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American Reunion' gets release date

Universal Pictures has confirmed a release date for the fourth movie in the American Pie series.

According to Deadline, the comedy sequel - titled American Reunion - will be released on April 6, 2012.

The fourth big-screen instalment will see the original cast members organising a ten-year reunion via Facebook. The movie will show how the characters' lives have changed since 2003's American Wedding.

Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Tara Reid, Chris Klein and Alyson Hannigan are among the cast members confirmed to return.

The American Pie series has grossed more than $750 million at the worldwide box office, and spawned several direct-to-DVD movies with Eugene Levy.

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I cant wait for this to be released next year.

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Jennifer Lopez & Jeremy Renner Link Up for 'Ice Age 4

Wanda Sykes, Keke Palmer, Drake and Aziz Ansari also cast in the Fox film, with Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, Denis Leary and John Leguizamo returning.
Jeremy Renner, Wanda Sykes, Keke Palmer and Jennifer Lopez are joining the voice cast of 20th Century Fox’s Ice Age: Continental Drift, along with Aziz Ansari and hip hop star Drake.

Returning are Ice Age franchise stars Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Seann William Scott and Josh Peck.

The cast was revealed Tuesday during a meeting on the Fox lot with potential promotional partners, licensees and retail partners. The presentation was led by Fox Filmed Entertainment co-chair Tom Rothman and Fox Animation Studios president Vanessa Morrison. Romano and Queen Latifah took participants through the story Continental Drift.

The first three Ice Age films have grossed nearly $2 billion at the worldwide box office, putting Fox and partner Blue Sky Studios squarely in the animation game.

Fox and Blue Sky’s winning streak is continuing with 3D toon Rio, which has grossed nearly $300 million in less than three weeks.

Ice Age is becoming a year-round brand for Fox. A Christmas television special is being planned, along with a mobile game and online game.
In Continental Drift — which hits theaters on July 13, 2012 — Renner will portray Gutt, a self-styled master of the high seas. Lopez will play Shira, a sabre toothed who melts the heart of Diego, also a sabre toothed tiger.

Leary has recommitted to voice the role of Diego, while Romano returns as Manny and Queen Latifah as Ellie.

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'Fast' movies to become "heist action

The Fast series will move away from street racing and focus more on heists in future instalments of the franchise.

Universal Studios chairman Adam Fogelson also called Fast Five (aka Fast & Furious 5) a "transitional movie".

Fogelson told Deadline: "We've heard so many people say, 'I've never seen [a Fast film], and I've never wanted to see one'.

"So if these movies were still about street racing, there was probably a ceiling on how many people would buy tickets. We wanted to see if we could raise it out of about racing and make car driving ability just a part of the movie, like those great chases in The French Connection, The Bourne Identity [and] The Italian Job."

In addition, Fogelson revealed that Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, who plays an elite DSS agent tasked with tracking down Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) in Fast Five, wants to be involved in the already-announced sequel.

As for how the series will move forward, Fogelson teased: "We've absolutely left perfect room for where we want to go with this franchise.

"I don't want to give away too much, but there are a lot of surprises at the end of Fast Five involving one of the biggest characters of the previous movies which will set up the franchise now as a series of heist action films."

Fast Five opens in the US on April 29 and is already out in the UK

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I'm torn between this being a good or bad idea, I have seen fast five and loved it

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Arnold Schwarzenegger back for 'Terminator'

Arnold Schwarzenegger will return to his iconic role as the Terminator, it has been reported.

According to Deadline, the actor has signed up for what will become the fifth film in the franchise, which was created by Avatar director James Cameron.

It is alleged that Sony and Lionsgate, Universal and CBS Films are considering a Schwarzenegger-centric deal worth $25 million upfront, excluding personnel fees.

It was reported in December that Universal was first in line to revive the series of films, which began in 1984.

It is further reported that Fast and Furious helmer Justin Lin is on board to direct the project.

His current film Fast Five opened in the UK last week.

Cameron said last year that he was pleased that Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines and Terminator Salvation did not outperform his two earlier films in the box office.

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Great news because the last Terminator movie sucked.

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G.I. Joe 2' gets title and start date

The upcoming sequel to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra has reportedly been given an official title, as well as a start date for production on the film.

According to NOLA, the Louisiana office of film and video disclosed that production on the sequel will begin in New Orleans this September and run through to November.

The statement was later retracted along with a statement that no official decision has been made regarding the film's shooting location; however, the report did confirm that the proposed sequel is currently titled G.I. Joe 2: Cobra Strikes.

In February it was confirmed that Justin Bieber: Never Say Never director Jon Chu would helm the sequel, which sees Channing Tatum reprise his role as lead character Duke.

Last weekend Ray Park also confirmed that he will be reprising his role as ninja Snake Eyes for the film, while Lee Byung-hun has previously admitted he will be involved once again as the villain Storm Shadow.

G.I. Joe 2: Cobra Strikes is currently scheduled for release on August 10, 2012.

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Gary Busey joins cast of 'Piranha 3DD

Former Celebrity Rehab star Gary Busey has officially joined the cast of horror sequel Piranha 3DD.

Coming Soon has confirmed that Busey will join the likes of Danielle Panabaker, Matt Bush, Chris Zylka, and David Koechner for the comedy horror film.

Although little is known about the movie's characters at the moment, it is believed that the film will see the flesh-eating fish attack the many visitors of a summer water park.

Dimension Films confirmed that work on a sequel to last year's Piranha 3D had been commissioned soon after the film's successful box office release.

Busey most recently appeared as a contestant on NBC's business reality show The Celebrity Apprentice.

Piranha 3DD is due out in cinemas on November 23.

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Superman' casts Antje Traue as villainess

German actress Antje Traue has officially been cast as a supervillain in Zack Snyder's upcoming Superman reboot.

Variety confirms that Traue will play a female villain called Faora, an ally of the film's main enemy General Zod, who will be portrayed by Michael Shannon.

Faora was believed to be the inspiration for the female villain Ursa, who appeared in both the 1978 film Superman and its 1980 sequel Superman II and was portrayed by actress Sarah Douglas.

Up until now, Traue has been best known for starring opposite Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster in the 2009 sci-fi Pandorum, but also recently finished filming the Renny Harlin-directed war film 5 Days of August.

The actress now joins an extensive cast list for Snyder's Superman reboot, including Henry Cavill as Superman, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, and Diane Lane and Kevin Costner as Ma and Pa Kent respectively.

Production on Superman: Man of Steel is expected to start this summer for release in December 2012.

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Jane Lynch to star in 'Three Stooges

Jane Lynch is to play the head nun of an orphanage in the Farrelly brothers' The Three Stooges.

The Glee star has signed up to the cast, which includes Will Sasso, Sean Hayes and Chris Diamantopoulos, Deadline reports.

Her character will reportedly try to get the three brothers, Moe, Larry and Curly, who are first shown as children, thrown out of the orphanage.

Lynch is the latest addition to a project which has been in the works since 2007.

Johnny Knoxville, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro have all been in the running to play a brother in the comedy.

The actress will next be seen in sci-fi comedy Paul, starring with Nick Frost and Simon Pegg.

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Armie Hammer to play Lone Ranger?

Armie Hammer is in talks to play the title role in Jerry Bruckheimer's film adaptation of The Lone Ranger, it has been reported.

The actor would be starring opposite Johnny Depp, who is already confirmed to play the ranger's sidekick Tonto.

Variety reports that Disney and Bruckheimer are hoping to get production started in time for a release date in 2012, despite Depp's busy schedule.

Hammer, who was in the Oscar-winning The Social Network, recently signed up to play the Prince in the forthcoming Snow White.

He recently lost out on the lead for the reboot of Superman to Stardust actor Henry Cavill.

Depp has previously promised that the Lone Ranger movie will be "really funny".

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Dark Knight Rises' shooting in India

Segments of The Dark Knight Rises will be filmed on location in India, it has been revealed.

According to Indian news outlet the Daily Bhaskar, Christopher Nolan will shoot scenes from his third Batman offering in the city of Jodhpur.

Jodhpur lies within the state of Rajasthan and is known for its palaces, temples and surrounding desert. It is also renowned for its landscape of bright blue houses and is a popular tourist destination.

It was previously reported that other scenes from the movie will be filmed in Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, New York and parts of the UK.

It has been speculated that the Jodhpur footage will feature the film's antagonists The League of Shadows, given their affiliation to Asia. Earlier this month, Josh Pence was cast as a young version of the group's leader Ra's al Ghul.

The Dark Knight Rises enters production in May.

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Jeff Bridges to join 'R.I.P.D.'?

Jeff Bridges is in talks to star in forthcoming supernatural action comedy R.I.P.D.

According to Deadline, the Oscar winner could star alongside Ryan Reynolds in the Universal film project.

Zach Galifianakis was previously attached to the second lead role in the movie, but the comedian has since dropped out of the feature.

R.I.P.D. is based on a Dark Horse comic book of the same name written by Peter M. Lenkov.

R.I.P.D. stands for Rest In Peace Department, and the comic centres on a police force full of ghosts who battle unhinged spirits.

Reynolds was previously cast in the lead role of Nick Cruz, a dead police officer who joins the R.I.P.D. Bridges is circling the role of Cruz's Old West-style gunslinging partner.

Bridges, who won an Oscar playing a musician in the 2009 drama Crazy Heart, will release a country music album this summer on Blue Note Records.

The actor will also join Julianne Moore in The Seventh Son, the first movie adaptation of the children's fantasy book series The Spook's Apprentice.

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Terminator 5' to be a reboot?

Terminator 5 will reportedly reboot the Terminator franchise.

Universal announced its plans to revive the Terminator series in February, and it was recently reported that former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger would be returning to the franchise.

However, according to Latino Review, the tentatively-titled Terminator 2012 is to feature the entire original cast.

The original Terminator was released in 1984. It was helmed by Avatar director James Cameron and featured Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn in addition to Schwarzenegger. Terminator 2 followed in 1991. It also starred Hamilton and Schwarzenegger, as well as Edward Furlong. Two more sequels were made in the 2000s, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Terminator Salvation.

Terminator 2012 will allegedly negate the events of the latter two sequels. The film reportedly involves time travel to the present day and includes an older Sarah Connor - played by Hamilton in the first two movies - who is alive in the year 2012.

Terminator 2012 is scheduled for 2014.

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Captain America gets new 'Avengers' costume

Chris Evans has confirmed that he will wear a new Captain America costume in The Avengers.

Evans spoke to MTV about the new costume, stating that he was afraid that he would not get used to it.

"It's really cool. I was worried because I started to get really attached to the old one. I got to really start digging it. It's not that easy to move in, but I started really liking it," Evans said.

Captain America: The First Avenger is set in the '40s, though Evans recently revealed that the superhero would be brought into the 21st century world in this movie and not The Avengers. The costume update in The Avengers is reportedly a result of the movement to the future.

Production on The Avengers started this week.

Captain America: The First Avenger opens in theatres July 22.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger 'picks next movie role

Arnold Schwarzenegger has reportedly picked his next movie role.

According to New York Magazine, the former California governor will star in the drama Cry Macho.

Cry Macho tells the story of a horse trainer recently fired by his boss. Following his dismissal, the trainer agrees to kidnap the boss's son from his Mexican ex-wife in order to earn some desperately needed money.

The film will be helmed by Lincoln Lawyer director Brad Furman and produced by Al Ruddy, who has produced a number of award-winning movies such as Million Dollar Baby and The Godfather.

Schwarzenegger was attached to star in the film over a decade ago, but the project was shelved after the actor decided to run for governor.

Schwarzenegger recently signed on for a Terminator sequel as well.

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Jeremy Renner to play Steve McQueen?

Jeremy Renner has established his own production company.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Renner has set up his own production firm called The Combine. The company's first project will be a biopic on actor Steve McQueen, with Renner portraying the Magnificent Seven star.

Renner has received two Oscar nominations in the past two years for The Hurt Locker and The Town respectively. He was recently confirmed for the lead in the Bourne franchise's fourth instalment. Elsewhere, Renner will voice a character in the upcoming Ice Age sequel as well.

Writer-director James Gray has been hired to write the McQueen screenplay, which is expected to be based on two biographies on the legendary actor - Portrait of an American Rebel and The Life and Legend of a Hollywood Icon.

McQueen is an award-winning actor for his role in the film The Sand Pebbles. He also starred in The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair and The Towering Inferno. McQueen's grandson Steven R. McQueen currently stars on The Vampire Diaries as Jeremy Gilbert.

Renner is presently shooting Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters in Berlin.

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Will Ferrell confirms 'Anchorman 2' issues

Will Ferrell has said that it is unlikely that a sequel will ever be made to his successful 2004 comedy Anchorman.

Paramount Pictures passed on a potential follow-up to the film last year, despite Anchorman taking around $90 million worldwide on a budget of only $26 million.

"Anchorman 2, you'd have to really assert some kind of email hate campaign to Paramount Pictures because they've told us, quote unquote, 'We've run the numbers and it's not a good fit'," Ferrell said recently, according to Cinema Blend.

"Everyone we tell the idea [to] loves it, except for the studio that owns the rights," he added, regarding his plans for the sequel. "Ball's in their courts, but they're being idiots."

The film was responsible for helping to launch Ferrell's career, and also brought attention to his co-stars Paul Rudd and Steve Carell.

Despite the lack of progress on Anchorman 2, Ferrell still has a number of projects underway, including the political comedy Southern Rivals opposite The Hangover star Zach Galifianakis.

Ferrell's latest film, the indie drama Everything Must Go, launches in US cinemas on May 13.

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The Avengers' halted over script leaks

Production on the Marvel Studios all-star film The Avengers has allegedly been halted less than a week after commencing.

According to Film Fan Review, filming has completely shut down due to the reported leaking of Samuel L Jackson's script.

Earlier this week, it was reported that an anonymous source had offered a 129-page shooting draft of the film's screenplay to the website Obsessed With Film.

A source close to production on the project now claims that Marvel Studios has called for a rewrite of the compromised scenes.

The film's ensemble cast of The Avengers includes the likes of Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner, as well as Jackson.

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Peter Jackson confirms 'Hobbit' recasting

Peter Jackson has confirmed that Dean O'Gorman will replace Rob Kazinsky in his forthcoming adaptation of The Hobbit.

The Oscar-winning director announced via Facebook that the coveted role of Fili had been awarded to O'Gorman, a relative unknown recently seen in comedy drama series The Almighty Johnsons, following Kazinsky's departure earlier this month.

The ex-Eastenders actor cited a "health issue" as the reason behind his exit from the J.R.R. Tolkien epic, which had already started production in New Zealand.

Further elaborating on the casting news, Jackson stated in his online message: "Dean's a terrific Kiwi actor, who I am thrilled to be working with. He's recently been in an excellent TV series down here called The Almighty Johnsons, and I should let fans of that show know that our shooting schedule allows Dean to continue with a second series next year. Dean will be joining us next week."

He also revealed that Pushing Daisies actor Lee Pace had been cast as Elven King Thranduil, adding: "Casting these Tolkien stories is very difficult, especially the Elven characters, and Lee has always been our first choice for Thranduil.

"He's going to be great. We loved his performance in a movie called The Fall a few years ago, and have been hoping to work with him since. When we were first discussing who would be right for Thranduil, Lee came into mind almost immediately."

Part One of The Hobbit is due to hit cinemas in December 2012.

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Fast Five Destroying the Box Office Worldwide with $83 Million in the opening weekend in American and a grand total of $165 Million Worldwide in just 10 days. I went to see this movie and it was awesome.

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Jaden Smith 'earned $3m from Karate Kid

Jaden Smith was reportedly paid over $3m at the age of 10 for his role in The Karate Kid.

The son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith starred alongside Jackie Chan in the 2010 remake of the 1984 classic and received a seven-figure sum for his efforts, states TMZ.

The website claims to have obtained Jaden's contract for the film drawn up in June 2009, which details an upfront fee totalling $1 million and paid in two instalments.

He is also believed to have taken home a $2m bonus after The Karate Kid passed the $150m mark at the worldwide box office. The action flick eventually grossed a total exceeding $350m.

Jaden, who is now 12, recently featured on Justin Bieber's single 'Never Say Never' and appeared in the 17-year-old's documentary of the same name.

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