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Judi Dench 'wanted to dance in Nine'

Dame Judi Dench has admitted that she was jealous of her Nine co-stars.

The actress wanted the chance to dance in the musical, Showbiz Spy says.

"When I saw Fergie's dance in the sand, I was jealous," Dench explained. "I was thinking, 'Why couldn't I get to dance in the sand? That looks like fun'.

"I'm sure I would be very good at sliding down a curtain with my bottom in the air like Penelope Cruz, too. But I have to say they both did an amazing job. I might not be as alluring as they were."

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Lautner 'linked to Vision Quest remake'

Taylor Lautner is reportedly in talks to appear in a remake of Vision Quest.

E! News claims that the Twilight star could take on the lead role in the romance, originally released in 1985.

The film, which is still in development, shares its producers with the Twilight movies.

"Taylor saw [the script] and is really excited about it," a source said. "It's very much in line with his athleticism. His character is someone who's striving for greatness."

A spokesperson for Lautner refused to comment. Meanwhile, Warner Bros, who own the rights to the film, would only confirm that a remake is in development.

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'Captain America' to be shot in UK?

A claim that The First Avenger: Captain America could be filmed in the UK has prompted speculation that Marvel character Union Jack features in the script.

According to Comic Book Movie, an operator of Independent Studio Services posted a message on Twitter which read: "Marvel films is considering filming Captain America in the UK, WTF!"

Marvel president Kevin Fiege has already been quoted as saying that the movie "will be one of the most international films Marvel Studios has done".

In addition to rumours that Union Jack, also known as James Montgomery Falsworth, might therefore appear in the film, there has been renewed speculation linking Tyrese to the role of Isaiah Bradley.

When he launched his comic book hero Mayhem, Tyrese told MTV News: "Instead of me sitting back and waiting on Luke Cage to finally happen - which I'm still looking forward to doing once they get the script together - and instead of me waiting on Captain America, which they were talking about me for, I'm going to create my own."

The First Avenger: Captain America, to which Joe Johnston is attached to direct, is due for release on July 22, 2011.

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Susan Boyle tipped for next Bond outing

Susan Boyle has reportedly been backed to sing the theme song for the next James Bond movie.

An internet campaign has been launched to ensure that the Britain's Got Talent phenomenon is awarded the title track for the 23rd 007 instalment.

Bond theme composer Monty Norman told the Sunday Express: "She has the right kind of sweeping voice."

The movie, which is due out in 2011, will be Daniel Craig's third outing as the British secret agent following 2006's Casino Royale and last year's Quantum Of Solace.

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Director reveals 'Ghostbusters 3' details

Director Ivan Reitman has reportedly revealed more details on the new Ghostbusters 3 movie.

The filmmaker has said that the working title for the sequel is G3 and claimed that with the script already completed, production should begin in the next few months with a late 2010 release date, Perez Hilton reports.

Reitman also added that Sigourney Weaver, who recently revealed spoilers about the G3 storyline, and Bill Murray would have roles in the film if they choose to accept the offer.

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Gilliam: 'Ledger taught me what acting can be'

Terry Gilliam has revealed that Heath Ledger taught him "what acting can be".

The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus director has said that the late Oscar-winning actor showed him the essence of acting and insisted that watching Ledger perform was always "intriguing".

Speaking to Paste, the filmmaker said: "He just taught me what acting can be. I remember reading something with him saying I taught him how to play.

"But that’s what acting is. To me, he was always showing how fresh and playful one could be at the time. Watching him playing and having a good time was intriguing."

Gilliam also claimed that Ledger had great comedic timing and a genuine appeal to him on screen.

He added: "I think so, because I just gave him room to play and I don’t think he’d really developed his comic sense before, and he had great comic sense. His timing was exquisite. He could be really silly, and yet it was never jokey. It was never superficial. It was always solid.

"And that was something that I thought was absolutely extraordinary. And I think especially in something like Parnassus, he had a lot of room to play because Tony is such a comedic character. So he’s just setting up the possibilities for lots of directions to go into. But on the other side of the mirror, he’s a big fiend, unfortunately."

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus opens in US cinemas on Christmas Day.

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Terry Gilliam talks 'Don Quixote'

Terry Gilliam has revealed more details on the development of the new movie The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.

The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus director has said that aside from looming tentative projects, such as Good Omens and the Gorillaz feature, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, starring Johnny Depp, will be the next film that he focuses on.

The filmmaker told Paste: "There’s a couple others as well, but Quixote is what we’re working on at the moment. Hopefully, that’ll get up and running next year."

As for Quixote's casting rumours, Gilliam confirmed: "Yeah, and I rewrote the script. Robert Duvall has agreed to play Quixote. I’m really excited. So it’s all that business of funding now."

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus opens in US cinemas on Christmas Day.

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'Meatballs' duo to make '21 Jump Street'

Phil Lord and Chris Miller are in talks to direct the 21 Jump Street movie, reports Variety.

The Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs pair are to work from a script by Michael Bacall and Superbad star Jonah Hill for Columbia Pictures.

Jump Street began life as a TV series in 1987 and helped to launch the career of Johnny Depp. It centred on fresh-faced police officers who worked undercover at high schools.

Neal Moritz and Stephen J. Cannell will produce the movie, while Hill is expected to star and executive produce.

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Morgan: 'New Bond will be shocking'

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Peter Morgan has revealed that his James Bond movie will have "a shocking story".

The Frost/Nixon writer, who was hired to pen the 23rd 007 instalment earlier this year with Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, suggested that his film will shake up the spy franchise.

"It's a shocking story," Bond fansite MI6 quotes him as saying. "Bond creates a hysteria around it, one that I haven't previous known. It's a magnet for publicity - everyone wants to know what's going on with the new Bond."

Work on the next film, Daniel Craig's third outing as the Brit secret agent, will not begin until its financially-stricken studio MGM has been sold. The new owner is expected to put it into production swiftly so they can recoup some of their investment.

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Rodriguez to reboot 'Spy Kids' series

Robert Rodriguez has confirmed that he is planning to reboot the Spy Kids franchise.

Speaking to Collider, the filmmaker said that the fourth movie will follow two new children who become secret agents with their parents.

"I've already turned in a script for... a reboot of Spy Kids," he said. "It's different kids, not the old kids, and that [movie] is really cool. I'd probably do that in the early part of next year, March or April."

He continued: "It reminds me of the first one where it's not so much just the kids - in fact it leans more towards the parents because you become a parent, you get a lot of ideas on where you can put some of this."

Rodriguez, who is currently overseeing a retooling of the Predator series, added that he has more fans from the Spy Kids series than Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn.

"I even went back and pilfered off my old original first script and found some ideas that I couldn't bring to life back then I was like, 'Wow these are good ideas,'" he said of the new storyline. "So they get to finally come back up."

Spy Kids was released in 2001 and spawned two sequels. The trilogy grossed more than $460m (£284m) at the worldwide box office.

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Downey Jr: 'Holmes would tear Iron Man up'

Robert Downey Jr has claimed that Sherlock Holmes would beat Iron Man in a fair fight.

Downey Jr has the starring role in the two upcoming movies Sherlock Holmes and Iron Man 2.

"Out of the suit, I think Sherlock would tear Tony up," Downey told MTV News. "But it depends - [Tony] might have a little piece of safety tech on him."

Sherlock Holmes premieres on December 25. Iron Man 2 is scheduled for release in spring 2010, in which the actor reprises his role as Tony Stark - aka Iron Man - from the first film.

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Cameron: 'Avatar follow-up not prequel'

James Cameron has claimed that his Avatar follow-up will not be a prequel to the first movie.

The director said that the second of his two planned sequels will follow on directly from the events of the original.

"We'll follow [lead characters] Jake and Neytiri," Cameron told MTV News.

"I have a trilogy-scaled arc of story right now, but I haven't really put any serious work into writing a script."

Avatar debuted in cinemas last week.

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Report: 'Spider-Man 4' in turmoil

The latest Spider-Man movie is "in turmoil", a new report claims.

Production on Sam Raimi's blockbuster has been put on hiatus over Christmas while filmmakers attempt to complete a shooting script, according to Indiewire's Thompson on Hollywood.

Regular franchise producer Laura Ziskin has allegedly taken a backseat for the latest film, titled Spider-M4n, leaving Todd Black (The Taking Of Pelham 123) to deal with demands from Sony, Marvel and director Raimi.

The new Spider-Man script has passed through the hands of James Vanderbilt, David Lindsay-Abaire and Gary Ross. Raimi is keen to dictate the choice of storyline and villain for the superhero's fourth outing.

Filming on Spider-Man 4 is still expected to begin early next year to make the May 5, 2011 release date. Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst will reprise their roles as couple Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson.

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Sam Worthington praises 'Avatar' co-stars

Sam Worthington has said that Avatar is a great film because there is such a strong chemistry between the cast members.

The Australian actor, who appears in the story of paraplegic marine Jake Sully on the planet Pandora, claimed that he is only good in the movie because of the support he received from his co-stars.

"Acting is reacting so you're only as good as your fellow actors. And when you work with Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver, you tend to be pretty darn good," Virgin News quotes Worthington as saying.

Talking about his character, he added: "He doesn't take any crap. He doesn't believe that he's got a disability. He believes that people who are telling him what he cannot do - they've got the disability. I think that's a good message."

Avatar is out in cinemas now.

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Tom Hanks for third 'Da Vinci Code'?

Tom Hanks is reportedly ready to star in a third Da Vinci Code film.

The Oscar winner played Robert Langdon in 2006's The Da Vinci Code and its 2009 sequel Angels & Demons, both based on Dan Brown's bestselling novels. According to Cinemablend, Hanks is to reprise the role for an adaptation of Brown's third book The Lost Symbol.

"[He is] all but ready to return to the character of Robert Langdon," said a source.

The film is close to pre-production. Studio Columbia Pictures is eying a 2012 release.

It is unclear if Ron Howard, director of the first two films, will return for the sequel.

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London critics to honour Tarantino

The London Film Critics' Circle will award Quentin Tarantino with its top honour in 2010.

The Oscar-nominated filmmaker will be the recipient of the group's Dilys Powell award for excellence in cinema, reports WENN.

"This is such an honour. I have always relished discussing my work with film critics," Tarantino said of the news.

The group is to present the Inglourious Basterds director with the prize during a February 18 ceremony in London.

Tarantino recently revealed that he plans to write novels and books about movies when he retires from filmmaking at 60.

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Kevin Bacon to play 'Super' villain

Kevin Bacon has been tapped to co-star in upcoming action-comedy Super.

Writer-director James Gunn's film centres on an average man (Rainn Wilson) who takes on the role of superhero Crimson Bolt, after his wife (Liv Tyler) falls under the influence of Bacon's villainous drug dealer.

Bacon's character Jacques is described as a smooth-talking criminal, according to Screen Daily.

"Kevin Bacon is one of the few actors nimble enough to give life to Jacques, our super-villain with a nice streak," Gunn said.

He added: "We need to love Jacques even while he's doing horrible things – Kevin is one of the only actors I know who can pull that off."

Super also stars Ellen Page and Sean Gunn.

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Peter Jackson adapting 'Mortal Engines'?

Peter Jackson will bring Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines fantasy novels to the big screen, reports The Dominion Post.

The Lord Of The Rings helmer's Weta effects studio has allegedly been crafting designs for the adaptation, which features giant floating cities.

A spokesman for Jackson refused to confirm or deny the project's development, saying that "any comment should come from Peter".

Reeve's four steampunk-inspired Engines books, titled Hungry City Chronicles in the US, are set in a post-apocalyptic world where cities become vehicles and must consume each other to survive.

Jackson's latest film The Lovely Bones opens in UK cinemas on January 29.

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Singer's 'First Class' to supersede 'Magneto'

Bryan Singer has claimed that his X-Men: First Class film will replace the planned Magneto prequel.

The director, who signed a deal to return to the superhero series last week, suggested to The Hollywood Reporter that his project's overlap with Magneto could mean that David Goyer's movie gets put on the back-burner.

"This story would probably utilise some of the Magneto story because it deals with a young Magneto, so it might supersede that because this would explore that relationship between a young energetic professor and a disenfranchised victim of the Holocaust," Singer explained.

The filmmaker said that he does not believe another X-Men movie, the franchise's fifth, will exhaust the Marvel characters on screen.

"I don't see an exhaustion. The X-Men universe is boundless," he added. "These are great characters. And as young characters, they are quite different than the characters we have seen in the contemporary movies."

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Lively, Garner in line for 'Green Lantern'?

Gossip Girl's Blake Lively is reportedly among the five candidates to play the love interest in Warner Bros's Green Lantern movie.

According to Latino Review, Lively, Jennifer Garner, Keri Russell, Diane Kruger and Casino Royale's Eva Green are the frontrunners to star opposite Ryan Reynolds in the superhero picture.

The actresses are allegedly being targeted for the role of Carol Ferris, the 27-year-old daughter of Ferris Air chief Carl. The character begins a romance with Reynolds's pilot Hal Jordan in the DC Comics adaptation.

Green Lantern is expected to begin production next year under the direction of Martin Campbell. The movie will bow in cinemas in summer 2011.

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