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Jim Carrey: 'Scrooge transformed me'

Jim Carrey has claimed that his latest film mirrors his own journey out of depression.

The 47-year-old actor, who has admitted to taking prescription drugs to battle his mood disorder, said that starring as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol helped him find perspective in his own life.

Carrey told The Mirror: "Everybody loves a good transformational story - somebody who sees the light and finds out what's important in life. It was wonderful to get to the bottom of a character I've seen done a hundred different ways."

He also revealed that leading a healthy lifestyle and becoming stepfather to Jenny McCarthy's 6-year-old son Evan has assisted him in discovering "more light".

Carrey added: "I created tools to help my treatment and I went down a path with some amazing scientific minds who are using supplemental treatments for depression.

"I'm so happy to have a beautiful family and to be able to sit there with Evan showing him clips of the movie. I took him through the scary parts and told him the ghost was coming and he loved it."

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Jake Gyllenhaal to star in 'Source Code'?

Jake Gyllenhaal is reportedly in negotiations to star in Source Code.

The sci-fi thriller will be helmed by David Bowie's son and Moon director Duncan Jones.

According to Variety, Source Code focuses on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown commuter.

Gyllenhaal can next be seen in the drama Brothers alongside Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire, as well as Disney's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

Jones is writing the screenplay for the forthcoming film Mute.

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John Cusack to star in 'Preacher'?

John Cusack has revealed an interest in starring in a comic book adaptation, pointing towards Preacher as a project he would consider.

The 2012 actor was quizzed whether he knew of any comic book movies floating around Hollywood that he would like to be involved in.

"Yeah, I can, there was one or two that I heard of that sounded really cool," he told io9.com.

"One of them was about, I think... it's a vampire and a killer, and they're on the road, and it's this really strange story. I thought that sounded pretty cool."

He added: "I think it might have been Preacher."

Preacher, written by Garth Ennis and pencilled by Steve Dillon, follows down-and-out preacher Jesse Custer as he goes on a journey across the US trying to find God after becoming possessed by a supernatural creature named Genesis.

Sam Mendes is currently attached to direct.

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Paltrow to join Kidman in 'Danish Girl'

Gwyneth Paltrow will reportedly join Nicole Kidman in The Danish Girl.

The film is an adaptation of the David Ebershoff novel about the first post-operative transsexual, Variety reports.

Kidman has been linked to the lead role of Einar Wegener and Paltrow has reportedly been cast as Wegemer's wife Greta.

The script has been penned by Lucinda Coxon and will be helmed by Let The Right One In director Thomas Alfredson.

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Mortensen uncertain about 'Hobbit' return

Viggo Mortensen has said that he is unsure if his Lord Of The Rings character will appear in The Hobbit.

Speaking to Coming Soon, the actor revealed that filmmakers Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson are currently concentrating on getting the first of the Hobbit prequels made, which won't feature Mortensen's Aragorn.

"I think they're just worried about shooting the first part of that movie which doesn't involve my character," Mortensen said. "My character is around at times - in the middle, but it would only be if they made a second movie or connecting movie that connected The Hobbit to The Lord Of The Rings that I might appear, which would be great."

Aragorn does not appear in JRR Tolkien's fantasy novel The Hobbit, but is included in the supplemental appendices from Lord Of The Rings that brings the two stories together.

Mortensen can next be seen in the big-screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road.

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Winona Ryder joins 'Black Swan' cast

Winona Ryder has joined the cast of Natalie Portman's new movie Black Swan, reports Slash Film.

The supernatural thriller, directed by The Wrestler's Darren Aronofsky, centres on a rivalry between two ballerinas at a prestigious New York company. Ryder will play Beth, a dancer who is coming to the end of her career.

Vincent Cassel (playing ballet director Yevna) and Barbara Hershey (as Portman's mother) have also boarded the film's cast, which includes Forgetting Sarah Marshall star Mila Kunis.

Reports have claimed that the movie will feature a lesbian sex scene between Portman and Kunis.

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Foxx, Lawrence to cross-dress in 'Sheneneh'

Jamie Foxx and Martin Lawrence will bring their comedy creations Sheneneh and Wanda to the big screen, reports Variety.

The project began life as a parody trailer for a movie called Skank Robbers that aired at the BET Awards this year. In the skit, the actors cross-dressed to portray two women who make a living robbing banks.

Foxx will write Sheneneh And Wanda and produce alongside Lawrence. It will be the first time the pair, who have known each other since they started out as stand-up comics, have worked together on a movie.

Lawrence has previously donned women's clothing for the Big Momma's House films.

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Cameron: 'I want to blow audiences away'

James Cameron has said that he likes his films to blow the audience away.

The director of upcoming 3D sci-fi movie Avatar also told The Times that it was "incorrect" that he was scared of filmmaking after 1997's Titanic.

Cameron said: "I like to blow an audience away. I like to f**k with their heads. I like to show 'em stuff they've probably seen in a dream but they've never seen in a movie.

"Like they've had an experience outside their day-to-day life, outside this world, maybe outside their body. It will have been a visual journey, a physical journey - in the sense you feel like you've actually climbed that mountain - and an emotional journey."

When asked if studio executives were worried about the technology used in Avatar, Cameron continued: "Oh, yes, absolutely. Any sane person would be. We had taken them very slowly by the hand through what we were doing, but many of the answers we were giving them were things we had found out ten minutes earlier.

"My God, they were pulling the reins as much as they could. But ultimately what brought them back was the possibility of doing something really unprecedented."

Of the future of filmmaking, he added: "Budgets may plunge, but I have already told the studio executives, 'I don't care if the highest-budgeted film of the year costs just $2m - as long as I'm the one making that motherf**ker, I'm happy'."

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Fanning: 'Being mean to Stewart is weird'

Dakota Fanning has claimed that she became "really close" to co-star Kristen Stewart while filming New Moon together earlier this year.

The actress, who stars as Volturi vampire Jane in the Twilight sequel, told Teen Vogue that she found it "weird" being nasty to Stewart on screen.

"We became really close, like we'd known each other for our whole lives. We talk all the time," she explained.

"I've never been such an evil character, and because I do know Kristen so well, being mean to her was really weird. It's like, 'Sorry, dude!'."

Discussing her upcoming biopic The Runaways - which also co-stars Stewart - she said: "The relationship that Joan (Stewart) and Cherie (Fanning) have in the script is kind of the one that Kristen and I have in real life, minus the destructive part."

Stewart added: "Dakota is one of the most consistently moving actors I have ever worked with. I'm always better with her."

New Moon arrives in cinemas on November 20.

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Ritchie: 'I'm making Holmes to be popular'

Guy Ritchie has admitted that he took the Sherlock Holmes directing job in order to show that he can make accessible films.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the British director acknowledged that Holmes will attract a bigger audience than his previous movies, which include Snatch, Revolver and RocknRolla.

"I've spent too much time messing around in inaccessible, esoteric material," he remarked. "I've never had my day in popular court. Sherlock Holmes will allow me to express my accessible side."

Ritchie added that his earliest memories of Holmes came from listening to audio tapes of the detective's exploits.

"My first recollection of Holmesian narrative was at boarding school when I was very young," he said. "They had these tapes of old stories that were a reward for not making too much noise in the dormitory."

Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr as the famed Baker Street sleuth and Jude Law as his sidekick Watson, opens in cinemas on December 26.

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Martin: 'Baldwin might be funnier than me'

Steve Martin has backed the decision to select Alec Baldwin to co-host next year's Oscars ceremony, joking that the star might be more entertaining than he is.

The Father Of The Bride comedian and 30 Rock star Baldwin were recently confirmed to front the Hollywood awards show together on March 7.

Speaking to Sky News, he joked: "He does Saturday Night Live, and he's so funny in that show.

"In fact if I have one worry it's that he's funnier than I am! He does voices and accents, and he's game for anything, he's great."

When asked if it was strange presenting the ceremony, the two-times host replied: "I've been in showbusiness for so long that I walk out on stage and you look out and you just see a bunch of friends - or rivals!"

Martin is currently promoting his new album The Crow: New Songs For The Five-String Banjo.

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Kate Winslet 'worth £60m' to the UK

Kate Winslet has been valued and is deemed to be worth about £60 million to the UK.

The Oscar-winning actress, who has starred in movies such as Titanic and Revolutionary Road was the first celebrity to ever be audited by the UK Film Council, which was looking to put a value on Britain's creative industries.

David Steele, head of research and statistics at the UK Film Council, told The Guardian: "When an actor achieves international prominence, they have a general effect of boosting their country of origin that works its way through television appearances, advertising and celebrity news."

A friend of Winslet said that the actress found the accolade "both flattering and very funny".

The audit, which assessed profile, box office effect and salaries of film stars to discover who was most valuable to the country, is rumoured to be working on audits for Christian Bale and Daniel Craig.

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Spacey, Albarn star in 'Buskers' film

Kevin Spacey, Damon Albarn and Mos Def will star in a movie adaptation of graphic novel Buskers, it has been announced.

Singer and music producer Jeymes Samuel will direct the film, based on the book he co-wrote with Sean Michael Wilson and artist Michiru Morikawa, reports HeyUGuys.

Inglorious Basterds producer Pilar Savone is also involved with the film, which is expected to start shooting in December.

Insomnia Productions' Buskers tells the tale of a high-paid banker who loses his job and falls in with a group of London's buskers.

The female lead in the movie is yet to be cast.

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Bill Murray 'Clooney is a motor mouth'

Bill Murray has described George Clooney as an "incredible force".

The pair star together in Wes Anderson's stop-motion animation adaptation of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox.

Murray told Parade: "George is probably the one person that's living the movie star life really well and doing great at it. He's an incredible force.

"It takes a while to get George because he's a motor mouth and he really can talk. It's sort of like you have to wade through a lot because he just talks and talks."

He added: "He's got a lot of energy and he tells stories. You hang out with George and there are a lot of stories. But he's great.

"He steps up right out of the box and nails it. He gets way up there, so you're like, 'Okay here we go'."

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Demi Moore: 'I'm not getting the roles'

Demi Moore has suggested that she is missing out on acting roles because of her age.

The 47-year-old star told W that she feels as if she is missing out on some parts since her return to the movie industry.

Of her break from filmmaking, Moore said: "Out of true innocence, one of my girls piped up and said, 'Are you ever going to work again?'. [I realised] my cocoon away from criticism had gotten really cosy for me.

"The frustrating part is that the type of roles I'd be interested in are not really coming to me. I hate to say it's a function of my age - but yes, I think in some ways it is."

She added: "The majority of [female] roles are geared between 25 and 35. I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side. I'm looking for roles that reach into that quirkier place."

Of upcoming independent movie Happy Tears, Moore said: "It was made for, like, ten cents, but there's something amazing when you do these projects with limited resources; magical things come out of that."

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Original 'A-Team' actor in film cameo

Original A-Team cast member Dwight Schultz will make a cameo in the upcoming movie adaptation.

The actor, who played 'Howling Mad' Murdock during the '80s TV show, was on location at the film's Vancouver-based set, according to his official website.

"We are pleased to inform you all that Dwight has actually already been working in Vancouver, where he has played a cameo role in the A-Team movie," read a posting.

The 61-year-old was also on hand to meet District 9 star Sharlto Copley, who will portray the role in the forthcoming film.

Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper and Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson make up the rest of the cast. There is no word yet if their television counterparts will appear in director Joe Carnahan's action picture.

The A-Team is due to arrive in US cinemas on June 11, 2010.

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McAdams, Garai linked to 'Spider-Man 4'

Rachel McAdams and Romola Garai have been linked to the role of superheroine Black Cat in Spider-Man 4.

According to website Mania, The Notebook star McAdams is the frontrunner for the part of Felicia Hardy, a former girlfriend of Spider-Man who is an accomplished cat burglar.

However, the role appears to still be up for grabs. British actress Romola Garai (Glorious 39) revealed in her Observer column that she had recorded an audition for the movie.

"[I] put myself 'on tape' for a part in Spider-Man 4," she wrote. "This is the acting equivalent of the London Marathon in that it's important to try your best as long as you understand that you aren't going to win."

Spider-Man 4 will see stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst return to the franchise under the direction of Sam Raimi. The movie is scheduled to open on May 5, 2011.

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'Monsters, Inc. 2' director drops out?

Director Pete Docter is said to have dropped out of Pixar's Monsters, Inc. update.

The Up helmer was apparently planning to take on the follow-up as his next project.

However, according to an interview in NY Magazine, the 41-year-old may no longer be attached to the film.

He said: "I'm mostly focused on the next film that I have in development already. That one I just started. We finished Up, I took some time off, spent some time in Europe and Japan doing publicity over there, so I've only been on this for like a couple weeks."

When asked if his next movie is the Monsters, Inc. sequel, Docter replied: "I'm not working on... I'm working on something else, but I cannot announce what it is."

The original 2001 picture featured the voice talents of Billy Crystal and John Goodman.

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Aniston signs for Weiner movie debut 'Here'

Jennifer Aniston will lead the cast of Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner's feature directing debut You Are Here.

According to Variety, Weiner will spend his break from the hit AMC TV drama making the romantic comedy. The Hangover stars Bradley Cooper and Zack Galifianakis are also lined up to appear in the movie.

Weiner, who spent three years as a writer and producer on The Sopranos, has secured independent financing for the film.

Production on You Are Here is scheduled to begin in 2011.

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Nicolas Cage: 'I was an anarchist actor'

Nicolas Cage has said that he used to be much more of an anarchist in his acting performances.

The star told Parade that his approach to the lead role in Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans reminded him of his past career.

Cage said: "When I started acting, I was much more of an anarchist. I was only interested in doing movies where I was rebellious and doing kind of punk rock, alternative performances.

"I neglected the mainstream side of the industry. I became aware that I was weirding myself right out of the business and I needed to have some balance."

He added: "Now, I'm at a point where I need to look for work that keeps me interested and keeps me excited about acting. I was up for the challenge and the risk of Bad Lieutenant."

Of his latest role, he added: "I was trying to find a way to play a guy who was high on crack and other illegal substances and at the same time be responsible and not glamorise the drugs or drug-taking but show the hideous effects.

"So, it's okay if people see my performance as a little out the window... I wasn't exactly sure I could do it, especially being totally sober, which I was."

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