HOLLYWOOD - Ben Stiller and Reese Witherspoon are teaming up to star in an untitled Cameron Crowe romantic comedy adventure, Variety reports.
Details of the project are being kept under wraps, although it was the subject of a bidding war amongst five studios, says Variety. Columbia was the eventual winner.
This is the first time Crowe has worked with Columbia [...]

HOLLYWOOD - The summer blockbuster season moves into full swing this weekend with two sure-fire hits. Dreamworks/Paramount unleashes Kung Fu Panda, and Adam Sandler returns in another of his PG-13-rated, broad comedies You Don’t Mess with the Zohan (Sony). Early industry tracking indicates that both of these titles are on very solid ground.
With the genius concept of [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Ryan Gosling and Lars and the Real Girl director Craig Gillespie are aiming to reunite for the AIDS drama The Dallas Buyers Club.
Variety explains the film is based on the true story of Ron Woodroof, a tough Texas electrician who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986 and given six months to live.
Taking matters into his [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Harrison Ford will next turn his attention to drama Crowley, from CBS Films. Based on the true story of John and Aileen Crowley, the film will also be executive produced by Ford.
Variety reports that What Happens in Vegas director Tom Vaughan is in negotiations to direct.
The project will see Ford play a maverick scientist who is [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Actress Bryce Dallas Howard has replaced Charlotte Gainsbourg in the highly anticipated fourth installment of the Terminator franchise.
Gainsbourg was originally cast to play Kate Connor, the wife of human rebel leader John Connor–played by Christian Bale–in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.
But Gainsbourg had to bow out due to scheduling conflicts with another film, a French comedy.
Howard–the daughter [...]

HOLLYWOOD - The Green Hornet may not have the green light just yet, but that didn’t stop a loose-lipped Seth Rogen from opening up about the project he’s penned with co-writer Evan Goldberg.
Rogen says the comedy team, responsible for mega-hit Superbad and the upcoming Pineapple Express, has already submitted a draft of the script and are currently [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Marvel’s first self-financed and self-produced feature film, Iron Man (Paramount), starring Robert Downey Jr., is the No. 1 grossing movie of 2008 so far with an estimated $8.78M this weekend a cume of about $289M by Monday. Marvel Studio’s second movie this year, Incredible Hulk, is a much tougher proposition. Adding the word Incredible to [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Will Smith is desperate to make a second Bad Boys sequel, and begged director Michael Bay at the MTV Movie Awards to reunite him with Martin Lawrence for a third movie.
The actor tackled Bay backstage at the bash on Sunday, before he stepped up on stage to collect the Best Male Performance award for his movie I [...]

The MTV Movie Awards reached an all time high on Sunday when Pineapple Express stars Seth Rogen and James Franco lit up a joint and flashed some fake weed onstage to promote their new film.
The Freaks and Geeks duo, who were presenting the Best Movie of the Summer So Far Award, didn’t get far with the stunt when MTV [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Oscar-nominated Italian director Dino Risi has died at the age of 91.
Risi died at his home in Rome on Saturday following a long spell of poor health.
He received two Academy Award nominations for his 1974 picture Profumo di Donna (Scent of a Woman), and the 1993 remake gained Al Pacino a Best Actor Oscar.
Rome’s mayor Gianni Alemanno [...]