-Viola Davis and Jeffrey Wright have joined the cast of Stephen Daldry's adventure tale "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" says The Daily Mail.
-Mark Ruffalo and “The Kids Are All Right” co-writer Stuart Blumberg are re-teaming for Blumberg's directorial debut "Thanks For Sharing" reports The Daily Mail. The story focuses on three sex addicts in a recovery clinic together. Ruffalo is in talks to play one of the three male leads and will likely shoot the film after he wraps his work on "The Avengers"
-Oscar-winning documentary director Alex Gibney is set to helm a documentary about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Deadline.
-Jeff Daniels, Piper Perabo and Noah Segan have joined the cast of Rian Johnson's sci-fi action tale "Looper" says Variety. The story follows a group of killers who send bodies of their victims back in time. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano and Xu Qing are already set to star. Part of the film was to be set in France. This has now been changed to China with the film set in a world "sixty years from now [where] China is the leading super power and time travel has been invented." Johnson calls action from his own script. Shooting is now underway in New Orleans.
-Pedro Almodovar is already working on his next film , a biopic of Italian singer “Mina” reports Screen Daily (via The Playlist).
-Despite what the British tabloids say, Bond 23 isn't called "Red Sky At Night"
-Christian Bale says The Dark Knight Rises may not be his last Bat film but it depends on helmer Christopher Nolan Speaking to Empire: "All I know is the likelihood that this will be the last one. Well, I wouldn't say definitely. If Chris goes, 'Hey, I've got another story I think could be interesting,' then yeah, great, I'd go do that. I always assumed it would be three, but I could be wrong. I don't know if there's something wrong with me, but I don't feel any pressure"
-Rebecca Hall has now been confirmed for Stephen Frears' adaptation of the memoir "Lay the Favorite:about the author's time spent mingling in the world of Vegas sports gambling.says Collider
-Greg Kinnear and Jane Curtin have joined the cast of the comedy "I I Don't Know How She Does It" says Variety. The story follows a working mother (Sarah Jessica Parker) trying desperately to juggle marriage, children, and a high-stress job. Kinnear will play Parker's husband and Curtin will be Kinnear's mother. Shooting is currently underway in New York by helmer Douglas McGrath
-Collider says Actor-turned-hip-hop-star Drake is currently in talks to join writer/director Nicholas Jarecki ("The Outsider")'s financial thriller Arbitrage about a hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his shady trading empire before his fraud is revealed.
-Luke Perry has revealed via Yahoo that he tried to acquire the rights to the Aron Ralston's story and shoot it with his Beverly Hills, 90210 castmate Brian Austin Green in the lead but Danny Boyle got them and made 127 Hours
- Susan Sarandon told THR that she'd be open to a Bull Durham sequel, bur not a Thelma & Louise 2.
-Yorick van Wageningen (The Chronicles of Riddick) has joined David Fincher's upcoming adaptation of best-selling thriller "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" reports De Volkskrant (via The Playlist)
-Paddy Considine ("Hot Fuzz," "The Bourne Ultimatum") is hob-nobbing at the Sundance Film Festival this week promoting his directorial debut feature "Tyrannosaur". Yet he's already looking ahead and tells Total Film that his next project will be "The Leaning". The story follows a "young woman haunted by a childhood trauma who in adult life struggles to form meaningful relationships. Every time she gets close to somebody she feels this presence" says Considine.
-Nick Pustay will adapt Sophie Jordan's recently released young-adult fantasy novel Firelight says Heat Vision. The “Twilight with dragons” story follows Jacinda, a young girl who is a “draki,” a descendant of dragons who can morph into human form, and who is ordained to marry another of her kind. When the girl’s mother moves the family to live among humans for safety reasons, Jacinda puts her family at risk when she falls for a member of a secret dragon-hunting society.
-James Gandolfini and his former "The Sopranos" producers David Chase and Steven Van Zandt are re-teaming for the coming-of-age drama " Twylight Zones"says Variety.
-Out doing promotion for Friday's "The Mechanic", director Simon West has confirmed he's making plans to reunite with Nicolas Cage for a Con Air sequel. "I'd like to do... 'Con Air 2'" West tells Crave Online, "It'd be great. It's a matter of getting everybody together. There's so many people involved and it's about getting everybody to agree. But I'm going to bring it up to Nic. I'm going to put a bug in his ear about it. If the two of us want to do it, we'll go after the others."
-Sam Raimi's long-time producing partner Rob Tapert tells Freep.com that the long-gestating re-do of "Evil Dead" is still alive and that Raimi is still interested. "It's possible; we're looking at a script this month. What's interesting about 'Evil Dead' is very few people saw it in the format we made it for, which is for the theater. ... I think Sam wants to embrace the ultimate experience in gruelling terror and see it remade for a proper theatrical experience" the folks art STYD also adds that numerous writers and directors have taken meetings for the "Dead" remake with Ghost House Pictures over the years
-Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash wants to bring : Wake The Dead to the big screen says Hero Complex .
-David Lynch ("Mulholland Drive," "The Elephant Man") has revealed that footage thought lost forever from what some consider his greatest masterpiece, 1986's "Blue Velvet", was recently discovered and will be included in the upcoming Blu-ray release reports Blu-ray.com.
-Watch The full 26-minute video of Kevin Smith at Sundance after the screening of his film Red State
-James Cameron confirmed to EW the already reported date of Christmas 2014 and X-mas 2015 for the Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 and that the pics will be shot back-to-back
-Ed Helms told Hitfix that The Hangover Part II is "basically the comedy version of Apocalypse Now, always on the edge of total chaos, shooting in places Helms said felt genuinely ‘unsafe’".
-Director Duncan Jones.revealed that he turned down the chance to direct Superman: Man of Steel because he didn't feel he was ready to take charge of a blockbuster of such a scale..
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