McConaughey Not The New Magnum P.I.
Producer Brian Grazer has shot down rumors that Matthew McConaughey was offered the role as the title character in the "Magnum P.I." film currently...
Arrested Development Film Official?
Mitch Hurwitz and Ron Howard have closed deals with for the long-gestating film version of Fox's prematurely cancelled acclaimed sitcom "Arrested Development" reports Reuters.Cast...
Kendrick Breathes Air With Clooney
Anna Kendrick ("Twilight," "Rocket Science") has landed the coveted female lead role opposite George Clooney in Paramount and Montecito's comedy "Up in the Air"...
Olyphant Joins Crazies Remake
Timothy Olyphant has signed on to star in the remake of George Romero's horror flick "The Crazies" for Overture Films says The Hollywood Reporter.The...
Sale Explores Real French Connection
Mark Canton ("300") and Pterodactyl are developing a film version of Gerald Kelly's book "Honor for Sale" says Variety.The true life story revolves around...
Universal Lands Ludlum & More Bourne
Universal Pictures has set a deal with "The Bourne Identity" author Robert Ludlum's estate that gives them exclusive rights to the Jason Bourne character...
Terminator Salvation Gets A Game
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Equity Games Production and Halcyon Games have announced "Terminator Salvation - The Videogame," an action-packed, third-person shooter, to be released...
Universal Gets A Best Man-A-Thon
Universal Pictures is in final negotiations to buy Richard Rapoza's raucous matrimonial comedy script "Best Man-A-Thon" says The Hollywood Reporter."Man-A-Thon" finds its lead character...
Bill ‘Hopalong’ Cassidy Biopic Planned
Pterodactyl Productions is planning a film about iconic cowboy character and B-movie Western staple Bill "Hopalong" Cassidy says Variety.Created in 1904 by writer Clarence...
Sony Takes Up The Swap
Tim and Tom Mullen will adapt Antony Moore's novel "The Swap" for Sony Pictures reports the trades.The story centers on an out-of-shape comic book...
Mila Kunis Reads The Book of Eli
Mila Kunis has joined the cast of action thriller "The Book of Eli" for Warner Bros. Pictures, Silver Pictures and Alcon Entertainment says The...
Segal Develops Geezer, Marvel, Smart 2
Director Peter Segal ("Get Smart") and Michael Ewing have been signed to a three-year first-look deal with Warner Bros. Pictures reports Variety.The deal kicks...
ABC Ditches Daisies, Keeps Mars
In its mid-season programming shuffle, ABC has decided to ditch three of the five series it premiered last season.After struggling in the ratings during...
News Shorts: November 20th 2008
Posters for Lost: Season Five, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, A Lonely Place for Dying, The Spirit, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans,...
Terminator: Salvation Early Look
It's been an interesting last month or so in terms of early footage presentations. "Watchmen" and "Star Trek" have both kicked off presentations...
As Twilight Breaks, So Does The Bank
As of 12 noon Wednesday in the US, nearly 600 of the Thursday midnight show sessions of tween vampire romance adaptation "Twilight" have sold...
South Park Caps Off With Movie
When the time comes to close the door on the hit animated series "South Park", creator Trey Parker tells The Los Angeles Times that...
Tremors 5 Goes Down Under, Ugh
Back in 1990 came the release of "Tremors", a low-budget, darkly comic monster movie that quickly became a well-regarded cult classic.To this day it's...
A Christmas Carol Coming In IMAX
Disney's A Christmas Carol, the spectacular 3D 2009 holiday release from director Robert Zemeckis and starring Jim Carrey, will be the first film from...
Perez, Ferguson, Hall Visit Color City
Rosie Perez, Craig Ferguson and Arsenio Hall have signed on to voice characters in Exodus Film Group's cartoon-crayon tale "The Hero of Color City"...
50 Cent Is A Dead Man Running
Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson has joined the cast of Alex de Rakoff's indie London gangland movie "Dead Man Running" says The Hollywood Reporter.Set in...
Nevedine & Taylor Depart Jonah Hex
"Crank" and "Pathology" writer/directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have dropped out of the adaptation of the comic adaptation "Jonah Hex" for production companies...
Mary and Max Open Sundance 2009
Adam Elliot's clay-animated feature "Mary and Max," voiced by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette, will open the 25th Sundance Film Festival on January...
Paramount Plans Linda Trest Biopic
Paramount Pictures has picked up the life rights of 51-year-old Missouri journalist Linda Trest. Anthony Walton and Andrew Dresher wil pen a script...
Robert Schwentke Directs Venus Fixer
Robert Schwentke ("Flightplan, "The Time Traveler's Wife") is attached to direct the thriller "Venus Fixer" for New Line and Mandalay Pictures reports Variety.Based on...
Sony Plans White House Butler Project
Sony has landed feature film rights to Wil Haygood's Washington Post report "A Butler Well Served by This Election" reports the trades.The film is...
Collene Campbell Is The New Brockovich
The Collective and Three Friends Prods. are teaming to produce an "Erin Brockovich"-like style film about Collene Campbell's crusade says The Hollywood Reporter.Campbell's son...
Gossip Girl Man Takes On X-Men
"Gossip Girl" and "The O.C." creator Josh Schwartz is in negotiations to write an X-Men spin-off for the younger set - "X-Men: First Class"...
Bond, Verbinski Remake The Host
Universal Pictures is set to remake the 2006 South Korean thriller "The Host" reports Variety.The original followed a city terrorized by a giant mutant...
Narnia Scribes Pen Captain America
Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (the "Narnia" films, "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers") are in negotiations to pen "First Avenger: Captain America"...