Michael De Luca Productions and The Weinstein Company just released this behind the scenes clip from the upcoming comedy “Butter” by director Jim Field Smith (She’s Out of My League, Mising Moscow) and starring Twilight starlette Ashley Greene (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, The Apparition), Olivia Wilde (TRON: Legacy, Cowboys & Aliens), Hugh Jackman (X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2, Australia), Jennifer Garner (Valentine’s Day), Kristen Schaal (Toy Story 3) and Alicia Silverstone (Vamps, Elektra Luxx). Synopsis: A comedy set in the Midwest U.S., where an adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their town’s annual contest. Stay…

Rashida Jones is joining the cast of Columbia Pictures’ “The Social Network,” the story of the founding and rise of the worldwide social networking website Facebook. Justin Timberlake and Jesse Eisenberg are on board “The Social Network” as founders Sean Parker and Mark Zuckerberg respectively, in the David Fincher-directed and Aaron Sorkin-penned project. The film is based on the 2009 novel by Ben Mezrich, “The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal.” “The Social Network” is currently filming in Los Angeles. The film has a release date of October 15th, 2010 set. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest on “The Social Network”…

Variety.com is reporting that Mark Dindal (“Chicken Little”) will be directing “Housebroken” for Walden Media, with Michael De Luca producing and Sean Perrone and Aaron Kaplan onboard as executive producers. There is no script yet for “Housebroken” but Variety reports that Walden is looking for writers for the project, to expand on the original story by Adam Sztykiel. “Housebroken” is slated as a live-action film where the pets of a newly-married couple must learn to live together and get along. No release date or other information has been released yet about the project. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more “Housebroken” news. By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Variety.com)

Columbia Pictures and director David Fincher have announced a core cast for “The Social Network,” the Aaron Sorkin-scripted film about the formation of Facebook, the social networking site. Jesse Eisenberg will play Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, with Justin Timberlake playing Napster co-founder and Facebook’s founding president Sean Parker, and Andrew Garfield will play Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who fell out with Zuckerberg over money issues. The film will focus on the creation and evolution of the social networking website, created in 2004 at Harvard, and how the success of the project affected the lives of the founders. Production will begin next month in Boston and Los Angeles. Scott Rudin,…

Cam Gigandet (“Twilight”, “The OC”, “Never Back Down”) has been cast to star in the live-action adaptation of the Korean TokyoPop manga “Priest” opposite Paul Bettany. Scott Stewart is directing the horror Western for Screen Gems. Adapted by Cory Goodman, “Priest” is set in a world where humanity and Vampires have warred for centuries. Bettany will play a warrior priest who turns against his church to track down his niece, kidnapped by a roving gang of vampire bandits. Gigandet will play a sheriff of the wasteland world who is part vampire, and partners with Bettany to save the niece, who he is in love with. Originally created in 1998 and…

DreamWorks is in the process of remaking the classic horror-comedy “Fright Night.” Michael Gaeta and Alison Rosenzweig of Gaeta/Rosenzweig Films, and Michael De Luca are producing the remake. Mark Sourian, co-president of production at DreamWorks, is overseeing the project. The original “Fright Night” was written and directed by Tom Holland in 1985. Starring William Ragsdale, Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowall, and Stephen Geoffreys, the horror comedy was about a teen who discovers that his neighbors are in fact, vampires. No writer or casting has been announced so far, or a release date. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more “Fright Night” and other horror news. By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: The Hollywood Reporter)

Paul Bettany, according to a repory from The Hollywood Reporter, is in negotiations to star in “Priest,” a horror Western based on the TokyoPop comic book of the same name about a supernaturally-gifted holy man who battles demons, vampires, and other legions of the undead, led by 12 fallen angels and by the archangel Temozarela. Michael De Luca and Josh Donen of Stars Road Entertainment are producing for Screen Gems alongside Mitchell Peck. Scott Stewart is attached to direct, having just directed Bettany in the supernatural thriller “Legion” for Screen Gems. Cory Goodman (“The Brood”) wrote the screenplay. The story for the adaptation of “Priest” is a tale set in…