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!
Gavin O'Connor
will direct Yakuza. The movie will supposedly
follow an American intelligence officer who gets involved
with ... the Yakuza.
Guillermo Del Toro will co-direct a stop motion version of
Pinocchio with Mark Gustafson (Fantastic Mr. Fox).
Kurt Russell and Sacha Baron Cohen have dropped out of
Tarantino's Django Unchained.
Kyle Chandler (Super 8) has signed on to appear in
Scorsese's The Wolf Of Wall Street.
David Wain will direct Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler in the
romantic comedy They Came Together.
Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost will reportedly
start shooting The World's End later this year.
Jeff Wadlow (Never Back Down) may direct a Matthew
Vaughn-produced Kick Ass 2. The main people
from the first film's cast are expected to return.
Cameron Diaz has landed a role in Ridley Scott's The
Counselor.
Jessica Chastain will not be taking a role in Iron Man 3.
The part may instead go to Rebecca Hall (The Town).
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Byung-hun Lee (I Saw The Devil)
have landed roles in RED 2.
Arnold Swarzenegger will star in Ten, which is about
a DEA group that steals a bunch of money from a safe house.
Alec Baldwin has taken parts in the next Woody Allen film
and a comedy titled Man That Rocks The Cradle, which
will star Russell Brand.
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