Category: Films

Warner Bros. has bought the North American rights to EDGE OF DARKNESS, a thriller starring Mel Gibson and directed by Martin Campbell from production company GK Films, per VARIETY.

Based on the BBC miniseries of the same name, the film is about a veteran homicide detective with the Boston Police Department whose only child is murdered on the steps of his home. Producers were Graham King (THE DEPARTED) and the miniseries producer Michael Wearing.

Elton John's Rocket Pictures has set Will Clark to direct PRIDE AND PREDATOR, in which aliens invade a traditional period costume drama and wreck havoc, per VARIETY.

Curtis Hanson is in negotiations with Disney to direct the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced GEMINI MAN, per VARIETY. In the action thriller most recently penned by David Benioff, an NSA agent tries to retire and is targeted for assassination. His would-be assassin is actually a younger cloned version of himself.

Exec producers are Mike Stenson and Chad Oman with Don Murphy. GEMINI MAN has been in development for almost a decade, with Darren Lemke originating the project and other drafts written by Jonathan Hensleigh and others.

Ed Solomon is the latest writer to be attached to the 10-years-in-development THE HARDY MEN at Fox 2000, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. The MEN IN BLACK writer will re-write the comedy project, with Ben Stiller and Tom Cruise attached to star and NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM director Shawn Levy to helm.

Warner Bros. adaptation of DC Comics' JONAH HEX will star John Malkovich as Turnbull, who blames the title character (played by Josh Brolin) for the death of his son, per VARIETY.

Production begins in April on the film that also has seen Legendary Pictures join in as co-financier and co-producer. Turnbull, a Southern plantation owner whose son was killed by Union soldiers during the Civil War, blames Hex, a Confederate soldier who becomes a bounty hunter.

The title character of NBC's CHUCK, Zachary Levi, has joined the cast of Fox 2000's ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE SQUEAKQUEL, per THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

Levi will play Jason Lee's character's cousin, who get caught up in the shenanigans of the CG-animated rodents, voiced again by Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler and Jesse McCartney.

Christopher Nolan, the director and co-writer of the critically lauded summer blockbuster THE DARK KNIGHT, will helm INCEPTION for Warner Bros. Pictures.

Nolan also wrote the original screenplay for INCEPTION, which is described as a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind. The film will be produced by Nolan and his longtime producing partner Emma Thomas, who served as a producer on THE DARK KNIGHT.

INCEPTION will go into production this summer and is being planned for release in the summer of 2010.

VFX studio Rhythm & Hues will start developing feature projects as well as open a new studio in Asia for work on an all-CG feature, per VARIETY.

The Culver City-based company has hired Vanguard's Venecia Duran as director of development and has accelerated plans for a Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia facility. The development department is now taking script submissions and hopes to make an announcement on a feature co-production in a few months.

DI Colorist Dave Hussey of Company 3 performed final color grading for 500 DAYS OF SUMMER, a romantic comedy from first-time director Marc Webb and a surprise hit at the Sundance Film Festival. The film, which stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, is about the tumultuous relationship between a young woman who doesn't believe in love and the man who falls for her.

In CORALINE, the extraordinary new animated feature film, a young girl unlocks a mysterious door and enters into an exciting alternate reality. Truth be told, her magical journey began long before she opened that door -- when the film's creative team broke new ground in animation by applying 3-D printing technology from Objet Geometries Ltd to create many of the magical stop-motion animations of CORALINE's characters and sets.

Martin Campbell and Warner Bros. are negotiating for Campbell to helm the studio's live-action take on DC Comics' hero GREEN LANTERN, according to VARIETY.

Campbell last directed CASINO ROYALE, with two ZORRO films and GOLDENEYE also on his resume.

Greg Berlanti wrote the script with Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green. Donald DeLine will produce with Berlanti.

Robert Downey Jr., Tina Fey and Ben Stiller are in talks to join the voice cast of DreamWorks Animation's MASTER MIND, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

The satiric superhero film was written by Alan J. Schoolcraft and Brent Simmons. Stiller is also a producer on the film via his Red Hour Films and recently voiced Alex the lion in the MADAGASCAR films.