Movie News

Columbia Pictures has hired Walt Becker to direct Stealing Time. The time travel actioner is about a worldwide search to unravel the mysteries of the Antikythera Mechanism, which may make time travel possible. Colin Trevorrow is writing the script. Films in August.

Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson’s superhero pitch has been bought by Disney and will be produced with Sam Raimi’s Stars Road Entertainment. While the details for the action adventure are being kept under wraps, it’s been described as “a four-quadrant ensemble superhero story with a comedic bent.”

John Carpenter and Nicolas Cage are final negotiations for prison thriller Scared Straight. Cage would play a lifer who must help a delinquent teen, who is part of the Scared Straight crime prevention program (sending troubled kids to prison for short stint to put the fear in 'em), when the teen ends up being held hostage after a riot breaks out.

Stereo Vision Entertainment announced 3D comedy Kung Fu U starring Hulk Hogan and Kimbo Slice. “’Kung Fu U’ in 3D is a Disney-type comedy about of a bunch of nerds and misfits that are sent away by their wealthy parents to the Brentwood Academy (a.k.a. Kung Fu U) to learn the finer arts of self-defense. It’s a heart-warming romp where the rather weathered warriors come to the rescue for the kids, and in turn, the kids rescue the warriors’ seemingly lost souls from what had been their eternal apathy. It’s a feel-good story that reminds us that we’re all the same, no matter what our age, or where we came from, and that we should all stick together.” They’re looking at a fall 2009 release.