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Seven Stars Film Studios will finance John Woo and Terence Chang’s $30 million English-language remake of the iconic Hong Kong action film "The Killer" reports Screen Daily. Moving the action to contemporary Los Angeles, the story follows a contra...

The team over at WSJ Speakeasy seem to know what they're doing. One NYC screening of Frank Oz's 1986 musical Little Shop of Horrors, a few well-placed phone calls, and voila: a little weekend news bite that should be great news to lots of mov...

If there was any question whether Brandon Cronenberg is the true offspring of David Cronenberg, the matter should be settled by Antiviral, a slow-burning body horror that suggests the younger C-Berg is as twisted as his dad. I don't even want to...

Peter Weir ("Master and Commander," "The Truman Show") is attached to direct the $30 million contemporary gothic thriller "The Keep" for SBS Productions reports Variety. An adaptation of Jennifer Egan's 2006 bestseller, the story is set in a mysteri...

Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy are set to star in a currently untitled buddy cop movie from "Bridesmaids" helmer Paul Feig for 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment says Variety. Katie Dippold ("Parks and Recreation") penned the script abo...

Untitled Royal Wedding Project Nancy Meyers ("Something’s Gotta Give," "It’s Complicated") has been hired to do some polishing on the script for Sony’s untitled Royal Wedding project. Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber penned the current scrip...

You can usually disregard the possessive parts of movie titles like Dr. Seuss' The Lorax and John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars as the fulfillment of contractual obligations, not as necessary components of the actual title. (I don't care wha...

BBC Films has announced their upcoming slate at the Cannes Film Festival, and it includes The Golden Lady a new movie for My Week with Marilyn director Simon Curtis (left), as well as a number of other projects, some already in production and som...

"Star Trek" actor Chris Pine has been attached to "Moscow", Paramount's reboot of Jack Ryan franchise, for quite some time as the project has picked up heat and stalled in a seemingly endless loop in recent years. In Cannes this week, Empire Online...

Cross Creek Pictures is set to produce and finance "Little Children" filmmaker Todd Field's "The Creed of Violence" for Universal Pictures to distribute reports Variety. Based on the acclaimed novel by Boston Teran, the story follows the 1910 Mexica...

Hector and the Search for Happiness Simon Pegg will lead Peter Chelsom's adaptation of François Lelord's novel "Hector and the Search for Happiness". The schedule aims for Pegg to shoot the film once he wraps Edgar Wright's "The World's End". Chel...

BBC Films revealed its upcoming slate at Cannes yesterday and revealed information on two new projects according to Yahoo. The first is that Simon Curtis ("My Week With Marilyn") is set to direct the art-world drama "The Golden Lady" which David M.

In an unexpected move at Cannes whilst promoting his new action film "Chinese Zodiac", Jackie Chan revealed he plans to retire from making action movies. "This is my last action film. I tell you, I'm not young any more. I'm really, really tired. And...

After being missing for nearly two weeks, "Terminator 3" and "Carnivale" actor Nick Stahl is back on the grid. People reports that Stahl sent a group email to friends on Friday to tell them he has checked into drug rehab and is spending 30 days in t...

Ben Kingsley, Tom Payne ("Luck") and Stellan Skarsgard have joined the cast of "North Face" helmer Philipp Stoelzl's medieval period drama "The Physician" for Beta Cinema and Ufa Cinema says THR. Based on Noah Gordon's best-selling novel, Payne play...