Sean Penn Movie Updates

Zack Snyder is going from the epic world of DC superheroes to war-torn Afghanistan.

Mel Gibson is ready to bring the best-seller The Professor and the Madman to the big screen and has enlisted Sean Penn in the effort.

Johnny Depp is in early talks to star in Paramount’s crime thriller Triple Frontier.

Sean Penn is in negotiations to star in the potential franchise-launching action noir Prone Gunman at Silver Pictures and StudioCanal.

Sean Penn is in negotiations to play a small but pivotal supporting role in 20th Century Fox’s remake of The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, the comedy that Ben Stiller is directing, with Stiller playing the title role. Penn will play the role of a photographer.

Now that New Regency closed a deal to fully fund the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu-directed The Revenant, the Biutiful helmer has set his sights on Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn to play the two leads in the screen adaptation of the Michael Punke novel.

Anthony Mackie has joined the cast of the Warner Bros.-Village Roadshow period police saga ''Gangster Squad'' opposite Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin and Michael Pena.

Following the success of Liam Neeson starrer "Unknown," Joel Silver's Dark Castle and Europe's StudioCanal are reteaming on Afghanistan-set action-thriller "The Last Photograph," with Christian Bale and Sean Penn in talks to star.

Warner Bros has begun negotiating with Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin to star in Gangster Squad, the Will Beall-scripted crime drama that will be directed by Zombieland helmer Ruben Fleischer.

Sean Penn is circling The Last Photograph, and I'm told he plans to join Christian Bale

Warner Bros. has greenlit "Gangster Squad" with "Zombieland" director Ruben Fleischer helming. Warner issued the official greenlight on Wednesday. Studio brass and producers are interested in offering the leading parts to Sean Penn and Ryan Gosling but has not confirmed whether offers have been made yet.

Tom Hanks may be the first actor to board Paramount’s "Sleeping Dogs," Kathryn Bigelow’s follow-up to "The Hurt Locker." The project was previously known as "Triple Frontier" and reunites Bigelow with her "Hurt Locker" scribe Mark Boal.

According to solid sources, it looks like Professor Moriarty will be played by actor Jared Harris.

"Genius," the story of literary editor Max Perkins, is getting another shot at the screen. Bill Pohlad, the producer-financier behind River Road Entertainment, is boarding to direct the showy drama and is in talks with longtime collaborator Sean Penn to star as Perkins.

Italo production company Medusa and bank Intesa San Paolo have boarded helmer Paolo Sorrentino's "This Must Be the Place" starring Sean Penn and Frances McDormand. In an unusual financing deal, the bank is taking an equity stake in the $28 million pic, one of Italy's most high-profile and highly anticipated films of ...