Julia Roberts Movie Updates

Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges will star as mother and son in the family drama Ben Is Back.

Jennifer Lopez is returning to her romantic-comedy roots for STX.

Crystal City Entertainment has optioned The Bookseller, Cynthia Swanson’s debut novel.

Viola Davis and Julia Roberts are starring in a movie version of Jodi Picoult’s novel Small Great Things.

A feature film based on the Kelli Peters case, which has Julia Roberts attached to star and produce.

Doug Belgrad has christened his new production shingle 2.0 Entertainment.

Julia Roberts has signed on to star in Wonder, an adaptation of R.J. Palacio's novel.

Julia Roberts is attached to star in and produce a big-screen adaptation of Harlan Coben’s Fool Me Once.

Julia Roberts is eyeing to star in Train Man, a courtroom drama about a real-life New York folk hero, Variety has learned.

New Line Cinema has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around the World, as well as the rights to adapt the documentary into a narrative film.

State of the Union is heading back to the bigscreen with Identity Films and Flat Penny Films developing a feature version of the political drama.

Ryan Murphy is putting together an all-star cast for his latest film project, the big-screen adaptation of the Tony Award-winning drama The Normal Heart, being produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B shingle.

Julie Roberts is attached to produce and star in Second Act, a New Regency workplace comedy project in development. Roberts will produce via her Red Om Films label.

The film's producers, including Marco Weber, Vanessa Coifman, Sukee Chew and Philip Rose, have recently regained the rights and plan to release a brand new cut themselves in theaters in L.A., New York, Chicago and San Francisco October 14. New E1 theatrical marketing and distribution executive Dylan Wiley will serve as a consult ...

Relativity confirmed they've signed Julia Roberts, and have set a June 29, 2012 release date. That puts The Brothers Grimm: Snow White six months ahead of the preliminary release plan for Universal's Snow White and the Huntsman.

But we hear from insiders familiar with the situation that Julia Roberts is finally engaging on Tarsem Singh's upcoming 3-D movie The Brothers Grimm: Snow White. With the film set up at Relativity Media, director Singh (The Cell, The Fall) has long wanted Roberts to play the Evil Queen ("Yes, the Queen! She’s wicked! She’s ...

An intriguing tale of rival Snow White is unfolding between Universal Pictures and Relativity Media. I'm told that Charlize Theron is hot and heavy in negotiations to play the Evil Queen in Universal's Snow White and the Huntsman (with Michael Fassbender the front-runner to play the woodsman). For its rival project The Brothers ...

In a power pairing, Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep are in talks to star for The Weinstein Company in the bigscreen adaptation of the Tracy Letts' Pulitzer and Tony-winning play "August: Osage County".