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Brad Pitt is being tapped to star in Quentin Tarantino's decades-in-development WWII action movie INGLORIOUS BASTARDS. The script is finally finished, and this would be Pitt's first reunion with Tarantino since True Romance in 1993. Adam Sandler and Eddie Murphy have previously been linked to the project.
Sigourney Weaver has finally cracked under the pressure, agreeing to make a fifth ALIEN movie as long as the original director Ridley Scott is involved in the project. Now they just need a good idea.
James McAvoy has signed on for two sequels to WANTED, in which he will work with Terrence Stamp to battle Fraternity cells around the world. Angelina Jolie will also appear in the films, in flashbacks explaining her character's background.
Meanwhile, Robert De Niro is planning two sequels to THE GOOD SHEPHERD with Matt Damon, filling out the CIA's 70-year history. The first sequel will cover the years up to the fall of the Soviet Union, including Vietnam and Watergate; the second will look at events from 1990 to the present.
Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey will team up for a third time for a remake of the classic 1978 action comedy FOUL PLAY, which starred Hudson's mother Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase in frantic plot to prevent the assassination of the Pope.
Harry Potter sidekick Rupert Grint will star in the Northern Irish drama CHERRYBOMB, about a guy who has a debauched weekend with his best friend (Robert Sheehan) and a beautiful stranger (Kimberley Nixon). Filming started last week in Belfast.
Sam Shepard, Rosanna Arquette, Jordi Molla and Vincent Perez have joined Dermot Mulroney and Diane Kruger in RUN FOR HER LIFE, a thriller about an underground system of illegal organ transplants. Filming is underway in New Mexico.
Jesse Bradford will star with Matt Czuchry (Gilmore Girls), Geoff Stults (October Road) and Keri Lynn Pratt (Brothers & Sisters) in I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, based on the memoir by Tucker Max. The film will centre on a bachelor party that goes riotously wrong.
British directors will make three films about the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper based on the books in David Peace's Red Riding Quartet. Julian Jarrold (Becoming Jane) will direct NINETEEN SEVENTY FOUR, James Marsh (Man on Wire) will direct NINETEEN EIGHTY and Anand Tucker (And When Did You Last See Your Father?) will direct NINETEEN EIGHTY THREE.
And filmmaker Alex Cox hopes to finally get a sequel to his 1984 classic Repo Man into production. REPO CHICK will be set in the current climate of credit crunches and mortgage crises, where the repo business has extended to "homes, small nations and even children".
Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell will reunite with their Talladega Nights filmmaker Judd Apatow to play Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in a comedy. The script is by Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder).
Christian Bale may take over from Tom Cruise to play the US President in the political thriller 28TH AMENDMENT, possibly costarring Denzel Washington as a special services agent who tries to assassinate the President.
Josh Holloway (Lost) is the latest new member of the ensemble for STAY COOL, the Polish brothers' comedy about an author forced to face up to a childhood crush. Costars include Winona Ryder, Sean Astin, Chevy Chase, Hilary Duff and Jon Cryer.
Frances Conroy has joined the cast of the Polish brothers' new comedy MANURE, with is currently shooting in California with Billy Bob Thornton, Tea Leoni and Kyle MacLachlan.
Val Kilmer, Shane West, Cam Gigandet and Eric Balfour will star in the drama SILVER CORD, about a man who leaves his body, which is presumed dead, to find his long-lost love.
And Kilmer has also joined the cast of Werner Herzog's BAD LIEUTENANT remake, alongside Nicolas Cage and Xzibit. The original film was about a dirty cop investigating the rape of a nun.
Writer-director Thomas McCarthy (The Visitor) has landed an acting gig in 2012, Roland Emmerich's apocalyptic disaster movie starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover and Oliver Platt. McCarthy's last acting role was in Baby Mama.
John Madden (Proof) may direct the Nazi-hunter thriller THE DEBT, a remake of an Israeli film about a Mossad agent who discovers that the Nazi she and her two colleagues claimed to have caught in the 1960s is actually on the loose 30 years later. Matthew Vaughn is working on the script with Jane Goldman (Stardust).
David Fincher will turn his hand to animation with a film adaptation of the cult comic THE GOON, the darkly comic paranormal adventures of a beefed-up mob enforcer.
And word has it that, with the success of the Sex and the City movie, a big-screen follow-up to the sit-com FRIENDS is in the work, reuniting the six central cast members and various recurring actors as well.
Naomi Watts has joined Gwyneth Paltrow and Keira Knightley as the bickering daughters of dying monarch Anthony Hopkins in a new film version of Shakespeare's tragedy KING LEAR.
Tilda Swinton will team up with Pierce Brosnan and Nicolas Cage in Roman Polanski's political thriller THE GHOST, based on the Robert Harris novel about a writer who stumbles into a conspiracy while working on a former prime minister's memoirs.
Marcia Gay Harden, Zoe Bell, Kristen Wiig and Juliette Lewis have joined Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page in the roller derby comedy WHIP IT! Barrymore is also directing the film, which starts shooting later this summer.
Matthew Fox may star in BILLY SMOKE, based on the upcoming comic book series about a hitman who survives an assassination attempt and then decides to rid the world of all professional killers.
Helena Bonham Carter is heading to New Mexico for a "small but pivotal" role in TERMINATOR SALVATION, which stars Christian Bale and Sam Worthington and is designed to launch a new trilogy about the war between humans and machines. McG is directing.
Gillian Anderson will star in and produce GELLHORN: A TWENTIETH-CENTURY LIFE, a biopic of war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, who covered conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and was briefly married to Ernest Hemingway. The script is by Sharman Macdonald (The Edge of Love).
Jesse Bradford, Steven Weber, Bob Odenkirk and Edward Herrmann will join Heather Graham and Joseph Cross in the comedy satire SON OF MORNING, about an ad copywriter who returns home during his parents' divorce, where a series of natural disasters create the illusion that he's Jesus Christ.
Rose McGowan will star in RED SONJA, a remake of the 1985 Arnold Schwarzenegger-Brigitte Nielsen bomb. Robert Rodriguez will direct the film, which is based on a Marvel comic about a young girl who becomes a powerful warrior to avenge her parents' death.
Christopher Guest, Bill Hader and Alan Chabat will play Ivan the Terrible, General Custer and Napoleon in the sequel NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN, which reunites Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson, director Shawn Levy and writers Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon.
And in addition to a possible 300 prequel, reports are emerging about two other effects-shaped Greek mythology movies in the works. In addition to Tarsem's WAR OF GODS, veteran writer Lawrence Kasdan and Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier are teaming up to remake the Ray Harryhausen classic CLASH OF THE TITANS.
Sarah Jessica Parker may star in THE IVY CHRONICLES, about a high-powered New Yorker who loses her job and her husband and starts her life over in less-glamorous style, then starts a business to help rich parents get their kids into posh preschools.
Pierce Brosnan and Nicolas Cage will star in Roman Polanski's political thriller THE GHOST, based on Robert Harris' novel about a writer who's hired to pen the memoirs of a former British prime minister, then stumbles across a dangerous scandal.
Christina Ricci will voice the lead character, Yellow, in the animated film THE HERO OF COLOR CITY, about a land of crayons that is threatened by an evil tyrant.
Justin Long and Fred Willard have joined the cast of the comedy YOUTH IN REVOLT, which includes Michael Cera, Steve Buscemi, Ray Liotta, Jean Smart and Mary Kay Place. Miguel Arteta is directing and cowriting the film, which is based on CD Payne's cult teen novel.
Steven Spielberg is taking on yet another project. Besides a Tintin movie, his Abraham Lincoln biopic, The Chicago Seven and a probable Indiana Jones 5, he's planning to direct a film (or three) based on THE 39 CLUES, a book/game series that encourages children to solve a mystery and win cash. The story centres on a family trying to figure out their matriarch's will.
William Hurt and Amber Heard will star in THE RIVER WHY, a coming-of-age story about a young man (Zach Gilford) fishing for an elusive trout. Filming begins next month in Oregon.
Desperate Housewife Marcia Cross will star in the comedy PECK, alongside Adam Arkin and Camryn Manheim. It's about a teen with extremely protective parents who develops an offbeat friendship with the most popular girl at school.
Matthew Rhys and Nia Roberts will star in the multi-strand drama PATAGONIA as a couple that travels from Wales to Argentina and has some soul-searching while visiting a Welsh community there. Marc Evans will direct from a script by Laurence Coriat (A Mighty Heart).
Jeroen Krabbe and Barbara Hershey have been cast in lead roles in a biopic about the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Albert Schweitzer. Gavin Millar is directing.
Hilary Duff has joined the cast of STAY COOL, the Polish brothers comedy about an author forced to confront a childhood crush. Costars include Mark Polish, Winona Ryder, Sean Astin, Chevy Chase and Jon Cryer.
Will Poulter (Son of Rambow) has landed a coveted role in the third Chronicles of Narnia movie, THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER. He'll play Eustace in the seafaring adventure, opposite the returning Ben Barnes (Caspian), Skandar Keynes (Edmund) and Georgie Henley (Lucy). Michael Apted is directing.
And Arnold Schwarzenegger will apparently team up with fellow action meathead Sylvester Stallone for the Bollywood movie INCREDIBLE LOVE, about an Indian stuntman who becomes a hit in Hollywood. Megastars Ashkay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor have the lead roles.
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