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, [...]

Warner Bros. has conjured up some Hollywood magic for the final installment of the wildly popular “Harry Potter” movies, splitting the seventh and final book into two films, the movie studio said on Thursday.
Part one of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” will debut in late 2010 and be followed months later by part two.
“We [...]

Rita Marley is executive producing the first-ever biopic of her late husband Bob Marley, and if she has it her way, the reggae icon’s daughter-in-law R&B singer Lauryn Hill will portray her onscreen.
The Weinstein Co. will produce and distribute a big-screen version of her 2004 autobiography “No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley,” [...]

Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley will play mental patients in the mystery drama “Shutter Island,” Martin Scorsese’s latest collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Max von Sydow has also joined the cast of the Paramount Vantage project, which begins production next week.
DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo play two U.S. marshals who travel to a Massachusetts island to [...]

Sir Ridley Scott is to make a film about late US president Ronald Reagan’s dealings with ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, according to reports.
The still untitled project will focus on the 1986 arms control summit that took place in Reykjavik, Iceland.
“I want to show who they were and why they did what they did,” Sir Ridley [...]

Jason Bourne will return for one last job after Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon signed up to make a fourth film in the hit franchise.
The actor and director at the heart of the series’ two most recent films had previously played down the idea of a third sequel, saying that they would only consider it [...]

 
Nothing passes time like playing a board game or watching a movie. Then again, who has time these days? Leave it to Hollywood to come up with a solution. From Variety:
Universal Pictures has announced a six-year partnership with Hasbro to produce at least four feature films based on branded properties.
The properties include “Monopoly,” “Candy Land,” [...]

Marisa Tomei has signed on to play the female lead opposite Mickey Rourke in Darren Aronofsky’s indie drama The Wrestler , says Variety .
Gina Gershon, Bryan Cranston and Scout Taylor-Compton are joining Helen Mirren and Joe Pesci in Love Ranch , Taylor Hackford’s drama of passion and betrayal in a Nevada brothel.
Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan, [...]

Guillermo del Toro has officially signed up to direct The Hobbit, according to reports leaking out from a film premiere in France. The Pan’s Labyrinth creator will oversee a double-bill of films based on JRR Tolkien’s fantasy adventure, which paved the way for The Lord of the Rings. Peter Jackson, director of the Oscar-winning Rings [...]

 
Oliver Stone, the uncompromising director whose subjects have included Presidents John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, Alexander the Great and Fidel Castro, has set his sights on the present White House incumbent.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker is working on Bush, a project focusing on the life and presidency of George W Bush, Variety reported.
The director is in [...]