'Narnia' actor James McAvoy has signed up for Joe Wright's Atonement , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is an adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel, which will see McAvoy play Robbie Turner, a man accused of rape by a...
Jamie Bell, Tom Sturridge and Teresa Palmer are joining Regency Enterprises' adaptation of Steven Gould's novel Jumper , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Doug Liman, follows a kid from a broken home...
Focus Features are set to adapt Dean Koontz's new novel The Husband , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on an ordinary working man whose love for his wife is put to the test over the course of 60 hours after...
Paul Giamatti is to star alongside Vince Vaughn and play Santa in director David Dobkin's untitled holiday comedy, according to Variety. Comedy project, which reunites the Wedding Crashers team of Dobkin and Vaughn, is...
Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer are to star in the comedy Hot Rod , according to Variety. Movie has been in development at the studio since 1999, but found renewed life and a tentative July start date....
Zooey Deschanel, Harry Dean Stanton, Bill Paxton, Chris Klein, Bruce McGill, Deborah Rush and Mark Webber are to star in the coming-of-age drama The Good Life , according to the Hollywood Reporter. First-time director...
Laika Entertainment are to adapt Alan Snow's best-selling British children's novel Here Be Monsters for its next animated feature, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows a young boy who tries to save his...
The highly anticipated Simpsons movie is set to be released July 27, 2007. The announcement was made in a short teaser trailer prior to the opening of 20th Century Fox's Ice Age: The Meltdown , says the Hollywood...
ThinkFilm have bought the North American rights to Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger's addiction drama Candy , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Neil Armfield, sees Ledger and Abbie Cornish play...
Peter Dinklage has joined the cast of Walt Disney's Pictures live-action big-screen adaptation of the classic 1960s cartoon Underdog , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature will see Dinklage play the villainous Simon...
Ron Bass has been hired by Stone Village Prods. to write the supernatural love story True Believer , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, based on Nicholas Sparks best-seller, follows a writer for Scientific...
New Line Cinema are set to remake the Spaish dark comedy Torrente , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows the exploits of Jose Luis Torrente, a poster child for police corruption who is a lazy, rude, despicable...
Lucy Liu is to star in the comedy Beautiful Asian Brides , according to Variety. Based on an original idea by Les Firestein and P.J. Pesce, Beautiful Asian Brides was originally set up at Jersey Films but languished when...
20th Century Fox is to make Brent Forrester's surfer script Big Wave , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Emmett and Brendan Malloy are attached to direct the comedy, which is being produced by Ben Stiller. Based on an...
Shia LaBeouf is in final talks to star in Transformers , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The DreamWorks/Paramount Pictures live-action adaptation of the 1980s Hasbro toy line of giant robots that morph into cars,...
New Line Cinema is to adapt the Nicci French novel Land of the Living , according to Variety. James Ellroy ( L.A. Confidential ) is set to write the script. The novel was published two years ago but gained steam when...
Daniel Craig has assured fans that the traditional Bond elements will be in place for the upcoming James Bond movie Casino Royale . Craig says that his portrayal of James Bond makes the agent more human and fallible. "I...
Gary Oldman has been confirmed to return for Harry Potter and the Order Of The Phoenix . Oldman will reprise his role as Sirius Black in the fifth Harry Potter movie. According to reports, fans had been threatening to...
George C. Wolfe is set to direct Columbia Pictures and Paramount Pictures feature adaptation of the boxing-centered documentary Ring of Fire : The Emile Griffith Story, says Variety. The documentary focused on the...
Dimension Films is developing a comedy based on Andrea Lavinthal and Jessica Rozler's book The Hookup Handbook : A Single Girl's Guide to Living It Up, says Variety. The comic tale revolves around three very different...
Davis Entertainment has preemptively bought Stephen Hauser's script The Mistaken , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is described as in the vein of 'The Fugitive' and 'The Bourne Identity'. The story centers on an...
Ray Romano and John Leguizamo told SCI FI Wire they had a much better experience the second time around voicing the animated characters in Ice Age: The Meltdown . "I truly thought that I was going to get fired the first...
Tom Hanks is set to star in the adaptation of Michael Gates Gill's How Starbucks Saved My Life , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story, based on real events, follows an older ad executive who loses his job and family...
Nicole Kidman is set to star in 20th Century Fox's untitled spy thriller project, says the Hollywood Reporter. Details of the story line are being kept under wraps, but the film is described as being in the vein of The...
Alan Shapiro is set to direct the indie family comedy Frank , says the Hollywood Reporter. Darrell Hammond and Missi Pyle are also in talks to star in the feature. The story centers on an abandoned dog who ingratiates...
DreamWorks have preemptively purchased comedian Demetri Martin's Will , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows an ordinary guy who lives in a world where people's lives and destinies are being written by scribes...
Ellen Barkin is to star as the new leading lady in the Warner Bros. sequel Ocean's Thirteen , according to Variety. Filming will take place primarily on five soundstages on the WB lot in Burbank, where a fully...
Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Mykelti Williamson and Mark Boone Junior are to star in the indie cop thriller Vice , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Written and directed by Raul Sanchez Inglis ( The Falling ), the...
Writer-director Dan Myrick is to take on horror-thriller Solstice , according to Variety. Myrick will get behind the camera for the first time since co-directing The Blair Witch Project . Elisabeth Harnois stars in the...
David Nutter is to direct drama Touchback written by Don Handfield, according to Variety. High-concept drama centers on a man in his late 20s who was the star of his high school football team, but whose career was ended...
Frank Coraci is attached to direct the supernatural private eye thriller Hawaiian Dick , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Set in 1953 Hawaii, "Hawaiian" tells the story of a down-on-his-luck big-city detective who...
John Malkovich is to play a 23rd century corporate overlord opposite Thomas Jane in Simon Hunter's sci-fi action thriller The Mutant Chronicles , says the Hollywood Reporter. Malkovich will play Constantine, who heads a...
Daryl Hannah, Roy Scheider, Eric Roberts and Sean Young have all joined Alpine Pictures' thriller Dark Honeymoon , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by David O'Malley, follows a man who marries a seductive...
Music video director Little X is set to helm Completion Films urban horror movie Razorwire , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows a group of small-time drug dealers who discover that vampires, who also...
John August has been tapped to rewrite Touchstone Pictures' musical comedy Bob the Musical , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Mark Waters, follows a mild-mannered man who suddenly hears the "inner...
Cinema Libre Studio has acquired North American rights to 1999's 'Buena Vista Social Club', The Sons of Buena Vista , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by German Kral, follows Pio Leyva, the singer and...
Gary Oldman has confirmed he will star in the new Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , according to the The Sun newspaper. He will play Sirius Black in The Order Of The Phoenix. Last month fans threatened to...
Shawn Levy is to produce a wish-fulfillment comedy Back Magick , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Written by Sahara Lotti the story centers on an unpopular boy who, in a misguided effort to improve his seemingly...
IDT Entertainment's CG-animated family comedy Yankee Irving has been retitled "Everyone's Hero," and its release date was pushed back from Aug. 25 to Sept. 15, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film originally was...
Will Smith is set to star in Universal Pictures feature adaptation of the TV series It Takes a Thief , says Variety. Smith will play a charming rogue who is blackmailed by the government into doing covert larceny for the...
Molly Shannon is set to star in Paramount Classics Year of the Dog , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Mike White's, will see Shannon play a happy-go-lucky secretary who lives alone with her pooch and must deal with...
Universal Pictures are set to adapt Alfred Bester's 1955 sci-fi novel The Stars My Destination , says Variety. The story follows the sole survivor of a wrecked spaceship that drifts through deep space. When a passing...
Zeitgeist have bought the rights to the Quay Brothers The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes , says Variety. Set in an imaginary world, story concerns an opera singer who's murdered onstage before her wedding by a nefarious...
Director Robert Luketic is in talks to helm Columbia Pictures 21 , says Variety. The feature, based on Ben Mezrich's best-selling nonfiction book 'Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took...
Josh Hartnett and Samuel L. Jackson is to star in the Rod Lurie-directed drama Resurrecting the Champ , according to Variety. Hartnett will play a young reporter who finds a homeless man who he thinks is a famous former...
Ron Howard is to direct Last Man Home and Brian Grazer is to produce, according Variety. Set in the days just before President George W. Bush launched full-scale war in 2003, story revolves around a covert U.S. military...
Shohreh Aghdashloo is in final talks to join Keisha Castle-Hughes in Nativity , according to the Hollywood Reporter. New Line Cinema's look at the life of the Virgin Mary before the birth of Christ. Catherine Hardwicke...
Evan Ross and Scott Reeves have joined the cast of PDR , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Terrence Howard and Bernie Mac are already lined up to star with Sunu Gonera directing. The film chronicles the real-life...
Touchstone Pictures has acquired rights to the claustrophobic thriller The Lighthouse , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Directed by Dean DeBlois the story is set off the coast of Brittany in the English Channel,...