Alan Rickman, Mary Steenburgen and Bryan Greenberg have all signed up to star in Randall Miller's family drama Nobel Son , says Variety. The story follows a son struggling to finish his thesis when his father wins the...
Scribe Fernley Phillips has been hired by Warner Bros. to pen adaptation You Want Me to Kill Him? , says Variety. The story is based on Judy Bachrach's Vanity Fair article 'U Want Me 2 Kill Him?'. It is a true-life tale...
Daniel Craig is expected to be unveiled as the new James Bond tomorrow, according to Variety Friday (Oct. 14) at a press conference taking place aboard the HMS President, which is moored on the Thames near London’s Tower...
Sylvester Stallone has been given the greenlit after many years to go forward with Rocky VI , according to Production Weekly. He will direct the feature in addition to starring in it as Rocky Balboa once again. Stallone...
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are to star in the indie biopic of salsa singer Hector Lavoe El Cantante , according to Production Weekly. Leon Ichaso (Piñero) wrote the script and will direct the real-life couple with...
Director David Dobkin ( Wedding Crashers ) is to direct an untitled comedy, according to Variety. Story concerns three daughters who bring their boyfriends home -- an Arab, a Jew and an African-American -- to meet their...
Jennifer Connelly is in talks to star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Warner Bros. Pictures' drama Blood Diamond , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Edward Zwick, centers on a poor African farmer who gets...
J.J. Lask is to write and direct the comedic drama On the Road With Judas , says Variety. The feature, which stars Aaron Ruell, Kevin Corrigan and Eddie Kaye Thomas, is the story of a man living a double life: He is both...
Scribe John Hodge has been hired by Walden Media to adapt Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising , says Variety. The story centers on a boy whose life is turned upside down when he learns he's the last of a group of immortal...
Mike Newell is in talks to direct New Line Cinema's epic Love in the Time of Cholera , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which chronicles...
Simon Pegg has signed on to join Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 3 , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Pegg will play an ally of Special Agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise). Directed by J.J. Abrams, "M:I-3" boasts an ensemble...
Jason Biggs is to star in the comedy The Pleasure of Your Company , for the writer and director Michael Ian Black, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Biggs co-stars with Isla Fisher ( Wedding Crashers ) as an...
Adam Rifkin will write, direct and star in comedy Homo Erectus , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The comedy set in prehistoric times and is described as being in the vein of Woody Allen's "Bananas" and "Sleeper,"...
Joe Carnahan will co-write and direct a feature about the life of Will Wright, a high school prodigy who at 17 was the catalyst for a $70 million narcotics empire, according to Variety. Wright, who grew up in Blaine,...
Karl Urban, who plays John Grimm in the upcoming Doom game adaptation, says the film will feature the game's first-person-shooter style. "There's a sequence sort of near the end of the film, where essentially the...
Shawn Levy is set to direct 20th Century Fox' A Night at the Museum , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is a family comedy that centers on a goodhearted but bumbling security guard at the Museum of Natural History...
Oscar-nominated writer Robert Rodat has been hired by DreamWorks Pictures to adapt Thomas Mullen's novel The Last Town on Earth , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story is set in 1918, and tells the tale of how a small...
Rita Wilson, Julianna Margulies and Michelle Trachtenberg have joined William Hurt in Beautiful Ohio , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Chad Lowe, is about a family grappling with one another amid the...
Paramount Pictures has bought the rights to Bella Pollen's upcoming love story/thriller novel Midnight Cactus , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a woman in a failing marriage in the U.K. who...
Hugh Jackman is to star in the adaptation of the Cecelia Ahern novel If You Could See Me Now , according to Variety. The novel, from the 23-year-old daughter of Ireland's prime minister Bertie Ahern. Jackman would play...
Robin Williams is to star in the comedy Man of the Year for director Barry Levinson, according to the Variety. Williams will play a Jon Stewart-like host of a latenight political talkshow who runs for president to make...
Jon Favreau is set to direct the epic adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs sci-fi series John Carter of Mars , according to Variety. Movie begins with a Civil War veteran whose retreat into a cave to avoid capture by...
Craig Bierko ( Cinderella Man ) has joined the cast of Scary Movie 4 , according to Variety. Anna Faris, Regina Hall and Leslie Nielsen are reteaming for the David Zucker-directed horror sequel, which the Weinstein Co....
Samaire Armstrong and Kevin Zegers are to star in the romantic comedy It's a Boy Girl Thing , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Nick Hurran is directing the Geoff Deane-written script revolves around two teenage...
Warner Bros. could be facing a legal battle of the name of a band that features in their upcoming Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire . An all-girl Canadian folk group, who also go by the same name "Wyrd Sisters", are...
Peter Jackson and partner Fran Walsh are set to executive produce Universal and Fox's video game adaptation Halo , says Variety. Jackson will not helm the feature. Instead his next directing project will be an adaptation...
Michael Douglas is set to join Universal Pictures comedy You, Me and Dupree , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Joe and Anthony Russo, is a comedy about a newlywed couple that allows the groom's best man to stay with...
Sharon Stone, Elijah Wood, Nick Cannon and Freddy Rodriguez have all joined the cast of Emilio Estevez' Kennedy assassination project Bobby , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature mixes fact and fiction to chronicle...
Roland Emmerich is set to direct Columbia Pictures 10,000 B.C. , says Variety. The feature centers on a 21-year-old who lives among a primitive tribe that survives by hunting a mammoth each year as the herd migrates...
Indian actor Gulshan Grover is to play the villain in the next Bond movie Casino Royale , according to the Times of India. Bollywood's 'bad man' Gulshan Grover is elated. Come January 2006, he will be off to Prague to...
Will Arnett and Dax Shepard are to star in the comedy Get 'Em Wet which they wrote, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Shepard will pen the screenplay, which revolves around two successful hot tub salesmen who go to...
Vanguard Films have bought the feature comedy Gnomes! from writers Micah Herman and Kyle Newman, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The pair also are slated to co-direct the project. The story centers on a boy who...
Documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald is to make Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Brave New Films will launch the film Nov. 4 in select theaters in New York and Los Angeles....
Ralph Fiennes says that he worries his upcoming performance as Voldemort in Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire could change his life. "No matter what I've done in the past, now I've played Voldemort nothing else will...
Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman are in talks to join Touchstone Pictures' The Prestige , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan, would see Bale and Jackman play rival...
Bree Turner has signed on to join Regency Enterprises Firehouse Dog , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Todd Holland, follows Rexxx, Hollywood's most in-demand canine star. After getting lost, the...
Vincent Cassel is set to play Jacques Mesrine, France's former Public Enemy No. 1, in director Jean-Francois Richet's Public Enemy Number One , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is based on the true story of a...
Luis Mandoki has been hired to direct Gold Circle Films The Winged Boy , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, based on an unpublished story by Mary Hayley Bell, is described as a family film with a slice of magical...
Ruddy Morgan Organization is to develop Million Dollar Baby 's authors Pound for Pound , according to the Hollywood Reporter The story revolves around a trainer whose life is spinning out of control and the young Latino...
Luke Wilson is in talks to star in the comedy Barry Munday , according to Variety. Based on a womanizer who wakes up sans his "Family Jewels" after an irate father attacks him with a trumpet. Things go from bad to worse...
Renee Zellweger is attached to star in the psychological horror film The Eye , according to the Hollywood Reporter. A remake of 2002's Hong Kong thriller "Jian gui," "The Eye" centers on a woman (Zellweger) who sees more...
Mike Myers will star as the Who's drummer Keith Moon in an untitled feature, according to Variety. Myers previously flirted with the Moon project several years ago. At the time, he was so busy co-writing and playing four...
Adam Shankman ( Cheaper by the Dozen 2 ) to direct and choreograph the screen adaptation of the Broadway musical Hairspray , according to Variety. John Travolta is expected to play Edna Turnblad, the role Harvey...
Renee Zellweger is set to join Phoenix Pictures biopic about Beatrix Potter Miss Potter , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Chris Noonan, explores the life of the author of such beloved children's books as "The Tale...
Lucas Black is to lead the cast the cast of Universal Pictures third installment of The Fast and the Furious 3 , says the Hollywood Reporter. The feature, helmed by Justin Lin, is set in the underground world of Japanese...
Kate Winslet is in final talks to join Cameron Diaz in Columbia Pictures romantic comedy Holiday , says the Hollywood Reporter. The film, which is director Nancy Meyers' follow-up to the romantic comedy Something's Gotta...
Paramount Pictures has bought the rights to John Albert's memoir Wrecking Crew : The Really Bad News Griffith Park Pirates, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story, to be adapted by Scott Kosar, chronicles the...
Edward Norton, Colin Farrell and Noah Emmerich are in talks to star in Pride and Glory , according to Variety. Pride and Glory is a generational drama about a family of police officers in New York torn apart by a...
New Regency's screen version of the TV soap Dallas has many speculations over who will play J.R. Ewing, with John Travolta as the lead horse, according to Variety. People close to the film said that isn't a certainty....
The only film script ever written by the late rap star Tupac "2Pac" Shakur Live 2 Tell is to be made into a movie, according to the Hollywood Reporter The script was acquired from the performer's mother, Afeni Shakur....