Peter Weir has signed on to direct Johnny Depp in Warner Bros. Shantaram, says Variety. The feature is an adaptation of the Gregory David Roberts novel, that follows an Australian heroin addict who escapes a...
Will Smith and director Jonathan Mostow are teaming up for Columbia Pictures Tonight, He Comes , says Variety. Smith will play a disaffected and underappreciated superhero in a mid-life crisis. Production is currently...
Ericson Core has signed on to direct Touchstone Pictures big-budget action movie Liberty , says Variety. The story, which takes place after an electromagnetic pulse disables the infrastructure of the country, revolves...
Steven Spielberg’s Munich is to have no press junket, no premiere and no Oscar marketing campaign, reports LA Weekly. Opening December 23rd, the only advertising their will be are trailers and posters. “The official...
Jeremy Piven ("Entourage") is in final negotiations to star in the untitled man vs. nature project , according to the Hollywood Reporter. In the nature project, Piven will play a smug Portland, Ore., real estate...
Stuart Townsend has joined the cast of the romantic comedy Chaos Theory , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Ryan Reynolds and Emily Mortimer are already on board to star with Marcos Siega directing. Written by Daniel...
Tim Metcalfe and Adam Simon are to write horror A Haunting in Connecticut , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The movie will recount the true story of a family forced to relocate near a clinic where their teenage son...
Jim Carrey and director Tim Burton are teaming up for Paramount Pictures's action-adventure Believe It or Not , says Variety. The feature is based on the exploits of Robert Ripley, the explorer and newspaper columnist...
Jude Law is set to make a cameo appearance in Sienna Miller's new film Factory Girl , according to Ananova. The project, which is helmed by George Hickenlooper, revolves around an unconventional love triangle of sorts...
Giselle Bundchen has joined the cast of Meryl Streep's new movie The Devil Wears Prada, says Annanova. The feature, helmed by David Frankel, is based on Lauren Weisberger's best-selling novel about a young woman who goes...
Vanessa Redgrave, Leslie Phillips and Richard Griffiths have joined the cast of director Roger Michell's London-set comedy Venus , says Variety. Phillips and Peter O'Toole play seasoned if unsuccessful thesps in their...
Jim Caviezel ( The Passion of the Christ ) is in talks to join Deja Vu , says Variety. Caviezel would play a terrorist who blows up a ferry. The drama stars Denzel Washington as an FBI agent who, upon discovering that a...
Paramount Pictures are in talks with SCI (Computer games company) to bring Lara Croft back for Tomb Raider 3 , according to The Business . The previous two movies have grossed more than $450m (£262m, E383m) at the box...
Peter Chung (Aeon Flux creator) told SCI FI Wire that the character was originally intended to have ambiguous sexuality—and died at the end of each episode. Chung's series, which first hit MTV in the early 1990s, is the...
Amber Tamblyn, Joel David Moore and Zachary Levi are to star in the psychological thriller Spiral , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Moore will play a reclusive telemarketer whose dysfunctional friendship with his...
Willem Dafoe is to star in the indie drama Anamorph , says Production Weekly. The feature, helmed by Henry S. Miller, follows Stan Aubrey (Dafoe), a veteran cop investigating a serial killer who may be a copycat killer...
Dame Judi Dench has confirmed that she will be reprising her role as 'M' in the upcoming James Bond movies Casino Royale . "Yes of course," she told Empire Online. "And I heard today that I'm not going to be in London....
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has revealed that his next project will be Walt Disney's Daddy’s Girl . “It's great," he told Empire Online. "Basically I’m a star quarterback on an NFL team, very brash and cocky, but not in...
Actor Pat Morita, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role as Mr Miyagi in The Karate Kid , has passed away. The 73-year-old died at his home in Las Vegas on Thursday of natural causes, his wife Evelyn said. Morita...
Milo Ventimiglia is set to play Sylvester Stallone's adult son in Rocky VI , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is about the mythic Philadelphia boxer, Rocky, who has long since retired but is drawn back to the...
Anna Popplewell and William Moseley, who star in the upcoming C.S. Lewis adaptation , say that the adventure is about an epic battle, but much more. The story follows four London children are sent to a professors country...
Romola GaraiRomola Garai, Michael Gambon and Rufus Sewell have joined the cast of Michael Apted's Amazing Grace , says the Hollywood Reporter. They join Ioan Gruffudd who plays British anti-slavery pioneer William...
Keith Robinson is set to play the composer C.C., brother of the pivotal character of Effie, in the movie version of the Broadway musical Dreamgirls, says the Hollywood Reporter. Set in the turbulent late 1960s and early...
Mandy Moore, Billy Crudup, Harvey Keitel, Mia Farrow and Bob Balaban will star in the romantic comedy Dedication , according to Variety. Plot concerns a misogynistic children's book writer (Crudup) who is forced to...
Ali Larter, David Carradine, Tom Arnold, Talia Shire and newcomer Hayes MacArthur have joined the cast of caveman comedy Homo Erectus , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Writer, director and star Adam Rifkin the film...
Gina Torres and Kip Pardue are to star in South of Pico , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Ernst Gossner is making his theatrical directorial debut. The tale of four ordinary people who witness an accidental death,...
Michael Biehn, Bijou Phillips, Lauren German, Katie Cassidy, Patrick Flueger, Adam Campbell and Chris Lowell have signed on to star in the comedy You Are Here , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Henry Pincus will make...
Dean Parisot has signed on to direct comedy The Bill From My Father , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Adapted by Bob Nelson ("Nebraska") and loosely based on an upcoming memoir by Bernard Cooper, "Bill" is a...
Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan and director Brett Ratner are to return for the sequel Rush Hour 3 , according to Variety. Tucker will earn $20 million against 20% of gross, and his deal comes with a second-picture commitment...
Jessica Simpson is in talks to star opposite Dane Cook in Employee of the Month , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Simpson will play a new cashier that makes the employees at a discount superstore go ga-ga. Cook is...
David Bowie is to join the Christopher Nolan-directed The Prestige , according to Variety. Movie will star Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale and Michael Caine. Bowie will play inventor and electrical wizard Nikola Tesla, who...
Dimension Films has nabbed North American rights to the action film DOA: Dead or Alive , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Filmed in China, the project is scheduled for a fall 2006 release. Based on Temco's...
Donald Petrie ( Miss Congeniality ) has signed on to direct the ensemble romantic comedy Chasing Dinner , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story is set in a small town whose residents' lives are turned upside...
Adrien Brody and Penelope Cruz are set to star in Manolete , says Variety. The feature, helmed and written by Menno Meyjes, is about legendary matador Manuel Rodriguez Sanchez and his love affair with actress Lupe Sino....
Zathura director Jon Favreau is set to write and direct Columbia Pictures drama Johnny Zero , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story chronicles the birth of the hot-rod movement in the years after World War II. Favreau...
Director Peter Chelsom is set to take on the long delayed project Tulip Fever , says Variety. Based on Deborah Moggach's novel, the story is set in the 17th century, follows a beautiful young woman who marries a wealthy...
Gold Circle Films is set to make the horror sequel White Noise 2: The Light , says according to the Hollywood Reporter. The sequel, written by Matt Venne, will see a man's family murdered and he is brought back from the...
Casanova duo producer Mark Gordon and screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher are set to make Sony Pictures adaptation of the Mark Twain literary classic The Prince and the Pauper , says Variety The Twain tale set in 16th-century...
Will Ferrell and Jon Heder are in talks to join Will Arnett and Amy Poehler in the comedy Blades of Glory , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Tackling the competitive world of ice skating will be the commercial...
Daniel RadcliffeDaniel Radcliffe has confirmed to IMDB that he will continue to play Harry Potter. Radcliffe said: "Ultimately it comes down to whether we're still enjoying it. If we are then I think we would be sort of...
Thomas Jane will star in a feature version of the role-playing game The Mutant Chronicles , according to the Hollywood Reporter. In the sci-fi action thriller, based on Paradox Entertainment's internationally known board...
Comedian Dane Cook is in talks to star in Employee of the Month , which Gregory Coolidge is directing, according to Variety. Cook will play Zack, one of two dorky clerks at a discount superstore. When the men think the...
John Polson has signed on to direct writer Emil Stern's adaptation of Robert Cormier's teen serial killer novel Tenderness , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The book, from best-selling author Cormier ("The Chocolate...
Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle are in talks to star in Sony Pictures 9/11 drama Reign O'er Me , says Variety. The feature, helmed and written by Mike Binder, would see Sandler play a man who lost his family on Sept. 11 and...
Tom Pabst has been hired by Universal Pictures to write the drama Turbulence , says Variety. The story follows an L.A.-based pilot who is frustrated by his life until, over the course of several flights to Tokyo, he...
Australian newcomer Peter Cornwell is in talks to direct Warner Bros. Pictures horror thriller The Dionaea House , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, written by Eric Heisserer, follows a married man who has grown...
Paramount Pictures is to make Rodney Rothman's Early Bird , says Variety. The feature centers on a scribe in his late 20s who loses his television job. He then moves into a Florida senior community and learns to love the...
Robert De Niro is attached to star in the adaptation of Don Winslow's yet-to-be-published The Winter of Frankie Machine , according to Variety. De Niro would play a Mafia hit man who has given up the game to become the...
Mandy Moore has signed on to star as Diane Keaton's daughter in Because I Said So , according to Variety. Michael Lehmann will be directing Keaton as a meddling mother who, in order to prevent her youngest daughter...
Jean Reno has joined cast of the drama Margaret , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Kenneth Lonergan wrote and is directing the film which revolves around a young woman (Anna Paquin) who witnesses a bus crash and is...