Oscar-nominated cinematographer John Schwartzman will make his directorial debut on the football movie Carlisle School , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film tells the true story of a rag-tag team of American...
Hans-Christian Schmid ( Requiem ) will next direct the political-thriller Storm , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Storm is about an attorney working for the Hague who discovers war-crime skeletons in the closet of a...
Eddie Murphy is set to star in 20th Century Fox' Starship Dave, says Variety. The project, helmed by Peter Segal, is the story about a crew of miniature human-looking aliens who are seeking a way to save their doomed...
Director Lajos Koltai is in final talks to helm the screen adaptation of Susan Minot's best-selling novel Evening , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature follows the story of a woman, reflecting back on one weekend in...
Jonathan Jakubowicz is to write and direct Universal Pictures The Sigma Protocol , the Hollywood Reporter. The project is an adaptation of Robert Ludlum's book, which was one of the last books written by him. The feature...
Scribe Joe Conway has been hired to write the indie The Other Side , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a 19-year-old American on a trip to Mexico who is wrongly implicated in the death of a local girl....
Ridley Scott is in talks to direct Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington in the Brian Grazer-produced drama American Gangster , according to Variety. The drama has a checkered past. In late 2004, Antoine Fuqua was a month...
Michael Bay is going to remake Friday the 13th , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The "Friday the 13th" series began in 1980, with Sean S. Cunningham directing the first feature, released by Paramount Pictures. After...
Gary Oldman is in talks to reprise his role as Sirius Black in the fifth Harry Potter installment, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , according to the Hollywood Reporter. When filming began on the David...
Nathan Fillion ('Firefly') and Katee Sackhoff ('Battlestar Galactica') are to star in the sequel White Noise 2: The Light , according to the Hollywood Reporter. With Patrick Lussier is directing the sequel which is based...
Universal Pictures is to adapt the Christian Gossett's award-winning comic book The Red Star , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Night Watch filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov to develop with an eye to direct the fantasy...
Comedian Bernie Mac is in final talks to star opposite Terrence Howard for his first dramatic role in Lionsgate Films PDR , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Sunu Gonera, chronicles the real-life story of Jim Ellis...
Crash star Thandie Newton has denied reports that she has been cast as the next Bond girl in the 21st James Bond movie Casino Royale . "That isn't happening," she told IMDb. "It was a big rumour I enjoyed very much...
Fred Schepisi is set to direct the Vietnam War drama Last Man , says Variety. The feature is based on the true story of five soldiers from Australia's Special Air Service operating behind the lines in Vietnam. The story...
Director Bernardo Bertolucci is set to helm Bel Canto , says Variety. The feature will be based on U.S. writer Ann Patchett's eponymous novel, a terrorism-themed tale set in an imaginary country in South America. In the...
Danish director Susanne Bier is to direct Dreamworks Things We Lost in the Fire , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a woman whose husband suddenly dies; she invites her husband's troubled best friend to...
Samuel L. Jackson will lead in director Irwin Winkler's Iraqi wartime drama Home of the Brave , according to Variety. Story, from a screenplay by Mark Friedman, revolves around three soldiers who struggle to readjust to...
Jennifer BealsJennifer Beals has come aboard the sequel The Grudge 2 , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Amber Tamblyn is starring in the film, which is being directed by Takashi Shimizu and produced by Sam Raimi, Rob...
Dax Shepard, Efren Ramirez and Harland Williams have joined the cast of the Dane Cook-Jessica Simpson starrer Employee of the Month , according the the Hollywood Reporter. Greg Coolidge will make his feature directorial...
Val Kilmer has joined the cast of the drama Dark Matter , according to the Hollywood Reporter. He will join Meryl Streep and Chinese actress Liu Ye ("The Promise") in the story of a Chinese exchange student who takes...
Marc Schoelermann is to make his directorial debut on the Mischa Barton starrer Hexxx , according to Variety. Goal is to begin production in the spring. The movie is a supernatural thriller centering on college students...
Peter Sarsgaard and Tony Goldwyn are to star in Craig Lucas' play adaptation, Small Tragedy , says Production Weekly. The feature follows Nathaniel (Goldwyn), the director of a fringe play in London, who starts...
Adam Sandler and Kevin James are in talks to play firefighters who pretend to be a gay couple in Universal Pictures I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by David Dobkin...
Guillermo del Toro is in talks to develop and direct New Line Cinema's dark fantasy Killing on Carnival Row , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is set in a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and...
Mark Webber and Catalina Sandino Moreno have signed on to star in the indie The Hottest State . The movie will be based on Ethan Hawke's novel, who will star in and direct the project. The story centers on a 21-year-old...
Terrence Howard is in final talks to topline Lionsgate Films PDR , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, penned by Michael Gozzard and Kevin M. Smith, chronicles the real-life story of Jim Ellis (Howard), who in the...
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are to star as lawyers who spend 15 years overturning a murder conviction, which is based on a true story, according to Variety. Affleck will play Michael Banks and Damon will be J. Gordon...
Tom Hanks is to star in Talk of the Town with Nia Vardalos ( My Big Fat Greek Wedding ) to write, according to Variety. Vardalos said she had resisted writing films for other thesps, but sparked to a "Talk of the Town"...
Catherine Hardwicke ( Thirteen ) is to direct a feature version of the story of the Virgin Mary, Nativity , according to Variety. Nativity is being fast-tracked in hopes of releasing the pic during this year's holiday...
Ken Kwapis ( The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants ) is to direct the comedy License to Wed for Warner Bros., according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a priest/marriage counselor testing the strengths of...
Gary Fleder is attached to direct the adaptation of the identity-theft thriller Talk Talk by novelist T.C. Boyle, according to Variety. Story concerns a woman who goes on a cross-country road trip to track down the man...
Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg are teaming up to star in the drama We Own the Night , says Variety. The feature, helmed by James Gray, is set at the height of a bloody 1980s struggle between Gotham cops and a Russian...
Steve Buscemi is in final talks to star in New Line Cinema's comedy We're the Millers , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Peter Cattaneo, follows a drug dealer (Buscemi) who realizes on his birthday...
Andy Fickman has signed on to develop and direct Walt Disney Pictures Daddy's Girl , says the Hollywood Reporter.. The feature, which stars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, follows an NFL quarterback living the bachelor...
John Stalberg Jr. is set to direct Odd Lot Entertainment's Zero Dark Thirty , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature follows a young U.S. Army soldier who returns after serving in the Mideast. As he settles into his...
The Weinstein Co. have bought the domestic rights to Randal Kleiser's family-oriented romantic comedy Lovewrecked , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature follows a teen (Amanda Bynes) who is thrown off a...
James Cromwell is set to join SpiderMan 3 as Captain Stacy, the father of Bryce Dallas Howard's character, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Sam Raimi is directing the movie, which is scheduled to roll this month. In...
Jesse L. Martin is set to portray Marvin Gaye in the biopic of the legendary singer in Sexual Healing , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The independent drama is written and is to be directed by Lauren Goodman. The...
Clea DuVall, Peter Stormare and Scott Speedman have joined Willem Dafoe in the psychological thriller Anamorph , according to the Hollywood Reporter. James Rebhorn, Yul Vazquez and Don Harvey also have been cast in the...
Warner Bros. Pictures have bought the rights to Italian U.N. Diplomat Giandomenico Picco's memoir Man Without a Gun , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Stuart Beattie ( Collateral ) has been tapped to adapt. The book,...
Imelda Staunton and 14-year-old unknown Evanna Lynch are the latest additions to Warner Bros. Pictures Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , says the Hollywood Reporter. The fifth Harry Potter movie will be helmed...
'Shrek' director Vicky Jenson is in final talks to direct New Line Cinema's Four Christmases , says the Hollywood Reporter. The holiday comedy revolves around a young married couple, both children of divorced parents,...
Stone Village Pictures will make Palace of the End , which is based on two music-themed documentaries from filmmaker George Gittoes, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story involves the Iraq War and follows the...
Columbia Pictures has pre-emptively bought scribe Matt Carroll's dark comedy script Random Acts of Cruelty , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a man whose regrettable act of kindness thrusts him into a...
David Logan has been hired to rewrite DreamWorks' hip-hop comedy Hammer Down , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Phil Joanou, follows a disgraced NASCAR driver who becomes a wheel man in a heist...
The Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez horror Grind is to go into production in Austin Texas, according to Variety. Rodriguez's part, "Planet Terror," will be a zombie pic, while Tarantino's section, "Death Proof,"...
Andrew Adamson is set to return to the direct in the sequel to The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe , The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Adamson also will serve as a producer...
Joel and Ethan Coen are in talks to write, direct and produce an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel No Country for Old Men , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Tommy Lee Jones is in talks to star. Jones will...
A low-budget spin-off extreme Welsh version of Jackass called Dirty Sanchez: The Movie , is to be adapted for the big screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter. In the movie, directed by Jim Hickey, the four...
Sean Penn to direct Alaska adventure Into the Wild , with Emile Hirsch ( The Lords of Dogtown ) to star, according to Variety. Project is based on Penn's adaptation of Jon Krakauer's bestseller. Hirsch will portray...