Movie News

Due to immigration problems David Murray is out and Christopher Eccleston is in as G.I. Joe's Destro. Also in G.I. Joe land, Jonathan Pryce will play the “President of the United States.”

So latest word on Doctor Parnassus is that Jude Law, Johnny Depp, and Colin Farrel will play the rest of Heath Ledger’s role in the film. It might be just crazy enough to work.

Amanda Seyfried has joined the cast for Jennifer’s Body. It should start shooting in March.

The Coen brothers’ next project will be the adaptation of Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen's Union. A noir style murder mystery, it takes place in an alternate universe where Jewish refugees have settled in Alaska, and a rogue cop must investigate the killing of a heroin addicted chess prodigy who might be the messiah.

Kristen Bell will be in Mark Steven Johnson’s When in Rome, a romantic comedy about a woman, unlucky in love, who goes to Rome and takes some coins from a “fountain of love” which turns things around for her. Filming starts in March.

Michelle Pfeiffer is in final talks to star in the adaptation of Colette’s novel Cheri. Directed by Stephen Frears, the story is set in the ‘20s and focuses on the romance of an older woman and a younger man, and the young man’s escape into fantasy after the relationship ends.

Thomas Jane will star in John McTiernan's Run, a high speed cross country chase thriller. BMW will provide the cars and filming begins in Argentina in April.

Teresa Palmer and Keri Russell have been cast in the next Adam Sandler movie, Bedtime Stories. The story: Sandler plays a real estate developer who’s ellaborate bedtime stories for his neice and nephew become real. Adam Shankman will direct.

Ellen Page has been added to Peacock, "The title is derived from tiny Peacock, Neb., where (Cillian) Murphy's character, a split personality, fools the town into believing his two alter egos are man and wife. Page plays a struggling young mother who holds the key to his past and sparks a battle between the personalities." Sounds a little bit like 1961’s Homicidal to me.

Bo Zenga will be writing directing Stan Helsing, a horror spoof about a video store clerk who has to save a small town from movie monsters. Starts filming in April.

Larry Fessenden’s next project is House of the Devil: "In the late 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret; they plan to use her in a satanic ritual."

Production on Scott Stewart’s supernatural thriller Legion begins in March. When God loses faith in humanity and sends his angels to destroy mankind, Michael the archangel (played by Paul Bettany) helps our last hope – a plucky group of misfits in a diner.

Blood Shot, starring Brad Dourif and Lance Henrikson, has started filming. The story: A rogue cop (is there any other kind?) Rip must reluctantly join forces with a vampire to stop terrorist Bob.

Dakota and Elle Fanning have left My Sister’s Keeper after Dakota refused to shave her head. They’ll be replaced by, not sisters, Abigail Breslin and Sofia Vassilieva. Filming will still start in March.

Wes Craven will write and direct 25/8. About a killer thought to be dead for fifteen years that comes back to kill seven children born on that night, Wes Craven says, ”It's more a thriller than slasher film, and revolves around a young kid with a very dark past involving his family and his father."

Actress Melissa George and director Christopher Smith will be working on Triangle, "The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open seas. George will play a woman with a mental disorder who relives the harrowing experience through each of her three personalities."

John Landis will be working on Ghoulishly Yours, a biopic about EC Comics and MAD magazine figure William C. Gaines.

New Line’s first 3-D animated feature Planet 51 has cast Jessica Biel, Dwane Johnson, Justin Long, and Seann William Scott. The story: Astronaut Chuck Baker thinks he’s the first to set foot on Planet 51, and finds paranoid little green people. Jorge Blanco directs with Javier Abad and Marcos Martinez co-directing. It’ll be completed by March 2009.

Renny Harlin will direct WWE movie 12 Rounds with John Cena, Steve Harris, Aidan Gillen, and Brian White. The story is your usual detective’s girlfriend gets kidnapped. Filming starts later this month in New Orleans.

Written and directed by W. John Hackwell, Dingo Dreaming will star Charles Matthau and Joe Bugner. The story: An art appraiser from New York travels to an Aboriginal town in outback Australia to authenticate some paintings, and unravels an ingenious forgery.

Lone Scherfig will direct Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan, Alfred Molina, and Emma Thompson in ‘60s coming of age drama An Education

Gina Gershon, Bryan Cranston, and Scout Taylor-Compton join Helen Mirren and Joe Pesci in Taylor Hackford’s drama the Love Ranch.