Dan Dare Film Version Planned
Virgin Comics is planning a feature film adaptation of "Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future," the long running 1950's comic strip described as Britain's...
Piven Has Got The Goods
Jeremy Piven is set to star in the Paramount Vantage comedy "The Goods: The Don Ready Story" which Will Ferrell and Adam McKay will...
Niles Talks A Macabre Adaptation
"30 Days of Night" creator Steve Niles has confirmed that they'll be announcing a director for the film version of his Dark Horse Comics...
Giamatti On Bubba Nosferatu
"Bubba Nosferatu," the prequel to Don Coscarelli's low-budget genre laugher "Bubba Ho-Tep" would have Bruce Campbell's Elvis Presley battling vampires.Now, acclaimed thesp Paul Giamatti...
The Prisoner Has Been Executed
A while back there was a lot of excitement that both a feature film version, and a new big-budget British/US TV co-produced series was...
Dubious Justice Talk Runs Rampant
The "Justice League" movie is rushing ahead for a pre-strike start of production, and so talk is flying thick and fast about what's going...
Haggis On Bond 22 Script
At the press junket this past weekend for "In the Valley of Elah," Oscar winning "Crash" filmmaker Paul Haggis was out doing promotions and...
Ang Lee’s Lust Given An NC-17
The MPAA has awarded Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution," the director's first project since the acclaimed "Brokeback Mountain," the dreaded NC-17 rating."Lust" follows a young...
Three More Join Hartnett’s Rain
Takuya Kimura ("2046"), Lee Byung-hun ("A Bittersweet Life") and Shawn Yue Man-lok ("Infernal Affairs") have joined the cast of Josh Hartnett psychothriller "I Come...
Rainn Pours On A Renaissance
Universal Pictures has picked up comedy "Renaissance Men" penned by actors Rainn Wilson an Matt Ross reports Reuters.Wilson ("The Office") will topline and produce...
Disney To Swing With Costner
Touchstone Pictures will co-finance and domestically distribute the Kevin Costner political comedy "Swing Vote".The story follows Bud Johnson (Costner), a working-class single father who...
Trade Breaks: Potter, GI Joe, Dance
"The production team behind "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" will be filming several "spooky night scenes" at the cloisters at Lacock Abbey in...
Thomas Directs More Comedic Dallas
Comedy director Betty Thomas ("The Brady Bunch") is in discussions to helm the feature film adaptation of classic 80's TV series "Dallas" reports Variety.Regency...
Scott & Steenburgen In Step
Adam Scott, Mary Steenburgen, Katherine Hahn and Andrea Savage have joined the cast of the Judd Apatow-produced comedy "Step Brothers" for Sony Pictures says...
Promenade Releases New Commandments
Promenade Pictures will enter U.S. theatrical distribution October 26 by releasing the 3-D CGI-animated feature "The Ten Commandments."The film is the first in a...
Justice League To Be Motion Capture?
One of the biggest problems of doing a "Justice League" movie is not only the casting issues, but the expense of doing such a...
Timberlake Has Big Love Stick
Justin Timberlake is joining the cast of Paramount Pictures' Mike Myers comedy "The Love Guru" reports the trades.In the comedy, the Love Guru (Myers)...
Terrence Howard Turns Street Fighter
Terrence Howard will join Channing Tatum ("Step Up") in Rogue's untitled street-fighting pic written and directed by Dito Montiel reports Variety.Howard will play a...
Jesse Eisenberg Visits Adventureland
Jesse Eisenberg is attached to star in the coming-of-age comedy "Adventureland" reports the trades.Taking place in summer 1987, the story follows an uptight recent...
Carla Gugino Turns Righteous
Carla Gugino has joined the cast of Millennium Films $60 million crime drama "Righteous Kill" says The Hollywood Reporter.Jon Avnet directs the project and...
Trade Breaks: Adoration, Hour, Valet
"Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard, Devon Bostick and Arsinee Khanjian are set to star in Atom Egoyan's next project "Adoration" The $4.7 million drama...
Ice Cube Makes A Comeback
Dimension Films has picked up the Ice Cube-led inspirational sports drama "Comeback" reports the trades.Based on a true story, "Comeback" centers on a poor...
Schwimmer Reveals The Truth
David Schwimmer has joined the cast of the political thriller "Nothing but the Truth" says The Hollywood Reporter.Written and directed by Rod Lurie ("The...
Rama Film Still In The Works
Morgan Freeman says that despite all the long delays, his planned adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's legendary sci-fi novel "Rendezvous with Rama" is still...
Spyglass Play A Dating Game
Spyglass has picked up film rights to Neil Strauss' dating novel "The Game" which Dan Weiss ("Halo," "Pattern Recognition") will adapt says Variety.The book...
McAllister Moving To FIP
First Independent Pictures and Magnolia Home Entertainment are acquiring North American rights to the road comedy "Moving McAllister" says The Hollywood Reporter.Producer-screenwriter-financier Ben Gourley...
Isla Fisher Is A Shopaholic
Aussie actress Isla Fisher ("Wedding Crashers," "The Lookout") has signed on to star in "The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic" for producer Jerry Bruckheimer...
Olson & McFarlane Return To Oz
Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures are teaming on "Oz," a revisionist take on the L. Frank Baum's 15-book "Wizard of Oz" novel series...
Livingston Has Time For A Wife
Ron Livingston has joined Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams in "The Time Traveler's Wife" says Reuters.New Line Cinema's adaptation of the Audrey Niffenegger novel...
Superbad Director In Adventureland
"Superbad" director Greg Mottola has signed on to direct his next film based on his own script for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.JoBlo.com reports that Mottola...