignment in a Middle Eastern country...
Bahar Soomekh and Angus MacFadyen have signed to co-star in Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures Saw 3 , says the Hollywood Reporter. Original cast members Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith and Dina Meyer will be reprising their roles...
Rhona Mitra has joined the cast of Paramount Pictures political thriller Shooters , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Antoine Fuqua, follows an ace marksman (Mark Wahlberg) who is double-crossed and...
James Wan has signed on to direct 20th Century Fox' Death Sentence , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a father out for revenge after his family is attacked in a senseless and heinous gang-initiation...
The cult favorite Silver Surfer is to join Marvel Comics adaptation Fantastic Four 2 , according to Variety. The Surfer is on course to become a linchpin in the sequel Fox is readying for a July 4, 2007 bow. Character,...
Catherine Zeta-Jones is in talks to star opposite Guy Pearce in the Harry Houdini indie biopic Death Defying Acts , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Described as a lavish period film, "Acts" centers on Houdini during...
Benicio Del Toro, Michael Berry Jr., Paul Dano, Tom Noonan, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker and Michelle Williams are to voice characters in writer-director Spike Jonze's adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic...
Barry Sonnenfeld is in final talks to direct Andrew Henry's Meadow , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The coming-of-age story is based on Doris Burn's classic children's book, first published in 1965. The film's...
Parker Posey, Drea DeMatteo, Gena Rowlands, Jeanne Moreau, Justin Theroux and Josh Hamilton are set to star in writer-director Zoe Cassavetes feature debut Broken English , according to the Hollywood Reporter. It's the...
Megan Fox has signed on to star opposite Shia LaBeouf in DreamWorks' Transformers , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is a live-action adaptation of the 1980s Hasbro toy line of giant robots that morph into cars,...
Tichina Arnold and Jill Hennessy have joined the cast of Touchstone Pictures comedy Wild Hogs , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature will see John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy as a group...
Gregory Smith, Kenan Thompson, Zachary Levi and Fran Kranz have all signed up for Screen Gems road-trip comedy Weiners , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature revolves around best friends who travel across the country...
Fox Atomic have bought Will Strouse's screenplay Incurable , says the Hollywood Reporter. The plot details are being kept under wraps, but the story is described as a dramatic thriller that revolves around a support...
Jack Black is set to star in Michel Gondry's eccentric comedy Be Kind Rewind , according to the Hollywood Reporter. He is playing a junkyard worker whose brain is magnetized, destroying every tape in his friend's video...
Sean Astin and Powers Boothe have signed on to top-line the sports-themed The Final Season , according to the Hollywood Reporter. "Season" is based on the true story of the Norway, Iowa, high school baseball team that...
Catherine Keener and Vince Vaughn are starring in the Sean Penn-directed Into the Wild , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Emile Hirsch already has signed on to star in the film, which chronicles the true story of...
Tom Arnold has joined the cast of the period drama PDR , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Terrence Howard and Bernie Mac are toplining the film, which chronicles the true-life story of Jim Ellis (Howard), who in the...
British actor Martin Freeman is to play Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn in Nightwatching , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Film directed by Peter Greenaway, Nightwatching will focus on the creation of "The...
Director Brett Ratner says that his upcoming sequel X-Men 3 : The Last Stand will have loads of action. "The megamovie moment is in the trailer, and that's ripping the [Golden Gate] Bridge out of the ground and moving...
Jon Favreau is to develop and direct Marvel Studios big-screen adaptation of Iron Man , says the Hollywood Reporter. The movie will show that Iron Man's real identity is that of billionaire industrialist Tony Stark, who...
Amber Heard is set to star in the teen comedy-drama The Beautiful Ordinary , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, written and helmed by Jessica Manafort, follows the relationship dynamics of a group of suburban...
Jennifer Ehle is to join Edward Norton and Colin Farrell in New Line Cinema's crime drama Pride and Glory , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story revolves around a three-generation family of New York cops. The family is...
Kathryn Price and Nichole Millard have been hired by Walt Disney to adapt Ally Carter's novel I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a 15-year-old girl who attends...
Mike Myers is to star in the comedy How to Survive a Robot Uprising , according to Variety. Comedy is based on a manual written by Daniel H. Wilson, a doctoral candidate at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon U....
Josh Brolin is to join Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men , according to Variety. Joel and Ethan Coen are to direct an adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel. The Coens adapted the novel, which...
William Hurt is in negotiations to play the U.S. president in the thriller Vantage Point , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox are already signed up, which chronicles an attempted...
Robert Benton has signed on to direct Feast of Love , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on a Charles Baxter novel, the film will reunite Benton with Lakeshore. The three-time Oscar-winning writer-director...
Columbia Pictures has acquired Jonathan Davis' baseball comedy pitch "Unsportsmanlike Conduct," according to the Hollywood Reporter. Described as in the same vein as "The Bad News Bears" but with adults, the story...
Will Smith is set to star in Warner Bros. adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel I Am Legend , says Variety. The feature is set in post-apocalyptic New York, and is about the last healthy man following the release of a...
Ben Stiller is in talks to reteam with 'There's Something About Mary' directors the Farrelly Brothers for Seven Day Itch , says Variety. Stiller is in final negotiations to star as a man who hastily weds a woman he...
'My Name Is Earl' star Jason Lee is set to voice the title character of Walt Disney Pictures' live-action adaptation of the classic 1960s cartoon Underdog , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature follows the adventures...
Walt Disney Pictures have bought the rights to The Feynman Chronicles , says the Hollywood Reporter. The adventure is triggered after a mysterious object crashes into a remote mountain in 1940s Africa, and centers on...
Director Gela Babluani is to remake his Sundance grand jury prize-winning thriller 13 (Tzameti) in English, says the Hollywood Reporter. The psychological thriller follows a naive young man who stumbles across...
Al Pacino joins the cast of Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Thirteen , according to Variety. He joins the cast -- headed by George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle and Bernie Mac -- and their...
Viggo Mortensen is reuniting with director David Cronenberg for the thriller Eastern Promises , according to the Hollwood Reporter. Written by Steven Knight ( Dirty Pretty Things ), the story is kicked into gear after a...
David Morrissey is to star opposite Emily Watson in Jay Russell's fantasy The Water Horse , according to the Hollwood Reporter. Based on Dick King-Smith's children's book, the film centers on a Scottish boy (Etel) who...
Brad Anderson is to adapt and direct a remake of Hans Weingartner's political German film The Edukators , according to the Hollwood Reporter. The story centers on three youths whose concern over global capitalism leads...
Giovanna Mezzogiorno will star opposite Javier Bardem in Love in the Time of Cholera , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Mike Newell is directing the movie based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel...
Danny DeVito, Dylan Walsh and Justin Long are starring in the comedy One Part Sugar , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Hart Bochner is to write and direct with Walsh ("Nip/Tuck") playing Ray Tuckby, a man who clings...
James Denton and Chris Kattan have signed on to star in the comedy Wanted: Undead or Alive , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film marks the directorial debut of Glasgow Phillips, who also penned the screenplay....
Michael Pena has signed on to star opposite Mark Wahlberg in the political thriller Shooter , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Director Antoine Fuqua is prepping the film, which is scheduled to begin shooting June 19...
Dennie Gordon is adapting with an eye to direct the best-selling British thriller novel A Special Relationship , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The move brings Gordon, best known for directing comedies, back to the...
Mission: Impossible III director J.J. Abrams is coming aboard to produce and helm Star Trek 11 , says Variety. The feature, which will also be written by Abrams, will center on the early days of seminal 'Trek' characters...
Eva Longoria is set to star in Touchstone Pictures' Deep in the Heart of Texas , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature follows a spoiled Beverly Hills diva (Longoria) who becomes a fish out of water when she is...
Brendan Fraser is set to star in New Line Cinema and Walden Media's Journey to the Center of the Earth , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Eric Brevig, will be a contemporary update in 3-D of the Jules...
Guillermo del Toro is set to make Jorge Olguin's horror film The Call of the Sea , says Variety. The feature, which stars Leonor Varela and Santiago, is based on a legend about a ghost ship that navigates the cold waters...
Columbia Pictures is set to make The Art of Cool , says the Hollywood Reporter. The high school comedy takes the classic book 'The Art of War', by Sun Tzu, and uses it as a template for how to approach surviving the...
Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman and Lindsay Lohan are in talks to star in Morgan Creek Prods. dark comedy Georgia Rule, says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Garry Marshall, follows a rebellious young woman...