Time for
your weekly notable news update! Below you'll find a
slew of sentences meant to provide a brief glimpse of what's
been going on over the past week in movieland. If
something leaves you desperate for more info then my advice
is to do a little extra research on one or all of the
following fantastic sites:
Latino Review,
Dark Horizons,
Ain't It Cool News,
CHUD and/or
JoBlo. Now, read on!
Joel Kinnaman (The
Killing) has officially signed on to star in MGM's Robocop reboot.
Angelina Jolie has reportedly rejected Kurt Wimmer's script
for Salt 2.
Nicole Kidman will appear in The Railway Man.
Colin Firth is already set to star in the film about Eric
Lomax, who was a prisoner of the Japanese in WWII.
Mila Kunis will voice a character in Hell And Back.
The stop motion movie will follow two people who travel to
hell in search of their friend.
Scarlett Johnansson and James D'Arcy will star in Alfred
Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho. Anthony
Hopkins and Helen Mirren may also have roles in the movie.
Bruce Willis will star in Five Against A Bullet.
It's said to be about a Mexican politician that hires the
five best bodyguards in the world.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim) and Adam
Scott (Parks And Recreation) will star in the comedy
A.C.O.D.
Disney is said to be moving forward with a Muppets
sequel. Jason Segel is not currently involved.
Peter Craig (The Town) has been hired to write Top
Gun 2 for Paramount.
Emma Watson has been cast in Sofia Coppola's The Bling
Ring. The movie is based on the true story of some
teens who committed a variety of celebrity burglaries.
Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, and Taylor Kitsch may star in
Peter Berg's Lone Survivor. The film is said to
be based on a Navy SEAL mission in 2005 that only one person
survived.
Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene) may star
in Spike Lee's Oldboy remake.
Owen Wilson and Tina Fey may star in Paul Weitz's
Admission. The movie will center around an Ivy
League admissions officer who has a relationship with a
17-year old recruitment prospect.
Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson will star in No Good Deed,
which is about a family that's kidnapped after they allow a
stranger into their home.
Marc Forster has signed on to direct the adaptation of the
graphic novel Cowboy Ninja Viking.
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