Rod Lurie Goes To The Dogs
Rod Lurie ("The Contender," TV's "Commander-in-Chief") is on board to direct a remake of the 1971 thriller "Straw Dogs" for Screen Gems says The...
Leoni & Duchovny Are Digest Dreamers
Tea Leoni and David Duchovny will produce "American Dreamers", the story of Reader's Digest founders DeWitt Wallace and Lila Acheson Wallace reports Variety.Based on...
Best Time In The Sack? Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys has signed on to star with Keira Knightley and Lindsay Lohan in "The Best Time of Our Lives" for...
Trade Breaks: Kid, Mortadelo, Hope
"Montecito Pictures and DreamWorks have picked up "The Creepy Kid," a comedy spec from scribes Ethan Furman and Adam Farasati. The logline is...
David O. Russell Climbs A Hill
David O. Russell ("Three Kings," "I Heart Huckabees") is adapting and is attached to direct the subversive Washington comedy "Sammy's Hill" for Sony Pictures...
Gosnell Declares War On Oprah’s Hobby
The Weinstein Company has attached "Scooby-Doo" & "Never Been Kissed" helmer Raja Gosnell to direct romantic comedy "The Book Club" reports Variety.Story concerns a...
Jellyfish Don’t Like Fool’s Gold
Irukandji jellyfish, among the world's most toxic creatures, is spreading along Australia's coastline as a result of global warming reports The Telegraph.Their discovery has...
The Random Spiel: March 29th 2007
The Bryan Singer/Tom Cruise WW2 film is going by the name "Valkyrie" says The Guardian. This is the codename for the Hitler...
Jim Carrey Takes Some Me Time
Jim Carrey will produce and potentially star in the comedy "Me Time" for 20th Century Fox reports Variety.Ian Roberts and Jay Martel ("Air Guitar...
Mirren and Harris Uncover Treasure
Oscar winner Helen Mirren and Ed Harris have joined the cast of Disney's action-adventure sequel "National Treasure: The Book of Secrets" which is now...
Sequels: Potter, Kombat, X-Files, 28
Lots of talk about potential sequels in the last 48 hours. Some sounds enticing, some far too hopeful, and others just plain ridiculous.First...
Fireflies Buzz All-Star Quintet
Willem Dafoe, Hayden Panettiere, Shannon Lucio, Ioan Gruffudd and George Newbern are joining the ensemble cast of Senator Entertainment's "Fireflies in the Garden" says...
Ice Cube Requires Some Tough Love
Dimension Films has picked up comedy script "Tough Love" from writers Matt Allen and Caleb Wilson, with Ice Cube attached to star and Thomas...
From Dreams To Wings For Hudson
They won this year's best actor and supporting actress Oscars, now they may be playing father and daughter it seems.Jennifer Hudson ("Dreamgirls") is tipped...
Elizabeth Banks On Barb Comedy
Elizabeth Banks ("Seabiscuit," "Spider-Man 3") will star in and produce the Universal romantic comedy "What About Barb" reports Variety.The story follows a socialite who...
Trades: Dick, Days, Cottage, Bingen
"Dickhouse Prods., the home of "Jackass" producers Spike Jonze, Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine, has signed a first-look deal with Paramount Pictures/MTV Films. ...
Anderson Still Locked In Castlevania
Despite recent rumors to the contrary, genre filmmaker Paul W.S. Anderson tells IGN Movies that he is still very much involved with the planned...
Dennis Dugan Messes With Zohan
Director Dennis Dugan ("Happy Gilmore," "Big Daddy") is set to reteam with Adam Sandler in Sony Pictures' "You Don't Mess With the Zohan" says...
Writer’s Block: Phenom, Sister, Class
"Screen Gems has acquired the Charles Murray spec script "Phenom," and set singer-actor Chris Brown to star. Brown will play a standout...
Mateo Gil Plans Pedro Paramo Adaptation
Scribe Mateo Gil ("Nobody Knows Anybody") will write and direct a bigscreen adaptation of Juan Rulfo's novel "Pedro Paramo," a seminal work in modern...
Tarantino Mulls Bastards On The Road
Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Bastards" looks to "probably be the very next thing I do" said the "Grindhouse" director to Slash Film at a junket...
Cusack and Hayes Are Humping Igor
John Cusack and Sean Hayes have joined the voice cast of Exodus Film Group's CG-animated feature comedy "Igor" says The Hollywood Reporter.Cusack replaces Christian...
Oscar-Winner Whitaker Becomes A Watchman
Forest Whitaker is in final negotiations to reteam with Fox Searchlight for "The Night Watchman," his first project since he won the Oscar a...
An Iraq Memoir Becomes A Denzel Film
Escape Artists has acquired the rights to Dana Canedy's first-person essay published in January in the New York Times as a producing and potential...
Finerman Comes Up With A New List
New Line Cinema has picked up the rights to Jill Smolinski's upcoming novel "The Next Thing on My List" for Wendy Finerman ("The Devil...
Niki Caro Has Fallen Out Of The Sky
Niki Caro ("North Country," "Whale Rider") will adapt and direct Ken Dornstein's memoir "The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky" for Warner Bros....
Mike Myers Guru Prays To Schnabel
Marco Schnabel, who served as second unit director on the last "Austin Powers" film, will direct Mike Myers return to the bigscreen as the...
Sanders Has A Crood Awakening
Director Chris Sanders ("Lilo and Stitch") is set to helm the CG-animated feature "Crood Awakening" for Dreamworks Animation.The stone-age comedy, written by British comedy...
Winstone Joins Fourth Indiana Jones
Ray Winstone ("The Departed," "Cold Mountain") is set to join the cast of the fourth "Indiana Jones" film says The Hollywood Reporter.Winstone will play...
The Random Spiel: March 27th 2007
Are Bruce Willis and Sam Jackson teaming up again for a remake of "Freebie and the Bean"?-Johnny Depp and Antonio Banderas in consideration...