Leonardo DiCaprio is being considered for one of the two lead roles in the upcoming film adaptation of Boston Teran’s Western novel “The Creed of Violence”, Slashfilm is reporting. Todd Field has been attached to direct the movie for several years, and DiCaprio is reportedly eager to join him on the project. The Creed of Violence follows an assassin named Rawbone in the 1910s. Lourdes, a government agent, comes into contact with Rawbone when he’s caught smuggling weapons into Mexico. Lourdes must accompany Rawbone into Mexico’s criminal world to find intelligence. However, the agent must struggle with a secret about his previous connection to Rawbone as he follows him. Universal…

News has been released today that The Indomina Group, Universal Pictures and Pinewood Studios Group have made a pact together to finance and distribute the film “A Fantastic Fear of Everything,” starring Simon Pegg. According to the press release, the film, which is currently being shot at London’s Shepperton Studios, will be released in U.S. through through Indomina Releasing, Indomina’s North American distribution division. Universal Pictures will release the film in the UK, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Latin America. Indomina’s international sales division will handle sales for all other territories and Indomina is also providing financing for the production. The film is also the first to receive backing from…

Tom Cruise has officially been cast in Universal Pictures’ upcoming sci-fi movie ‘Oblivion,’ Deadline is reporting. The news comes after the ‘Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol’ actor was rumored to be attached to the movie, which is based on the Radical Publishing graphic novel and is being helmed by ‘Tron: Legacy’ director Joseph Kosinski. ‘Oblivion,’ which is set in an apocalyptic future, follows humans as they’re forced to live in clouds above Earth, which has been deemed uninhabitable. Cruise will portray a soldier who’s the only person still living on Earth, and will fight the alien life form now living on the planet. He meets a woman who crashes onto Earth…

Universal is in final talks to pick up the upcoming film ‘Arabian Knights’ for Imagine Entertainment producers Brian Grazer and Erica Huggins, Collider is reporting. While the details of the movie are still under wraps, it will tell the story of the Middle Eastern folk tales known as “One Thousand and One Nights”, or “Arabian Nights” in English. The story for ‘Arabian Knights’ was conceived by Kyle Ward, which is the second script he sold to Universal after ‘Fiasco Heights.’ Ward’s adaptation of ‘Arabian Knights’ will reportedly be different from the upcoming FilmDistrict movie ‘Arabian Knights,’ which stars Liam Hemsworth and has been called the more traditional adaptation. “One Thousand…

Just coming off a huge $66 million opening weekend, “Thor” star Chris Hemsworth is in talks to join Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1) in Universal’s “Snow White and The Huntsman”. The angle of this rendition of “Snow White” will emphasize the Huntsman in the famous story by The Brothers Grimm. The Huntsman is Snow White’s protector. Chris Hemsworth would be playing the Huntsman, which had its flirtations with other strong leading males like Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Hugh Jackman and Joel Edgerton. If Hemsworth could play it like he played Thor, with a large and bruiting screen presence, then I can see no reason why…

This is probably the most ambitious movie project since Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of The Rings” Trilogy. Universal is looking to develop Stephen King’s widely popular book series “The Dark Tower” into a movie trilogy AND two seasons of TV, in-between each movie . This project will take a lot of commitment from production crews, actors, filmmakers and studios. Ron Howard is developing these projects and is looking to direct, at least, the first movie in the series. On the TV production side, it looks like most likely, the TV series will head to NBC (or its cable network) since it’s part of Universal. My guess would be NBC, I…

It’s official. He’s back! Deadline is reporting, former Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger is now attached to star in “The Terminator” sequel, a movie directed by “Fast Five” director, Justin Lin. There were rumors about Schwarzenegger dawning the iconic leather jacket and sunglasses again but now it has been confirmed. There is no script yet but the franchise package is being shopped around to various movie studios including Universal, Sony and Lionsgate. This package is reported to cost a studio upwards of $25 to $36 million. About the project, Justin Lin talked to Omelete.com (via Collider.com) about the possibility of directing the fifth “Terminator” movie during a press junket for…

The box office results for the weekend of March 11th – 13th sees audiences buying to raw action, rather than rip-offs and over-priced animations. “Battle: Los Angeles” easily takes the top spot while “Rango” holds up relatively strong in its second outing. and Here are the studio estimates: 1. Battle: Los Angeles ($36 million) 2. Rango ($23 million) 3. Red Riding Hood ($14.1 million) 4. The Adjustment Bureau ($11.5 million) 5. Mars Needs Moms ($6.8 million) 6. Hall Pass ($5.1 million) 7. Beastly ($5 million) 8. Just Go With It ($4 million) 9. The King‘s Speech ($3.6 million) 10. Gnomeo and Juliet ($3.5 million) Analysis The overall box office is…

Director Ron Howard has agreed to remove all jokes referencing the word gay from the trailers for his new comedy, ‘The Dilemma,’ Slashfilm.com is reporting. This comes after critics, including Anderson Cooper and GLAAD, publicly raised their criticisms of the use of the word as an openly accepted pejorative in the movie’s trailers and advertising. Last week, when the CNN host appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, he denounced Universal, the studio releasing ‘The Dilemma,’ which stars Vince Vaughn, and Howard for ”relying on a tasteless slur that promotes intolerance to help sell the movie.” He added that he saw the trailer while at a theater, and an actor said “That’s so gay.”…

Tom Arnold has been cast alongside Taylor Kitsch in Universal’s “Battleship”, a big-screen adaptation of the Hasbro game. The film, an adaptation of the grid-oriented game where players attempt to pinpoint locations on a board to strike at and hit their opponent’s “battleships”, will be about an international Naval force facing off against an otherworldly threat that is brewing beneath the ocean’s surface. Kitsch is playing a rouge-ish and action-oriented Naval commander named Alex Hopper in the film. “Battleship”, which Arnold said he is joining in August, is scheduled to hit theaters May 25th, 2012. No other casting information has been released yet on the project. Stay tuned to Shockya.com…