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Mendes not returning for 'Ghost Rider 2'

Eva Mendes has revealed that she will not be returning for the upcoming Ghost Rider sequel alongside Nicolas Cage.

Superhero Hype confirmed the news at a press junket yesterday for Mendes's new film The Other Guys.

"No, unfortunately," was Mendes's response to whether she would be reprising her role as Cage's love interest Roxanne Simpson in the tentatively titled Ghost Rider:Spirit of Vengeance, due to begin filming this November.

It is unknown at this stage whether the part of Roxanne will be recast or if the studio will instead use another female character from Marvel's Ghost Rider comic book series.

Cage confirmed in July that he will reprise his role as Johnny Blaze aka Ghost Rider in the update, which Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor are reportedly in negotiations to direct.

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Bay producing 3D 'Hansel and Gretel'

Michael Bay's production company The Institute is developing a 3D movie based on the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel.

According to Coming Soon, the project will be an action-adventure picture packed with high-concept visual effects.

Joseph C. Pepe, the lead character designer for James Cameron's Avatar, is developing creatures for the movie.

The venture will begin production in spring 2011 in Germany.

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Stallone: 'Batman changed action movies'

Sylvester Stallone has claimed that the casting of Michael Keaton in Batman changed action movies.

Stallone, who can next be seen in ensemble blockbuster The Expendables, said that the genre "changed radically" when Tim Burton put Keaton in a muscle suit for the superhero role.

"It was that first Batman movie," he told the Los Angeles Times. "The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on.

"It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end."

He continued: "I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it."

The Expendables, co-starring Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, opens in cinemas next month.

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Five compete for 'Dragon Tattoo' lead

Five actresses are in the running for the role of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, reports IndieWire.

Director David Fincher screen-tested five finalists this week for the coveted part, all of them relatively unknown or up-and-coming stars. Australians Emily Browning, Sophie Lowe, Sarah Snook, American Rooney Mara and an unnamed French actress are said to be the five competing to play bisexual hacker Salander.

Browning is the most established actress of the group, having had roles in Lemony Snicket, horror The Uninvited and the upcoming Sucker Punch, while Mara has a role in Fincher's Facebook movie The Social Network.

Carey Mulligan and Kristen Stewart have previously expressed an interest in starring in the Dragon Tattoo movies.

Fincher has reportedly told the five actresses to work on their Swedish accents, suggesting that Salander and the story's location won't be Americanised. The movies are based on Stieg Larsson's best-selling Millennium Trilogy, which have already been adapted for the screen in Sweden.

Daniel Craig is the frontrunner to play journalist Mikael Blomkvist, although scheduling problems with the James Bond series and a potential Cowboys & Aliens franchise could take him out of the running.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo will open in cinemas on December 21, 2011.

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Katherine Heigl to play immortal 'Adaline'

Katherine Heigl will play an immortal woman in fantasy romance Adaline, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The movie will see Killers star Heigl portray a character who hasn't aged in 100 years. The story revolves around her meeting a man who is prepared to risk his life so that she can regain her mortality.

Andy Tennant (The Bounty Hunter) is directing the project from a script by Mills Goodloe, Sal Paskowitz and Allison Burnett.

Heigl's next movie is Life As We Know It with Josh Duhamel.

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Simon Pegg wanted for 'The Boys' role

Director Adam McKay has revealed that he wants Simon Pegg to star in his upcoming comic book movie The Boys.

Based on Garth Ennis and Darrick Robertson's Wildstorm/Dynamite story, it centres on the exploits of a squad of CIA agents who watch over superheroes who step out of line. The character of Hugh Campbell is based on Pegg.

"I haven't officially signed on yet, so I haven't had any conversations with anyone, but he's [Pegg] got to do it. It has to be," McKay told CHUD.

McKay's next film The Other Guys, starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, opens in cinemas later this summer.

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Captain America' film won't be "jingoistic"

Captain America director Joe Johnston has said that his big screen portrayal of the Marvel superhero won't be jingoistic.

Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Johnston insisted that Chris Evans's Steve Rogers will bring a "different spin" to the character traditionally seen as overly patriotic.

"He wants to serve his country, but he's not this sort of jingoistic American flag-waver," the director said. "He's just a good person. We make a point of that in the script: Don't change who you are once you go from Steve Rogers to this super-soldier, you have to stay who you are inside, that's really what's important more than your strength and everything.

"It'll be interesting and fun to put a different spin on the character and one that the fans are really going to appreciate."

Evans will be joined by Hayley Atwell, Dominic Cooper, Sebastian Stan, Hugo Weaving, Stanley Tucci and Tommy Lee Jones in the cast for Captain America, which opens in cinemas next summer.

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Brad Pitt to lead zombie film 'World War Z'

Brad Pitt will lead the cast of director Marc Forster's zombie movie World War Z.

PItt, who is also a producing the film through his Plan B company at Paramount, is expected to play a UN researcher gathering together interviews from the survivors of a zombie apocalypse.

Screenwriters J. Michael Straczynski and Matthew Michael Carnahan adapted the screenplay from Max Brooks's best-selling novel. The project was first announced in 2006, with Pitt beating Leonardo DiCaprio to secure the big screen rights.

"I'm glad they took their time, and are trying to make the best zombie movie they can," Brooks told MTV of Pitt's involvement.

Paramount has also reportedly snapped up the rights to Brooks's The Zombie Survival Guide and graphic novel The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks.

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Karl Urban offered 'Judge Dredd'

Karl Urban is the frontrunner to star in the 3D Judge Dredd movie, according to Bleeding Cool.

The Star Trek and Lord Of The Rings actor will allegedly be offered the role of the 2000AD law enforcer in director Pete Travis's project. As is tradition in the comic book stories, Dredd will not remove his mask in the feature adaptation.

Producer Andrew Macdonald and screenwriter Alex Garland, who both worked on Sunshine and 28 Days Later, are part of the Judge Dredd creative team along with Travis.

The character, created by John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra and Pat Mills, first appeared in a 2000AD science fiction anthology in 1977 and was played by Sylvester Stallone in a 1995 movie adaptation.

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Halle Berry for 'Shoe Addicts Anonymous'

Halle Berry has signed up to lead the cast of ensemble comedy Shoe Addicts Anonymous, reports Deadline.

The movie is based on Beth Harbison's best-selling novel about four Chicago women from different ethnic backgrounds who share a love of shoes and have the same size feet. The women eventually form a support group and become "sole sisters".

Berry will play an agoraphobic who shops online to sate her hunger for footwear. Shoe Addicts is Berry's first comedy role since 1998's Bulworth.

British filmmaker Paul Weiland (Made Of Honour) is directing from a script by Kristen Buckley and Brian Regan.

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Jada Pinkett Smith has revealed that she turned down a role in the remake of The Karate Kid.

The actress, whose son Jaden Smith stars as lead character Dre Parker, said that she did not want to portray her son's on screen mum.

"There was talk about me playing Jaden's mother in the movie but I felt that he was going to really need his mum off camera. Mummy support," BANG Showbiz quotes her as saying. "So we felt like we really had to be there as parents and producers just to make sure Jaden was being taken care of."

Pinkett Smith added that she and husband Will Smith acted as producers to help guide Jaden through his first big screen leading role.

She said: "Well, we knew that we had to participate in some way. We have so much knowledge between the two of us that we want to pass on to our children. So we knew it was important to participate."

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Lena Headey attached to 'Safe House'

Lena Headey is reportedly attached to star in upcoming thriller Safe House.

Michael Ironside, Kate Mara and Michael Trucco are also lined up to appear in the picture, reports Deadline.

Safe House centres on a mother and daughter being attacked by "hellish monsters" that can walk through walls.

Producer Steve Iles described the film as "Assault On Precinct 13 meets The Thing”.

Mutant Chronicles director Simon Hunter is behind the project.

“Safe House is totally different from Chronicles, which was a big canvas. This is a world that I’m going to portray in an extremely realistic way," he said.

Image Engine, the visual effects team that created the aliens for District 9, is in talks to design the movie's monsters.

Production is scheduled to begin in March.

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Huntington-Whiteley 'Transformers' role revealed

Details have emerged about Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's role in the latest Transformers movie.

The Victoria's Secret model, who is replacing Megan Fox as the love interest for Shia LaBeouf's Sam Witwicky, will reportedly play the character Carly in the robot action blockbuster.

According to JoBlo, Carly marries Sam in the animated series, leading to speculation that director Michael Bay may close his Transformers trilogy with a wedding between LaBeouf and Huntington-Whiteley's characters.

Returning Transformers cast members Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson and John Turturro will be joined by newcomers John Malkovich, Patrick Dempsey and Frances McDormand. The movie is due to open in cinemas next July.

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Johnny Depp reveals 'Pirates 4' details

Johnny Depp has teased fans of the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise with details about the upcoming fourth instalment.

Dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow, Depp appeared in a surprise pre-recorded message at this year's Comic-Con event to tease much-anticipated sequel On Stranger Tides.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the actor promised the excitable crowd that the film will feature "zombies, cutthroats, mermaids, and the vicious and vivacious Penélope Cruz".

It has also been confirmed that Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, which is due for release next May, will be shot in 3D and will be the first film in the series not to feature Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley.

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Guillermo del Toro to make 'Haunted Mansion'

Guillermo del Toro will develop and produce a 3D remake of The Haunted Mansion.

The filmmaker, who recently dropped out of helming The Hobbit, announced at Comic-Con that he is making a "scary and fun" movie based on the Disney theme park attraction.

"We are not returning Eddie Murphy's calls," del Toro quipped, referring to the 2003 film based on the ride. "We are not making it a comedy... We are making it scary and fun, but the scary will be scary."

Del Toro added in a Disney press release: “Dark imagery is an integral part of the Walt Disney legacy. After all, Disney himself was the father of some really chilling moments and characters - think Chernabog from Fantasia or Maleficent as the Dragon or the Evil Queen in Snow White.

“I couldn't be more excited to be a part of my own adaptation of the original theme park attraction Walt envisioned and that remains - for me - the most desirable piece of real estate in the whole world!"

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Joss Whedon confirms role on 'Avengers'

Joss Whedon has confirmed that he is directing Marvel's Avengers movie.

Rumours that the Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator was attached to the film adaptation have been circling for months.

Whedon made the announcement while speaking at the Entertainment Weekly: The Visionaries panel at Comic-Con International.

"That is not an official thing. But I'm making that an official thing: I’m directing The Avengers," he said.

The film will open on May 4, 2012.

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Tina Fey regrets not doing 'Mean Girls 2'

Tina Fey has admitted that she regrets turning down the opportunity to make Mean Girls 2.

The 30 Rock star, who wrote and starred in the 2004 original, told Movieline that she declined offers from Paramount to make the sequel, which started filming this month as a straight-to-DVD production.

“It’s funny, because now it’s shooting and I don’t really have anything to do with it,” said Fey. "I haven’t read it or anything like that. Paramount was very generous and solicitous with me for several years, saying, 'Would you like to do it?' And at the time, I was like, 'They should just let it be what it is!'"

She continued: “Now, its like, why not just do it? I should have done it, because now it’s happening anyway!”

Desperate Housewives star Maiara Walsh, Nicole Gale Anderson, Jennifer Stone and Meaghan Jette Martin are among the cast for the new Mean Girls, which centres on two girls facing off against popular high-schoolers 'The Plastics'.

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Producer confirms 'Saw' franchise end

Saw producer Oren Koules has confirmed that the seventh instalment in the horror series will be the last.

Koules told USA Today that the long-running franchise will come to a close with the release of Saw 3D later this year.

He said: "It's time to stop. We have told the story we wanted to tell, and this is going to be a great farewell."

Koules added that Saw 3D will feature 11 booby traps and had to be re-cut and re-submitted to the Motion Picture Association of America six times to be brought down from an NC-17 rating to an R.

"I'm surprised we got it," he commented. "It's more violent than any of them. But it's in 3D, it answers all the questions, it comes full circle. We have the goods on this one."

Saw 3D has also had its release date pushed back a week - to October 29 - in order to avoid horror rival Paranormal Activity 2.

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Brook: 'Lesbian scenes were difficult'

Kelly Brook has admitted that she found it "difficult" to film lesbian scenes for her new movie.

The model and TV presenter revealed that she had to kiss pornographic actress Riley Steele in Piranha 3D, reports The Sun.

Brook said: "It was really difficult. Holding your breath while making out with someone as hot as Riley Steele. I had to learn to hold my breath for a very long time."

The 30-year-old said that the pair had to have "a lot of practice" before filming the scene.

Riley added: "It's not work when you get to kiss Kelly Brook. She's so hot. Doing it underwater did make it a bit more difficult but I'm not complaining."

Brook previewed a clip of the scene at Comic-Con and told the audience: "It's a lot longer in the film. It goes on for quite a long time."

Piranha 3D opens in the UK on August 20.

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Scarlett Johansson 'boards Gravity'

Scarlett Johansson has reportedly agreed to star in upcoming spy movie Gravity.

According to the New York Daily News, the Lost in Translation star "verbally agreed" to take the lead role in the 3D sci-fi project.

Robert Downey Jr is also attached to the movie, which is being directed by Children of Men helmer Alfonso Cuaron.

Johansson is further rumoured to be starring in forthcoming feature Office Paranormal with Nicolas Cage and Mickey Rourke.

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