David Hoberman Movie Updates

Christoph Waltz is in talks to join the cast of Disney's Muppets sequel.

Kieran Darcy-Smith, whose feature directorial debut Wish You Were Here premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, is attached to direct Matt Cook's 2009 Black List script By Way of Helena.

Liam Hemsworth is about to close a deal to star as ‘Chris’ in Empire State, an indie heist movie written by Adam Mazer (Breach, HBO’s You Don’t Know Jack) with Dito Montiel (Fighting, The Son Of No One) directing. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is negotiating to play ‘Ransone’.

Disney has acquired the life rights to Casey Connor for Mandeville Films to adapt as an inspirational biopic about the female celebrity DJ.

As Comic-Con prepares to open in San Diego, the graphic novel publisher Top Cow and the Walt Disney-based producer Mandeville Films are teaming up to make a movie based on the comic-book property The Darkness.

"Rabbit Hole" thesp Miles Teller is in early negotiations to star in Mandeville Films' comedy "21 and Over," which will be released by Relativity Media.

Paul Greengrass will push back for at least a year his Martin Luther King Jr assassination film Memphis. I'm told he's now looking at several projects to do next, and the front-runner is The Deep Blue Good-by, one of the John D. MacDonald series of novels with character Travis McGee.

Warner Bros. has tapped Bill Birch to pen Mandeville Films' action-comedy "Collared." Story's centered on a mysterious group of prisoners held captive in Southern Nevada in the secretive military base Area 51.

Mandeville Films partners David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman announced today that the company has joined forces with Top Cow Productions to adapt Top Cow’s comic book "Crosshair".

Sam Raimi has signed to helm and produce a pic based on graphic novel "Earp: Saints for Sinners" for DreamWorks, Radical Studios, Mandeville and Raimi's Star Road Entertainment.

The creative team behind "The Proposal" -- stars Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, director Anne Fletcher, writer Pete Chiarelli and producers David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman -- are reuniting for "Most Wanted," an action comedy project that sold to Universal over the weekend.

Universal Pictures has given the green light to "Whales", setting John Krasinski to join Drew Barrymore in the Ken Kwapis-directed fact-based film about the 1988 rescue of a trio of California gray whales that got trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle.

"Flight of the Conchords" co-creator James Bobin has decided it's time to sing the music and it’s time to light the lights, signing on to direct Disney’s new Muppet movie.