Paramount & Pitt Adopt A Battling Boy
Paramount Pictures and Brad Pitt's Plan B company have acquired film rights to Paul Pope's upcoming graphic novel "Battling Boy" reports Variety.The gritty tale...
Pullman, Leguizamo Join Celestina
Bill Pullman and John Leguizamo are attached to star in "Celestina" for Esperanza Productions says The Hollywood Reporter.The story is described as a surreal...
Hideo Nakata In A Chatroom
Hideo Nakata ("The Ring Two," "Dark Water") will direct the WestEnd Films psychological thriller "Chatroom" reports Variety.The story, Nakata's first original helming effort in...
Gurinder Chadha Celebrates Afterlife
British-Asian helmer Gurinder Chadha ("Bend it Like Beckham," "Bride and Prejudice") will helm the horror comedy "It's a Wonderful Afterlife" for HanWay Films says...
Garity, Vargas Light Some Kerosene
Troy Garity, Jason Gray-Standford and Jacob Vargas will play a ragtag group of Navy fighter pilots in Mario Van Peebles' action-thriller "Kerosene Cowboys" for...
Rob Schneider Becomes A Virgin
Rob Schneider, Jenna Dewan ("Step Up") and Brianne Davis ("Jarhead") will all star in the sex comedy "Virgin on Bourbon Street" for Echo Bridge...
Lipnicki On The Other Side
Jonathan Lipnicki ("Jerry Maguire," "Stuart Little") will star in Dev-O-Ron Pictures' psychological thriller "The Other Side of Innocence" says The Hollywood Reporter.Now a senior...
News Shorts: November 3rd 2008
Charlize Theron is negotiating to star with Tom Cruise in "The Tourist" for Spyglass Entertainment says Variety.A remake of 2005 French thriller "Anthony Zimmer",...
Theron Joins Cruise In Tourist
Charlize Theron is negotiating to star with Tom Cruise in "The Tourist" for Spyglass Entertainment says Variety.A remake of 2005 French thriller "Anthony Zimmer",...
MGM & Farrelly’s Stooges In 2009
MGM Films is in the process of re-acquiring the film rights to the Three Stooges from Warner Bros. Pictures says the trades.The studio showcased...
Che Duo Re-Team On Falcone
"Che" writer Peter Buchman and director Steven Soderbergh are reteaming on the undercover mob story "Making Jack Falcone" for Paramount Pictures says The Hollywood...
Grey’s Controversial Cast Drop
The ABC network has ordered that actress Brooke Smith, who plays Dr. Eric Hahn on the popular show "Grey's Anatomy", leave the series says...
Jenna Fischer Gets A Little Help
Jenna Fischer ("Blades of Glory," "The Office") will topline the indie dramedy "A Little Help" for Secret Handshake Entertainment says Variety.The story centers on...
Cohen’s Latest Bruno Antics
He's caused commotion at fashion shows, an airport, a wrestling match, and a film junket - now British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and his...
Miramax Picks Up Last Night Ensemble
Miramax Films has picked up the ensemble romantic drama "Last Night" in several key territories says the trades.The story revolves around a married couple...
Goodwin, Hoult Join Single Man
Small screen stars Ginnifer Goodwin ("Big Love") and Nicholas Hoult ("Skins") have joined the cast of Tom Ford's directorial debut "A Single Man" says...
Collins Helms Two Perdition Sequels
"Road to Perdition" creator Max Allan Collins has been tapped to write and direct two sequels to Sam Mendes' 2002 film adaptation of his...
Details of 24 Season 7 Premiere
"24," the Emmy Award-winning series starring Kiefer Sutherland, will premiere with a special two-night, four-hour event Sunday, Jan. 11 and Monday, Jan. 12 (8:00-10:00...
Stephen Graham Joins Cage’s Witch
Stephen Graham has signed on for Relativity's period horror "Season of the Witch" says Reuters.The film follows 14th century knights who transport a girl...
More On Iron Man 2 Casting Change
When it was announced that Don Cheadle would take over Terrence Howard's in the upcoming "Iron Man" sequel, many knew that something was fishy...
Eastwood Planning Mark Twain Biopic
Producer Albert S. Ruddy ("Million Dollar," "Cannonball Run") tells Moviehole that Clint Eastwood's next project is a biopic of "Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer"...
Boondock Saints Sequel Underway
Shooting has commenced in Toronto on Troy Duffy's "The Boondock Saints 2", the sequel to 2000 cult indie thriller that made Duffy famous.Sean Patrick...
Heroes Duo Fired By NBC
"Heroes" writers/co-executive producers Jesse Alexander and Jeph Loeb were fired on Sunday reports Variety.The pair led day-to-day production operation under the direction of creator/executive...
New Apes Remaking Conquest?
CHUD reports that 20th Century Fox is considering a new version of "Planet of the Apes".Not a sequel to the Burton film, nor another...
Universal Picks Up Dante’s Inferno
'Universal Pictures has won the bidding war for Electronic Arts upcoming "Dante's Inferno" video game franchise reports Variety.Strike Entertainment's Eric Newman and Marc Abraham...
Release Date Changes: November 3rd 2008
'Zephyr' is back with the latest batch of release date changes, including what could be the renewal of a long thought dead project:Whiteout: The...
Spielberg’s Tintin Gets Reworked
Things have been far from smooth in Steven Spielberg's quest to turn internationally-beloved Belgian comic "Tintin" into a feature film trilogy, but the effort...
Halloween Sequel In The Works
Rob Zombie's heavily panned 2007 remake of "Halloween" last year is getting a sequel.Producer Malek Akkad was on hand in Pasadena over the weekend...
School On Top, Porno Takes Two
Halloween turned the Friday box-office into a dead zone, but the films bounced back on the weekend and last week's big opener "High School...
Seeker, Futurama, Dwarf, 24 TV News
""Don't forget that Sam Raimi's new fantasy series "The Legend of the Seeker" begins airing in syndication this weekend. Check local listings for...