"Senna" director Asif Kapadia has signed on to direct "Ali and Nino," which Oscar winner Christopher Hampton is adapting from Kurban Said's pre-World War Two bestselling romance novel.

PeaPie Films founder Kris Thykier will produce, while Leyla Aliyeva will executive produce. IM Global will handle worldwide sales for the film, which is scheduled to start production early next year.

First published in 1937, the epic novel follows the love story between the male descendant of a royal Muslim family and a beautiful, Christian, Georgian princess.

“'Ali and Nino' is such a poignant and timeless novel and I am thrilled to be collaborating with such a...

Ari Sandel won an Oscar in 2007 for his live-action short film "West Bank Story" and now he's attached to direct "The DUFF" for CBS Films, TheWrap has learned.

Josh A. Cagan ("Bandslam") adapted the coming-of-age novel by Kody Keplinger.

Story follows a 17 year-old girl who believes she is the "designated ugly fat friend." She subsequently struggles to maintain her sense of identity while juggling a tumultuous home life.

McG and Mary Viola are producing the high school movie for Wonderland Sound and Vision. The film will be executive produced by Vast Entertainment's Lane Shefter Bishop, who brought the project to...

With three major movies on the horizon, Marton Csokas is a hot commodity in Hollywood and now he's in negotiations to star opposite Denzel Washington in Antoine Fuqua's Sony drama "The Equalizer."

Washington stars as black ops vigilante Robert McCall, the former intelligence officer played by Edward Woodward on the 1980s television series created by Michael Sloan.

Csokas will play a rogue CIA agent who protects the Russian mob and winds up crossing paths with the vengeful protagonist.

Chloe Moretz is nearing a deal for the female lead of a young prostitute who the lead must protect.

Sony hopes to launch a franchise with "The Equalizer," which...

Terry Crews and Kevin Nealon have joined the cast of “Blended,” a romantic comedy that will star Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, several individuals with knowledge of the production told TheWrap.

The film centers on a couple whose disastrous blind date finds them at a family resort with their children from previous marriages. Sandler and Barrymore play the couple, while Joe McHale will play Barrymore’s former husband.

Nealon, who was a "Saturday Night Live" regular with Sandler, will play a man staying at the resort with his very attractive younger wife and their son. Crews will play...