Simon Pegg revealed in The Sunday Times that Steven Spielberg suggested/asked that him and Nick Frost play the Thompson Twins in Tintin. Spielberg requested that Pegg meet him on the mocap set:
“Steven’s smoking a stogy, cap on head, like he’s always been since I was a baby,” Pegg says, shaking his head in wonder. “I [...]

Tobey Maguire is that much closer to signing a deal for the next two Spider-Man films. According to The Times Online, Maguire is willing to shoot Spider-Man 4 and Spider-Man 5 back-to-back over six months next year for a record $50 million in salary and profit shares.
The story makes a big deal of a supposed [...]

My Hollywood spies claim there is a battle going on behind the scenes over two conflicting big screen adaptions, neither of which have been officially announced. The projects in this development rumble include:
Mark Millar’s comic book War Heroes
and
Shannon Eric Denton and Keith Giffen’s comic book Grunts.
According to my source, a film adaptation of Millar’s new [...]

FlawedHollywood has a photo of Eva Longoria leaving the offices of Marvel Studios with a business card and a hand full of reading material, an Avengers comic book on the top of the stack. Longoria’s television show Desperate Housewives will be coming to an end right around the time the Marvel comic book team-up is [...]

Yesterday, Derek Luke was quoted as saying that he heard that Will Smith was offered the role of Captain America by Marvel Entertainment. Thankfully, AICN quickly debunked this report. Marvel claims that they never entertained Smith as a choice, never mind had a conversation or approached Smith for the role. So now that the rumor [...]

Just got home from the party for Me and Orson Welles at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. I had the opportunity to talk with Richard Linklater, who confirmed that a School of Rock sequel is far from a done deal. Linklater admitted that he only had one conversation with the studio about the project. [...]

We first heard of the possibility of an Arrested Development movie about eight months ago, when Jeffrey Tambor and Jason Bateman confirmed that talks for the film were in progress. Then this past June, Bateman discussed the film with MTV, saying:
We all want to do it. All the actors want to do it, the writers [...]

Cinemablend is reporting that Tom Cruise is being considered to voice one of the villain characters in Dreamworks Animation’s Shrek Goes Fourth. Cuise is doing everything he can to restore his name. First his hilarious cameo in Tropic Thunder, then news that he’s working with Sam Raimi on a superhero adaptation and now this. Shrek [...]

In a recent interview with EOnline, Dan Aykroyd was asked about the status of Ghostbusters 3. Aykroyd responded:
Well, y’know, two sharp young writers are purported to be writing the sequel, the third movie now. If I could interest Seth [Rogen] and Judd [Apatow] to be part of it, that would be an absolute dream.
Given [...]

In an interview with G4, comic book writer Mark Millar (Wanted) revealed his plans for a new trilogy of Superman films, which he would like to be shot back-to-back.
“A director approached me about three months ago,” Millar said. “and he said ‘look, [Bryan Singer's] The Man Of Steel might not be happening. If that doesn’t [...]

Update: Empire has confirmed with Guy Ritchie that the Sun’s report is FALSE: “I don’t have a Watson,” said Ritchie. “Somebody just told me that I have Russell Crowe lined up but that’s news to me. I suspect that hasn’t happened and I’m still looking for my Watson.” The original report follows.
As you already know, [...]

The only good thing about those annoying Dark Knight sequel rumors is that it forces the actors on the receiving end to comment about the possibility in the inevitable denial. Our friends at Comic Book Cynic send over word that Johnny Depp has publicly denied rumors that he would be playing The Riddler, while appearing [...]

/Film reader Ricky C snapped some photos of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen shoot in Long Beach today:
Hey guys! I got some really great pictures from the Transformers 2 set in Long Beach. I tried to get more pictures of that grey car but it sped away before i could snap some good pictures. [...]

In a recent interview with CreationTV (video after the jump), Zachary Quinto made a possibly revealing statement about his role in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek.
When asked “How did it inform your character, knowing what he would become?” Quinto responded that while Leonard Nimoy’s performance affected him to a degree, “Although, When you see this movie, [...]

In the new issue of Star Trek Magazine, both William Shatner and director JJ Abrams once again insist that the Shat has no part in the upcoming Star Trek reboot. Here is a quote from Shatner, courtesy of Trekmovie: “I have no connection with the film whatsoever. It’s the strangest thing. Even my dear friend [...]