Director Ang Lee's film Brokeback Mountain has become this years front runner for the Oscars by receiving 8 nominations. Categories include best picture, best director, best actor and best supporting actor. Other movies...
'Lost' star Matthew Fox is joining Matthew McConaughey in McG's untitled Marshall College football project for Warner Bros. Pictures. The movie is about events following the 1970 plane crash that killed members of the...
Kristen Bell, Jay Baruchel, Chris Marquette and Sam Huntington are in final talks to play 'Star Wars' geeks in the comedy drama Fanboys , according to Variety. The feature, helmed by Kyle Newman, follows four 'Star Wars'...
Mandy Moore and James McAvoy are in final talks to star in the thriller Twist of Fate , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Jennifer Elster, revolves around a couple whose lives are upended after a hit-and-run accident....
Jenna Fischer has joined the cast of DreamWorks Pictures comedy Blades of Glory , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is set in the world of ice skating and stars Will Ferrell and Jon Heder as a disgraced pair of...
Terrence Howard is to star opposite Jodie Foster in the revenge thriller The Brave One , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Neil Jordan is in negotiations to direct the film with Joel Silver producing for Warner Bros....
Ridley Scott is to direct the adaptation of the David Ignatius' novel Penetration , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Set in the house-of-mirrors world of international spying, the story centers on an American...
Dane Cook is in final talks to play opposite Steve Carell in the romantic comedy Dan in Real Life , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Peter Hedges is directing for Touchstone Pictures. Cook also made a sale to the...
David Strathairn ( Good Night, and Good Luck ) is to star in the thriller Fracture , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Gregory Hoblit is to direct for Castle Rock Entertainment and New Line Cinema. Ryan Gosling and...
Paramount Pictures are to adapt Lisa Lutz's debut novel The Spellman Files , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on an unconventional family of private investigators who not only use their skills to...
British director Nick Love has launched a website to help raise funds for his next film project Outlaw . Love's production banner, Vertigo Films, is hoping to raise $5 million in donations from the public. Donations can...
The CBBC website is reporting that two new stars have joined the cast of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix . George Harris has been cast as Kingsley Shacklebolt. Shacklebolt works for the Ministry of Magic as a...
Director McG and actor Matthew McConaughey are teaming up for Warner Bros. Pictures untitled Marshall College football project , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is based on an event that occurred in the 1970s,...
Comedian Dane Cook is to star in and produce the Weinstein Co's untitled comedy feature, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Details of the plot are being kept under wraps by the Weinsteins. "For several years now my...
ThinkFilm have bought the rights to Ryan Fleck's drama Half Nelson , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature stars Ryan Gosling as an idealistic young junior high school teacher in New York who befriends a young...
Robin Williams is to play Theodore Roosevelt alongside Ben Stiller in Night at the Museum , according to the Holllwood Reporter. Directed by Shawn Levy, the big-budget, live-action/CG comedy centers on a night watchman...
Thandie Newton is to star as the new Bond girl in the James Bond sequel Casino Royale , according to The Sun newspaper. She will star opposite Daniel Craig for director Martin Campbell. Thandie will start filming in the...
Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh are to star in the untitled drama-comedy for directors Noah Baumbach & Scott Rudin, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The movie, which Baumbach is writing and directing as his...
Pixar and Disney animation say they won't be going ahead Toy Story 3 , according to MovieHole. According to Moviehole a source said: "They said that sequels should only be made if there is a really great story that...
Tim Dowling is to adapt Gordon Korman's comic novel Born to Rock for Paramount Pictures and MTV Films, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Gavin O'Connor will direct the coming-of-age story centers on Leo, a...
Andy Garcia, Brendan Fraser, Emile Hirsch and Forest Whitaker are joining Korean director Jieho Lee's ensembler The Air I Breath , according to the Hollywood Reporter. They will join Sarah Michelle Gellar and Kevin Bacon...
Frank Langella and Lauren Ambrose are set to topline Starting out in the Evening , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Andrew Wagner, follows a writer whose world is shaken when an ambitious grad student convinces him...
Joe Wright is to make his U.S. directing debut by helming Warner Bros. 1944 thriller Gaslight , according to Variety. The feature will be based on a 1938 British play by Patrick Hamilton and preceded by a 1940 British...
Director D.J. Caruso has been hired to helm DreamWorks / Paramount Pictures thriller Disturbia , says Variety. The feature revolves around a troubled high school senior, still grieving over his father's death, who is...
Carroll Ballard has come aboard to direct Phoenix Pictures period action drama Colter's Run , says Variety. The drama concerns John Colter, a guide with Lewis and Clark's Corps. Of Discovery expedition in 1803. Colter...
Adam Goldberg has signed on to join the cast of Tony Scott's Deja Vu , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Denzel Washington and Jim Caviezel already have boarded the project, which starts shooting next month in New...
Amber Tamblyn will topline the sequel The Grudge 2 , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Director Takashi Shimizu, writer Stephen Susco and producers Sam Raimi all are returning. Arielle Kebbel and Teresa Palmer also...
Jamie Babbit ( But I'm a Cheerleader ) is directing the feminist comedy feature The Itty Bitty Titty Committee , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Melonie Diaz ( Raising Victor Vargas ) will star, with Nicole Vicius,...
Jeff Fowler is to write and direct the full feature version of the Academy Award-nominated short film Gopher Broke , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Gopher Broke is a stylish toon about a hungry gopher who devises a...
Theresa Russell has joined the cast of Columbia Pictures sequel SpiderMan 3 , says the Hollywood Reporter. Russell is aboard to play Mrs. Marko, the wife of Flint Marko, aka the Sandman (Thomas Haden Church). Plot...
Rawson Marshall Thurber has signed on to write and direct the big-screen adaptation of Magnum P.I. , says the Hollywood Reporter. The 'Magnum P.I.' series, which starred Tom Selleck, were created in the 80's by Glen...
Jet Li and Jason Statham are set to star in Lionsgates Films thriller Rogue , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Phillip G. Atwell, follows Rogue (Li), an infamous assassin who has set off a crime war...
Mickey Rooney and Dick Van Dyke are set to make a return by playing villains in 20th Century Fox's family tentpole Night at the Museum , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Shawn Levy, will see Rooney and...
Weinstein Co. have bought the rights to George Hickenlooper's Edie Sedgwick biopic Factory Girl , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, which stars Sienna Miller, tells of the ill-fated 1960s "superstar" who was part...
The Weinstein Co. are to make a sequel to their current CG-animated release Hoodwinked , to be dubbed Hood vs. Evil , according to the Hollywood Reporter. News comes as Hoodwinked , an irreverent take on the tale of...
Galt Niederhoffer's novel A Taxonomy of Barnacles is to be adapted for the big screen, according to Variety. The social comedy revolves around the six Barnacle sisters who live with their eccentric, self-made father in a...
Jennifer Lopez's Nuyorican Prods is to make Reggaeton , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature will be the first produced by the music company's film division. 'Reggaeton' will be produced by Lopez and Simon...
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American rights to director Andrei Kravchuk's The Italian , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The Russia's submission for a foreign-language film Oscar is set in 1942, the...
Brandon Routh, who plays Superman in director Bryan Singer's upcoming Superman Returns , says that the late Christopher Reeve's partly influenced his performance. "Obviously it's influenced by Chris' performance," Routh...
Keri Russell is to join Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Warner Bros. Pictures drama August Rush , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Kristen Sheridan, follows August Rush, a young musical prodigy performing on...
Picturehouse and New Line International have bought the rights to Francois Girard's world-hopping romantic drama Silk , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story, adapted by Girard and Michael Golding, follows Herve...
Universal Pictures are set to make the R-rated broad comedy The Divorcees , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story revolves around two guys in their early 30s whose longtime wives up and leave them. They are then forced...
With the run-up to the 78th Oscars on March 5th, the British Baftas are said to be a good indicator as to who might be in contetion. The Baftas will be given out on Febuary 17th and here are the nominations: FILM...
Bryce Dallas Howard is in talks to play Peter Parker's love interest Gwen Stacy in SpiderMan 3 , according to the Hollywood Reporter Sam Raimi is directing the movie, which is scheduled to roll this month. Gwen is...
Maria Bello ( History of Violence ) and Gerard Butler are to star opposite Pierce Brosnan in the indie thriller Butterfly on a Wheel , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Directed by Mike Barker ( Best Laid Plans ) the...
Ziyi Zhang ( Memoirs of a Geisha ) has finished shooting the $20 million historical epic The Banquet , according to Variety. Her agreement to star in The Banquet prompted a rewrite of the story, loosely based on...
Walden Media and Walt Disney Co. are to adapt Bridge to Terabithia , according to Variety. Companies' recent project, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , has been mauling King Kong at the...
Virginia Madsen is in talks to play Jim Carrey's wife in New Line Cinema's psychological thriller The Number 23 , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Joel Schumacher, sees Carrey coming across an obscure...
Mandate Pictures has picked up the movie rights to the children's comic book series The Ghouly Boys , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature follows four sweet, young monsters -- a wolf boy, a kid zombie, a young sea...
John Singleton is set to adapt and direct Paramount Pictures Tom Clancy espionage thriller Without Remorse , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, which stars Willem Dafoe, follows a former Navy SEAL and CIA...