Premise: Four extreme "Star Wars" fans and childhood friends drive across America to Skywalker Ranch in order to sneak a peak at the yet unreleased "Episode 1: Phantom Menace" as one last hoorah for their dying friend. 

Production Status: In Production/Awaiting Release 
Genres: Comedy and Drama 
Release Date: August 17th, 2007 (wide) 
Production Co.: Trigger Street Productions 
Studios: The Weinstein Company  
Produced in: United States

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Ron Perlman in talks told about Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, for which Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro has flown to Budapest to "zero in on the beginning of principal photography."

Perlman added that he is busy working out to get back into that super suit of his for a production start around the end of May. "I'm already in the gym six days a week," he notes with a smile. And what does his workout consist of? "The push-ups, the sit-ups, the stationary bike. Then, of course, there's the lifting of the pizza." Does he have a trainer? "I have a trainer, and I'm almost housebroken," he quips...more click on heading

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Bernie Mac talks about his next film, the swimming drama Pride, the actor briefly talked about his role in Michael Bay's Transformers.

"I play a used car salesman, and all used car salesmen are full of sh*t – scuse my French – but they're con men," said Mac. "And they came to my set and I sold them the Transformer; I didn't know it was the Transformer, I thought it was a piece of junk. And the first thing you do as a salesman, a car salesman – I didn't know this, I did some investigating myself – they always sell you the 'bs' cars first. It's almost like a restaurant – get rid of the food, rotate it.

When they come, I didn't know what the car exists of, and I just threw them a line; I'm a fast talker, quick whit guy. I got a chance to have some fun and Michael [Bay] – man, I've been fortunate, man, because every director allows Bernie Mac to do his thing. I have not been handcuffed since my career started from Ted Demme; every time a director, every time we'd do it straight, they always tell me, 'Now Bernie Mac it.' That's a luxury, you know."

The Transformers hit the big screen on July 4.

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Todd Graff, the writer-director behind the indie film Camp, is back to investigate the pathos of adolescence in the film Will for Walden Media.

Graff will direct the coming-of-age dramedy and is working on a rewrite of the original screenplay by Josh Kagan.

Will centers on a high school outcast and a popular girl who form an unlikely bond through their shared love of music. Assembling a like-minded crew of misfits, the friends form a rock group and perform in the battle of the bands competition at their school.

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Joshua Jackson is set to join Rachael Taylor in Regency Enterprises' psychological thriller Shutter, which begins shooting March 12 in Tokyo. Also joining the cast are David Denman ("The Office"), James Kyson Lee ("Heroes") and John Hensley ("Nip/Tuck").

From director Masayuki Ochiai, Shutter, a remake of a 2004 Thai film, centers on a young American couple (Jackson and Taylor) on their honeymoon in Tokyo, who begin seeing ghostly images in their photos as well as around them...more click on heading

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New Line Cinema has bought Jason Filardi's untitled comedy pitch with High School Musical star Zac Efron to topline.

The studio has also signed Hairspray director Adam Shankman and producing partner Jennifer Gibgot to produce through their Offspring Entertainment. Efron's manager Jason Barrett will executive produce.

No director is attached on the project. The logline's being kept under wraps other than being described as a broad comedy in a high school setting. Efron is in pre-production on a High School Musical sequel.

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Janet Jackson has come aboard to star opposite Tyler Perry in his next film, Why Did I Get Married, based on the filmmaker's stage play of the same name.

Perry is writing, directing and producing for Lionsgate. Filming is set to begin March 5 in Whistler, British Columbia; Vancouver; and then Atlanta, where Perry recently opened his own studio.

Sharon Leal (Dreamgirls) and Jill Scott have also joined the cast. The fourth film in Perry's lucrative franchise, Why Did I Get Married revolves around a couple who go away with friends every winter to examine their marriages in a group setting. One of the wives brings along a sexy young temptress who causes plenty of trouble for the couples.
 

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In some of the wildest news to come out of the success of Martin Scorsese's latest film The Departed, Warner Bros. is hoping that the veteran filmmaker might helm a movie based on Brian Selznick's bestselling children's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the studio having aquired the rights just a month after its release by Scholastic. (For those not keeping track, Scholastic and Warner Bros. have had a lot of success with J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series.) ...more click on heading

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Universal Pictures has renewed their deal with Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal's Tribeca Productions for another two years in order for them to start developing Little Fockers, the third film in the hit comedy series that began with Meet the Parents in 2000. (At one point, the second sequel's title was thought to be Meet the Little Focker.)

The producers are working once again with series director Jay Roach to develop ideas for the third film with plans to bring back not only Ben Stiller, De Niro, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner from the first two movies, but also Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand from the sequel...more click on heading

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Tony Award-winner JENNIFER HOLLIDAY will reprise her hit role as EFFIE in a new stage production of DREAMGIRLS.

The star won a Best Actress Tony Award for playing the troubled star of a legendary female singing group in the 1981 Broadway production.

CHRISTOPHER B MANOS, producer of Theater of the Stars in Atlanta, Georgia, announced that the troupe's 2007 season will feature Holliday in the role that made her famous...more click on heading

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Premiere: Kerri Kenney-Silver, Carlos Alazraqui, Robert Ben Garant, director, Niecy Nash, Mary Birdsong, Cedric Yarbrough, Thomas Lennon and Wendi McLendon-Covey at the Los Angeles premiere of 20th Century Fox's Reno 911: Miami...more click on heading

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Premiere: Eva Mendes and Nicolas Cage at the New York premiere of Columbia Pictures' Ghost Rider ..more click on heading

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New Line Cinema is fast-tracking an untitled action film starring Channing Tatum (Step Up) as an undercover cop, preemptively snapping up a pitch by T. J. Scott and Kevin Lund and setting it up with Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey.

The story centers on a New York City cop who must infiltrate the underground world of free running, known as Parkour, to bust a seemingly unstoppable gang of bank robbers.

Scott and Lund, who previously set up a Vivaldi biopic at Imagine, will write the screenplay.

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Gregory Smith ("Everwood") and Christopher Eccleston ("Heroes") have joined the cast of The Dark Is Rising, 20th Century Fox and Walden Media's adaptation of Susan Cooper's best-selling books. Marc Platt and Ron Schmidt are producing the picture, which is being directed by David L. Cunningham...more click on heading

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Lukas Haas has joined the cast of While She Was Out, a real-time thriller starring Kim Basinge. Producer Susan Montford is making her directorial debut on the picture and wrote the screenplay.

Haas will play the leader of a gang of kids who terrorize Basinger in the woods after she witnesses a murder...more click on heading

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