De Palma Grips Boston Stranglers
Brian De Palma ("The Untouchables," "The Black Dahlia") has signed on to direct "The Boston Stranglers" for Valhalla Motion Pictures says The Hollywood Reporter.Alan...
Spit on Your Grave Remake Planned
CineTel Films has acquired rights for a threatical remake 1978 female revenge thriller "I Spit on Your Grave" says Variety.In the Meir Zarchi-directed original,...
Ritchie Reinvents Sherlock Holmes
Guy Ritchie has signed on to write and direct a reimagination of Sherlock Holmes for Warner Bros. Pictures says the trades.The film will based...
Disney Plans Hexum Franchise
Disney Pictures and Idealogy have picked up "Children of Men" and "Spy Game" scribe David Arata's action-thriller pitch "Hexum" says The Hollywood Reporter.Details of...
French Thriller Bait Gets Remade
Eric Eisner, Aimee Peyronnet and Alexandra Milchan will produce an English-language version of the 1995 French thriller "The Bait" says The Hollywood Reporter.Bertrand Tavernier's...
Trade Breaks: Human, Solo, Paramount
"Matt Damon is now committed to star in "Human Factor," joining Morgan Freeman in the Clint Eastwood-directed film for Warner Bros. Pictures. Damon...
Emmy Rossum Plays Truth Or Dare
Emmy Rossum has joined the independent film "Dare" which Adam Salky will direct says Variety.The David Brind-scripted film is about three privileged high school...
Jeffrey Dean Morgan Visits Shanghai
Jeffrey Dean Morgan (TV's "Supernatural," "The Accidental Husband") has joined the Weinstein Co.'s period piece "Shanghai" says The Hollywood Reporter.Morgan plays Connor, an...
Willis Joins Kane & Lynch Film
Bruce Willis is in negotiations to star in Lionsgate's video game adaptation "Kane & Lynch" reports the trades.The game follows Adam 'Kane' Marcus (Willis),...
Ridley Scott Talks Upcoming Films
Ridley Scott spoke with Eclipse Magazine recently about the recently aired, well-produced but creatively inert mini-series adaptation of Michael Crichton's seminal sci-fi novel...
Serge Gainsbourg Biopic Planned
French comic book author Joann Sfar is set to shoot a biopic of French poet, singer, actor and director Serge Gainsbourg says FilmDeCulte.com.Gainsbourg's music...
Next Terminator Ending Revealed?
It started out as a interesting but unconfirmed crazy Net rumor over at AICN yesterday. In the 24 hours since however talk has...
Universal Rushes Ludlum’s Protocol
Universal Pictures is rushing forward with its planned adaptation of Robert Ludlum's "The Sigma Protocol" reports the trades.Art Marcum and Matt Holloway ("Iron Man")...
Molina, Kingsley Join Prince of Persia
Alfred Molina and Ben Kingsley have joined the cast of Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney's "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" reports Variety.The Mike...
Trade Breaks: Road, Harvard, Jungle
"Paul Cowan, Chris Wheeldon and Michael Robertson ("Black Water") are teaming to produce the Aussie supernatural thriller "Road Train". The story follows a...
Marsden Joins Transformers Sequel
Matthew Marsden ("Rambo," "Resident Evil: Extinction") has joined the cast of Michael Bay's "Transformers 2" says MTV News.Marsden is set to play Graham, a...
Transporter 3 Delivers Thanksgiving
Lionsgate has acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to the upcoming EuropaCorp-produced third "Transporter" movie.Jason Statham returns as iconic action hero Frank Martin, and...
Abu-Assad Counts Eleven Minutes
Hany Abu-Assad ("paradise Now," "Nazareth") is set to direct "Eleven Minutes" for Hollywood Gang Productions says Variety.An adaptation of the steamy bestselling novel by...
Bana Returns To Comedy For Apatow
Eric Bana is returning to his stand-up comedian roots in "Knocked Up" director Judd Apatow's next project according to CHUD.The comedy-drama follows a group...
Ed Helms Shovels Manure
Ed Helms ("The Office," "the Daily Show") has joined the cast of the Polish brothers indie comedy "Manure" says Variety.The story revolves around a...
Warners Goes Slim Next Summer
The IESB has done an interesting article on the lack of tentpoles of at Warner Bros. Pictures next Summer. Whilst all the other major...
The Random Spiel: June 2nd 2008
New photos are out from the DTV sequel Lost Boys: The Tribe, the Robert Downey Jr. drama The Soloist, and the DTV anime...
Glover, Newton, Platt In 2012
Danny Glover, Thandie Newton and Oliver Platt have joined Roland Emmerich's epic disaster movie "2012" for Sony Pictures says The Hollywood Reporter.John Cusack and...
Cooksey Penning A ReBoot Feature
Jon Cooksey has been signed to write the script for the first in a feature film trilogy based on the 1994 CG-animated series "ReBoot"...
Trade Breaks: Pizzman, Dolans, Buck
"Despite reports of its closure, Mel Brooks's Brooksfilms is still developing the serious horror film "Pizzaman". Rudy De Luca and Steve...
MTV Movie Award Winners & Skits
The 17th annual "2008 MTV Movie Awards" took place Sunday night with Mike Myers hosting. The usual partying celebrities and performances were in tow,...
Bryce Replaces Charlotte In Terminator
Bryce Dallas Howard is in negotiations to replace Charlotte Gainsbourg in "Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins" says Reuters.Gainsbourg was originally set to play Kate...
Bentley, McPhee Join Storyteller
Katharine McPhee and Wes Bentley have joined the indie psychological drama "The Storyteller" for Feverpitch Pictures says The Hollywood Reporter.Bentley plays a writer who...
Platinum Enters Final Orbit
Platinum Studios and Valhalla Motion Pictures are teaming on the thriller comicbook adaptation "Final Orbit" says Variety.The comic tells the story of a lottery...
Logan Lerman Is My One and Only
Logan Lerman (TV's "Jack and Bobby," "3:10 to Yuma") will play a young George Hamilton in the Richard Loncraine-directed "My One and Only" says...