Jason Reitman Movie Updates

Hugh Jackman is in early talks to play former senator and presidential candidate Gary Hart in The Frontrunner.

Mackenzie Davis has joined the cast of Jason Reitman’s next feature, Tully.

Jason Reitman is writing and directing an adaptation of the book The Adventures Of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend for DreamWorks Animation.

Jason Reitman, who’ll launch his film Labor Day in Toronto and preside over a reading of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights script there, is fast mobilizing his next film.

Bold Films, Blumhouse Productions and Right of Way Films are teaming up to bring Damien Chazelle‘s Sundance Prize-winning short Whiplash to the screen as a feature. Bold Films will fully finance the film.

Jean-Marc Vallée, who just helmed Dallas Buyers Club, is teaming with production company Mr. Mudd to develop Demolition from a Black List screenplay by Bryan Sipe.

Paramount will launch Jason Reitman's Young Adult in a limited run on Dec. 9, followed by a nationwide bow on Dec. 16.

Reitman (Up in the Air, Juno) has been tapped for rewrite work on Burt Wonderstone, the New Line comedy that has Steve Carell attached to star. It is unclear whether the job will be a polish, a full rewrite, or something in between, but Reitman is being paid for several weeks' worth of work. This is the first time the writer-dir ...

Jason Reitman and Charlize Theron are in talks to direct and star in, respectively, "Young Adult," a Diablo Cody-penned script set up at Mandate.

Larry Charles, who steered Sacha Baron Cohen through audacious comic turns in Bruno and Borat, is now ready to do the same for Jim Carrey. Charles has signed on to direct Pierre Pierre, a comedy that has Carrey playing the role of a Frenchman who transports a stolen painting from Paris to London.

Jason Reitman and his Right of Way Films banner have optioned movie rights to "Elliot Allagash," a novel by Simon Rich.