In Development

The Wall Street Journal (via Coming Soon) is reporting today that J.J. Abrams is in talks to produce a movie about the Japanese interchangable toys Micronauts.

Two of those words in single quotation marks are movie titles. I’ll let you guess which ones. Suspense!

Fox Searchlight, the studio that distributed Danny Boyle’s Oscar-winning gem Slumdog Millionaire last year, is teaming up with the director on his next project, 127 Hours.

If we never see the fine folks from Pajiba again, we now know why. They are reporting today on a film project so secretive, it threatens their very lives to even whisper its name.

Production on The Tourist is set to begin early next year. The players within that production seems to be changing daily.

Our friends over at First Showing got an interesting little scoop this afternoon, picking up some casting news from Robert Redford’s upcoming Lincoln assassination film The Conspirator.

Spotted at the American Film Market: a new poster from Scream 4. Spotted in the FSR newsroom: audible boredom from the Rejects’ staff.

Producer Barrie Osborne might be asking for trouble with this one…

Coming off of his long-gestating project The Road, director John Hillcoat is looking toward the future. Toward a story of Prohibition bootleggers that may star two of Hollywood’s best young actors.

I don’t find this quite as interesting as many of you might, so lets just get straight into it. Our friends over at MovieHole got their hands on the casting breakdown for the upcoming Conan reboot…

If you’ve ever held witness to an “air guitar” competition, then you will undoubtedly share in my excitement for this next story.

The actor’s production company, Evil Twins, plans on telling the story of a former baseball player who becomes the talk of the suburbs. Is Butler making Eastbound and Down: The Movie? I hope not.

Could it be? Could Bryan Singer really be talking to Fox about the possibility of returning to the franchise he made popular? Get your hopes up, nerds.

There are few sure things in this world. In the world of film, there are even fewer sure things, but one can usually “put five on” the fact that any project J.J. Abrams is involved in will turn out fairly well – critically, commercially, or both.

Last we checked, the production of a Venom spin-off was on hold, stuck in script draft notes hell. Don’t look now though, as Sony appears to have some new plans…

Both The Hollywood Reporter and Variety are unleashing a serious amount of news about the upcoming Robert Rodriguez-produced Predators film, which is set to start shooting here in Austin and in Hawaii in the very near future.

Michael Mann wants to direct a film about famous war photographer Robert Capa, but there’s no word on how he’ll deal with Capa’s soiled legacy. Only how he’ll deal with his bitterly personal love story.

Coming out of hiding, Bryan Singer has signed on for yet another movie. This, of course, means we still have 6 more weeks of winter.

Oh Zombies. Either they are becoming popular again or no one in Hollywood has any creativity. Or they all collectively get together and decide what fads they want to propel. Luckily, the latest adaptation comes from some cool source material that originated right here! On the internet!

We keep an eye on remakes in development so you don’t have to, and there are a lot of them. You might be a major fan of this latest victim of the re-creation machine, but try not to lose your head over it.