Chris McKay, who supervised animation on "The Lego Movie,” has signed a first-look producing deal at Warner Bros. McKay is on board to direct Warner’s “Lego Batman” project, set to be released in May…
Relativity Studios has hired Adam Targum to write the screenplay for military drama “Fearless,” based on the life of Navy SEAL Adam Brown. Targum is an executive producer on "Banshee" and previously…
EuropaCorp has set thriller “Shut In,” starring Naomi Watts, for a U.S. release on Feb. 19. Luc Besson’s studio is co-producing and fully financing the Lava Bear Films title, directed by Farren…
Garrett Hedlund is in advanced talks to co-star in Ang Lee’s Iraq war drama “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk” for TriStar. The “Life of Pi" director has tapped newcomer Joe Alwyn to star in the title…
Warner Bros. has signed “American Sniper” producer Andrew Lazar to a first-look deal through his Mad Chance production company. Lazar recently set up "It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love…
Sony’s sci-fi adventure "Chappie" has opened with a modest $750,000 at latenight Thursday showings in the U.S. The film, which centers on a police robot that learns to think and feel, expands to…
Emile Hirsch and Brian Cox willl star in supernatural thriller “The Autopsy of Jane Doe,” with Andre Ovredal directing and production beginning at the end of the month in London. It’s the first…
Returning TV series will receive the lion’s share of allocations — $90 million of the $100 million available — in the next round of the California film and TV tax credit program before the commission…
Fox is shuffling its summer release schedule, moving MGM’s reboot of "Poltergeist" forward two months to May 22 and shifting Melissa McCarthy comedy “Spy” back two weeks to June 5. “Poltergeist” is…
Harve Bennett, who produced four “Star Trek” movies and the TV series “Mod Squad,” “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “The Bionic Woman,” died Wednesday in Medford, Ore. He was 84. Bennett’s passing…
