Zack Snyder Directs Guardians
Zack Snyder ("Dawn of the Dead," "300") is set to direct the animated feature film "Guardians of Ga'Hoole" for Warner Bros. Pictures and Village...
Shia LaBeouf Seeds Dark Fields
Shia LaBeouf has signed on to star in Universal Pictures techno thriller "Dark Fields" says the trades.Based on Alan Glynn's 2002 novel, the story...
Danny DeVito In Love With Rome
Danny DeVito has joined Disney's romantic comedy "When in Rome" says The Hollywood Reporter.The story centers on a love-starved New York curator (Kristen Bell)...
Megan Fox Goes Topless For Body
Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried getting into a fight in their underwear in Jason Reitman's next producing effort, the horror-comedy "Jennifer's Body" says ShockTillYouDrop.Reitman...
The Random Spiel: April 11th 2008
- Yesterday Cinema Blend had reports of a scene in which The Joker (Heath Ledger) hides inside and then emerges from a body bag...
Is Gisele The New Powers Girl?
Supermodel Gisele Bundchen ("Taxi," "The Devil Wears Prada") is apparently being considered for the female lead in the new "Austin Powers" film says Boston.Com.The...
Nichols Readies Teen Horror Breadcrumbs
UPDATE: The Mike Nichols directing "Breadcrumbs" is NOT the Oscar winning one, just someone with the same name. All other information contain...
Siebert & Taylor Pick Up A Hick
Producers Steven Siebert ("Endless Bummer") and Christian Taylor ("Angela and Diabola") have optioned the best-selling novel "Hick," by first-time author Andrea Portes says The...
Babylon A.D. Edit Rumors Denied
Sometimes rumors do take on a life of their own.Early last Fall, the sci-fi epic "Bablyon A.D." starring Vin Diesel was pushed back from...
Adrien Brody Joins Argento’s Giallo
Adrien Brody, Emmanuelle Seigner and Elsa Pataky have signed on to star in Italian horrormeister Dario Argento's latest thriller "Giallo" says The Hollywood Reporter.The...
Portman Haunts New Wuthering Heights
Natalie Portman will star as Catherine Earnshaw in a new big screen adaptation of Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" for Ecosse Films and Hanway Films...
Trade Breaks: Toussaint, Dude, Bobism
"Venezuela is adding an extra $9 million into the budget for biopic "Toussaint" for Louverture Films and Villa del Cine. Budgeted at $30...
Colin Farrell Performs Triage
Colin Farrell has joined the cast and will serve as executive producer on "Triage" reports the trades.Based on the novel by Scott Anderson, Farrell...
Defunct Meg Starts Swimming Again?
One of the most troubled film projects in recent film development history has been "MEG".Steve Alten's book dealt with the modern day re-emergence of...
Takeshi Kitano Is The New Achilles
Takeshi Kitano ("Hana-Bi") will star as a talentless-but-dedicated artist in his latest pic, "Achilles to Kame" (Achilles and the Tortoise) says Variety.Kitano's character plugs...
Kemba Smith Biopic In The Works
Producer Will Packer ("Stomp the Yard") has picked up the rights to ex-prisoner Kemba Smith's life story for his Rainforest Films company says The...
The Escapist Breaks Out In October
ThinkFilm has picked up all North American rights to the Sundance-premiered British prison drama "The Escapist" from Parallel Films and Picture Farm says the...
The Battle For Los Angeles Begins
Sony Pictures has picked up Chris Bertolini's sci-fi spec script "Battle: Los Angeles" for Original Films to produce reports Reuters.The story follows one Marine...
Brittany Snow for “Prom Night”
From the time she burst on the scene in the acclaimed TV series American Dreams, beautiful Brittany Snow has had nothing less than a...
Blue Sky Weaving An Anubis Tapestry?
Slashfilm came upon an interesting rumor today - that Fox's CG animated Blue Sky Studios ("Ice Age," "Robots," "Horton Hears a Who") might have...
Universal Seeks How to Get Divorced
Universal Pictures has acquired the recent L.A. Weekly cover story "How to Get Divorced by 30" and will use the article by Sascha Rothchild...
LaBeouf, Bloom Visit New York
Shia LaBeouf, Orlando Bloom, Ethan Hawke, Julie Christie and John Hurt are set to star in the late Anthony Minghella-scripted segment of short film...
TV News: HBO, Lost, Heroes
"Due to major setbacks and delays stemming from the writers strike, several HBO programs will be missing their usual summer premieres. Both the...
Universal Learns Gervais’ Truth
Universal Pictures International has acquired all international distribution rights to the Ricky Gervais comedy "This Side of the Truth" reports the trades."Truth" stars Jennifer...
Rob Corddry Joins Stone’s W
Former "Daily Show" correspondent Rob Corddry has snagged the role of press secretary Ari Fleischer in Oliver Stone's upcoming presidential biopic "W" reports MTV...
Early Knight, W, Earth Reviews
Some early but important reviews have gone online in the last two days - the first apparent review of the upcoming "The Dark Knight"."The...
Trade Breaks: Court, Spy, Earth
"Our Stories Films has preemptively bought the comedy spec script "Court Appointed Attorney," by Brent Askari and Chum Langhorne. Don Michael Paul is attached...
Indiana Jones Soundtrack Reveals More
The track list for the upcoming soundtrack tie-in to "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" has been released at Amazon and...
Weinsteins Land Jarecki’s Good Things
The Weinstein Co. has closed a deal on North American rights to the $20 million love story-cum-murder mystery "All Good Things" says Variety.The story...
Overture Are Freshly Popped
Overture Films is prepping the teen comedy "Freshly Popped" says The Hollywood Reporter.Penned by Megan Parsons, the film concerns a less-than-cool high-school senior with...