Paul Verhoeven News

June 20, 2012
Paul Verhoeven Envisions Jesus of Nazareth
Perhaps religious conservatives will want to pass on this. More...

February 9, 2011
Paul Verhoeven Enrolls Halle Berry for The Student
Paul Verhoeven will direct Halle Berry in "The Student," a sexual thriller about an affair between a college student and his boss's wife. More...

May 31, 2009
Halle Berry Could Be Verhoeven's Surrogate
Halle Berry is in talks to end her long screen drought by starring in Paul Verhoeven's "The Surrogate," a thriller about "a couple who hire a surrogate to carry their child and find out mid-term that the surrogate is insane." More...

May 29, 2009
Verhoeven Is Fox's Surrogate
Fox has turned to Paul Verhoeven to helm "Surrogate," a thriller about "a couple desperate to have a child who find themselves in an unbearable position when they find out the surrogate they hired to carry their baby is insane." More...

September 10, 2008
Another Erotic Thriller for Verhoeven?
Paul Verhoeven is plotting a return to the erotic thriller, negotiating with Relativity Media to direct an untitled Wendy Miller script that's being described as "Risky Business" meets "Fatal Attraction." More...

August 4, 2008
Five Favorite Films with Starship Troopers' Casper Van Dien
Casper Van Dien spoke with Rotten Tomatoes to share his Five Favorite (Sci-Fi) Films of all time, discuss his longtime friendship with Starship Troopers: Marauder director Ed Neumeier, and reveal how the last decade and two sequels have changed Johnny Rico and the Starship Troopers franchise. More...

August 1, 2008
Brosnan's Crown Affair Sequel Should Arrive in '09
According to Pierce Brosnan, the long-discussed sequel to The Thomas Crown Affair should get rolling next year, with Paul Verhoeven behind the cameras -- and Angelina Jolie's "considered in the running" for the female lead. More...

November 12, 2007
Paul Verhoeven Directing Thomas Crown Affair Sequel?
Two years after first being announced, the sequel to 1999's Pierce Brosnan-led remake of The Thomas Crown Affair is still in development -- but if you've been impatient to see Brosnan return to his suave, precious goods-stealin' roots, ComingSoon has good news for you. More...

September 25, 2007
RT on DVD: Knocked Up Arrives, Delivers Healthy Bonus Menu
Judd Apatow fans, get thee to a video store! Knocked Up, starring Seth Rogen, is out on DVD today and features an entire disc of bonus materials that make it well worth your home video bucks. Read on for more releases! More...

September 7, 2007
TIFF Blog: Why Toronto Is Hot, Roger Ebert, Lust, Caution, and Darren Lynn Bousman
The weather forecast for tomorrow in sunny Toronto, Ontario is 90 degrees with about a billion percent humidity, so it is from only the most devoted reaches of our Tomato-strewn hearts that we sludge through the heat to report from the Toronto Film Festival. (Overheard today: "I feel like there's a warm fog blanketing my skin." Gross.) More...

August 21, 2007
RT on DVD: The Lives of Others, RoboCop 20th Anniversary, and More Out Today
It's Tuesday, and you know what that means. New DVD releases! This week we have 2007's Best Foreign Oscar winner The Lives of Others, a Serenity Collector's Edition, and other safe bets. Read on to see what's hot (and what's not) in stores this week. More...

April 30, 2007
Directed By...Sir Paul Verhoeven?
Paul Verhoeven, the Dutch director who brought us such films as "Basic Instinct," "Starship Troopers," and "Showgirls," has reportedly been knighted in his native Netherlands. More...

September 25, 2006
Toronto Wrapup: Senh, Jen And Tim's Raves And Rants From The Festival
We saw some great movies, some of them big ("Babel") and some tiny ("The Patterns Trilogy"). We saw some interesting failures ("The Banquet") and some outright bombs ("All The King's Men"). We caught glimpses of big stars (Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Reese Witherspoon, and Sean Penn, among others) and important directors (Brian De Palma, Paul Verhoeven, Darren Aronofsky, and John Waters). (Check the photo gallery for more.) More...

September 22, 2006
The Weekly Ketchup: Dueling "Batman" Villains, Peter Jackson Talks "Hobbit," Brad Pitt "M:I4" Rumors, And More!
In this week's Ketchup, as if the who-will-portray-Joker rumors weren't enough, the who-will-portray-Two-Face conversation is in full swing. Also, Peter Jackson has now gone on record regarding his possible participation in "The Hobbit." More...

September 15, 2006
TORONTO: Blog Update -- "Bobby" Disappoints; On the Red Carpet for "The Fountain," "Breaking and Entering," and "Black Book"
When the RT crew has to wake up at the crack of dawn (8 a.m.) to watch a high-buzz flick ("Bobby") with a stellar cast (Sharon! Demi! Lindsay!), it had better be good. But the early morning screening of Emilio Estevez's ensemble pic didn't quite measure up -- good thing we've got awesome red carpet shots to brighten the day! More...

August 23, 2006
2006 Toronto Film Festival Uncovers Full Slate
The 31st Toronto International Film Festival has locked its slate for 2006, and it looks like there'll be 261 feature films playing up north next month, 91% of which are either world or North American premieres. Plus they're showing "Borat"!!! More...

May 5, 2005
Verhoeven Wants to Go Back to "Bataan"
Controversial filmmaker Paul Verhoeven ("Basic Instinct," "Total Recall") will soon be turning his cameras toward "Beast of Bataan," a big-screen adaptation of "A Trial of Generals" by author Lawrence Taylor. More...

April 19, 2005
Get Ready for Another Dose of "Basic Instinct"
You've heard it mentioned for years, but production is (finally) about to get underway on "Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction." A follow-up to Paul Verhoeven's sexual thriller from 1992, "BI2" will be directed by Michael Caton-Jones ("Doc Hollywood," "This Boy's Life") from a screenplay by Leora Barish ("Desperately Seeking Susan") and Henry Bean ("Internal Affairs"). More...