School of Rock Sequel Greenlit
Paramount Pictures is moving forward with the sequel to "School of Rock" says Variety.Scribe Mike White revealed last month that he had finished and...
Fox Nabs Missile Crisis Tale Midnight
Fox 2000 has picked up screen rights to Michael Dobbs's best selling Cuban Missile Crisis-themed tome "One Minute to Midnight" says Variety.The story focuses...
Zobel & Heder Drink Loudermilk
Craig Zobel ("Great World of Sound") will rewrite and direct the Jon Heder comedy "Loudermilk" at Rogue Pictures says The Hollywood Reporter.The story centers...
Universal & Grazer Fly To Tehran
Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have picked up Richard Regen's spec script "Tehran" reports Variety.The drama revolves around an American professor who is contracted...
Gold Circle Enters The Passage
Gold Circle Films has purchased Jonathan W.C. Mills' spec thriller "Inside Passage" says The Hollywood Reporter.The story centers on a young couple whose honeymoon...
Hellboy Hot At Box-Office
"Hellboy II: The Golden Army" looks set to take in around $34 million and the top spot at this weekend's box-office after pulling in...
Knight Box-Office, Reviews, Clips
Warner Bros. Pictures is setting estimates for a $90-100 million haul for the opening weekend of "The Dark Knight" next weekend, a number quite...
Jennifer Lynch Charms Snake Woman
Jennifer Lynch ("Surveillance") has signed on to direct the Bollywood horror-thriller "Nagin: The Snake Woman" for Split Image and Venus Records & Tapes says...
No Heavy Metal At Paramount
David Fincher's planned remake of the 1981 R-rated animated feature "Heavy Metal" has been ditched by Paramount Pictures.Blur Studio's Tim Miller, who's handling the...
Cooper & Helms Suffer A Hangover
Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms are in final negotiations to join bachelor-party comedy "Hangover" for Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures says The Hollywood...
Heroes, Grey’s, Entourage Updates
The first of three webisodes introducing the new "Heroes" character Echo De Mille (a mailman who can emit fatal sounds) will premiere on NBC.com...
Release Date Changes: July 13th 2008
The Ed Harris-directed, Viggo Mortensen western "Appaloosa" will open in limited release on September 17th.- "Red", a thriller about an older man...
Trades: Trailers, Disney, Unique
"A theater source for DH reports that both a 15 second teaser for "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and a full two-minute trailer...
Alan Horn Talks Wild Things Woes
"Where the Wild Things Are", the much troubled $80 million film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic child fantasy book, has been pulled off the...
Chris Brown Cuts Bone Deep
Grammy-nominee Chris Brown ("Stomp the Yard," "This Christmas") is in final negotiations to join and executive produce the Screen Gems thriller "Bone Deep" says...
Inglorious Bastards Script Reviews
With Quentin Tarantino's 165-page "Inglorious Bastards" script being shopped around town this week, it comes as no surprise that two script reviews are already...
Disney Swims With Synchronicity
Disney Pictures and Scott Rudin are teaming to develop the comedy "Synchronicity" says The Hollywood Reporter.The story will center on male synchronized swimmers and...
Favreau Set For Iron Man 2
Marvel Studios and "Iron Man" director Jon Favreau have apparently reached a deal for him to helm the sequel due out in 2010 reports...
Scripts: Colony, Substitution, Veterinarian
"Stacy Title and Jonathan Penner ("Let the Devil Wear Black") will write the eco-horror tale "The Colony" for Participant Media. Steven Schneider, Doug...
Dark Knight Selling Out All Over
There's still over a week before "The Dark Knight" hits theaters.Yet with almost all of the 1,500 midnight Thursday night showings next week sold...
Anne Fletcher Trains The Matadors
Choreographer Anne Fletcher is set to direct Disney comedy "Matadors" for Adam Shankman to produce reports Variety.Penned by Mike Bender, the film is based...
Downey Jr. Is Ritchie’s Sherlock
Robert Downey Jr. is in final negotiations to play the title character in the Guy Ritchie-directed "Sherlock Holmes" for Warner Bros. Pictures says The...
Upcoming Trailer Premiere News
The first trailers for the Christian Bale-led "Terminator Salvation", Zack Snyder's graphic novel adaptation "Watchmen" and the Ridley Scott-directed thriller "Body of Lies" are...
Tarantino’s Bastards Shoots In October
It looks like Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Bastards" is finally moving ahead after all at The Weinstein Company says The Hollywood Reporter.The long-gestating World War...
Bertino Does Two More Rogue Thrillers
Writer-director Bryan Bertino will do two more thrillers for Rogue Pictures after his success with "The Strangers" in May says Variety.The first is a...
Ellsworth Pens Red Dawn Remake
Screenwriter Carl Ellsworth ("Red Eye," "Disturbia") has been hired to pen MGM's remake of the 1984 homeland invasion thriller "Red Dawn" says The Hollywood...
Sony Travels To Planet 51
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Groups has picked up U.S. distribution rights to the $50 million CG-animated family film "Planet 51" reports the trades.The comedic...
Shepard, Arquette Go For A Run
Sam Shepard, Rosanna Arquette, Jordi Molla and French star Vincent Perez are joining Dermot Mulroney and Diane Kruger in the organ transplant thriller "Run...
Rupert Grint Sets Off A Cherrybomb
Rupert Grint ("Harry Potter") will star in the Belfast-set teen drama "Cherrybomb" for Generator Entertainment says Variety.Daragh Carville's script follows two friends (Grint, Robert...
Walden Media Gets Housebroken
Walden Media has acquired the CG and live-action combined family-oriented comedy "Housebroken" says The Hollywood Reporter.The story takes a look at a group of...