Laurence Fishburne is set to star in Sobini Films' psychological thriller Prey , says Variety. The feature, helmed by James Marsh, follows a man who sets out on a solo hunting expedition in the middle of winter and...
Focus Features have bought the rights to Woody Allen's Scoop , says Variety. The feature stars Allen, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson and Ian McShane. It tells the story of a student journalist visiting London who...
John Turturro is set to star in Noah Baumbach's untitled drama / comedy project, says the Hollywood Reporter Turturro will play the husband of Kidman's character. He will join Jack Black, Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason...
Legendary Pictures is set to adapt John Milton's Paradise Lost , says the Hollywood Reporter. Written in 1667, Milton's epic poem revolves around the fall of man and the classic battle of good vs. evil, telling along the...
Al Pacino is to direct and star in the feature film Salomaybe? in the vein of his 1996 docu "Looking for Richard," according to Variety. Movie will interweave behind-the-scenes footage from a current Los Angeles staging...
Thandie Newton, Cuba Gooding Jr., Eddie Griffin and Terry Crews have joined Eddie Murphy in Norbit , according to Variety. Laffer stars Murphy in the title role, a meek guy pressed into marrying a monstrous woman (also...
Ian McShane ("Deadwood") is to star in the drama We Are Marshall , according to Variety. He will be joining Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox and David Strathairn. "Marshall," directed by McG and in production in West...
Katherine Heigl is set to star in the parenthood comedy Knocked Up , according to Variety. Judd Apatow is set to write and helm. Heigl, who can be seen in ABC's "Grey's Anatomy," is taking over the lead femme role from...
Russell Crowe has signed to star in helmer John Polson's indie thriller Tenderness , says Variety. The feature follows a violent teenager, Eric, whose life intertwines with Lori, a 16-year-old runaway who can't resist...
Renee Zellweger has signed to topline Paramount Pictures horror thriller Case 39 , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows an idealistic social worker (Zellweger) who saves an abused 10-year-old girl from her...
William H. Macy is set to join Touchstone Pictures comedy Wild Hogs, says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Walt Becker, revolves around a group of frustrated middle-age suburban biker wannabes who hit the...
MTV Films and Paramount Pictures have hired scribes Sean O'Keefe and Will Staples to adapt the Marc Ecko video game Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a young graffiti...
'Nip/Tuck' writer Jennifer Salt is set to adapt Charles Siebert's novel Angus , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature will examine a year in the life of a young married couple seen through the eyes of their newly...
Alicia Keys has been cast in the bigscreen adaptation of bestseller The Nanny Diaries , according to Variety. Director duo Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini are directing for the Weinstein Co. with Scarlett...
Jeff Daniels will join Jon Heder and Diane Keaton in the comedy Mama's Boy , according to Variety. Directed by Tim Hamilton. Heder plays a slacker who must re-evaluate his life after his mom, with whom he lives, gets a...
Emily Watson, Ben Chaplin and Alex Etel are cast in The Water Horse , according to Variety. Jay Russell is directing movie which is based on the Dick King Smith novel. Shooting starts in early May in Scotland and New...
Peter Segal is to direct the adaptation of a DC Comics' comic book series featuring Captain Marvel in Shazam! , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The comic series focused on young Billy Batson, who becomes the...
Rogue Pictures is to take the Shaun of the Dead team to the big screen again with Hot Fuzz , according to Variety. The police comedy will feature "Dead" stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, director Edgar Wright and producer...
Kate Mara is to star alongside Mark Wahlberg in Paramount Pictures drama The Shooter, says Variety. The feature, helmed by Antoine Fuqua, will see Mara play the love interest of Wahlberg, a master sniper who is lured out...
Queen Latifah is set to star in the fact based movie Welfare Queen , says Variety. The feature is based on the life of Dorothy Woods, who scammed the welfare system out of a fortune. In addition to starring in the movie,...
David Krumholtz has signed on to star opposite Michelle Williams in Woody Allen's untitled Paris-set movie, says the Hollywood Reporter. The story details are being kept under wraps, though it is understood to focus on a...
Kurt Sutter will make his directorial debut on Warner Bros. Pictures In-Crime, says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature follows an unorthodox team of police specialists whose mission is to catch major criminals in the...
Universal Pictures is set to make Never Happened , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story for the feature, which is helmed by Raja Gosnell, is being kept under wraps, though the project is being described as a...
Nathan Phillips and Eddie Griffin are to star in the auto thriller Redline , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film also stars Nadia Bjorlin ("Days of Our Lives") and will feature a cameo from Wyclef Jean, who is...
Jay Chandrasekhar is to direct comedy Ambulance Chasers , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Story revolves around what happens when two fiercely competitive personal-injury lawyers fight over a new client. The Broken...
David Dobkin has signed to direct the adaptation of the Dark Horse comic book RIPD , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Written by Peter M. Lenkov, the 1999 comic centers on the Rest in Peace Department, the dedicated...
Jessica Manafort is directing the teen comedy drama The Beautiful Ordinary , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The movie, which Manafort also wrote, revolves around the relationship dynamics of a group of suburban...
Chad Kultgen is to write the comedy Burt Dickenson: The Most Powerful Magician on Planet Earth , according to Variety. Set in the world of rival Las Vegas magicians in which one member of a highly successful two-man team...
Sean Connery may be reprising his role as Professor Henry Jones for Indiana Jones 4 , says Ananova. Harrison Ford, who is returning as Indiana Jones, says his characters father may join him in the third movie. Ford is...
British comedian Rowan 'Mr Bean' Atkinson has agreed to star in the sequel Bean 2 , reports Ananova. The feature will follow Mr Bean as he heads to the South of France for a holiday. His voyage from London to the Riviera...
Will Arnett is set to join DreamWorks / Paramount Pictures The Ambassador , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a former U.S. vice president's privileged son (Arnett), who is assigned an ambassadorship in...
Focus Features is set to make The Julia Project , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature follows the story of Julia Mullock, an American interior designer who married the last crown prince of Korea. Mullock met her...
Focus Features has bought the rights to Patricia Foulkrod's documentary The Ground Truth : After the Killing Ends, says Variety. The docu follows a half-dozen Americans heading into U.S. military service in Iraq. It...
Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick are to star in comedy All Lit Up , according to Variety. The comedy will reunite Big Momma's House 2 director John Whitesell and screenwriter Don Rhymer. DeVito and Broderick will play...
Kimberly Elise has been cast as the female lead opposite Terrence Howard in the inner-city sports drama PDR , according to Variety. South African musicvid and commercials director Sunu Gonera will direct the pic, based...
George Lopez and Maggie Q have joined the cast of the comedy Balls of Fury , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The movie, which begins production next month, is set in the underground world of clandestine pingpong...
Director Alexandre Aja ( The Hills Have Eyes ) is going to direct the horror Into the Mirror , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The director has signed on to direct the horror movie, the story follows a security...
John Hamburg is to direct and produce the comic thriller The Troubleshooter , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The comic thriller follows a mild-mannered TV installation technician who, after a case of mistaken...
Director Gurinder Chadha is in talks to helm Regency Enterprises/20th Century Fox's big-screen version of the '80s primetime soap Dallas , says the Hollywood Reporter. 'Dallas' followed the exploits of wealthy Texas oil...
'Drake & Josh' stars Drake Bell and Josh Peck are set to star in Nickelodeon Movies untitled feature movie, says the Hollywood Reporter. The film will tell the tale of a wealthy but extremely sheltered young man (Peck)...
Warner Bros. Pictures are set to make Joe Nussbaum comedy Brad Cutter Ruined My Life ... Again , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a successful young man whose life is turned upside down when Brad Cutter,...
Phil Joanou has signed up to direct Warner Bros. Pictures' remake of Sharky's Machine , says the Hollywood Reporter. The original movie, released in 1981, was directed by and starred Burt Reynolds as Sgt. Tom Sharky, a...
DreamWorks Animation are to make the computer-animated feature Punk Farm , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature will tell the story of a group of farm animals -- a sheep, chicken, pig, goat and cow -- who form an...
Antonio Banderas is to star in the indie epic Conquistador , according to Variety. Movie traces the exploits of 16th century explorer Hernan Cortes. Story revolves around Cortes' internal and external struggles as he and...
Nicolas Cage and 50 Cent are to star in a film based on the life of prison boxing coach Billy "The Kid" Roth, The Dance , according to Variety. Once a successful prizefighter, Roth has spent more than 40 years as a...
Michelle Williams has signed on to star in Woody Allen's untitled Paris-set movie, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Like most of Allen's movies, story details are being kept under wraps, though it is understood to...
Anna Paquin will star with Breckin Meyer in the romantic comedy Blue State , according to Variety. Based on a young, idealistic Democratic campaigner who follows through on a promise to move to Canada if George W. Bush...
Jon Heder is attached to star in the comedy Loudermilk , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story details of "Loudermilk" are being kept under wraps, though it is known to be a high-concept comedy.
Seann William Scott is set to star in and make the comedy Gary the Tennis Coach , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature follows an overzealous high school janitor (Scott) who takes on the task of coaching a group of...
Samuel L. Jackson is set to star opposite John Cusack in Dimension Films' 1408 , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Mikael Hafstrom, tells the tale of a debunker of paranormal occurrences (Cusack) who...