News Bites: September 17th 2008
New posters Role Models, Good Dick and Passengers.-A great Vanity Fair photo of all the actors in character as Bush's cabinet in Oliver...
Diane English On Fear of Flying
"The Women" director Diane English tells MTV News that her next movie is going to be an adaptation of Erica Jong's 1973 bestseller "Fear...
Miley Cyrus Sparks To Disney Film
"Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus is getting her own Disney film vehicle by author Nicholas Sparks ("The Notebook," "A Walk to Remember") reports Variety.Sparks...
Dunst Makes For A Jealous Ghost
Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego will direct Paramount Vantage's literary horror thriller "A Jealous Ghost" says The Hollywood Reporter.Kirsten Dunst stars in and produce the adaptation of...
Nicole Kidman Is The Eighth Wonder
20th Century Fox has picked up "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" scribe Simon Kinberg's action-adventure pitch "The Eighth Wonder" says Reuters.The story centers on an...
Michael Caine Talks Harry Brown
Michael Caine tells MTV News that he's going all vigilante for his recently announced "Harry Brown".The story follows an elderly man driven to vigilante...
Rian Johnson Time Travels To Looper
Rian Johnson ("The Brothers Bloom," "Brick") will pen and direct the time-travel thriller "Looper" says The Hollywood Reporter."Looper" is set in a present-day world...
Michael Douglas Locked In Solitary
Michael Douglas will play a car magnate with a runaway libido in Millennium Films' "Solitary Man" reports Variety.Douglas plays a former owner of a...
Zach Galifianakis Has a Hangover
Comedian Zach Galifianakis has snagged the lead role in Todd Phillips' comedy "The Hangover" for Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures says Reuters.In "Hangover,"...
Grabbers Nabs Jason Statham
"The Transporter" and "Crank" star Jason Statham tells Empire Online that his next film will be a project currently titled "The Grabbers".Describing it as...
Overture Has 92 Minutes To Live
Overture has acquired philosophical comedy "92 Minutes" which Daniel Taplitz will pen into a screenplay says The Hollywood Reporter.Based on a 1997 Israeli comedy...
Beverly Hills Ninja Sequel Underway
A sequel to Sony Pictures 1997 action comedy "Beverly Hills Ninja" will get underway in South Korea starting next month reports Variety.Mitch Klebanoff, a...
Willis Tells Joan Three Stories
Bruce Willis will make his directorial debut on the psychological thriller "Three Stories About Joan" reports The Shreveport Times.Willis will helm and star in...
Chase Ellison Is A Fairy Lover
Teen actor Chase Ellison ("Towelhead," "Fireflies in the Garden") has joined the cast of Fox's family comedy "Tooth Fairy" says The Hollywood Reporter.Ellison plays...
Wolf & Spade Get Divorced
Fred Wolf ("The House Bunny") will write and direct the David Spade comedy "Divorced Guys" for Wind Dancer Films reports Variety.Wolf, Spade and Kevin...
Rockwell On Moon, Fine, Broncos
In an upcoming exclusive interview with Dark Horizons, actor Sam Rockwell talked quite a lot about his busy upcoming slate during promotions for the...
Bond Theme Elates & Angers Singers
So far the only thing we've seen or heard about "Another Way to Die", the theme song to the upcoming James Bond flick "Quantum...
First Says Coens Gambit Stalled
Colin Firth tells MTV News that Joel and Ethan Coen's heist movie remake "Gambit" has stalled and no plans have been set for the...
Homicide Duo On HBO’s Booth
"Homicide: Life on the Streets" collaborators David Simon and Tom Fontana will reunite for an HBO miniseries about the hunt for John Wilkes Booth...
Hulk, Lantern, Avengers Updates
Edward Norton admits that he's got no clue as to his or the Incredible Hulk's involvement in future Marvel films - "The minds of...
Affleck Stars, Directs, Writes Town
Ben Affleck is in negotiations to star in, direct and rewrite the script for Warner Bros. Pictures "The Town" reports the trades.Based on Chuck...
Maguire’s $50M Spider-Man Deal?
The less-than-verbose 33-year-old actor will allegedly score that salary, plus profit shares, to shoot two further "Spider-Man" films back-to-back over six months next year...
Elwes, McDowell, Cox Are Dead
First Line Entertainment and producer Edward Bass are teaming on three features says The Hollywood Reporter.The first is "As Good as Dead", a thriller...
Anders, McClure Join Corn Remake
David Anders ("Alias," "Heroes"), Kandyse McClure ("Battlestar Galactica," "Reaper"), Preston Bailey ("Dexter") and Daniel Newman ("Surface") have joined the cast of the two-hour TV...
Pike & Fiennes Takeover Creation?
**** UPDATE 9/18: A representative for Hanway Films has released the following statement:"This story is completely FALSE. Bettany & Connelly are starring in the...
Strouse Has A Winning Season
James Strouse ("Grace is Gone") will write and direct the indie comedy "The Winning Season" for Gigi Productions and Plum Pictures says the trades.The...
Scribes Drawn Together By Heigl
Keith Merryman and David A. Newman will pen the Katherine Heigl action-comedy "Drawn Together" for Fox 2000 and Nash Entertainment says The Hollywood Reporter.The...
Clarke Duke Joins Kick-Ass Film
Clark Duke ("Superbad") has joined the cast of the Matthew Vaughn-directed comic book adaptation "Kick-Ass" reports Access Hollywood.Backstage at the MTV VMAs, Clark says...
Cheech Marin Triples Up For Angel
Cheech Marin will star in, write and direct the dramedy "Angel of Oxnard" for HighRoad Entertainment reports Variety.The story centers on Angel Mejias (Marin),...
News Shorts: September 15th 2008
"Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American and Australian rights to Endgame Entertainment's "A Chorus Line" docu "Every Little Step". SPC will likely release...