-- Along with Summit Entertainment's announcement that "Eclipse," the third movie in the "Twilight" series, has started shooting comes confirmation that Jodelle Ferland will play Bree and Julia Jones will play Leah. (Hollywood Crush)

-- Rosario Dawson has joined the cast of Tony Scott's "Unstoppable," joining Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. The story of an out-of-control train loaded with toxic chemicals is currently set for a Fall 2010 release. Also, Heather Graham will star in Harold Becker's "Vengeance: A Love Story." (Production Weekly Twitter feed, via ComingSoon) Read more...

It seems that not even movies are safe in our troubled economic times. We saw Sony let the air out of "Moneyball" days before it was to start filming. Now Fox has put the brakes on "Unstoppable," Tony Scott's directorial follow-up to "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3."

The studio was leery of the film's big action-heavy budget, and The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Scott, Denzel Washington, and Chris Pine had not yet signed to the film. All three were simply operating under the assumption that they'd be shooting in the fall. Now, Variety reports that Washington has formally left the project, and is looking for another film to fill his fall schedule. Read more...

Filmmaker Tony Scott was all over the place in his recent interview with ComingSoon. Yesterday, we reported that he's officially called a "time out" on talk of the rumored "Alien" remake. He also revealed his plans for the coming "re-tooling" of "The Warriors," along with a bunch of other interesting tidbits.

The bit that really caught my eye was the revelation that Stephen Gaghan, the Oscar-winning writer of "Traffic," is developing a script for an adaptation of Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson's seminal work, "Hell's Angels." It's a wild bit of non-fiction writing culled from a very specific moment in history. Read more...

Remember that time when I said Tony Scott had a full plate? Yeah, I do too. But what I neglected to mention the first go-around is one of Scott's more interesting projects in development -- a sequel to "The Hunger."

The 1983 vampire flick was Scott's directorial debut, and if the "Pelham 123" filmmaker has his way, he'll be returning to the property soon. The best part? It's neither remake, reboot or relaunch -- as it stands, it's directly dependent on the original. Read more...

Tony Scott has a lot on his plate at the moment, not the least of which are planned reboots and remakes of the "Alien" and "The Warriors" franchises, respectively. (Don't know the difference? I got you covered.)

Ask Scott about either one of those franchises and he's likely to give you a lip-full or a stone-wall -- just depends on which one he's talking about. Read more...

In a few weeks, fans will meet Ramon Rodriguez in “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.” Don’t be surprised if the summer is soon claimed by the Puerto Rican heartthrob, because this week he’s also appearing in the John Travolta/Denzel Washington flick “The Taking of Pelham 123.” We recently caught up with Rodriguez and spoke to him about the high-wattage cast -– and controversial rewrites -– in the remake of the classic Walter Matthau-led suspense flick.

“Working with Denzel, John Travolta, Tony Scott, it was amazing; I got to work with Denzel every single day, which was an unbelievable experience -- I learned so much,” Rodriguez said, beaming. “John [and] I would go back to my room; John would come over and we would just talk for hours -- he was so cool.” Read more...

In director Tony Scott's remake of "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3," which hits theaters this Friday, a New York City MTA dispatcher (Denzel Washington) is thrown into the role of unlikely hero -- really, is there any other kind of hero? -- when hijackers, led by a man named Ryder (a tatted up John Travolta) take over a subway train with the intent of ransoming off the passengers-turned-hostages. In this all-too-brief clip, we can see the situation just starting to derail -- pun definitely intended -- as Ryder and his cohorts start rounding up riders on the moving train.

FROM MTV.COM: Over the past 15 years, Denzel Washington and Tony Scott have formed an impressive, adrenaline-pumping creative partnership, collaborating on thrillers like "Crimson Tide" and "Man on Fire." With Scott in the director's chair and Washington variously scrambling around a nuclear submarine and exacting bloody revenge on a Mexican gang, their films have been exercises in amped-up tension, whip-fast editing and straight-up badassery.

Their latest project, "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" (out Friday), is different only in one respect: Denzel spends most of the film sitting in a chair.

Continue reading Denzel Washington Calls Bond With 'Pelham' Director 'A Good Marriage'

Sometimes, you can believe everything you hear -- or read, in this case. A month after Bradley Cooper confirmed himself for "The A-Team," then quickly backtracked, we learn that The Hollywood Reporter reveals that he is in "official talks" to play Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck in Joe Carnahan's remake of "The A-Team." You can still play the skeptic if you like, but I think the third time's the charm on this particular bit of news. Particularly since Faceman is the perfect character for Cooper: handsome, popular with the ladies and hustler for the team.

Cooper's not the only member of team that's been potentially recruited, as Variety is reporting that Liam Neeson is negotiating his own place in "The A-Team," as Col. John "Hannibal" Smith, the team's head honcho and tactician. Neeson is reportedly working out "money issues" with Fox, and as he's fresh off the solid streak of "Taken," "Chloe" and "The Clash of the Titans," he is certainly entitled to play a little hardball. Don't you think? Read more...

News like this makes me smile my big, gaping fanboy smile. "The Warriors" is a modern classic, the tale of a gang making their way from the Bronx to Coney Island while a city full of rivals hunts them. There's so much about the original film that's memorable, from iconic lines like "Can you diiiiiig iiiiiiit?" to the memorable opening credits sequence.

Now we have Tony Scott speaking with Rotten Tomatoes about his coming remake. Or whatever it is. "I'm not doing a straight remake," he told RT. "I love the original 'Warriors' and I'm using the same basic story. It's really still 10 guys stuck at point B and they need to get back to point A. But I'm going to set it in Los Angeles and it's going to be a kind of study of gang culture in LA today." Read more...