Adam F. Goldberg and Ernest Cline are to write the comedy Fan Boys , according to Variety. The movies follows a group of young, hardcore "Star Wars" fans from the Midwest determined to take their dying friend to...
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty which was to have starred Owen Wilson, has been dropped, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Sources said the project lost momentum at Paramount after the studio failed to cast a female...
Michael Caine is set to join Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman in Touchstone Pictures magical thriller The Prestige , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Christopher Nolan ( Batman Begins ), sees Bale and...
Jack Black is set to join Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet in Columbia Pictures romantic comedy Holiday , says Variety. The feature, helmed and scripted by Nancy Meyers, focuses on a friendship that crops up between an...
Director Walt Becker has been hired to helm Touchstone Pictures comedy Wild Hogs, says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature revolves around a group of frustrated middle-aged biker wannabes who hit the open road in search...
Bauer Martinez Distribution have acquired the rights to director Jaume Balaguero's thriller Fragile , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, which stars Calista Flockhart, follows an American nurse (Flockhart) who...
Lions Gate Films have bought the international rights to Universal Pictures snowboarding documentary First Descent , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature chronicles the rise of snowboarding as seen through the eyes...
Robert De Niro is to star as the writer-producer Art Linson in What Just Happened , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Barry Levinson is directing with De Niro playing a desperate movie producer hanging on to the...
Lindsay Lohan has joined the cast of Bobby , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Also joining are Shia LaBeouf and Brian Geraghty. The Emilio Estevez' project is based about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, which...
Danny Glover has been cast in the musical Dreamgirls , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Bill Condon is directing for which is based on the stage musical, Dreamgirls follows the rise of a female singing group called...
Alias star Michael Vartan has joined the cast of Rogue , according to Ananova. He will play an American journalist who takes on a man-eating crocodile in Australia. Vartan, who earlier this year was written out of Alias,...
Aaron Eckhart is set to star opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones in Warner Bros. Pictures 2001 German film remake of Mostly Martha , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Scott Hicks, sees Zeta-Jones play the frosty chef Martha...
Chiwetel Ejiofor is set to join Clive Owen and Julianne Moore in Universal Pictures Children of Men , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Alfonso Cuaron, takes place in the near future, where mankind has lost the...
British filmmaker Matthew Vaughn ( Layer Cake ) is in final talks with Paramount Pictures to direct and produce his adaptation of Neil Gaiman's adult fairy tale Stardust , says Variety. The story is set in a town in the...
Emily Mortimer is in talks to star opposite Ryan Reynolds in the romantic comedy Chaos Theory , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Marcos Siega, follows a compulsive organizer (Reynolds) who decides to...
Oscar-winning writer Eric Roth has been hired by Warner Bros. to adapt Gregory David Roberts novel Shantaram , says the Hollywood Reporter. The project, which stars actor Johnny Depp, is set in the 1980s and is based...
Eva Longoria and Charlie Sheen are teaming up to voice the lead characters in a new 3-D animated movie called Foodfight! , according to Variety. The Desperate Housewives' star will voice the role of Lady X while Sheen...
Catherine Zeta Jones has signed up rugby star Gavin Henson to star in a film about a village rugby team called Coming Out , according to the Sun. The movie is being funded by Catherine, who is making her debut as a film...
Mike Mitchell ( Sky High ) has signed on to direct the comedy Fred Claus for Jessie Nelson who is producing, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Nelson will also receive a "story by" credit. Fred Claus follows Fred, the...
Sharon Krum's novel The Thing About Jane Spring is to be adapted by Paramount Pictures, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The novel, published in July by Viking, is a romantic comedy that centers on a woman who was...
Harry Potter 4 director Mike Newell says hes happy with the PG-13 rating that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was given - a first for a Potter movie. "For me, it's not a kid's movie," Newell told Sci-Fi Wire. "It's...
Sarah Michelle Gellar is in talks to star in Nala Films crime drama The Air I Breathe , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Jieho Lee, is based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional...
Jean-Pierre Jeunet is set to direct 20th Century Fox's adaptation of Yann Martel novel Life of Pi , says Variety. The story follows a 16-year-old boy's voyage from India to Canada, a trip that begins on a freighter...
Several cast members of HBO's 'The Sopranos' have signed up for the mob-themed indie Made in Brooklyn , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is described as a single story compilation consisting of four short films...
Warner Bros. Pictures is set to take on Broken Lizards' Beerfest , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature tells the tale of two brothers who go to Oktoberfest in Germany and stumble upon a super-secret, centuries-old...
Dakota Fanning has signed on to voice the title character in the animated feature Coraline , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Henry Selick ( The Nightmare Before Christmas ) is writing and directing the film, based...
The 1982 horror anthology movie Creepshow is getting remade, which was originally written by Stephen King and directed by George A. Romero, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Although in the original anthology the...
George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh's Section Eight is to produce the horror pic Wind Chill , according to Variety. Greg Jacobs is directing a script by Joe Gangemi and Steven Katz. With filmmakers are considering a...
Skip Woods ( Swordfish ) is to adapt its feature version of vidgame Hitman , with Vin Diesel starring, according to Variety. The story centers on an international assassin, known as Agent 47, who works for a mysterious...
Courteney Cox is set to star in Paramount Pictures untitled comedy , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature will be produced by Cox and husband David Arquette. Susan Walter will write the screenplay. The story centers...
Donald Sutherland and Samantha Morton are set to star in the haunting thriller Puffball , says Production Weekly. The feature, helmed by British director Nicolas Roeg, is an adaptation of Fay Weldon's 1980 novel of the...
Kelly Preston and Toby Keith are set to topline Paramount and MTV Films Angel From Montgomery, says Variety. The feature, helmed by Steven Goldmann, is about a Florida anchorwoman (Preston) who returns home to...
Paramount Pictures has preemptive bought the screen rights to Bob Reiss' oil thriller Black Monday , says Variety. The deal is said to be based on 100 pages and an outline. The story sees a mysterious condition eroding...
Director Breck Eisner ( Sahara ) is set to helm Universal Pictures' remake of Creature From the Black Lagoon , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The original 1954 'Lagoon' followed a scientific expedition searching...
Ron Perlman has signed on to voice Conan of Cimmeria in Conan: Red Nails , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The first animated film featuring the mythic barbarian. Marg Helgenberger and James Marsden also are joining...
Dan Fogler is set to star in the lead for the comedy Balls of Fury , according to Variety. Fogler the Tony-winning star of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," joins movie that is written by "Reno 911" creators...
Tilda Swinton and Amber Tamblyn are starring in the indie movie Stephanie Daley , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Directed by Hilary Brougher, the Sundance Filmmaker Lab project written by Brougher, follows a...
Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films have won a bidding war to buy the rights to the upcoming children's book by Ahmet Zappa, The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless , according to the Hollywood...
Sylvester Stallone has declared he will reprise his role as Philadelphia working-class hero and former champ Rocky Balboa in Rocky VI . Stallone says the story has the aging, widowed Rocky initially refusing a chance to...
Thora Birch and Toby Stephens are set to star in the horror movie Dark Corners , says Variety. The feature, written and directed by first-timer Ray Gower, is the story of a troubled young woman who falls asleep and wakes...
Timothy SpallIFC Films has bought the rights to director Adrian Shergold's Pierrepoint , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature stars Timothy Spall as Britain's most prolific hangman, Albert Pierrepoint, who executed...
Wes Craven is set to make Adam Alleca's thriller Home , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story follows a man, fresh out of prison and under provisional house arrest in a cabin in the woods, who struggles with his own...
Gold Circle Films and Vertigo Entertainment are teaming up to make In-Utero , a remake of the Hong Kong horror pic 'Jian Gui 2' (The Eye 2), says Variety. The feature is about a pregnant woman who has a near-death...
Clint Eastwood is to simultaneously release two movies telling the story of the battle of Iwo Jima, according to Time magazine. One will be from the US perspective, the other told from the Japanese point of view. He's...
Kirsten Dunst is to play Marla Ruzicka in a film about the 28-year-old American relief worker who was killed in Iraq by a suicide bomber, according to Variety. Ruzicka was a dynamo in her quest to get reparations for the...
Angelina Jolie is said to be in talks to be the new Bond girl, according to UK newspaper The Sun. Producers are keen to sign her up to play Vesper Lynd, a Russian double agent who beds Bond. A source said: "Angelina is...
Sebastian Cordero ( Crónicas ) is to direct Harrison Ford in the Civil War thriller Manhunt , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on James L. Swanson's forthcoming book, "Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase For Lincoln's...
Universal Pictures confirmed today that James Newton Howard will compose the original score for the dramatic adventure King Kong , which is directed by Peter Jackson. Mr. Howard replaces Howard Shore, who is leaving the...
Djimon Hounsou is in final talks to join Leonardo DiCaprio in Warner Bros. Pictures drama Blood Diamond , says the Hollywood Reporter. Set in war-torn Sierra Leone, the feature centers on a poor African farmer (Hounsou)...
Andy Garcia is set to join director Joe Carnahan's Smokin' Aces , says Variety. Garcia will join Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Alicia Keys and Ben Affleck in the action comedy about an illusionist who snitches on the mob...