Scott Rudin, whose credits include No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood, is "stepping back" from film & TV work in the wake of abuse allegations.
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Aaron Sorkin is still down to write The Social Network sequel...as long as David Fincher comes back to direct.
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Here's the key cast of A24's The Humans movie, an adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway play: Richard Jenkins, Amy Schumer, Steven Yeun, and more.
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Aaron Sorkin says he thinks it's time for a The Social Network sequel, and that producer Scott Rudin agrees with him.
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Annihilation behind-the-scenes issues have one of the film's producers worried that Alex Garland's adaptation is too complicated for normal audiences.
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Warner Bros. has lost another Justice League Dark director. Doug Liman, who signed on to direct last summer, left the project over a scheduling conflict.
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A Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson comedy may soon start a bidding war. The duo will star in a film that's written by Kaling and produced by Scott Rudin.
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A Groundhog Day musical is in the works, based on the classic 1993 comedy starring Bill Murray. The stage show will hit Broadway in 2017.
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Based on August Wilson's powerful play, Denzel Washington is returning to the director's chair with a Fences movie adaptation, which he also stars in.
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It's been almost a decade since Denzel Washington has directed a feature film, but with a Fences adaptation, the actor is getting back behind the camera.
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A Purity TV series is in the works with author Jonathan Franzen adapting his own book along with writer/director Todd Field. And Daniel Craig will star.
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Is Justice League Dark moving forward or what? How much could Avengers: Infinity War cost? Want another look at Batman v Superman's Batmobile? How about a first look at The Flash's Zoom? What's the main challenge of adapting Captain Marvel? How are Daredevil and Jessica Jones advertising at New York Comic-Con? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero…
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Sony Pictures has acquired the rights to The Sculptor Movie, based on a graphic novel by comic book legend Scott McCloud. Read more about the story here.
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Paul Greengrass is attached to direct 1984, a new adaptation of the classic dystopian novel by George Orwell. Scott Rudin is producing.
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Paul Greengrass has been linked to an adaptation of the book Agent Storm: My Life Inside Al Qaeda and the CIA. The book is about Morten Storm, a one-time Islamic radical who became a double agent for the CIA and British and Danish intelligence. Sony has picked up rights to the book, and Scott Rudin will produce…
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Writer Aaron Sorkin is in talks for Flash Boys, from Moneyball producer Scott Rudin and Moneyball book author Michael Lewis.
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Sony and Scott Rudin are making a Flash Boys movie, about a group of Wall Streeters who try to reform their industry. Based on the book by Michael Lewis.
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Brooklyn Castle is getting turned into a narrative feature by Seth Rogen and Sony. 50/50's Jonathan Levine and Will Reiser are on board to adapt.
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Vampire romances and fairy tale retellings may come and go, but spy stories never really seem to go out of style. The latest to get picked up is The Director, based on a forthcoming novel by Body of Lies author David Ignatius. Scott Rudin is attached to produce, and he already has a director in…
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A set of '70s sitcoms produced or developed by Norman Lear managed to change the tone of American television. All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and Maude all addressed social and political issues to varying degrees through the basic structure of the sitcom. Originally developed…
Read MoreToday's TV bits is stuffed to the brim with new project announcements, casting notices, trailers, and much more. After the jump: Mike Judge and Scott Rudin team for Silicon Valley at HBO FX is adapting J. Michael Feldman's show Fairy Tale Theater Goonies co-stars Sean Astin and Corey Feldman reunite on TMNT The Newsroom casts someone to…
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When Universal was shedding projects in 2011, one that was dropped was Memphis, a chronicle of Martin Luther King, Jr. from producer Scott Rudin and director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Ultimatum, United 93). The film was ambitiously scheduled, with a hopeful release date set for this year's MLK holiday, and with Greengrass not being noted…
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Now that David Gordon Green seems to be stepping away from comedies for a bit, he's opening himself up to all sorts of interesting options. The long-gestating Suspiria remake appears to have been put back on the shelf for now, but he's got the gritty Southern Nic Cage drama Joe coming up on his radar.…
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The very busy David Fincher now has one less project on his plate. For over a year now, he's been in the running to direct Cleopatra, starring Anglina Jolie. However, a new report indicates that talks have broken off. It's not the end of the line for the film, though, as Sony is now on…
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It looks like Wes Anderson might get right to work on a film to follow Moonrise Kingdom, and we've had a list of possible actors: Johnny Depp, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Jude Law, Jeff Goldblum, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe and Angela Lansbury. While most of those names remain tentative, now we know that Depp is…
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There are long-simmering projects, and then there's A Confederacy of Dunces. A cinematic adaptation of John Kennedy Toole's canonical novel has been in development since the early '80s, and has gone through many hands in the decades since with no success. But Hollywood keeps trying, and now the latest big names to try and crack…
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Scott Rudin is bouncing back from his disappointment over HBO's decision to pass on The Corrections by getting the gears turning on another project with some serious literary pedigree. Rudin has just tapped Superbad helmer Greg Mottola to pen an adaptation of The Marriage Plot, the acclaimed novel from Pulitzer-winning The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex author Jeffrey Eugenides. Although…
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