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 [...]

Harry Potter fans are set to get a double treat in the film of the final story – and movie makers are set to double their money.
Crew working on the sixth Potter film, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, have been told J.K. Rowling’s seventh novel, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, will be released [...]

 
Sometimes you can’t plan an interview. Try as you might, things just fall apart. Then, you have days like yesterday. You’re waiting for your car at the valet of a hotel and standing right next to you is John Singleton – the director of 20th Century Fox’s upcoming big screen adaptation of “The A-Team.” 
While I [...]

J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” is back on track and headed to the big screen.
New Line and Peter Jackson have resolved their differences over the filmmaker’s profit participation in the $3 billion-grossing “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, paving the way for a two-film adaptation of Tolkien’s children’s masterpiece. New Line and MGM, which holds the “Hobbit” [...]

 
Even with the writers strike in full effect, preproduction on the big screen adaptation of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time is ramping up. Last month Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire helmer Mike Newell signed on to direct the video game adaptation. Our friends at Collider spoke with Jerry Bruckheimer, and the producer [...]

 
Christian Bale is in negotiations to star in “Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins,” the fourth installment of the hit science fiction series. McG is in negotiations to direct the movie, which is being made by the Halcyon Co. and will be distributed by Warner Bros.
(Source: Hollywood Reporter)