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Steven Spielberg is set to direct Robopocalypse , it was announced today by Mark Sourian and Holly Bario, Co-Presidents of Production for DreamWorks Studios. Based on the novel of the same name by Daniel H. Wilson, Spielberg will begin principal photography on the futuristic tale in January 2012. Disney's Touchstone will distribute the film in 2013.

David O. Russell (Three Kings, The Fighter) has been set to write and direct Columbia Pictures' Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, an action-adventure based upon the bestselling PlayStation 3 game.

Feature would be based on teen game that sends couple into a closet for makeout session.

Newcomer Rooney Mara has landed one of the most-coveted roles in Hollywood, co-starring alongside James Bond star Daniel Craig in the English-language ...

Paramount Pictures has picked up the film rights to "Last Man Standing: Killbook of a Bounty Hunter" (LMS), a coffee table book from Heavy Metal Publishing, reports Heat Vision .

Ruffalo, of course, replaces Edward Norton as Hulk. Marvel made a pittance of an offer to Edward Norton to continue in the role.

The perfect fit? We just don't know what to think of this? We never noticed the resemblance Tom Cruise had to John Edwards before. But they do look quite a bit alike. Is this giving John Edwards too much credit? Or is it kind of an insult? We do know that Tom Cruise could be cast to play Edwards in the upcoming biopic, The Politician.

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has acquired the rights to the Andrew Young book about former presidential candidate John Edwards, "The Politician."

Last Thursday, reports turned up online indicating that Steven Spielberg had cast actor Eddie Redmayne in the lead role in his screen adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's YA novel War Horse. Not so fast, says Empire Online, who landed the exclusive on the film's full cast list. Lo and behold, there's no Eddie Redmayne listed at all.

Pop songstress Miley Cyrus got her big break with the Disneyfied alter-ego Hannah Montana, star of the hit Disney Channel series bearing the same name. She's now been attached to star in "Wake," an adaptation of the the young adult horror novel by Lisa McCann. Cyrus will star as a young woman who is pulled ...