Oliver Stone In Talks To Direct Travis McGee
Oliver Stone (The upcoming “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” director) is in talks to direct a film version of “Travis McGee” for 20th Century Fox. An adaptation of the John…
Smuggler Films Grabs Becket
Smuggler Films has acquired the rights to the 1960 Jean Anouilh play “Becket”. Playwright and translator Ranjit Bolt will be writing a big-screen adaptation. The play centers on Archbishop of…
Stephen Dorff Joins War Of Gods
Stephen Dorff (“Blade”, “Cecil B. Demented”, “Public Enemies”) has joined the cast of Relativity Media’s “War of Gods”. Slated to hit theaters November 11th, 2011, the film is about the…
Anna Faris Is Private Benjamin
New Line/Warner Bros. is moving forward with a reboot/remake of the hit 1980 comedy “Private Benjamin”, which starred Goldie Hawn. Anna Faris (“Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs”, “Observe And…
Metropolitan Bringing Casino Jack To The US
Metropolitan, Inc. has acquired the U.S. theatrical rights to the feature film “Casino Jack” by Rollercoaster Entertainment, Inc. The film is slated to hit theaters sometime in fall 2010. The…
Timur Bekmambetov Directing Frankenstein
Director Timur Bekmambetov (“Wanted”) has been announces as attached to direct David Auburn’s adaptation of the Peter Ackroyd novel “Casebook of Victor Frankenstein.” Random House describes the book as follows:…
Orson Welles Ressurected In Christmas Tails
The late Orson Welles will be returning the big screen for Drac Studios’ “Christmas Tails”, with a long-lost recording of Welles reading the children’s Christmas story being used in a…
Sofia Vergara Joins The Smurfs Movie
Sofia Vergara, who has also landed a voice role in George Miller’s “Happy Feet 2” and is slated for a November 18th, 2011 release, has joined the cast of Sony’s…
The Walking Dead Casting News Announced
Jon Bernthal (“The Ghost Writer”) as been announced as the actor cast in AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” an adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s post-apocalyptic zombie graphic novel. The series and book…