'The Nutty Professor' Remake Coming From The 'Scream' Reboot Team
Project X's James Vanderbilt, William Sherak, and Paul Neinstein, who helped revive the Scream series, are turning their gaze to The Nutty Professor remake.
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New 'Scream' Sequel Will Bring Courteney Cox Back Again As Gale Weathers
Courteney Cox joins her former husband David Arquette in Paramount's Scream 5 cast, from the directors of the fun horror film Ready or Not.
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Adam Sandler And Jennifer Aniston Reunite For A 'Murder Mystery' At Netflix
There's a Netflix Murder Mystery coming in 2019, and Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston are the prime suspects in the new comedy from Workaholics creator Kyle Newacheck.
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Stephen King's 'The Long Walk' Now In Development At New Line
New Line is currently developing The Long Walk movie, adapted from the novel by Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman.
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Jack Black To Star In Eli Roth's Adaptation Of 'The House With A Clock In Its Walls'
Eli Roth will direct Jack Black in an adaptation of John Bellairs' "The House With A Clock In Its Walls." Learn more about the new Eli Roth Amblin project.
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'The Losers' Director Sylvain White Will Make Screen Gems' 'Slender Man'
Last year it was rumored Screen Gems was making a Slender Man movie, which has proven to be true. Sylvain White (The Losers) is the Slender Man director.
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Dwayne Johnson's 'The Janson Directive' Will Begin A New Robert Ludlum Cinematic Universe
Dwayne Johnson is still slated to lead The Janson Directive, but now the film will be the first in a series of movies in a Robert Ludlum cinematic universe.
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'The Shining' Prequel Will Be "Its Own Film"
Mark Romanek is a director with a vision, and The Shining prequel will only move forward with Romanek if he gets the opportunity to make his own movie.
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'Truth' Trailer: Robert Redford And Cate Blanchett Recreate "Rathergate"
Watch the first Truth trailer. Robert Redford stars as Dan Rather in James Vanderbilt's drama about the "Rathergate" scandal. Cate Blanchett also stars.
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Robert Redford Will Play Dan Rather In 'Truth'
Robert Redford will play Dan Rather in Truth, about the scandal that marred the end of Rather's career. Cate Blanchett also stars. James Vanderbilt directs.
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Will Smith Reportedly Decides Against 'Independence Day 2'
Briefly: With or without Will Smith, a sequel to Independence Day is happening. For obvious reasons, director Roland Emmerich and producer Dean Devlin were hoping the mega-star would choose to return to the franchise that helped launch his career. Smith originally said he wouldn't be in the film, then backed off that statement. Fox hired…
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'White House Down' Extended Trailer: Four Minutes To Save The World
Roland Emmerich's White House Down is the second of two "Die Hard on Pennsylvania Avenue" pics to hit screens this year, but if it delivers on the promises made by this four-minute final trailer, it could just blow the other one out of the water altogether. It has all the ingredients for a satisfying summer…
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Glen Mazzara To Write 'Shining' Prequel Called 'The Overlook Hotel'
The Shining has had quite the resurgence in the past few months. Rodney Ascher's Room 237 is certainly one factor. Another, bigger motivator is Stephen King himself, who is currently working on a Shining sequel novel called Doctor Sleep. Warner Bros., which owns the rights to the Stanley Kubrick film, surely sees this as a perfect time…
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'White House Down' Set Visit: Channing Tatum And Roland Emmerich Make Quick Work Of The Summer Blockbuster
That dirty wifebeater Channing Tatum is wearing is no coincidence. “I’ve always wanted to do a Die Hard” admitted the actor and in his upcoming action film White House Down, he’s getting that chance. Director Roland Emmerich will once again reign havoc on the White House, this time with the help of John Cale (Tatum), a Secret Service…
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'White House Down' Trailer: Channing Tatum Plays 'Die Hard' In The White House
Former Secret Service agent John Cale (Channing Tatum) just wanted to take his daughter on a tour of the White House. Thank God he did. If it wasn't for him, who would look after the President (Jamie Foxx) when a group of international terrorists take over the world's most famous home? That's the basic plot…
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Plot Details And Characters For 'Independence Day' Sequels Revealed; James Vanderbilt Doing Rewrites
In this summer's White House Down, director Roland Emmerich will once again wreak havoc on the President's pad. It's a place he knows well, having first blown it up 1996's Independence Day. Ever since that film was released, fans have discussed a sequel and in the past few months, Emmerich and his producer Dean Devlin have…
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Shailene Woodley In Talks To Play Mary Jane Watson In 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2,' Electro Rumored As Villain
Sorry Kirsten Dunst, you're the latest to be replaced in Sony/Columbia's Spider-Man series. With Marc Webb confirmed to return as director for The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the studio is moving forward with casting for the film, and there are a couple big reveals today. One is that Electro is rumored as "one of the villains"…
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'30 Minutes Or Less' Collar Bomb Heist Gets True-Life Dramatic Treatment
In Ruben Fleischer's 2011 comedy 30 Minutes or Less, Jesse Eisenberg played a pizza delivery boy forced to rob a bank when two men strapped a bomb to him. The idea came from a real-life event that took place in Erie, PA in 2003, as detailed in Wired Magazine. Unlike that film, though, the actual…
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Warner Bros. Mulling The Notion Of A Prequel To 'The Shining'
At this point there's nothing that anyone can do to The Shining on screen that Stephen King hasn't already done himself. (See the TV series adaptation of his novel, scripted by King, which leaves out few of the novel's details, and misses most of Stanley Kubrick's chilling effect.) So the idea of a prequel is…
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Charlize Theron In Talks To Star In John Madden's 'Murder Mystery'
Briefly: Shakespeare in Love and The Debt director John Madden had a pretty good spring thanks to the $100m global take of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, but now he's going into a new mode with a new mystery. A Murder Mystery, to be exact, as Madden will make shoot a film with that title…
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Jamie Foxx Running For President (Of Roland Emmerich's 'White House Down') [UPDATED]
Jamie Foxx will next be seen playing a freed slave turned bounty hunter for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, but his role after that will have him climbing all the way to the tippy-top of American society. The star has just entered talks to play the President of the United States in the thriller White House Down,…
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Channing Tatum In Talks For Roland Emmerich's 'White House Down'
Even as Mitt Romney and Barack Obama race to win the White House, Roland Emmerich and Antoine Fuqua are competing to take it down. Both filmmakers are signed on to direct projects described as "Die Hard on Pennsylvania Avenue" -- Columbia's White House Down for Emmerich, and Millennium's Olympus Has Fallen for Fuqua. While Fuqua's…
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Alex Kurtzman And Roberto Orci Re-Writing 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2;' Filming Could Start Early 2013
They've tackled Transformers, Star Trek, Mission: Impossible and now another franchise can be added to the impressive resumes of producers/screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci: Spider-Man. They've just been hired to Sony to rewrite the script of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the sequel to Marc Webb's reboot which hits theaters on July 3. Read more…
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'Zodiac' Writer James Vanderbilt Sells 'White House Down' To Sony, Will Polish 'RoboCop'
James Vanderbilt hit the screenwriter big time when he wrote Zodiac for David Fincher, and he was eventually tapped to work on the Spider-Man series for Sony. Now he's one of a few people credited on The Amazing Spider-Man. He has developed a working relationship with the studio, doing work on the Total Recall remake…
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Casting Bits: Peter Stormare Joins Arnold Schwarzenegger In 'The Last Stand;' Anthony Hopkins In 'Solace;' More Confirmed For 'The Expendables 2'?
It's an action/thriller casting break this evening, featuring the return of some classic actors to familiar old stomping grounds. So after the break you'll find: Peter Stormare is a bad guy in Arniold Schwarzenegger's The Last Stand, Anthony Hopkins will hunt a serial killer in Solace, and Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme and John Travolta…
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'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' Gets 2014 Release Date
Columbia Pictures is serious about their new Spider-man franchise. The Amazing Spider-Man won't hit theaters until July 2012, and a sequel is already planned. In March, Sony hired screenwriter James Vanderbilt to pen the follow-up. It looks like they are happy with the drafts he handed in, because today they are setting a May 2nd…
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First Look: Colin Farrell In 'Total Recall'
Yesterday we saw the first images of sets for the new Total Recall sets, on them some white-suited troopers. Now we've got the first image of Colin Farrell in the lead role of Doug Quaid, a factory worker who learns, or thinks he learns, that he is really a spy for one of two nation…
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