LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum will star in "The Vow," a fact-based love story that has been in development for more than a decade. The story follows a newlywed New Mexico couple who end up in a car crash. The wife is put in a coma, where she is cared for by her devoted husband. When ...

CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - Christopher Walken is negotiating to join the action-comedy "Wild Oats," from writer Claudia Myers and director Scott Marshall. Shirley MacLaine, Maria Bello, Christina Ricci, John Corbett and Bill Pullman already are aboard the project about a widow who finds herself heading to Las Vegas with her granddaughter after a pile of money falls in her lap. Shooting ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Russell Crowe rides into movie theaters on Friday with "Robin Hood," but "Iron Man 2" should score a second weekend as the top film in North America. Marvel/Paramount's "Iron 2" will likely ring up $50 million-plus, while tracking surveys have Universal's "Robin Hood" bowing in the $40 million-$45 million range. Crowe's ...

Film director Steven Spielberg will direct a film adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's epic World War I novel, "War Horse," entertainment trade magazines said Tuesday. Spielberg and his DreamWorks studio will also produce the film project, which is expected to hit the screens in August 2011, Variety and Hollywood Reporter said. Adapting the story of the friendship between a young ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It might be true that no animals were physically harmed in the making of this ultra-broad comedy, but what about their pride? Combining well-trained critters, CGI and human actors who should have known better, "Furry Vengeance" is a collection of feeble jokes in the service of green themes. Sustainability never looked so stupid. While their parents ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After a shaky start, "How to Train Your Dragon" has earned enough box-office coin to ensure that it becomes a multimedia franchise, with the next movie headed for screens in the second half of 2013, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg said Tuesday. A live arena show, something akin to "Walking With Dinosaurs," also is in the ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Sony Pictures took a good look at its recently acquired Kevin James comedy, "The Zookeeper," and saw summer sizzler written all over it. As a result, the movie, which combines live action and animation, is moving from a scheduled October 8 release date to July 8, 2011. By delaying the film's release, the studio stands ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - This month, at the ripe old age of 39, Matt Damon will receive the 24th American Cinematheque Award for his work in film -- and the timing couldn't be better: His action-thriller "Green Zone" opened March 12 and he has four other movies slated for this year: The Coen brothers' remake of "True Grit," the Philip ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Jennifer Lopez is in talks to star in the remake of the romantic comedy "Overboard." The 1987 movie, which starred Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn and was directed by Garry Marshall, centered on a snooty, spoiled woman who falls off her yacht and is taken to the hospital by a local, morally challenged carpenter. When she ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Olivia Wilde is in negotiations to star opposite Daniel Craig in the sci-fi Western "Cowboys & Aliens," which Jon Favreau is directing for DreamWorks Studios. Wilde will play a character named Ella who joins up with mysterious gunslinger in an unlikely uprising against an alien invasion. Craig is playing the gunslinger, taking over the role ...