It’s going to be Prometheus meets Avatar although with a decidedly non sci-fi tale, as Idris Elba and Noomie Rapace, who starred in the former, are teaming up with the latter’s Sam Worthington for Alive Alone, according to THR.
Khurram Longi’s script has already had plenty of praise as it was included on the Black List and the UK’s Brit list of the best unproduced screenplays. The film will also be Longi’s directorial debut.
Elba will play ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee Jamal, who is now working as a taxi driver in New York. Rapace meanwhile is Sarah, a prostitute on the run from feared crime boss Murphy (Sam Worthington). When Sarah and Jamal’s ‘worlds collide, they unexpectedly find salvation in each other’.
It’s not clear when it will shoot.
Ron Howard is going drug smuggling, or at least he’s going to make a movie about it. Over the weekend Universal beat out Sony and spent $1 million on Gary Spinelli’s spec script Mena, which comes with Howard attached to helm, according to 
Saoirse Ronan and Cynthia Nixon have signed up for Stockholm, Pennsylvania for first time writer/director Nikole Beckwith, according to 
Although it’s reputation is slightly unfair, Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 cult classic The Room has become a bit of a legend as the worst film ever made (it is bad, but there are worse out there).
Last November Reese Witherspoon entered talks to join The Intern, replacing the previously attached Tina Fey. However now Witherspoon has moved on too due to scheduling issues, but they may have found a good replacement as 
For a while it seemed like every other movie had John Travolta in it, but in the last year or two he’s cut back a bit. However he has now signed up for a new role – which should allow his to stretch his acting muscles – as 
In the run up to the release of The Lego Movie, many wondered whether it would work, but as the ecstatic reviews came in, in seemed Warner Bros might have something special. Audiences seem to have agreed as the film has had a huge US opening, taking $69.1 million in its first three days in cinemas.