The Passion of the Christ star Jim Caviezel (pictured) will join Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings) in a remake of the ’60s sci-fi series The Prisoner for AMC that will premiere next year. The network will turn the classic into a six-part miniseries that will feature Caviezel in the title role of Number […]

 
The latest news reporting is a remake/sequel/adaptation story call it what you may to bring 21 Jump Street to the big screen, yes that is right the popular television series being made into a movie. The Superbad actor Jonah Hill who in the picture below looks a little rough and should have a shave is […]

 
Lindsay Lohan passed up a role in a movie about convicted killer Charles Manson in order to accept two other offers, including a guest star turn on the TV comedy “Ugly Betty,” her publicist said on Friday.Lohan’s spokeswoman, Leslie Sloane, said the 21-year-old actress was “definitely interested” in “The Manson Girls,” but she denied online […]

 
Sir Ian McKellen has said he will reprise his role as Gandalf in the two-film adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit.
The Lord of the Rings star told Empire magazine that it was not a part to turn down.
“Yes, it’s true,” he said, when asked if he was set to return.
“Obviously, it’s not a part that […]

 
Your average superhero movie tends to be more style than substance. But when director Jon Favreau took on Iron Man, one of the original Marvel comics, he wanted to ensure the end result wasn’t your average superhero movie.
Key to that plan was casting former drug addict, felon and Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr.
(Stuff NZ)

Natalie Portman is to star in a new version of Wuthering Heights, the tragic Emily Bronte romance which has been the subject of numerous big screen outings. Portman will play Cathy Earnshaw, whose love for her foster brother Heathcliff starts a ball rolling which destroys the lives of family members across two generations.
Ralph Fiennes and […]

Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, and Sam Rockwell are set to star in the Kirk Jones-directed Everybody’s Fine, Miramax Films’ remake of Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1990 movie Stanno tutti bene. De Niro plays a widower who decides on a whim to take a road trip to reconnect with his grown kids. Along the way […]

Elizabeth Banks is going from the world of adult films to the White House.
The actress, who recently wrapped shooting Kevin Smith’s comedy “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” is in final negotiations to portray first lady Laura Bush in “W,” Oliver Stone’s biopic on the life and presidency of George W. Bush.
Josh Brolin (”No Country […]

 
A London schoolboy studying for his A-levels is about to sign up to play comic book hero Tintin in a trilogy of films to be directed by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson.
Thomas Sangster, 17, from South London, has already been to Los Angeles to work on preproduction test sequences with both directors.
Sangster, you may recall, […]

Twentieth Century Fox’s John Singleton-directed A-Team movie is set for release on June 12, 2009. Casting has not yet been announced. The movie will be based on the 1980s TV show starring Mr. T and George Peppard as members of a team of former special forces soldiers, set up for a crime they didn’t commit, […]