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Carell, Fey join comedy 'Groom'?

Steve Carell and Tina Fey have been linked to forthcoming rom-com Mail-Order Groom.

The NBC sitcom stars are to play an unlikely couple in the film, scripted by Bad Santa writers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, says Pajiba.

A director has not been attached, but studio Warner Bros. is reportedly eying Jay Roach (Meet the Parents), Richard Linklater (School of Rock) and Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine).

Carell and Fey will also team in comedy Date Night, opening in US cinemas on April 9, 2010.

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Steven Spielberg planning 'War Horse'

Steven Spielberg will produce an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's 1982 novel War Horse for DreamWorks.

The book centres on a boy and his horse who are separated when the boy joins the fight during World War I, says Variety.

"From the moment I read Michael Morpurgo's novel War Horse, I knew this was a film I wanted DreamWorks to make," said Spielberg.

He added: "Its heart and its message provide a story that can be felt in every country."

The Oscar-winning director is to produce alongside Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy and Revel Guest.

Billy Elliot scribe Lee Hall has been tapped to adapt the novel.

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Taylor Swift lined up to play Supergirl?

Taylor Swift has apparently been mentioned as a possibility to play the lead role in a new Supergirl movie.

The 20-year-old singer, who makes her film debut in Valentine's Day next year, is reportedly the favourite of Hollywood bosses to portray the superhero.

"Hollywood is short of female heroes and the time is right for a new Supergirl," Bang Showbiz quotes an industry insider as saying.

"A number of young stars are being mentioned for the title role in a Supergirl movie and possible TV spinoff, and Taylor is top of that list. She has all the right elements to be a positive role model to young girls."

The original Supergirl in the 1984 movie was played by Helen Slater.

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Rene Russo added to 'Thor' cast

Rene Russo has joined the cast of Kenneth Branagh's Thor movie, says Variety.

The Lethal Weapon 3 actress will play Frigga in the Marvel adaptation, which sees Chris Hemsworth take on the role of the Norse hero. Russo's character is the queen of Asgard and mother of Thor and Loki, the villain to be played by Tom Hiddleston.

Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Stellan Skarsgård, Idris Elba, Stuart Townsend, Jaimie Alexander and Kat Dennings are among the actors signed up to appear in the Paramount movie.

Thor will open in cinemas on May 20, 2011.

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Bryan Singer signs for 'X-Men: First Class'

Bryan Singer will return to the X-Men franchise to direct prequel movie First Class.

Speaking at the US premiere for Avatar, the filmmaker revealed that he will follow up Jack The Giant Killer with a movie detailing the early years of Marvel heroes Cyclops, Jean Grey and Charles Xavier.

"I'm ramping up to do a movie called Jack The Giant Killer at Warner Bros, and I just yesterday signed a deal to do an X-Men: First Class origins picture, which is kind of cool. I'm very excited," Singer told MySpace.

Gossip Girl creator Josh Schwartz was hired last year to pen a script for the 20th Century Fox blockbuster.

Singer helmed the first two X-Men films before handing over directing duties to Brett Ratner for X-Men: The Last Stand. Spinoff movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine debuted in cinemas earlier this year.

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Coogan arranging 'Partridge' film over Skype

Steve Coogan has said that he is having to pull together the Alan Partridge movie with co-writers Armando Iannucci and Peter Baynham over Skype.

The British comedy star, who recently confirmed that the untitled film will shoot in America, admitted that Iannucci and Baynham's movie success with In The Loop and Borat have made co-ordinating Partridge's return difficult.

"It's going to happen," Coogan said of the project in an interview with The AV Club. "I'm taking meetings about it next week. It's getting the three most important people - we've sort of splintered.

"It's getting us all in the same space so we can actually focus on it. That's now starting to happen. It was also something that for a while I felt ambivalent about, but I want to do it and get it done."

He continued: "We're having to do Skype and conference calls at the moment. The character, almost despite his success, as a character still makes me laugh. I still find him funny. I still find myself jotting things down, going, 'Oh this would be a funny thing for him to do'. Which is a great thing, when a character just exists in your head."

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'Saved By The Bell' movie in the works?

A movie version of the popular '90s TV series Saved By The Bell is reportedly in development.

According to website Pajiba, the project is in its early stages and is likely to feature a new cast of characters at Bayside High School. It is not yet known if the stars of the original series Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Tiffany Thiessen, Mario Lopez, Elizabeth Berkley, Lark Voorhies, Dustin Diamond and Dennis Haskins will feature in the new film.

Jon Shestack Productions and producers Jeremy Stein (The Photographer) and Ginny Brewer (Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past) are on board to steer the Saved By The Bell movie.

The show ran from 1989 to 1993 and was later revived for two spinoffs, Saved By The Bell: The College Years and Saved By The Bell: The New Class.

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Parker 'kicked by cow' during filming

Sarah Jessica Parker has revealed that she got kicked by a cow while making her latest movie.

The 44-year-old actress, who co-stars with Hugh Grant in Did You Hear About The Morgans?, said that she did not like having to film scenes with the animal.

Parker told Parade magazine: "I didn't enjoy attempting to milk a cow, or ride a horse, or shoot a rifle. I have other fantasies, none of which include milking a cow!

"The cow kicked me in the middle of the scene and they left it in. It's right there for everyone to see. But I sympathised with the cow. I didn't belong there and she knew it."

Despite the bad experience, Parker said that she enjoyed making the movie with Grant because she had "loved" him for so long.

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Robert Downey Jr: 'I'm a monster on set'

Robert Downey Jr has revealed that he is "a monster" on film sets.

The 44-year-old actor, who stars in the new Sherlock Holmes movie, said that he has "aggressive outbursts" at work to help him use up all his creative energy before he goes home.

"If it comes to aggressive outbursts regarding creative particulars, I'm a monster!" MSN quotes Downey Jr as saying.

"I don't mean like I act badly or make people feel s**tty or anything, but I get really wedged-up. It's all I've got in the day, until I get home to my actual life at home. It's all I've got."

Downey Jr recently admitted that he became involved with drugs between 1996 and 2001 by accident after initially only taking them to help with his flu symptoms.

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Fishburne joins 'Predators' cast

Laurence Fishburne has joined the cast of Predators.

The Matrix star will play a character named Roland in Nimrod Antal's franchise reboot, reports Shock Till You Drop.

Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Walt Goggins, Danny Trejo and Oleg Taktarov are already among the cast for the sci-fi action movie, which is being produced by Robert Rodriguez (Sin City).

Predators is scheduled to arrive in cinemas on July 9, 2010.

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Graham 'wants to play pregnant stripper'

Heather Graham has revealed that she wants to play a pregnant stripper.

The actress, who starred as Las Vegas stripper Jade in The Hangover, said that she is full of ideas for her character in the upcoming sequel.

Graham told E! Online: "I think Stu should get her pregnant, and that she should do a pregnant strip dance. I know it sounds so wrong, but it sounds so right.

"That'd be really cool. Seriously, I wish. We need to get someone to write that script."

It is rumoured that production on the film will begin in 2010, ready for release in 2011.

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Lautner to lead action movie 'Cancun'

Taylor Lautner will lead the cast of action film Cancun for Twilight studio Summit Entertainment.

Lautner's father Dan is in talks to produce the movie, which follows a college student who has to save two girls who are kidnapped by a drug cartel while on a break in Mexico's coastal city of Cancun.

Eric Champnella and Grant Thompson wrote the script for the project, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Lautner has recently been linked to Paramount's teenage superhero movie Max Steel.

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Singer reveals 'X-Men: First Class' plot

Bryan Singer has revealed plot details for his X-Men: First Class movie.

The director, who announced earlier this week that he will return to the superhero series he started, said that the film will be about a young Professor Xavier and his nemesis Magneto.

"This is the formative years of Xavier and Magneto, and the formation of the school and where their relationship took a wrong turn," Singer told Variety. "There is a romantic element, and some of the mutants from X-Men will figure into the plot, though I don't want to say which ones. There will be a lot of new mutants and a great villain."

The filmmaker added that he is taking inspiration from the recent Batman and Star Trek prequels for First Class.

He explained: "Whether it's Batman, Lord Of The Rings or Star Trek, if the characters are good, you want to see them on their journey even if you know their destiny. I put myself in the fan's position, and I think this story is something I would want to see, and so will they."

20th Century Fox has also enlisted screenwriter Jamie Moss (Street Kings) to rework Josh Schwartz's initial script.

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Cameron: 'Terminator Salvation wasn't fresh'

James Cameron has claimed that Terminator Salvation lacked originality.

The Avatar director, who conceived and helmed the first two instalments in the science fiction series, told UGO that he felt McG's film didn't break new ground.

"Interestingly, I think McG did a good job in the sense... I think he was almost too referential to the mythos of the first and second film. He over-quoted them in a way," Cameron said. "It didn't feel to me to be enough of a reinvention. The thing we did with the second film is that we reinvented the first film completely; spun it on its ass and made the Terminator the good guy, and came up with a whole new concept for a villain, it felt fresh.

"I didn't feel the fourth picture was fresh enough. It also lacked a certain stamp of authenticity because Arnold [Schwarzenegger] wasn't in it. I mean, he was in it briefly, digitally, but that's not the same thing."

However, Cameron praised his Avatar star Sam Worthington's performance in Salvation, calling him "remarkable because, well, I think Sam is remarkable in anything he does".

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Jude Law promises 'edgier' Watson

Sherlock Holmes star Jude Law has revealed that film fans can expect his version of Dr John Watson to be edgy and bold.

The actor confirmed that the forthcoming movie, which was directed by Guy Ritchie, does not present Watson as a fool as other adaptations have in the past.

Speaking to the Liverpool Daily Post, Law explained: "They were coming to me not to put on two stone and fall around and put my foot in the wastepaper basket, but wanted a Watson with a bit more edge.

"He's been in a brutal war and has experienced horror and physical pain. I wanted to represent him as the slightly more buttoned up, polished professional, with Holmes being the more wayward, eccentric dilettante.

"But he's far from just bumbling along - he's in the middle of the action, sometimes tearing in ahead of Holmes."

Sherlock Holmes will open in the UK on Boxing Day.

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'Get Smart' director helms sci-fi comedy

Get Smart director Peter Segal is in talks to helm sci-fi comedy Neighborhood Watch, reports Variety.

Segal has reportedly been working on a sequel to Get Smart, but studio Twentieth Century Fox pushed the project back, freeing him up for Watch.

The film, written by Jared Stern and produced by Shawn Levy, centres on man who moves to a small town and joins its neighbourhood watch scheme. He later discovers that the area is experiencing paranormal activity.

Will Ferrell was originally attached to star, with Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin at the helm. However, the pair have reportedly bowed out.

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Blunt promises witty, smart 'Gulliver'

Emily Blunt has promised that her forthcoming movie Gulliver's Travels will be a "witty and smart" comedy.

The actress, who appears alongside Jack Black in the movie, has reassured fans of Jonathan Swift's novel that the film adaptation will be enjoyable for adults and children alike, STV reports.

The 26-year-old said: "People who are very loyal to the book I'm sure will have their qualms about the fact that we've made this a kind of romping comedy. But it's still very funny.

"I love Gulliver's Travels because it's really smart. It's not fart jokes. You know what I mean? It's not fart jokes. There's not a fart joke in sight. Don't worry. It's very smart and witty. And it's great for kids and adults. There are the in-jokes for the adults. I loved that script. It's great."

As for playing a character who's "not very bright", Blunt added: "I had a really good time with that. I'm a little Lilliputian. Yeah, I'm a little person. I'm obviously only taking on roles where people have to bow to me. I mean, that's literally all I'm doing right now. Queens or princesses, so take your pick."

Gulliver's Travels arrives in US cinemas on December 22.

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Ferrell: 'I'm like Batman without the skills'

Will Ferrell has claimed that portraying a police officer has boosted his confidence.

The actor, who plays New York detective Allen Gamble in The Other Guys, has admitted that wearing a law-enforcement costume made him feel like a superhero, STV reports.

The 42-year-old said: "It's a great feeling of self-esteem to walk around these streets with a badge and a gun. I've been asked to leave the props at home, because I apprehended a couple of suspects last weekend, and it's truly none of my business. I've really become a vigilante for law and justice.

"I'm like Batman. But without any of the skills, whatsoever."

The Other Guys, starring Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, arrives in US cinemas on August 6, 2010 and in the UK on September 2, 2010.

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Grant talks SJP and his bad acting

Hugh Grant has reportedly insisted that he's a terrible actor.

Grant who recently revealed that he thinks of himself as a "very limited" actor, has admitted that his least favourite aspect about making a movie is the "acting", The Huffington Post reports.

The 49-year-old said: "The one part that is probably my least favourite is the acting. I did it as a joke job for a year after I left university. And I was so bad in the first things I did, I thought, 'I've got to do another job to prove that I'm not quite that bad'. And that's gone on for 27 years now."

Grant, who co-stars alongside Sarah Jessica Parker in the comedy Did You Hear About The Morgans?, has claimed that the actress has an insatiable appetite for such a petite woman.

He added: "She's a laugh. She's eccentric and very funny, weird sensibility. Very surprising things with Sarah Jessica, like the amount that she eats or the interest she takes in food, gigantic for a woman who's tiny.

"I've never seen a woman eat that much or that voraciously. She's like a locust."

Did You Hear About The Morgans? is currently playing in the US and arrives in UK cinemas on January 1, 2010.

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Guy Ritchie denies 'Lobo' link

Director Guy Ritchie has denied claims that he is confirmed to direct a movie adaptation of Lobo.

The news has prompted some to instead link the Sherlock Holmes director to the film version of DC Comics' WWII battle-hardened hero, Sgt Rock.

Ritchie was asked about his connection to Lobo during an interview with MTV News.

He said: "Is it a matter of fact that I'm doing it? I don't think it's a matter of fact. In fact, I can tell you it's not a matter of fact."

When pressed further to reveal any involvement, Ritchie replied: "Isn't there a fifth amendment or something?"

Last month producer Joel Silver revealed that a test of Lobo had been filmed but it was up to studio bosses whether to go ahead with the project.

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