Trade News

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• Verbinski gives Buckheimer a "BioShock"

  10:25 am, 2009-04-08 — MyMovies.Net

  According to trade mag Variety, "Pirates of the Caribbean" director Gore Verbinski has decided that three, record-breaking films is enough.

• Aniston and Butler find a Bounty together

  11:30 am, 2008-12-09 — MyMovies.Net

  Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler are in negotiations to topline an untitled bounty hunter project at Columbia Pictures, or so reports trade mag Variety.

• Trade Tisdale for Johannson

  10:20 am, 2008-10-28 — MRIB

  Celebs including Ashley Tisdale and Jessica Biel feature on new celebrity trading cards

• "I Am Legend Prequel" is on!

  10:10 am, 2008-09-25 — MyMovies.Net

  This is old news but trade mag Variety is just about catching up with the rest of us.

• Winstone takes over from De Niro in "Darkness"

  09:00 am, 2008-09-13 — MyMovies.Net

  Trade mag Variety is reporting that Ray Winstone has stepped in to the Robert De Niro-shaped breach in "Edge of Darkness", the new thriller directed by "Casino Royale's" Martin Campbell and produced by Graham King's GK Films.

• Universal initiates "The Sigma Protocol"

  10:45 am, 2008-06-04 — MyMovies.Net

  Trade mag Variety have confirmed that Universal have bought the rights to Robert Ludlum's "The Sigma Protocol" with a mind to adapting the "Bourne" author's 2001 bestseller.

• Dimension Films to "Short Circuit"?

  10:20 am, 2008-04-04 — MyMovies.Net

  Dimension Films, the studio that famously brought the post-modern horror kicking and screaming to life in the "Scream" franchise, has, according to trade mag Variety, acquired rights to remake the 1986 film "Short Circuit".

• Gary Oldman to star in "Rain Fall"

  06:04 pm, 2008-03-25 — MyMovies.Net

  Gary Oldman is in negotiations to join the cast of "Rain Fall", a new Japanâ€"set hit man thriller, reports trade mag Variety.

• Gary Oldman to star in "Rain Fall"

  09:00 am, 2008-03-24 — MyMovies.Net

  Gary Oldman is in negotiations to join the cast of "Rain Fall", a new Japan-set hit man thriller, reports trade mag Variety.

• Weisz is "Agora" for a new project

  09:00 am, 2008-03-15 — MyMovies.Net

  Trade mag Variety is reporting that Rachel Weisz will star in ancient Egyptian epic "Agora", a sweeping drama/adventure directed by Alejandro Amenabar ("The Others").

• Universalâ€"ly speaking studio is "Bourne" again!

  06:02 pm, 2008-02-26 — MyMovies.Net

  After the dust settled on the Writers Strike the studios can now get down to the tricky business of making some movies and it would seem that Universal are wasting no time at all! According to the trade bible that is Variety, Universal are currently working on a whole host of titles to flesh out their 20009/2010 calendars starting with the news that Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon have agreed to do a fourth 'Bourne' movie for the studio.

• Universal-ly speaking studio is "Bourne" again!

  09:00 am, 2008-02-26 — MyMovies.Net

  After the dust settled on the Writers Strike the studios can now get down to the tricky business of making some movies and it would seem that Universal are wasting no time at all! According to the trade bible that is Variety, Universal are currently working on a whole host of titles to flesh out their 20009/2010 calendars starting with the news that Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon have agreed to do a fourth 'Bourne' movie for the studio.

• David Fincher travels to the "Black Hole"

  10:05 am, 2008-02-21 — MyMovies.Net

  Trade bible Variety reports that "Fight Club" and "Se7en" director David Fincher will helm the new graphic novel adaptation, "Black Hole" for Paramount Pictures.

• Director is scared off by "The Wolfman"

  10:00 am, 2008-01-30 — MyMovies.Net

  According to reports in trade mag Variety, director Mark Romanek (most famous for his work on music promos for such luminaries of the pop world as Michael Jackson and The Red Hot Chili Peppers) has taken the proverbial silver bullet and stepped back from Universal Pictures' "The Wolfman".

• Kidman backs out of 'The Reader'

  10:10 am, 2008-01-09 — MyMovies.Net

  Trade mag Variety has recently revealed that Nicole Kidman has been forced to withdraw from director Stephen Daldry's "The Reader" citing her pregnancy as the reason.

• Superheroes lose some of their shine?

  10:35 am, 2008-01-04 — MyMovies.Net

  According to trade bible Variety there is some rather mixed news coming out of Hollywood for all those tight-wearing crime-fighters out there.

• Kline exposes modern slavery trade

  10:20 am, 2007-09-20 — MRIB

  Actor Kevin Kline's film about human trafficking, Trade, opened on Wednesday at the United Nations

• Nic Cage in talks with De Palma for "The Untouchables: Capone Rising"

  10:00 am, 2007-05-14 — MyMovies.Net

  According to trade mag Variety, Nicolas Cage is in discussions to take the leading role in "The Untouchables.

• Travolta: "I'd swap CVs with Hanks"

  11:30 am, 2007-04-10 — MRIB

  John Travolta says the only actor he'd trade CVs with is Tom Hanks, after turning down The Green Mile

• "Spider-Man 4" for 2009?

  10:00 am, 2007-01-22 — MyMovies.Net

  Columbia Pictures execs were obviously highly impressed after viewing an early print of the forthcoming "Spider-Man 3" as, according to the trade press, they have just announced plans for the web-slinger to return for another subsequent cinematic outing.

• "Ghost" writer confronts "Time Traveller's Wife"

  11:00 am, 2007-01-03 — MyMovies.Net

  According to trade magazine Variety the writer of "Ghost" and "Deep Impact" - Bruce Joel Rubin - has been brought on board to rewrite the big screen adaptation of best selling novel "The Time Traveller's Wife".

• Jackman brings tears to our eyes

  03:30 pm, 2006-11-23 — MRIB

  Actor Hugh Jackman has revealed a trade secret - he plucks his own pubic hair to make himself cry in sad scenes

• De Beers take on anti-diamond geezer Leo

  04:30 pm, 2006-09-21 — MRIB

  De Beers is spending £8m countering Leo Di Caprio's new film, Blood Diamond, about the controversial gem trade

• Stone plans another 9/11 film

  03:00 pm, 2006-09-07 — MRIB

  World Trade Center director Oliver Stone plans more 9/11 stories: "I think it's the basis of another film for me"

• NYC heroes to see Cage's 9/11 film first

  07:00 am, 2006-07-18 — MRIB

  Police and firefighters who risked their lives on 9/11 are invited to free screenings of Cage's World Trade Centre