Shannara Series Comes To Film
Warner Bros. Pictures plans to turn Terry Brooks' best-selling "Shannara" fantasy series into a film franchise reports the trades.The Shannara series is set a...
Mad & Crypt Creator Gets Biopic
Joel Eisenberg ("Out of the Black") and Iron Mountain Media have picked up the life rights to renowned publisher William M. Gaines says The...
Trade Breaks: Harring, Dressed, Treasure
"Laura Harring ("Mulholland Drive"), Jacob Vargas ("Traffic") and Julio Cedillo ("The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada") have inked to star in Repertorium Films' upcoming...
Chance Favors Hoffman & Thompson
"Stranger than Fiction" co-stars Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson are re-teaming for Overture Films romantic drama "Last Chance Harvey" reports the trades.The story centers...
Ken Kwapis Helms Slacker Comedy
Ken Kwapis ("License to Wed," "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants") will direct Walden Media & Phoenix Pictures untitled teen mayor project penned by Lisa...
Anna Faris Turns Playboy Bunny
Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison have set Anna Faris to star and Fred Wolf to direct an untitled college campus comedy reports the trades.Penned...
Pathe & BBC Develop Five Projects
Pathe and the BBC have unveiled the first five projects that they are developing together under their UKFC slate deal reports Variety. Amongst...
Trade Breaks: Inferno, Tyson, Indiana
"Russell Crowe has optioned "Dolce's Inferno," a spec script by Mark Staufer, and plans to produce (but not star). The contemporary romantic comedy...
Mutant Prof Turns Venetian Merchant
Actor Patrick Stewart ("X-Men," "Star Trek: The Next Generation") will reteam with scribe John Logan ("Star Trek: Nemesis," "The Aviator," The Last Samurai," Gladiator")...
Eli Roth On Thanksgiving Feature
In between projects, "Hostel" director Eli Roth told Slashfilm that he has plans to expand his "Grindhouse" faux trailer "Thanksgiving" into a feature."I'm actually...
Mark Ruffalo Experiences Blindness
Mark Ruffalo will star with Julianne Moore in Focus Features adaptation of the Jose Saramago novel "Blindness" reports Variety.Ruffalo will play a doctor who...
Four Sammy Davis Jr. Biopics Set
Every year there's a fight between two dueling projects whether it be Alexander the Great or Truman Capote. On very rare occasions there's...
Movies Sneaking At 2007 Comic-Con
Another year, another San Diego Comic-Con and another chance for studios to plug their late 2007 and 2008 product with first look footage, celebrity...
Trade Breaks: D-War, Kong, Young
""D-War," an effects-heavy, English-language, South Korean-produced monster film shot in Los Angeles will receive a 1,500 screen late August release in the U.S. via...
Helgeland Revising Nottingham
Brian Helgeland ("Mystic River," "L.A. Confidential") will rewrite "Nottingham," Universal Pictures' revisionist take on the legend of Robin Hood says The Hollywood Reporter.Russell Crowe...
Scott Porter Joins Speed Racer
Scott Porter (TV's "Friday Night Lights," "Prom Night") has landed a role in Warner Bros. "Speed Racer," which starts shooting this month in Berlin...
McPhee Nabs A Caller ID
"American Idol" runner-up Katharine McPhee will make her feature film debut in the $5 million-$8 million indie dark romantic comedy "The Last Caller" says...
Stern Turns Down Transformers
Radio shock jock Howard Stern was asked to lend his voice to the upcoming "Transformers" movie but had to turn it down at his...
Collins Jr Plays A Perfect Game
Clifton Collins Jr. will star in indie feature "The Perfect Game" for Prelude Pictures reports Variety.Collins plays former baseball player Cesar Faz, who returns...
Steve Holland Has A Big One
Cult 80's director Savage Steve Holland ("Better Off Dead," "One Crazy Summer") is set to make "The Big One 3," his first feature film...
The Random Spiel: June 4th 2007
-Extensive reports (with footage) from the set of "Iron Man" are up at MTV and ScreenRant.-Elisha Cuthbert horror flick "Captivity" has been delayed yet...
2007 MTV Movie Awards Announced
The MTV Movie Awards were announced and presented last night. The winners were predictable and not particularly surprising in any sense of the word,...
Carrey Feels Love For Phillip Morris
Jim Carrey will star in the sub-$20 million dark comedy "I Love You Phillip Morris" reports Variety.Based on a book by Houston Chronicle crime...
Black, Apatow, Cera & Ramis Team Up
Actors Jack Black and Michael Cera ("Superbad," TV's "Arrested Development") are attached to star in the Sony Pictures comedy "Year One."Judd Apatow ("Knocked Up,"...
Kevin Bacon Joins Frost/Nixon
Kevin Bacon has joined the cast of Universal Pictures' adaptation of the hit Peter Morgan play "Frost/Nixon" for director Ron Howard says The Hollywood...
Elise & Parker Turn Debaters
Kimberly Elise and Nate Parker have joined the Weinstein Company's "The Great Debaters" reports Variety.Elise (TV's "Close to Home") plays the wife of Forest...
Jane O’Brien Is Unpredictable
Eileen Cook's comedic novel "Unpredictable" (formerly titled "In the Stars") will be adapted by Jane O'Brien into a feature comedy for New Line &...
Trade Breaks: Walk, Jericho, Adam
""Jericho" executive producer Carol Barbee revealed Shaun O'Mac Radio that other networks have expressed interest in picking up the CBS series is open to...
Ginnifer Goodwin Gets In Motion
Ginnifer Goodwin has joined the cast of Plum Pictures indie comedy "Laws of Motion" says The Hollywood Reporter.Penned by Elyse Friedman, the story centers...
From Jigsaw To The Highway
Tobin Bell ("Saw") will produce and has signed to play the Devil in Halcyon Pictures "Highway 61" reports Variety.Written and directed by Luke and...