Screenwriter Billy Ray and JJ Abrams have sold a top-secret mystery pitch to Paramount, reports Deadline.com.
Universal is in talks to attached CONTRABAND director Baltasar Kormakur to its adaptation of graphic novel 2 GUNS, reports Variety.
Variety's Justin Kroll tweeted this morning that the latest actress to be offered the lead in PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES has passed on the Jane Austen walking dead mash-up.
M.C. Gainey, who is best known as Mr. Friendly on LOST, is in talks to join the cast of Quentin Tarantino's DJANGO UNCHAINED, reports Variety.
Click 3X recently inked Senior Designer/Art Director Craig Hubbard, adding to an already impressive design line-up.
Warner Bros. is looking for one top director to helm its single story feature adaptation of TWILIGHT ZONE, reports Variety.
Sony Pictures has tapped Dante Harper (HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS) to adapt Isaac Asimov's sci-fi trilogy FOUNDATION for director Roland Emmerich, reports Deadline.com.
Magic Dumpling Ent. has hired LEGEND OF A RABBIT director Sun Lijun to helm the CG animated feature TOFU BOY.
Vincent A. Mai, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Sesame Workshop, today announced the appointment of H. Melvin Ming as President and Chief Executive Officer of Sesame Workshop.
Marc Guggenheim (GREEN LANTERN) has been hired to write Disney's TIME ZONES, reports Heat Vision.
Kurt Russell is in negotiations to take the role in Quentin Tarantino's DJANGO UNCHAINED recently vacated by Kevin Costner, reports Heat Vision.
EUREKA's former showrunner Bruce Miller has joined Syfy's ALPHAS as the showrunner for season two, reports Deadline.com.
Doug Liman (THE BOURNE IDENTITY) has signed on to direct an adaptation of Jeffrey Archer’s PATHS OF GLORY, which follows George Mallory's three attempts to become the first man to scale Mt. Everest, reports Deadline.com.
Twitch.com is reporting that Mandate is eyeing THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO star Rooney Mara for the female lead in its remake of OLDBOY.
Warner Bros. is looking to bring in Steven Spielberg for its epic Moses tale, GODS AND KINGS, reports Deadline.com.
Chernin Ent. is in final talks to pay mid- to high-six figures for CLUE scribes Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless's untitled sci-fi script, reports Deadline.com.
Dennis Christopher (BREAKING AWAY) is in talks to join the cast of Quentin Tarantino's DJANGO UNCHAINED, reports Variety.
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At Gamescom 2011 in Cologne, Germany, Gearbox Studios unveiled the follow-up to its critically acclaimed first-person shooter, Borderlands. Running on Unreal Engine 3, the 2012 PC game is adding more depth to the story and improved visuals and gameplay to the open world experience.
Illumination Ent. has hired two new execs and promoted another employee at the hybrid CG studio, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
Another OIAF Grand Prix gets awarded, another Phil Mulloy feature takes top prize, another grumbling voice can be heard complaining about the winners. Much like the start of Ontario’s moose hunting season, which I watched in awe Sunday on a TV at the back of a bar, as the Nelvana Grand Prix is announced, "second-guessing the judging" season once again begins in the province. Hopefully, you won’t see too many animators hanging upside down, suspended from a crane over the bloody bed of a pickup truck. But you never know.
Lee Unkrich has launched a blog where he will release one picture per day from his upcoming untitled Pixar film, writes The Hollywood Reporter.
Since bringing ALICE IN WONDERLAND to the screen, producer Joe Roth has become the go-to guy for fairy tale stories.
Jessica Chastain, who has become the breakout star of 2011 with great performances in THE TREE OF LIFE, THE HELP and THE DEBT, has landed a plum role in TRON LEGACY director Joseph Kosinski's next film, reports Heat Vision.
