Silver Pictures Movie Updates

Screenwriter James Coyne has been tapped to pen a rewrite of Sherlock Holmes 3.

George Clooney has now committed to direct as his next film Suburbicon, and he is in negotiations with Matt Damon, Julianne Moore and Josh Brolin to star, I hear.

Screen Gems has picked up rights for the U.S. and much of the world to Keep Watching, a thriller from Voltage Pictures starring Bella Thorne.

Warner Bros has optioned the bestselling 1966 Ross MacDonald crime novel Black Money for Joel and Ethan Coen to write and potentially direct.

Universal Pictures and Silver Pictures will remake Weird Science, the 1985 ultimate nerd wish fulfillment comedy that was written and directed by John Hughes.

Joel Silver‘s Silver Pictures has joined forces with Studio Canal to build a new franchise with a retelling of Escape From New York.

French action director Pierre Morel is in negotiations to direct Sean Penn in Prone Gunman, the action thriller being produced by Silver Pictures’ Joel Silver and Andrew Rona.

Silver Pictures continues rolling on its hot acquisitions streak, picking up the remake rights to the French heist film Le Convoyeur.

Silver Pictures has pre-emptively picked up the spec Straight Edge from XXX scribe Rich Wilkes.

Joel Silver’s Silver Pictures has set up the supernatural-action script Sanctuary at Paramount Pictures.

Silver Pictures has rounded up an impressive cast of passengers for Jaume Collet-Serra's Non-Stop, as Anson Mount, Corey Stoll, Linus Roache, Lupita Nyong'o, Omar Metwally and Jason Butler Harner are set to join Liam Neeson in the airplane thriller.

Mythology Entertainment, the recently minted banner formed by Brad Fischer, Laeta Kalogridis and James Vanderbilt, has acquired feature rights to Richard Morgan's sci-fier Altered Carbon.

Indie banner After Dark Films has bought Jonathan W. Stokes' El Gringo, a Mexico-set action script.

Interest in a Hot Wheels movie is revving up again, with Legendary Entertainment in early negotiations with Mattel to acquire film rights to the popular toy car line.

Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired Line of Sight, a spec script by F. Scott Frazier, an individual close to the project confirmed to TheWrap.

Barbra Streisand may be heading to the bigscreen in a remake of Gypsy for Warner Bros. and Joel Silver.

Jim Caviezel has been cast in the After Dark Films thriller "Transit." He joins Elisabeth Rohm, Harold Perrineau and Diora Baird in the Antonio Negret-directed project, which also has cast James Frain.

Warner Bros. Pictures is going to war in the future, snapping up Colin Treverrow's script "World War X" and setting it up with Silver Pictures and Benderspink.

"Project X" has got tongues wagging in Hollywood. Warner Bros, Todd Phillips and Joel Silver are mobilizing a raunchy comedy with a $12 million budget, a hard R-rating, under that working title.