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Viola Davis has joined the cast of ENDER'S GAME, the sci-fi epic about a brilliant teen who helps the military fight an invasion of giant alien insects. Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Harrison Ford and Abigail Breslin. Davis has also landed a role in Richard LaGravenese's BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, about two teens confronting a family curse.
Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton and William Hurt will team up for THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY, which writer-director Ned Benson is making as two HIS and HERS feature films, telling the story from two perspectives. It's about a restaurant owner whose wife decides to go back to university.
Scarlett Johansson will reteam with her Avengers costars Mark Ruffalo for CAN A SONG SAVE YOUR LIFE?, about a young woman whose raw musical talent is spotted by a has-been New York record producer. John Carney (Once) is writing and directing.
Mia Wasikowska and Jesse Eisenberg will star in an adaptation of the Dostoyevsky comic novella THE DOUBLE, about a man whose life is turned upside down by the appearance of his doppelganger. Richard Ayoade is directing and courting.
Gerard Depardieu will play Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a biopic about the former French finance minister's disgrace after being accused of rape last year. Isabelle Adjani costars as Strauss-Kahn's wife, while Abel Ferrara is directing.
Katherine Heigl will star in THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS, set in a world where humans and puppets live together. But now the cast of a 1980s puppet TV show is being murdered one by one. Brian Henson is directing. Meanwhile, Heigl will also star in the thriller FACE BLIND, about a terrorised psychologist who doesn't have the ability to distinguish people by their faces.
Kate Hudson will star in the thriller EVERLY, about a young woman trying to fight off assassins who have been hired by her ex, a vicious mob boss. Joe Lynch (Knights of Badassdom) is directing.
Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall will star in a suspense thriller about an ex-couple that is forced to work together when they have to defend a terrorist on trial. John Crowley (Boy A) is directing from a script by Steven Knight (Eastern Promises).
Shiloh Fernandez (Red Riding Hood) has joined the cast of the EVIL DEAD remake, which writer-director Fede Alvarez says will take a very different direction from the original franchise. But first, Fernandez will star in Mo Ogrodnik's DEEP POWDER, which starts filming later this month.
And Al Pacino will voice his first animated character in DESPICABLE ME 2, in which he's playing a new villainous nemesis for Gru (Steve Carrell).
Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon will star in DEVIL'S KNOT, based on the true story of three Memphis teens who were convicted of the murder of three 8-year-old boys and spend 18 years in prison before DNA evidence cleared them last year. Atom Egoyan is directing.
Will Smith and Russell Crowe will team up for the fantasy-thriller WINTER'S TALE, the story of a thief who meets a guying girl while robbing a mansion in Manhattan. Writer Akiva Goldsman is making his directing debut on the film, which shifts between the present day and the 19th century.
Meanwhile, Crowe is also Darren Aronofsky's first choice to play the title role in his biblical epic NOAH. Yes, it's about the ark and the flood. And Liam Neeson is also being pursued for a role in the film, which was recently rewritten by John Logan.
Emma Watson will reunite with Harry Potter director David Yates to play the lead in YOUR VOICE IN MY HEAD, about a suicidal young woman who meets a psychiatrist who has terminal cancer. Tom Hanks and George Clooney are the leading contenders for the other main role.
Gary Oldman will play the villain in MOTOR CITY, a revenge thriller starring Dominic Cooper as a guy who is framed and sent to prison, then vows to get revenge when he's released. Amber Heard costars in the film, which is being directed by Albert Hughes.
Vera Farmiga will play Fleetwood Mac musician Christine McVie in THE DRUMMER, which follows the last six years in the life of the Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson (Aaron Eckhart). Randall Miller (Bottle Shock) is directing.
Adam Sandler will star in a film based on the board game CANDY LAND. There's no word on a plot, but the script is being written by Zohan screenwriter Robert Smigel. Kevin Lima is directing.
Wes Bentley and Frank Langella will star in THE TIME BEING, about a struggling artist who takes on a series of strange commissions from a dying millionaire. newcomer Nenad Cicin-Sain is directing from a script cowritten with producer Richard Gladstein (Pulp Fiction).
Mos Def and John Hawkes will team up for SWITCH, based on the Elmore Leonard novel that introduced the characters played by Samuel L Jackson and Robert De Niro in Jackie Brown (based on Leonard's Rum Punch). In the story, the two men team to kidnap the wife of a corrupt property developer, then are stunned when he refuses to pay the ransom.
And Alan Arkin, Al Pacino and Christopher Walken will team up for the caper comedy STAND UP GUYS, about a retired hitman who is hired to kill his best friend, but decides to have a wild night on the town together first. Fisher Stevens is directing.
Rooney Mara will join Jude Law, Channing Tatum and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Steven Soderbergh's THE SIDE EFFECTS, about doctor addicted to prescription drugs who gets into a relationship with a colleague while waiting for her husband to be released from prison.
Kate Winslet, Catherine Keener, Elizabeth Banks and Paul Reubens have joined the cast of Charlie Kaufman's next film, the Hollywood musical satire FRANK OR FRANCIS. It's about a filmmaker (Steve Carell) who becomes obsessed with a blogger (Jack Black). Costars include Nicolas Cage and Kevin Kline.
Tilda Swinton, John Hurt, Tom Hiddleston and Mia Wasikowska will team up for Jim Jarmusch's ONLY LOVES LEFT ALIVE. a romantic horror film about two vampires who have been in love for centuries.
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence will star in SERENA, a late-1920s drama about a newlywed couple that isn't afraid to crush the competition in order to build their timber empire. But things take a dark turn when the wife discovers that she can't have children, and that her husband has an illegitimate son. Susanne Bier is directing.
Meanwhile, Lawrence will also be back for a sequel to X-men: First Class, which will reunite her with Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and the rest of the original cast, as well as director Matthew Vaughn.
Monty Python alumni John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and possibly Eric Idle will reunite for the sci-fi comedy ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING, about a group of aliens that uses an earthling as a toy. Robin Williams is voicing one of the animated characters in the film, which is being directed by Jones.
Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Connelly will team up for WRITERS, about a novelist trying to work out his relationship with his ex-wife and their two young-adult children. Newcomer Josh Boone is directing.
Denise Richards, Eugene Levy, Doris Roberts and Tom Arnold will join Tyler Perry in MADEA’S WITNESS PROTECTION, about a New England family that relocates to Madea's home as part of the witness protection programme. Filming starts this week in Atlanta.
Joe Carnahan will direct a remake of DEATH WISH, which may relaunch the franchise about an architect who turns into a vigilante after a brutal attack on his wife and daughter. Charles Bronson starred in the original 1974 film, which had five sequels.
And Sarah Jessica Parker will replace Demi Moore as feminist activist Gloria Steinem in LOVELACE, the biopic of pornstar turned anti-porn crusader Linda Lovelace (Amanda Seyfried). James Franco plays Hugh Hefner in the film, which is being directed by Howl's Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.
Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms are all lined up to reunite for THE HANGOVER PART III, once they agree to a hefty increase in their fees. Filmmaker Todd Phillips says that this story will be set in Los Angeles and tell a different story than the one used the first two films.
Catherine Zeta-Jones will reteam with Steven Soderbergh for the drama SIDE EFFECTS, which stars Jude Law, Blake Lively and Channing Tatum. The multi-strand story explores the effects of pharmaceuticals on the human mind.
Paul Giamatti will join Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth in the new film of ROMEO AND JULIET, which was adapted by Julian Fellowes and will start filming next month in Italy with a cast that includes Ed Westwick and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Clearly, casting a 14-year-old in the lead means that the story will be changed somewhat.
Martin Freeman, Joan Collins, Tim Curry, Noel Clarke, Pam Ferris and Craig Fairbrass will voice characters in the British animated feature SAVING SANTA, about a clumsy elf who discovers Santa's time-control device and then must use it to right something that went terribly wrong. Veteran Disney animator Leon Joosen is directing.
Dominic Cooper, Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor will team up for HALF OF A YELLOW SUN, about a group of people trying to cope with events of the Nigerian civil war in the late-1960s. Nigerian playwright Biyi Bandele is making his directorial debut on the film.
Emma Roberts and Craig Roberts (Submarine) - no relation - will star in I AM MY FAMILY SECRET, about two brothers who live completely different lives and discover that their parents have been keeping a big secret. Derick Martini (Lymelife) is writing and directing.
Chloe Sevigny will join the cast of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's LOVELACE, the biopic of pornstar turned anti-porn activist Linda Lovelace (Amanda Seyfried). The cast includes Peter Sarsgaard, Bobby Cannavale, Sharon Stone, Hank Azaria, Chris Noth, Adam Brody, Wes Bentley, Eric Roberts, Robert Patrick and Juno Temple.
Nikki Reed and Jake Hoffman will star in SNAP, a psychological thriller about shy musician who can't get over a failed relationship. Victor Teran and Youssef Delara (Filly Brown) will direct.
Liam Hemsworth will star in TIMELESS, about a young man who builds a time machine so he can travel back to see his dead wife one last time and resolve his relationship with her. Phillip Noyce is directing from a script by Bill Kelly (Enchanted).
And Russell Brand will star in comedy THE HAUNTREPRENEUR, about a man who creates a haunted house filled with crazy ghosts in order to help a family adjust to their life in a new town. Michael Bay is producing the film, which was written by Scott Rosenberg.
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