Now here is a mix of actors I would never have thought to put together: Sean Penn, Reese Witherspoon, and Robert Pattinson. One of Hollywood’s most intense actors (and 2-time Oscar winner), one of America’s sweethearts (who also won an Oscar), and an up-and-comer who shot to fame for playing a brooding vampire based on [...]

With less than a month left until the release of his film Shutter Island, director Martin Scorsese is already hot on the trail of a new project. Scorsese is currently in talks to direct a screen adaptation of the children’s book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which follows Hugo, an orphan living in a train [...]

Following the ever-growing trend of adapting novels for the screen, Sony is attempting to pick up the English-language rights to Swedish novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Dragon Tattoo focuses on an investigative journalist and a young computer hacker whose lives become intertwined and endangered as they seek to “expose institutions that pull the [...]

Columbia Pictures picked up the rights to a screen adaptation of the video game Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune back in June, and Kyle Ward was quickly attached to write. Due to other commitments, Ward has now gracefully bowed out of the project, and screenwriting duo Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer stepped in to take his [...]

Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B Entertainment has signed on with Reliance Big Entertainment to develop a film adaptation of Capcom’s video game Dark Void. The game centers on a pilot who crashes in the Bermuda Triangle, and has to find his way through a world where aliens are using advanced technology to plan a [...]

Wow, talk about your power couple. Both giants in their fields, Steven Spielberg and Stephen King are teaming up to bring King’s recently released Under the Dome to the screen. The book, which has already received positive reviews, is a supernatural thriller that follows a town in Maine that has been trapped within an invisible [...]

After dropping out of The Tourist, Avatar star Sam Worthington has signed on to be part of the upcoming sci-fi film The Last Days of American Crime. There’s no word yet as to what role Worthington will be playing, but the movie’s plot is a near-futuristic story about the U.S. government’s plans to secretly broadcast [...]

First there was The Polar Express in 2004. This year saw the release of A Christmas Carol. Next on Robert Zemickis’s list for animated Christmas tales? The Nutcracker. Zemickis’s adaptation of the story of the nutcracker prince will be taken from E.T.A. Hoffmann’s original novel The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, rather than Tchaikovsky’s balletic [...]