The Casting Couch: May 10, 2006

Josh Hutcherson is joining the 3-D remake of Journey to the Center of the Earth pitting him alongside Brendan Fraser.

The film from Walden Media and New Line Cinema will be a contemporary update in 3-D of Jules Verne classic science fiction novel and will revolve around a scientist (Fraser) and his troubled nephew (Hutcherson) on an expedition in Iceland who stumble upon a mystery that leads them on a thrill-ride adventure, bringing them face to face with never-before-seen worlds and creatures beneath Earth’s surface.

The film starts shooting June 10 in Montreal.

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter

Anguish, the Jake Wade Wall pitch based on the 1987 Spanish horror film, “Anguistia” has just been picked up by Universal Pictures.

The original film was a horror-movie-within-a-horror movie. As an audience in a small theater watches a pic about an optometrist on a killing spree, a maniac begins killing the moviegoers.

SOURCE: Variety

Julia Roberts may be getting horrible reviews for her stage debut in Richard Greenberg’s “Three Days of Rain”, but that isn’t stopping the play from getting a bigscreen adaptation.

A spring 2007 start date is set for the flick, which tells the story which follows a brother, sister and their childhood friend, who regroup following the death of the siblings’ father, a celebrated architect.

SOURCE: Variety