Darren Lynn Bousman ( Saw 2 ) is returning to direct Saw 3 , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Leigh Whannell wrote the Saw 3 screenplay based on a story by Whannell and James Wan. The latest chapter will stay true to...
Madonna, Snoop Dogg and David Bowie are among the voices featured in the live-action/CGI fantasy feature Arthur and the Minimoys , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on multihyphenate Luc Besson's popular French...
John Travolta and Queen Latifah are to star in the Adam Shankman-directed musical Hairspray , according to Variety. Deals were completed late Wednesday evening for Travolta to play downtrodden housewife Edna Turnblad and...
Warner Bros. Pictures have acquired the rights to sci-fi book The Sparrow for Brad Pitt to produce, according to Variety. Pitt has a longtime interest in the project, a potential starring vehicle for him. Writer Michael...
Zach Braff is set to direct, produce and possibly star in Paramount Pictures Open Hearts , says Variety. The feature will be a remake of the Danish movie which follows a woman who is devastated when her fiance is...
John Cusack has signed on to star in the Plum Pictures indie drama Grace Is Gone , says Variety. The feature follows a father who takes his two daughters on a road trip upon learning that his wife has been killed in the...
Dimension Films is set to make the horror thriller Shiver , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Michael Cuesta, is inspired by true events and is about a group of New Year's Eve revelers who get in a car...
Scribe Collin Friesen has been hired to write New Line Cinema's comedy Man in Uniform , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, which stars Kevin James, follows an everyman (James) whose life changes when he takes...
Walt Disney Pictures has bought the rights to make the untitled Angelo Brooks project for Mandeville Films' David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman to produce. The feature will tell the true story of a Baltimore cop who began...
Steve Coogan, Jim Broadbent and Timothy Dalton have joined the cast of Hot Fuzz , the latest comedy from the team that made Shaun of the Dead , according to Variety. Directed by Edgar Wright from an original screenplay...
Kate Nelligan, Nia Long and Amber Valletta have joined the cast of the Sandra Bullock starrer Premonition , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Directed by Mennan Yapo, the film centers on a housewife (Bullock) whose...
Oscar-nominated writer Josh Olson ( A History of Violence ) has adapted and will direct Until Gwen , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The indie feature based on the acclaimed Dennis Lehane short story. "Gwen" is...
Miramax Films has picked up rights to Becoming Jane , in which Anne Hathaway stars as Brit novelist Jane Austen, according to Variety. Julian Jarrold ( Kinky Boots ) is directing with James McAvoy, Maggie Smith and Julie...
Director Brett Ratner says that after taking the helm for X-Men 3 from Bryan Singer, who left to direct Warner Bros. Superman Returns , he feels responsible for the tone and the story arcs of the first two X-Men films....
Prison Break's Dominic Purcell is set to star in Touchstone Pictures killer-crocodile thriller Primeval , says the Hollywood Reporter. The project, which will see Michael Katleman making his directional debut, is a...
Leonardo DiCaprio is set to produce and possibly star in Warner Bros. Pictures prison drama Kite , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is described as an intense fictional drama that examines corruption in the...
Universal Pictures are set to adapt Max Barry novel Company for the big screen, says Variety. The feature, which will be adapted by Steve Pink, takes a satiric look at office politics through the eyes of a young business...
Director Marco Kreuzpaintner is set to helm Krabat , says Variety. The feature is based on Otfried Preussler's 1971 literary adaptation of a 17th-century legend, 'The Curse of the Darkling Mill'. It tells the story about...
Mariah Carey will star in Tennessee , an indie drama to be directed by Aaron Woodley ("Rhinoceros Eyes"), according to Variety. Carey plays a waitress who sets off with two brothers to find their estranged father. Their...
Vince Vaughn and director David Dobkin are on the verge to teamup again for Fred Claus , having previously worked together on Wedding Crashers , according to the Hollywood Reporter. While negotiations are just beginning,...
Steven Strait and Camilla Belle will star in 10,000 B.C. , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Prehistoric epic that Roland Emmerich is directing for Warner Bros. Pictures. The film centers on a young tribal mammoth...
Rita Hsiao is to adapt the romantic comedy A Guy Not Taken for DreamWorks, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on a short story written by best-selling author Jennifer Weiner, "Taken" is a wish-fulfillment fantasy...
Warner Bros. Pictures has bought the film rights to Scott Lynch's fantasy epic The Lies of Locke Lamora , according to Variety. "Locke Lamora," the first of a seven-book series, will be released in the U.K. in June,...
Steven Spielberg is set to begin filming Jurassic Park 4 next year, says Ananova. According to producer Frank Marshall, the script has been finalised. "It has a good script now, so we should have that one up and running...
Thomas Jane is set to star in Weinstein Co's supernatural thriller Evilseek , says Variety. The feature, written and helmed by Wayne Kramer, will see Jane play a cop so demoralized by the handiwork of a serial killer...
Leo Gregory, Eva Birthistle and Margo Stilley are set to star in the British horror Reverb , according to Variety. The feature, which will see Eitan Arrusi making his directional debut, tells the story of a struggling...
Michael De Luca and the Weitz brothers are making The Game , says Variety. The feature will be an adaptation of Neil Strauss' book, and is based on an undercover account of a community of pickup artists -- aka AFC's or...
New Line Cinemas are set to make the family comedy All Boxed Up , says Variety. The feature follows a retired couple deciding to sell their house and then inviting their quirky grown children and families for a weekend...
Tom Cruise is in early talks to star on the new take on the 1957 Western 3:10 to Yuma , according to Variety. James Mangold will direct this summer, with Cathy Konrad producing for Columbia Pictures. Cruise has not yet...
Mark Wahlberg has signed on to star with Antoine Fuqua also signing on to direct the political thriller Shooter for Paramount Pictures, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on Stephen Hunter's novel "Point of...
Anne Hathaway is joining the cast of Knocked Up for Universal Pictures, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The actress, who most recently played Jake Gyllenhaal's icy wife in "Brokeback Mountain," is set to star...
Jessica Biel is to co-star in Lee Tamahori's sci-fi thriller Next for Revolution Studios, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore are toplining the film, which is based on Philip K. Dick's...
Writers Jim Agnew and Sean Keller have sold the horror script Damned to Fried Films/the Pantry, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story revolves around an all-American family that survives a plane crash only to...
Chris Rock is set to star in the French film remake I Think I Love My Wife , says the Hollywood Reporter. The French feature followed the life of a happily married office worker who daydreams about other women until he...
Billy Bob Thornton is set to star in and direct Paramount Pictures period drama Floyd Collins , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is set in 1925, the drama centers on the true-life story of cave explorer Floyd...
Rogue Pictures is set to make the cult horror comic book Hack/Slash , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature will chronicle the adventures of Cassie Hack, a young woman who travels to small towns across the country...
Oscar nominee David Strathairn is set to join Matthew McConaughey and Matthew Fox in McG's untitled Marshall University football project, says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature revolves around the events following the...
Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis and Michael Murphy have joined the cast of Canadian actress Sarah Polley's feature-film directorial debut Away From Her , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature will follow Christie as...
Saffron Burrows, Jada Pinkett Smith and Liv Tyler are in final talks to join the cast of the drama Reign O'er Me for Columbia Pictures, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle are toplining....
Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis and Michael Murphy have joined the cast of Canadian actress Sarah Polley's feature-film directorial debut Away From Her , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Adapted by Polley from an...
Nick Cassavetes is attached to write and direct fact-based drama Bombing Harvey , according to Variety. Based on a millionaire who tried to cover his gambling losses by planting a bomb and extorting $3 million from a...
Tom McCarthy ( The Station Agent ) is to write the romantic comedy Glory Days for Paramount Pictures, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a woman who attends her 10-year college reunion only to...
French actress Eva Green has been cast as the female lead for the next James Bond movie, Casino Royale . Green will play femme fatale Vesper Lynd in the movie opposite Daniel Craig, who will be making his debut as 007....
Michelle Monaghan and Casey Affleck are in final talks to star in Ben Affleck's directorial debut, Gone, Baby Gone , says the Hollywood Reporter. The movie is based on the Dennis Lehane novel of the same name, and...
Rainn Wilson and Joely Richardson have been cast in New Line Cinema's family feature Mimzy , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Bob Shaye, tells the story of two siblings who, after discovering a box of...
Javier Bardem is set to star in New Line Cinema's epic Love in the Time of Cholera , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Mike Newell, follows a romantic young man (Bardem) who loses the girl of his dreams...
Gold Circle have bought the rights to Sonny Postiglione's romantic comedy The Push , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature examines a subculture of ordinary men who invent elaborate yet convincing personas and schemes...
Mads Mikkelsen is to star in the new James Bond film Casino Royale he will fill the shoes of James Bond nemesis Le Chiffre, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The Danish actor joins Daniel Craig and Judi Dench in the...
Martin Lawrence is to star in the comedy Wild Hogs , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Walt Becker is directing with Lawrence to join John Travolta and Tim Allen for the movie, which revolves around a group of...
Christopher Walken and Eva Mendes are set to join Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg in We Own the Night , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The drama is written and to be directed by James Gray with production to...