Marc Guggenheim is in talks to write Robert Downey Jr.’s Perry Mason reboot for Warner Bros.
Stage actor Colin Donnell rounds out the cast of Arrow, playing Oliver Queen’s best friend Tommy Merlyn in The CW pilot based on DC Comics’ Green Arrow.
While promoting his new film This Means War, director McG revealed he had locked in Robert Downey Jr. to play Lex Luthor in the abandoned Superman: Flyby.
Warner Bros. hopes Will Smith will reprise his role from I Am Legend, the 2007 post-apocalyptic blockbuster that grossed $585 million worldwide. Word is, though, that the follow-up isn’t a prequel.
British actor Jamie Blackley will play the young leader of a band of soldiers in director Noam Murro’s untitled follow-up to the 2007 blockbuster 300.
Guillermo del Toro is moving forward as director of Warner Bros.’ Beauty and the Beast, with Harry Potter star Emma Watson set to play the female lead.
The Transylvania count is awfully popular, with Harker and Dracula Year Zero both in the works from rival studios.
The DC Nation programming block will premiere Saturday, March 3 on Cartoon Network, anchored by Green Lantern: The Animated Series and Young Justice.
Warner Bros. has hired screenwriters Van Robichaux and Evan Susser to take another run at the script for the long-brewing Jetsons live-action movie.
Peter Jackson has tapped Scottish comedian Billy Connolly to play Dain Ironfoot in his two-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.
Sullivan Stapleton, who appeared in the 2010 crime drama Animal Kingdom and on the TV series Strike Back, will star in the untitled follow-up to 300. Whether he’s playing the Persian leader Xerxes or the Athenian general Themistocles is a little unclear, though.
Warner Bros. has premiered two new posters and a character banner for Wrath of the Titans, director Jonathan Liebesman’s sequel to the 2010 remake Clash of the Titans.
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