deadline.com – EXCLUSIVE: Disney and director Mark Romanek are parting ways on Cinderella, the revisionist fairy tale movie that has Cate Blanchett attached to star. It’s all going down now, but I’m told that Romanek and the studio have differing views on how to tell the story. Romanek’s is darker, and it’s too dark for this to turn out to be a fairy tale ending. 5 weeks 3 days ago via brucelee

deadline.com – EXCLUSIVE: When it comes to directors on the movie Highlander, there can be only one. But it won’t be Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. The 28 Days Later helmer has exited Summit’s reboot of the film, which still has Ryan Reynolds poised to play the title character. I’m told that his exit is amicable, and that after a year of working on the project, he and Summit could not get past the fact they had differing views of the film, and finally agreed to disagree. 10 weeks 6 days ago via jackiechan

screencrush.com – Warner Brothers has been looking to make a new version of a ‘The Twilight Zone’ movie for a while now, and had Matt Reeves (director of ‘Cloverfield’ and ‘Let Me In’) attached with a script being rewritten by Anthony Peckham (who wrote the upcoming ‘Jack Ryan‘). Now it looks like the project is up for grabs as Reeves has left the project.

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deadline.com – EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox, already undergoing seismic changes with Tom Rothman exiting at year end, might have a major director to replace on one of the studio’s most important film franchises. I’m hearing that Rupert Wyatt, who helmed the superb franchise reboot Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, will leave the sequel. 21 weeks 3 days ago via donnieyen

fb.indiewire.com – For his first feature film since 2008's "Adam Resurrected," famed screenwriter and director Paul Schrader is drawing on a particularly diverse and unique group of talent for "The Canyons." Boasting a script penned by Bret Easton Ellis with a cast featuring adult film star James Deen, Lindsay Lohan and up and comers Nolan Funk and Amanda Brook, another intriguing element has been added to the production. 30 weeks 6 days ago via jackiechan

feeds.latinoreview.com – The shock of the director behind the award winning 'Monster,' Patty Jenkins landing the job on the 'Thor' sequel had barely worn off before news came that she had stepped down. The reason cited was "creative differences." Speaking with THR, the director expanded on this, saying: "I have had a great time working at Marvel. 1 year 9 weeks ago via jackiechan

fb.indiewire.com – Breaking news: after a long-drawn-out casting back and forth between Warner Bros. and Steven Soderbergh, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker has decided to opt out and will not be directing "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," a project he and writer Scott Z. Burns have been developing since early 2010. Soderbergh was in meetings with WB brass this evening in Los Angeles and could not come to an agreement over casting and budgets and decided to part ways on the project. 1 year 12 weeks ago via brucelee