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Sam Worthington confirmed for 'Dan Dare'

Warner Bros has officially signed Sam Worthington to star in upcoming space adventure film Dan Dare.

Clash of the Titans producer Basil Iwanyk is behind the project, reports Variety.

The movie is based on the sci-fi comic book character created by Frank Hampson in 1950.

A director and supporting cast has not yet been announced for the film.

Worthington recently signed a deal for his Full Clip Productions to develop content for comic books and films with Radical Publishing.

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Bruce Willis: 'Die Hard 5 is imminent'

Bruce Willis has hinted that a fifth Die Hard movie will soon be moving forward.

Speaking to MTV, Willis revealed that news about the next outing for John McClane is "imminent".

He said: "It's imminent. The coin is about to drop in the slot machine."

Asked if Die Hard 4.0 helmer Len Wiseman is likely to return to the director's chair, Willis replied: "Don't know. Don't know if we've gotten that far..."

Hitman screenwriter Skip Woods is currently working on the script for Die Hard 5.

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Marvel signs Ruffalo for Hulk role?

Marvel Studios and Mark Ruffalo have reportedly reached a deal to cast the actor as the Hulk in the upcoming Avengers movie.

According to Deadline, a deal has been reached by Brillstein Entertainment Partners with Marvel for Ruffalo to join Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans in the group superhero movie directed by Joss Whedon.

Samuel L Jackson and Scarlett Johansson are also expected to appear in the film, scheduled to arrive in US cinemas on May 4, 2012.

Marvel has yet to confirm the Ruffalo deal. The studio's Kevin Feige is expected to announce the full cast of The Avengers at the San Diego Comic-Con.

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Wes Craven to create original comic

Wes Craven has signed a deal to create his first original graphic novel.

The Scream director has partnered with Liquid Comics and Hostel producer Arnold Rifkin for the project, reports Coming Soon.

"I'm thrilled to be working with Liquid Comics and Cheyenne Enterprises on the development of an original idea for both a comic book and for a subsequent film based on it," said Craven in a media statement.

He added: "It's an idea I've been dying to get out there, and working in collaboration with Sharad Devarajan and Arnold Rifkin will be the ideal win-win way to do it."

Liquid Comics is currently in talks with comic book writers to team with Craven on the graphic novel, which will be launched as a four-issue comic series in early 2011.

The deal will distribute Craven's new content through other platforms and media, including the internet, the iPhone and the iPad.

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Ruffalo confirmed for 'Avengers'

It is being reported that Mark Ruffalo has been signed to play Bruce Banner, the Hulk, in Marvel's forthcoming Avengers film.

According to Comic Book Resources, Marvel Studios have reached a last minute deal with the actor and are intending to fly him to the San Diego Comic-Con ready for the reveal of the Avengers full cast.

Ruffalo recently received critical acclaim for his role in The Kids Are All Right, and is best known for his roles in Zodiac and Shutter Island.

He will replace Edward Norton in the role, who was recently removed from the project in a controversial move by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige.

The Avengers is set to be released May 4, 2012 following next year's releases of Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger.

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Whedon confirms Renner will play Hawkeye

Joss Whdeon has confirmed that Jeremy Renner of The Hurt Locker will star as the superhero Hawkeye in Marvel Studios upcoming film The Avengers.

Rumours have recently circulated that the actor was in consideration for the part, but Marvel Studios had been keeping quiet about the film's supporting cast prior to the San Diego Comic-Con.

Comic Book Resources reports that Whedon said of the signing: "I think it's well-known that Jeremy Renner is joining us as Hawkeye, which is so exciting for me and the rest of the cast."

This news comes after various news outlets reported that Mark Ruffalo has also been signed to be Edward Norton's replacement as the Hulk in the film.

It is expected that the full cast of The Avengers will be announced today at Comic-Con.


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Zeta-Jones: 'Older women can get roles'

Catherine Zeta-Jones has claimed that middle-aged actresses can compete in Hollywood just as well as women half their age.

The Oscar winner admitted that she doesn't "feel" or "look" like a 40-year-old and will continue to search for meaty roles.

She told the Daily Mirror: "I'm out to prove 40-year-olds can do it just as well as 20-somethings ever did. I'm not going out to pasture. I'm going after the juicy roles and I intend to prove older women have just as much strength in Hollywood as young women and men.

"It's a natural progression. I'm going to play more mums than sex symbols. A lot of people talk about how hard it is to find good roles for older women but I, frankly, haven't found that. I've actually seen an influx of interesting and compelling roles that makes me confident that this over-40 myth in Hollywood is just that."

She added: "I'm 40 and although I don't think I feel or look it, there's a stigma attached to a woman's age. When you think of the box-office hits, they star the younger ingenues and that's the reality. As you get older, the roles become thinner or not so accessible. You have to take it into your own hands and look for the roles."

Zeta-Jones recently stated that she feels lucky to have been romanced by numerous male heartthrobs during her film career.

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LaBeouf: 'Oliver Stone was tough coach'

Shia LaBeouf has described Oliver Stone as a "tough coach" on the set of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

The 24-year-old actor revealed that the filmmaker unfavourably compared him to Tom Cruise before the pair worked on the 1989 film Born On The Fourth Of July.

He told Absolute Now: "The first meeting I had with Oliver he looked me in the eye and he said, 'Don't worry, Tom Cruise wasn't an actor before he met me either'.

"I needed that. I needed a bit of a tough coach and I needed a bit of coddling."

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is released in cinemas on September 24.

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Whedon names 'Avengers' cast

Marvel Studios revealed the full cast for 2012's The Avengers at the San Diego Comic-Con this weekend.

The panel began with the showing of a teaser trailer first look at Chris Evans in his role as Captain America before also showing Hugo Weaving in character before his transformation into supervillain the Red Skull.

Marvel Studios then brought out cast members from 2011's Thor including Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman and Tom Hiddleston.

CBR reports Hiddleton teased that his interpretation of Loki would be as: "The agent of chaos and also the damaged younger brother."

Samuel L Jackson then arrived on stage to introduce the full cast of The Avengers including the previously announced Scarett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr.

It was confirmed that Jeremy Renner would play Hawkeye, Mark Ruffalo would be the new Bruce Banner and that Joss Whedon will direct the film.

"I've had a dream all my life, and it was not this good," Whedon told the audience. "This cast is more than I could ever dream of working with, and I am going to blow it."

It was previously rumoured that Whedon favourite Nathan Fillion and Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria would be announced as superheros Ant-Man and The Wasp respectively, but neither character was mentioned at the panel.

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Director Noyce: 'Salt will have sequel'

Salt will most likely be made into a sequel in "a couple of years", according to the film's director Phillip Noyce.

The fillmmaker has praised Angelina Jolie's performance in the spy thriller and has claimed that audiences will want a second instalment once they see the movie.

Noyce told Bang Showbiz: "Hopefully within a couple of years, we'll have another one. Angelina's so great in this part. When audiences see the movie they're going to feel like it's only just the beginning."

Jolie recently claimed that chasing after her children at home built her stamina for the running sequences in her new action movie.

Salt is currently playing in the US and arrives in UK cinemas on August 20.

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Portman: 'Black Swan role took a decade'

Natalie Portman has revealed that she found her lead role in Black Swan to be "challenging".

The Oscar-nominated actress, who plays a prima ballerina in Darren Aronofsky's psychological thriller, insisted that she was fortunate to have had discussed the script with the filmmaker a decade before filming began.

Speaking to USA Today, Portman said: "The character was very interesting to play, always challenging and surprising.

"The fact that I had spent so much time with the idea - Darren and I started discussing doing the film in 2000 - allowed it to marinate a little before we shot."

Black Swan will open this year's Venice Film Festival.

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'Robin Hood' star for 'Dragon Tattoo'?

Robin Hood star Lea Seydoux has been named as a candidate for the Lisbeth Salander role in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, according to Showbiz 411.

The French actress is among the five frontrunners for the coveted part in director David Fincher's adaptation of Stieg Larsson's best-selling novel. Last week it was revealed that Emily Browning, Sophie Lowe, Sarah Snook and Rooney Mara screen-tested for the Sony Pictures movie.

Seydoux, whose grandfather was the chairman of Pathé Studios and uncle the head of French production company Gaumont, also appeared in Inglourious Basterds and The Last Mistress.

Dragon Tattoo centres on a disgraced magazine publisher who teams up with a bisexual computer hacker to solve a decades-old disappearance case. Daniel Craig is expected to star as journalist Mikael Blomkvist.

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

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Angelina Jolie: 'I wanted to be Bond

Angelina Jolie has revealed that she wanted to be a 'James Bond' character.

The actress was tipped to star as Vesper Lynd in 2006 series reboot Casino Royale, but the role eventually went to Eva Green.

Jolie confirmed to The Vancouver Sun that she had turned down the part of a Bond girl, claiming that she told casting agents: "No, thank you, but I'd like to be Bond."

Regarding her leading role in new thriller Salt, Jolie added that the producers rang her up and said: "Maybe we've found your Bond."

Discussing the action film, Jolie said that she enjoys performing in more heavy work "but I also love entertaining and the simple pleasure of that, so I don't start to take everything too seriously".

The film's director Phillip Noyce has suggested that the movie could spark a new franchise, predicting that Jolie will return for a sequel "within a couple of years".

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Urban confirms 'Judge Dredd' casting

Karl Urban has confirmed reports that he has been cast as Judge Dredd.

The Star Trek actor will portray the popular comic book character in Pete Travis's upcoming movie adaptation.

Urban made the announcement during an appearance on the New Zealand movie show Reel Late With Kate. "Yes, it's true, I am the law," he said, later adding that he is "thrilled to bits" with the role.

Written by 28 Days Later scribe Alex Garland, the film is said to be a closer adaptation of the original comics than Sylvester Stallone's 1995 outing.

Judge Dredd is scheduled to begin filming in the autumn

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Del Toro wants Jackson to direct 'Hobbit'

Guillermo del Toro has admitted that he wants to see Peter Jackson direct The Hobbit.

Speaking to MTV, the filmmaker, who left the movie earlier this summer, said that Jackson is the "logical person to take over" the project.

"Me, like any other geek, I really want to see Peter do the movie," Del Toro explained.

The filmmaker also commented that leaving the film was difficult.

"It's a heartbreak for me that I cannot own that work. It is almost like having a partial adoption of children, but you know, it really came to the point where we could not keep postponing [other film and book projects], contractually things went away," he continued.

He added: "A lot of the stuff started to conflict in very bad ways."

Del Toro is developing and producing the upcoming Disney 3D movie The Haunted Mansion

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Daniel Craig lands 'Dragon Tattoo' role

Daniel Craig has reportedly closed a deal to star in the US version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Craig will play journalist Mikael Blomkvist in the picture.

The deal also locks down the actor for two sequels based on Stieg Larsson's novels The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest, reports Deadline.

Craig will begin filming the movie in Sweden after he wraps work on Cowboys and Aliens.

Director David Fincher and producer Scott Rudin are reportedly still in the process of casting the role of Lisbeth Salander. Actresses including Ellen Page, Mia Wasikowska, Emily Browning, Sara Snook, Rooney Mara and Sophie Lowe are in the running for the part.

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Darren Aronofsky's 'RoboCop' cancelled

The remake of the 1987 sci-fi RoboCop has been cancelled.

The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky was due to make the film.

The project was put on hold earlier this year due to financial problems at studio MGM.

According to Moviehole, the movie has now been scrapped altogether.

An insider told the website: "[RoboCop is] gone. Kaput. Cancelled. It was one of the first casualties. [Aronofsky] has lost interest anyway, I believe. [I] think we're all just going to have to be happy with the three RoboCop movies that are out there."

MGM was put up for sale in 2009 after falling into debt. The production of a number of films, including the next Bond instalment and The Hobbit, have been disrupted as a result.

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Portman denies 'Dragon Tattoo' rumours

Natalie Portman has dismissed rumours that she is in the running for the lead role of the upcoming American remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

The actress was first named as a potential star of the David Fincher-directed film earlier this year alongside Kristen Stewart, Carey Mulligan and Anne Hathaway.

However, she insisted that there is no truth to the reports.

"I really like the books but I have not been approached at all so any of that is pure rumour," she told Moviehole.

It was recently revealed that Portman's new film Black Swan will open the Venice Film Festival later this year.

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Rihanna to make movie debut in 'Battleship'

Rihanna will make her movie debut in nautical blockbuster Battleship, according to Variety.

The popstar has been cast opposite Taylor Kitsch and Alexander Skarsgard in director Peter Berg's (Hancock) big screen spin on the Hasbro board game.

The plot revolves around a fleet of ships that come into contact with an extra-terrestrial force, with Kitsch and Skarsgard playing two naval officer brothers who lead the fight.

Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber, Brian Koppelman and David Levien worked on the script for the film, which Berg will produce alongside Sarah Aubrey.

Universal has scheduled Battleship for release on May 25, 2012.

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Zac Efron to play 'Lucky One' marine

Zac Efron will star as a marine in the latest Nicholas Sparks adaptation The Lucky One, reports Variety.

The movie centres on a young man who survives three tours of Iraq and counts his good fortune down to a photograph of an unknown woman he carries around with him. When he returns home from duty to North Carolina he attempts to track down the mystery woman.

Oscar-nominated Shine director Scott Hicks is attached to helm the movie based on a script by Will Fetters.

Previous Sparks novels to make it to the big screen include The Notebook and this year's releases Dear John and The Last Song.

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