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Crowe: 'Filming Robin Hood was crazy'

Russell Crowe has admitted that he was scared on the set of Robin Hood.

The actor explained that several cast members were injured during filming, Showbiz Spy reports.

"It's scary stuff," Crowe said. "We had 15 people carried off the battlefield at one point. One guy got his eye poked out with a pike. Another guy broke an arm and a leg falling off a horse. A number of other people had their wills broken because it was violent and anarchic. Totally crazy."

Crowe added that the sheer size of the production had made accidents more likely.

"The scale of it is enormous," he said. "We had 130 horses doing a full-speed gallop charge into 600 guys on the ground. Every man on a horse did half-a-dozen fight moves before spinning around and coming back. It can all go south very quickly."

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Justin Timberlake joins 'Bad Teacher'

Justin Timberlake has been cast in forthcoming comedy Bad Teacher.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the singer will join Cameron Diaz and Jason Segal as a substitute teacher who is the scion of a watch company fortune.

The film was written by the Office team of Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, and centres around an unorthodox middle school teacher.

Also joining the cast are Molly Shannon and Eric Stonestreet, who portrays Cameron on Modern Family.

Timberlake will next be seen in David Fincher's Facebook thriller The Social Network.

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Johnny Depp for 'Jump Street' film cameo?

Johnny Depp is reportedly interested in making a cameo in the upcoming 21 Jump Street movie.

The Alice star appeared in the undercover cop show from 1987 until 1990, playing officer Tom Hanson.

"I'm hoping they'll let me do a cameo," Depp told Entertainment Weekly about the project.

He added: "Someone will say, 'Whatever happened to Tom Hanson?' and they'll find me somewhere hoarding jars of peanut butter and shaking in my underpants."

Superbad star Jonah Hill is writing, producing and potentially starring in the big screen update. The movie is expected to open in US cinemas in 2012.

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Sean Bean for 'Death Race 2'

Lord of the Rings actor Sean Bean has signed to co-star in Death Race 2.

The film is billed as a straight-to-DVD prequel to the 2008 action movie starring Jason Statham, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Bean joins the already cast Luke Goss, Ving Rhames, Danny Trejo and Frederick Koehler in the project, produced by Paul W.S. Anderson, who directed the original.

The prequel centres on the character Frankenstein (Goss), a convict serving time in a corrupt prison system that is prepping for a reality racing show.

Bean is also starring in HBO's upcoming fantasy series Game of Thrones

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Burton joins Bekmambetov for 'Lincoln'

Tim Burton has paired with Timur Bekmambetov for the upcoming film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, according to Entertainment Weekly.

The filmmakers will join writer Seth Grahame-Smith for the screen adaptation of his newly released novel of the same title.

Burton and Bekmambetov previously teamed to produce the 2009 animated feature 9, directed by Shane Acker.

The film will follow the 16th president's secret battle with the undead and his quest to avenge his mother's death.

A release date for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has yet to be set.

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Warner Bros backs 'Gilligan's Island' film

Warner Bros has started work on a movie adaptation of '60s sitcom Gilligan's Island, reports Variety.

The studio has teamed up with Atlas Entertainment on the project, which centres on the exploits of seven disparate castaways on an uncharted and uninhabited island in the Pacific.

Charles Roven (The Dark Knight) and Richard Suckle are producing the project, while the original show's producer Sherwood Schwartz is serving as executive producer with his son Lloyd Schwartz. Brad Copeland has been hired to write the script.

"The characters are so good. We think it's going to be a great story to transport these cultural icons to the modern day," Roven said.

Sherwood Schwartz has allegedly expressed an interest in recruiting Michael Cera for the titular Gilligan role and Beyoncé to portray movie star Ginger Grant.

Gilligan's Island ran from 1964 to 1967 on CBS before finding success in syndication. The series ended with the castaways still stranded after the show wasn't renewed for a fourth season.

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Mickey Rourke joins 'War Of The Gods'

Mickey Rourke will play villain King Hyperion in War Of The Gods, says Variety.

Henry Cavill and Freida Pinto have already been lined up to star in the mythological epic, which will be helmed by The Fall director Tarsem Singh.

Produced by the team that made the similar sword and sandals blockbuster 300, War Of The Gods centres on warrior Theseus (Cavill) as he teams up with oracle priestess Phaedra (Pinto) to battle with the immortal Greek gods.

Universal and Relativity Media are backing the movie, which is slated to begin production next month.

Rourke recently signed up to play the lead character's father Corin in the Conan The Barbarian remake.

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Ford, Spielberg, Lucas 'agree on Indy 5'

Harrison Ford has revealed that he has agreed on "a germ of an idea" with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas for Indiana Jones 5.

Speaking to the BBC, the Extraordinary Measures star insisted that the trio are still in the early stages of planning a sequel to Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull.

"The process works like this... We come to some basic agreement and then George goes away for a long time and works on it," he explained.

"Then Steven and I get it in some form, some embryonic form. Then if we like it we start working with George on it and at some point down the line it’s ready and we do it."

Crystal Skull, the first Indiana Jones film since 1989's The Last Crusade, earned $786 million at the worldwide box office when it opened in May 2008.

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Joe Quesada reading 'Avengers' script

Marvel Comics' Joe Quesada has revealed that he has received a copy of the Avengers movie script.

According to the editor-in-chief's Twitter account, he is reading through a copy of Zak Penn's screenplay for the superhero film.

Quesada wrote: "Definition of 'goose bumps'. Pressing enter and watching a screenplay entitled Avengers come out of my printer."

The treatment is thought to be a first draft and is expected to undergo changes following extensive proof-reading from key individuals.

Avengers is slated for release on May 4, 2012.

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Neil Patrick Harris joins 'Smurfs' movie

Neil Patrick Harris has reportedly been cast as the lead live-action character in Smurfs: The Movie.

According to Deadline Hollywood, the How I Met Your Mother star and Emmy host is the first major actor to join the live-action/CGI hybrid.

Harris will likely team with Jonathan Winters, who has reportedly signed to voice Papa Smurf in the film.

Scooby-Doo director Raja Gosnell is to helm the feature, based on the tiny blue cartoon characters best known through the popular 1980s animated series.

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'Wolverine' sequel to film in January 2011

Production on the sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine is reportedly scheduled to start next January.

According to Showbiz 411, screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie has finished penning the script and filming will start in early 2011.

No director has been attached to the project as yet, but star Hugh Jackman is expected to return.

The follow-up will apparently be a love story featuring a Japanese actress.

"It's a beautiful story and will be very different than the first film," said an insider.

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Jackman for 'Precious' director's 'Selma'

Precious director Lee Daniels has recruited Hugh Jackman to lead his civil rights drama Selma.

The Paul Webb-scripted project takes its name from the Alabama town that witnessed a historic civil rights march in 1965. Jackman is expected to play state governor George Wallace, a role that previously interested Robert De Niro.

"I had to do a lot of homework on the script, and I spent a lot of time writing. I feel like I'm caught up a little bit with that," Daniels said. "I have to really start casting the movie because we're shooting it soon. The only person I've nailed in for sure is Hugh Jackman. It's all over the place."

Selma is due to begin production in May, reports USA Today.

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McAdams added to new Woody Allen film

Rachael McAdams is the latest star to board the cast of Woody Allen's new film, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The Sherlock Holmes actress is in talks to join Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard and France's First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy in Allen's upcoming feature.

No story details have been revealed about the untitled project, which will shoot in France over the summer.

Allen's next film You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, starring Josh Brolin, Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto and Naomi Watts, was recently picked up by Sony Pictures Classic for distribution and is expected to debut at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

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Freida Pinto to be next Bond girl?

Freida Pinto has reportedly been shortlisted for one of the female leads in the next James Bond movie.

According to Mid Day, the Slumdog Millionaire actress, who was also linked to roles for Quantum Of Solace, may feature alongside Daniel Craig in the next Bond movie.

If she is cast in the role, Pinto will be the first Bond girl from India.

Pinto recently bagged a part in Woody Allen’s You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, for which she will reportedly be paid $3million (£2million).

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Pattinson turned down 'Blood', 'Jesse James'

Robert Pattinson has revealed that he turned down the chance to audition for two recent critically acclaimed dramas.

The Twilight Saga star told website HitFix that he regretted not taking up an offer to audition for Paul Thomas Anderson's Oscar-winning movie There Will Be Blood.

"I remember reading the script and thinking it was the best script ever. I just couldn't do it. And I was so p*ssed off afterwards. I was gonna go into the audition, but I was just, like, I can't do it," he said.

The 23-year-old also confessed to snubbing Brad Pitt's 2007 Western The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford.

"That was the other," he said. "I don't know why I've pussied out of these things. I wouldn't do it ever again."

Pattinson's new movie Remember Me debuts in the US on March 12 and April 2 in the UK.

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Johnny Depp: 'I would do Pirates 7'

Johnny Depp has claimed that he would love to continue making Pirates of the Caribbean films.

The actor told Parade that he is "still completely shocked" that he gets jobs, adding he missed playing Captain Jack Sparrow when he finished filming the first Pirates movie.

"Sometimes you fall in love with who you're playing," he explained. "As filming winds down, you hear the clock ticking because you know you're going to leave your character behind and a kind of odd separation anxiety kicks in. You get irritable and just sort of melancholy.

"That's what happened to me when we wrapped the first Pirates of the Caribbean. I realised I was going to miss Captain Jack. I had felt so comfortable being him and being in that skin. Suddenly you go, 'Am I ever going to see him again?'"

Depp added that he is committed to the franchise even though his co-stars Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom have ruled out returning for the fourth film.

"I can't wait to get back in costume," he said. "Some people will say, 'Aha, Depp sold out by doing the sequels'. But it was never an issue for me. I love Captain Jack so much I'd do Pirates 7 if they asked me."

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Gemma Arterton: 'Alice Creed isn't pretty'

Gemma Arterton has revealed that some people warned her against joining The Disappearance Of Alice Creed.

Speaking to GQ, the actress explained that she was drawn to the kidnap film because of its dark themes.

"There was a bit of resistance from some people wondering if it was a good idea for me to do this film," she said. "It's quite violent, there's nudity in it, it's not a pretty film. But that's why I wanted to do it."

She added: "It was made for under a million in a shed on the Isle of Man. Filmmaking at its purest: no money, no time, but really good actors and really good script."

Arterton also admitted that she agrees to take on roles in blockbuster films like Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time because they raise her profile.

"There is this realistic, business side to me and I think that it's informed my career a lot," she said. "You need to be known as an actress to get the really good parts, so you need to make sure you're in something that people see. Then hopefully you get the chance to have the creativity later."

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Radcliffe 'didn't enjoy Potter fight'

Daniel Radcliffe has admitted that he found it difficult to film the climactic scene in Harry Potter.

Radcliffe explained that the scene, in which Harry walks into the forest to face Voldemort, took several days to film.

"It was really hard," he told MTV News. "It was one of those scenes where by the third day of it we were going, 'I don't know if I like this one as much as I did in the beginning'. It was really, really tough."

Radcliffe also revealed that he didn't enjoy shooting the climax because he was so anxious.

He added: "It was just one of those scenes where I think because I put a lot of pressure on myself to get it right beforehand, I wasn't able to relax and enjoy myself as I might have done otherwise. I was slightly annoyed by that."

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Tom Hanks: 'Pacific parallels modern war'

Tom Hanks has claimed that his new series The Pacific highlights the similarities between World War II and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In an interview with Time, Hanks explained that he and Steven Spielberg had tried to provide "an accurate visual sense of time and geography".

Hanks added that he wanted to emphasise the way the Japanese had been treated by American soldiers.

"Certainly we wanted to honour US bravery in The Pacific," he said. "But we also wanted to have people say, 'We didn't know our troops did that to Japanese people'."

He continued: "From the outset, we wanted to make people wonder how our troops can re-enter society in the first place. How could they just pick up their lives and get on with the rest of us?

"Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today?"

The Pacific will air on March 14 on HBO in the US and this Easter on Sky Movies and Sky Movies HD in the UK.

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Paradis asks Depp to quit new Jolie film?

Johnny Depp's partner Vanessa Paradis has reportedly urged him to quit a new film project which features Angelina Jolie.

According to the New York Post, Paradis - who shares two children with the actor - became concerned after she discovered that Depp and Jolie are to film a steamy love sequence in their upcoming movie The Tourist.

Paradis is believed to have since asked the actor to step down from the movie because of Jolie, who is widely credited for breaking up Brad Pitt's five-year marriage to Jennifer Aniston.

"Vanessa found out that there was a real long and intense love scene between [Depp] and Jolie," a source said. "He's currently trying to [get out of the movie], but I don't know if he's succeeded. But he's trying and they're talking about replacing him with Brad Pitt or Leonardo DiCaprio."

In the film, Jolie is due to play an Interpol agent who seduces Depp, a tourist, in a bid to track down a criminal connected to her past.

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