At today’s CinemaCon Filmmaker lunch program honoring New Regency head Arnon Milchan with the Legend off Cinema award, 20th Century Fox and New Regency also made news. The companies revealed that they will be releasing this fall Warren Beatty’s long-gestating, officially untitled movie dealing with Howard Hughes that…

Warren Beatty’s long-in-the-works Howard Hughes biopic will be released by 20th Century Fox and New Regency, with the final touches being done now to set a fall release. A landing place for Beatty’s passion project, which has long been in the can, was the final piece of the puzzle. Beatty was on hand at CinemaCon…

EXCLUSIVE: Alec Baldwin is the latest actor to join Warren Beatty‘s untitled Howard Hughes project, portraying the reclusive billionaire’s lawyer Bob Maheu. Beatty has been tapping some of his friends for various roles. Those who have already been reported by Deadline include Martin Sheen, Matthew Broderick, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Martin Sheen has joined the cast of Warren Beatty‘s untitled Howard Hughes project, the script of which is being kept tightly under wraps. Sheen and Beatty are old friends but this is the first time they’ve worked together. Sheen, who will next be seen opposite Rooney Mara in Stephen Daldry’s Trash, been on…

EXCLUSIVE: It took two decades, but it's finally getting off the ground thanks to billionaires Ron Burkle and Steve Bing, Windsor Media's Terry Semel, Arnon Milchan’s New Regency and James Packer’s and Brett Ratner’s RatPac Entertainment. The heavies have come together to finance Warren Beatty's long-gestating Howard H…

EXCLUSIVE: After a long search, Warren Beatty has chosen Like Crazy star Felicity Jones to play the female lead in the untitled film about reclusive industrialist Howard Hughes. The film is still mobilizing its financing, with New Regency in place as a co-financier after Paramount dropped out. Still, Beatty has begun…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures is developing a new version of Scarface, the title first released in 1932 and then turned into the iconic 1983 film that starred Al Pacino as Cuban gangster Tony Montana. I’d heard that the studio has been meeting writers to script a take for a film that will be produced by Marc Shmuger…

Deadline told you Monday that Warren Beatty was getting behind the camera for the first time since Bulworth. Paramount and Beatty are keeping details under wraps, but here’s what I’ve heard: He will play Howard Hughes, but it’s not really a biopic; part of the plot involves an affair he had with a young woman in the…