Tuesday 11th May 2004: Benjamin Button Update:
Director David Fincher is rumoured to be in talsk to helm Benjamin Button. The project is being jointly developed by Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures. The script has been written by Eric Roth and follows a 50 year old man as he lives his life in reverse and meets a woman at age 30 and the complications that causes to his already strange existence.

Tuesday 11th May 2004: Che Update:
Focus Features are in negotiations to pick up the US distribution rights to the Benicio Del Toro starring Che Guevera biopic.

Tuesday 11th May 2004: Devour Update:
Jensen Ackles, Shannyn Sossamon, Dominique Swain and Bill Adler have been signed up to star in Devour that is being directed by David Winkler. The script has been written by Adam Gross, Seth Gross and Roger Wilson and is being produced by Bigel/Mailer Films. The movie is a psychological horror about a college student who plays an online game in which players commit dangerous acts.

Tuesday 11th May 2004: Dramarama Update:
Warner Bros. has signed up Sean Ku (who only graduates from film school this week!) to direct Dramarama. The script has been written by Andrew Osborne, with a rewrite by Kristen Buckley and Brian Regan. The script follows a high school senior who's bitten by the performing bug as she visits an elite high school and sees their show. When that rival school's reigning star pushes her too far, the protagonist forms her own drama club at her run-down public school and enters a competition to vie for the winner's title, abandoning a secure future for the unpredictable life of theater.

Tuesday 11th May 2004: Fahrenheit 911 Update:
Michael Moore has answered criticism that he was using the controversy over Disney's refusal to distribute Fahrenheit 911 but crucially he agrees that Disney refused to distribute the movie last year "except that Disney kept sending us all that money [$6 million] to make the movie. Miramax [told me] there was no problem. I got the idea that everything was fine." Responding to Disney Chairman Michael Eisner's claim that Disney could not distribute "a partisan political film that may offend some of our customers," Moore observed that in 1998 Disney distributed his own "very partisan movie" called The Big One. As for the charge that his comments represented a publicity stunt, Moore replied: "Let me tell you something: NO filmmaker wants to go through this kind of controversy. It does NOT sell tickets (I can cite many examples of movies who have had to change distributors at the last minute and all have failed). I made this movie so people could see it as soon as possible. This is a huge and unwanted distraction." Since when has PR hype of this kind and for a movie of this nature have ever affected it? Getting the idea that all is fine is a lot different from it actually being OK. Should Moore not have had a contract drawn up for the distribution, I've never seen a movie released that didn't have the distribution rights written up in a contract!

Tuesday 11th May 2004: Gideon Update:
20th Century Fox have snapped up the rights to writer Andrew Klavan's script Gideon. Producing the movie are Mike Macari and Neal Edelstein of Macari/Edelstein with the script following a young female artist who imagines evil figures so deeply that they cross over into her real world.

Tuesday 11th May 2004: King Conan Update:
Looks like the replacement for Arnie as Conan has been found with the scoop copming in from Filmforce today "IGN FilmForce has learned who is poised to replace Arnold Schwarzenegger as the title
character in the long-in-development King Conan: Crown
of Iron. Confirming rumors first reported last fall,
Warner Brothers and writer-director John Milius have
indeed settled on wrestler-actor Paul Michael
Levesque, a.k.a. Triple H, to play Robert E. Howard's
barbarian hero. It should be noted, however, that it
isn't a done deal just yet."
http://www.filmforce.ign.com

Tuesday 11th May 2004: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Update:
Reports reach us that Tilda Swinton has been signed up to play The White Witch in Disney and Walden Media's adaptation of C.S. Lewis's classic The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Previous reports had Nicole Kidman in talks for the role, and I must say Kidman would be much more glamorous and exotic than dowdy Swinton.

Tuesday 11th May 2004: The Mask of Zorro Update:
In an interview Antonio Banderas has revealed that filming on The Mask of Zorro will start on the 26th July.

Tuesday 11th May 2004: Me Again Update:
The lawsuit that Diane Lane took out against Intermedia over the production of a film she was attached to star in has been settled amicably by both sides. Production continues on Me Again.

Tuesday 11th May 2004: The Moguls Update:
Jeanne Tripplehorn has been added to the cast of The Moguls that is being directed by Michael Traeger. Also in the cast are Jeff Bridges, Tim Blake Nelson, Jennifer Coolidge, Isaiah Washington, Glenne Headly, Joe Pantoliano and Lauren Graham. The movie follows Bridges as a guy who comes up with a scheme that involves all his friends being cast in a porno!

Tuesday 11th May 2004: Night Train Update:
News reaches us that Ving Rhames has signed up to star and executive produce the Sonny Liston biopic that is called Night Train. Also in talks to star are James Woods, Alfre Woodward and Kristanna Loken. Woods will play Liston's manager Ashe Resnick, and Woodard Liston's wife. The movie is being directed by Andrzej Sekula with filming starting in Puerto Rico this June.

Tuesday 11th May 2004: The Other Half Update:
It has been revealed that Danny Dyer and Vinnie Jones have been signed up to star in a movie to be called The Other Half. The movie follows a young couple on honeymoon in Portugal, which just happens to coincide with the Euro 2004 football championships. Danny Dyer had this to say about the movie "It's about a guy who takes his new wife on honeymoon to Portugal so he can watch the football. The script really depends on how well England do. If we progress quite far then the film will go with that. Otherwise, I'll be all sad in the film. I play a really nice character for once. I want to show a sweet side of me, without any violence, for a change." Nice? Taking your wife on honeymoon to a football championship, more like selfish git!

Tuesday 11th May 2004: Pirates of the Caribbean 2 Update:
News reaches us that Keith Richards has confirmed that he WILL play Johnny Depp's characters Dad in Pirates of the Caribbean 2. His role will involve four days of filming so it sounds like it will be little more than a cameo appearance.

Tuesday 11th May 2004: Resident Evil: Apocalypse Update:
Screen Gems have decided to repeat the huge success they had on the original Resident Evil poster campaign when they ran a competition to design a poster for the movie with the in post production Resident Evil: Apocalypse. All the assets that contestants will need to design a poster will be made available on the official website www.re2.com and the competition will be open for entries between 10th May to 30th June. So all you budding designers get clicking over there now to try and win a cash prize of $2,500! Click Here
One thing that caught my eye about the guidelines is that Milla Jovovich's name has a lot of conditions tied to it in connection with poster, her star power must be increasing if the following condition must be met on the poster "Her name must be at least 1/5 the size of the title treatment. Her name must appear if any other cast member's name is used in conjunction with the artwork title. In addition, her name must be in first position among the cast members."
http://www.re2.com

Tuesday 11th May 2004: Resident Evil: Apocalypse Update:
The official site for Resident Evil: Apocalypse is now fully open Click Here

Tuesday 11th May 2004: The Ruins Update:
Ben Stiller's production co. Red Hour Films has picked up the movie rights to the novel by Scott Rudin called The Ruins, who will also adapt his book for the screen. The project is being developed at DreamWorks.

Tuesday 11th May 2004: Sin City Update:
Antonio Banderas has revealed in an interview that he might have a cameo in Robert Rodriguez's currently filming Sin City.

Tuesday 11th May 2004: The State Boys Rebellion Update:
The movie rights to the book by Michael D'Antonio called The State Boys Rebeliion have been snapped up by DreamWorks Pictures for development. Steven Speilberg is rumoured to be the driver behind this and is thought to be interested in the project that reveals the history of a government program that locked poor or uneducated children into mental institutions from the early 1900s through the 1970s.

Tuesday 11th May 2004: The Talisman Update:
Director Ed Zwick, hot off The Last Samurai is the name being bandied about to replace Vadim Perelman who recently left DreamWorks production of The Talisman. An official announcement is shortly expected.