Lindelof, X-Men Scribes Score Deals
Former "Lost" showrunner Damon Lindelof has made a major deal with Disney Pictures to write a secretive sci-fi film with the working title "1952"...
Casting: Closer, Abu Ghraib, Hudson
The Closer"Lost," "Supernatural" and U.S. "Being Human" actor Mark Pellegrino has joined the cast of the final season of "The Closer" and is slated...
Matthew Goode Joins “Stoker”
Matthew Goode ("Watchmen," "Brideshead Revisited") is in talks to play the male lead in "Stoker" for Fox Searchlight says Variety.The story follows a teenage...
Sarandon Sought To Wield “Pitchfork”
"Cyrus" filmmakers Mark and Jay Duplass are shopping around "Pitchfork", a new dramatic thriller script reports The Los Angeles Times.The story follows the middle-aged...
Bruce Wayne Moves Into Wollaton Hall
Wollaton Hall, the 16th-century mansion-turned natural history museum in Nottingham, looks to be serving as the exterior of the rebuilt Wayne Manor in "The...
Evan Daugherty Hired To Adapt “Divergent”
Summit Entertainment has hired Evan Daugherty ("Snow White and the Huntsman," "Shrapnel") to adapt Veronica Roth's young adult dystopian thriller "Divergent" says The Hollywood...
Acker Helms “Thomas The Tank Engine”
Shane Acker, who helmed the 2009 animated feature "9", is set to direct a live action theatrical film adaptation of "Thomas the Tank Engine"...
Eisenberg, Gyllenhaal Ask “Now You See Me”
Jesse Eisenberg has agreed in principal and is in early negotiations to join the magician-heist pic "Now You See Me" at Summit Entertainment reports...
Catwoman Packs A Punch On “Knight” Set
Anne Hathaway has reportedly given a stuntman a "massive black eye" after accidentally shoving the butt of a gun into his eye socket on...
News Shorts: June 8th 2011
The first official still from the second season of The Walking Dead and set photos of Ed Norton and Bill Murray shooting Wes Anderson's...
New “Kong”, “Poltergeist,” “Wolfman” Reboots
Hollywood's desire to reboot franchises continues with three movie properties about to get new incarnations.Fox Animation have hired Christian Magalhaes & Bob Snow ("Murder...
Roland Emmerich To Play “Asteroids”?
"The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012" director Roland Emmerich has been offered the film adaptation of Atari's 1979 hit arcade game "Asteroids" at Universal...
Ed Zwick Is An “American Assassin”
"Blood Diamond" and "Defiance" director Ed Zwick is set to direct an adaptation of Vince Flynn's eleventh Mitch Rapp novel "American Assassin" for CBS...
Daredevil Remake Gets ‘Born Again’ Storyline
"Fringe" writer/producer Brad Caleb Kane has been hired to pen the relaunch of the "Daredevil" franchise at 20th Century Fox and Regency reports Heat...
DiCaprio Begins Talks For “Django Unchained”
After weeks of online speculation, Leonardo DiCaprio is now in early talks to play one of the lead villains in Quentin Tarantino's spaghetti Western...
Casting: Romeo, Cherry, Miss, Boom
Romeo and Juliet"Let Me In" and "The Road" actor Kodi Smit-McPhee is in early discussions to play Romeo's cousin Benvolio in the latest adaptation...
Aronofsky Shopping Around “Noah’s Ark”
He's talked about the possibility even before he signed on for and later ditched "The Wolverine", now he's cemented it. An edgy re-telling of...
Next “Tron” Film Gets “Eight Below” Scribe
David DiGilio ("Eight Below," "Traveler") is set to write the sequel to "Tron: Legacy" for Disney Pictures says The Hollywood Reporter. Original scribes...
Tom Six Responds To “Centipede” Ban
Earlier this week the BBFC, the British Board of Film Classification, refused to grant "The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)" a ratings certificate -...
Two Apatow Comedy Film Updates
Chris O'Dowd, Lena Dunham, Charlyne Yi and Wyatt Russell are all in negotiations to join Judd Apatow's next project "This is Forty" at Universal...
Scribes: Turtles, Duelist, Lions, Home
Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesScribes Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec ("Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol") have been brought on to pen the script for a reboot...
Kounen To Direct Animated “Windwalkers”
Jan Kounen ("Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky," "Dobermann") is attached to direct the €18 million animated sci-fi 3D feature "Windwalkers: Chronicle of the 34th...
Todd Lincoln Mixes “The Nye Ingredients”
Director Todd Lincoln ("The Apparition"), producer Daniel Alter ("Hitman") and RKO are teaming for a film adaptation of the comic "The Nye Incidents" reports...
Casting: Invited, Lay, Squad, Stooges
Who Invited Her?Dreamworks Pictures has picked up Sascha Rothschild's romantic comedy pitch "Who Invited Her?" about a woman who crashes a bachelor party getaway.Reese...
Doctor Who Getting New Faces
POTENTIAL MINOR SPOILERS AHEADA BBC press release says that a fourteen-episode seventh season has now been confirmed for "Doctor Who" with Matt Smith to...
Doug Liman’s “Luna” Rises And Shines
Doug Liman's sci-fi tale "Luna" has scored the green light from Paramount Pictures says Variety.The story centers on a group of renegade scientists who...
Sony Moves Forward On “Salt” Sequel
Sony Pictures is moving forward with plans for a sequel to the 2010 action-thriller "Salt" says Deadline.Kurt Wimmer, who wrote the original film, has...
Paul Walker Wanted For “Terminator 5”
"Fast and Furious" series star Paul Walker has emerged as a potential candidate to play Kyle Reese in the recently talked about fifth "Terminator"...
Can You “Imagine” Al Pacino
Al Pacino is in talks to star as an aging rocker in "Imagine" for Warner Bros. Pictures says Variety.The story centers on a rocker...
Worthington Set For New Sci-Fi Feature
Sam Worthington is attached to star in an untitled sci-fi project for Warner Bros. Pictures reports Deadline.All that's known is that the story is...