Robert De Niro and John Travolta have been cast in the upcoming action film ‘Killing Season,’ which will begin production on January 16, 2012, Collider is reporting. ‘Ghost Rider’ director Mark Steven Johnson has signed on to helm the movie, which is based on a script written by ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’s scribe Evan Daugherty. ‘Killing Season’ is set in the Appalachian Mountains, and follows an American military veteran, played by De Niro, who has retreated into a remote cabin in the woods. A European tourist, portrayed by Travolta, unexpectedly shows up at the cabin, and the two men form an unlikely bond. But the tourist actually turns out…

Sometimes people get a pinch too excited over a bit of news and can’t help but tell everyone what’s going on before they’re supposed to. That’s the case today with “Snow White and the Huntsman” producer Palak Patel who revealed a lot sooner than he should have that actress Kristen Stewart is closing the deal to play the fairest of them all. She was rumored to play Snow White in the latest re-telling of the classic tale, but now this unexpected news further shows that this will become a casting reality. That’s not good news for everyone, since there’s been an online groan over the casting ever since the rumor…

Warner Bros. and Silver Pictures have hired Evan Daugherty to write the latest draft of “Grayskull”, the a big-screen take on the classic “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe” franchise of toys and cartoons. John Stevenson (“Kung Fu Panda”) is attached to direct. A previous draft was written by Justin Marks. According to a report from The Hollywood Reporter, the studio is hoping to re-imagine the magical fantasy-based franchise as a “gritty fantasy” and reimagine Prince Adam, aka He-Man, as a soldier who finds himself in the otherworldly realm of Eternia. There, he ends up finding his destiny and fighting the warlord Skeletor, who has raised a technological army…

Variety.com reported today that producer Joel Silver (Die Hard, The Matrix) together with Warner Brothers plan to make the “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe” live action film. The original 1987 He-man film entitled “Masters of the Universe” was directed by Gary Goddard and starred Dolph Lundgren and Frank Langella as Skeletor. The new He-man is being reimagined by writer Justin Marks (Voltron) and the producers as a good-vs-evil battle, using “300″ like visual effects.