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Johnny Depp signs up for 'The Thin Man

Johnny Depp and Rob Marshall are working together once again to remake the murder mystery movie The Thin Man.

According to Screen Rant, Warner Bros. issued a press release announcing that the Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides star and director had both officially signed on to the film.

Hailed as one of the greatest detective movies ever, The Thin Man starred William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles. The film was based on a novel by Dashiell Hammett of the same name and was followed by five sequels.

The Alice in Wonderland star revealed plans to remake the 1930s thriller last October. In March, Twin Peaks writer Jerry Stahl commited to penning the film's script.

Marshall has previously directed the musicals Nine and Chicago.

Depp recently revealed that he was not sure he would return to make a fifth Pirates movie. The actor suffered an injury on the set of the franchise's latest film, but was forced to work through the pain to meet the movie's hectic shooting schedule.

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Jerry Bruckheimer: 'Ranger won't be star'

Jerry Bruckheimer has revealed that the actor who will play the Lone Ranger in the forthcoming film about the masked hero will not be an existing box office star.

The producer told Los Angeles Times that he will be casting someone less established than Johnny Depp, who will play sidekick Tonto.

He said: "You want somebody who can do the humour and somebody who's attractive and charismatic. But I think it will be somebody who's not that well known. That's my guess."

Bruckheimer added that the film will succeed against expectations, like Pirates of the Caribbean, and that it is "time" to bring the Western back.

Armie Hammer, who played the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network, is currently favourite to play the lead in the Disney reboot of the franchise which began in the 1930s with a comic serial.

The new film will be a humourous take on the classic picaresque novel Don Quixote but will also do justice to the maligned Native American character Toto, according to Depp.

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Kate Walsh latest to join 'Wallflower

Private Practice star Kate Walsh has signed on to join Summit Entertainment's upcoming adaptation of the popular teen novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Walsh has been cast as the mother of protagonist Charlie, the so-called 'wallflower' who will be played by Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lighting Thief star Logan Lerman.

Walsh joins a growing cast list which also includes Harry Potter actress Emma Watson, The Vampire Diaries star Nina Nobrev, and Role Models actor Paul Rudd.

The book's author Stephen Chbosky will direct the adaptation from his own screenplay.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is due to begin production in Pittsburgh later this month.

Walsh recently confessed that she feels "like a loser" for not having children.

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Vin Diesel: 'Fast & Furious 5 deserves Oscar

Vin Diesel has said that he sees no reason why his new film Fast & Furious 5 would not be a contender at next year's Academy Awards.

Diesel reunited with original Fast and the Furious stars Paul Walker and Jordana Brewster for the fifth entry in the franchise, and claimed that he feels the film is worthy of some recognition.

"I wouldn't be surprised if there is some Oscar talk around this," Diesel told the Los Angeles Times. "I don't know, maybe I'm just biting off what some guy from Channel 7 thought."

Diesel added that he believes films like Fast & Furious 5 are often discriminated against by critics and award ceremonies because they appeal to a different type of audience.

"But sooner or later people are gonna say, 'Wait a minute, just because they are for the working class doesn't mean they're not great'," Diesel added.

The Justin Lin-directed film broke Universal's box office records when it opened two weekends ago, taking $83.6 million (£51.1m) domestically in its first weekend.

The director recently confirmed that a sixth Fast and the Furious movie is already in the works

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I have thought that way about these type of films never getting awards for some time now.

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Woody Harrelson grabs 'Hunger Games' role

Woody Harrelson has signed on to star in the upcoming adaptation of The Hunger Games.

The actor, who beat out previously rumoured contender John C Reilly, will take on the role of Haymitch Abernathy in the dystopian drama based on Suzanne Collins's trilogy of the same name, reveals The Hollywood Reporter.

Haymitch, a drunk, is the only winner of the Hunger Games from District 12 and serves as a mentor to current tributes nearly 20 years after his victory.

Dakota Hood and Jeremy Marinas will also join the project as District 10's tributes.

The ensemble cast already includes Jennifer Lawrence in the lead role of Katniss Everdeen, while Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson will play Gale Hawthorne and Peeta Melark respectively.

Elizabeth Banks, Stanley Tucci and Paula Malcomson will also star in the picture.

The Hunger Games is currently scheduled for a March 22, 2012 release.

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Rachel Weisz to join 'Bourne Legacy'?

Rachel Weisz has opened talks to join the cast of The Bourne Legacy.

The actress would play a covert operative from the same brainwashing programme as Bourne in the fourth film in the thriller franchise, according to Deadline.

She would be starring opposite Jeremy Renner, who will portray a member of a brainwashing service more lethal than Bourne's initiation in Treadstone.

Weisz is further in negotiations to play the evil witch in Sam Raimi's Oz, the Good and Powerful, which is also scheduled to start shooting in the autumn.

She was last seen in Peter Jackson's adaptation of the book The Lovely Bones.

Weisz was reported to have signed up to the psychosexual drama 360 last year

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Kiefer Sutherland for 'Sleight of Hand

Kiefer Sutherland has joined the cast of the heist thriller Sleight of Hand.

The film revolves around a robbery undertaken by a gang of minor crooks who accidentally get hold of a priceless coin that belongs to a dangerous French gang leader, Variety reports.

Gerard Depardieu, Eric Carpenter, Johnny Hallyday Thomas Jane, Jon Lovitz and Til Schweiger are already signed up, with the film to be directed by Brad Mirman.

Mirman previously directed Sutherland in the crime drama series The Confession.

The actor said this week that a feature film adaptation of 24 will be released next year, though he and director Ron Howard have not found the "perfect script".

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Aaron Eckhart, Sean Bean in 'Peter Pan' update

Aaron Eckhart has signed up to a contemporary update of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan.

Pan will be a dark action thriller, with the Battle: Los Angeles star taking on the role of troubled detective Hook, according to Screen Daily.

The title role will be re-envisioned as a childish kidnapper, with AnnaSophia Robb playing former victim and assistant to Hook, Wendy.

Sean Bean has also joined the cast playing a chief detective who is the only one to believe in Hook's mission to find Pan.

Helmer Ben Hibon will be making his feature film debut, after having directed the animated Tale of The Three Brothers sequence in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.

His previous work includes the short Codehunters, an animated series inspired by the PlayStation 3 game Heavenly Sword and the controversial Sucker Punch.

Eckhart will next be seen in Neil LaBute's psychological crime thriller The Geography of Hope.

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American Pie' star joins 'Reunion' instalment

The final main cast member of the original American Pie has agreed terms to join the franchise's latest entry American Reunion.

The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Thomas Ian Nicholas has finalised a deal to reprise his role as Kevin Myers in the upcoming Universal sequel.

The fourth theatrical American Pie release will follow the original characters as they organise a ten-year reunion on Facebook and see how each of their lives have changed since Michelle and Jim's marriage in the last film, American Wedding.

Nicholas joins an extensive list of confirmed cast members including Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Seann William Scott, Tara Reid, Mena Suvari, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Eugene Levy and Chris Klein

American Pie supporting actress Shannon Elizabeth recently suggested that she would only return for the sequel if the script was right.

American Reunion is scheduled to hit cinemas on April 6, 2012

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The gang is now all back together, awesome

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Rachel Weisz may join Johnny Depp's 'Thin Man'

Rachel Weisz is believed to be Warner Bros' first choice to star opposite Johnny Depp in their upcoming remake of The Thin Man.

According to Cinema Blend, while talks with the actress have yet to officially begin, Weisz is at the top of the studio's wishlist to play female detective Nora Charles.

The 1934 original, based on Dashiell Hammett's noir detective novel, starred William Powell and Myrna Loy as the crime-solving married couple.

Earlier this week, it was confirmed that Depp had signed on to star as Nick Charles, while Chicago director Rob Marshall will helm the project.

Weisz is currently also in talks to star opposite Jeremy Renner in The Bourne Legacy, and is negotiating for a main role in Sam Raimi's Oz, The Great and Powerful.

Warner Bros are waiting for Depp's hectic schedule to calm down before moving forward on The Thin Man.

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Christopher Walken joins 'Seven Psychopaths

Christopher Walken has signed to star in black comedy Seven Psychopaths.

The actor will join Mickey Rourke and Colin Farrell in the film, Variety reports.

Farrell will play a blocked screenwriter who gets tangled up in his friends' schemes to kidnap dogs. The group run into trouble when they are implicated in the disappearance of a gangster's dog.

Walken and Rockwell will portray the hapless schemers, while Rourke will take on the role of the local crime lord.

In Bruges director Martin McDonagh will helm the movie from his own script, with several members of the production team for the hitman comedy reuniting for the new film.

Walken also recently committed to the indie The Late Quartet, which depicts the 25-year reunion of the squabbling members of a string quartet.

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David Hasselhoff to star in 'Piranha 3DD

David Hasselhoff has signed up to horror sequel Piranha 3DD.

The actor will join Gary Busey, Christopher Lloyd and Matt Bush for the second film, Collider reports.

According to the site, the sequel will see Hasselhoff contending with the piranha at a water park.

The original movie saw a school of prehistoric piranhas ascend from underground after a minor earthquake and terrify swimmers at a popular summer break destination for students.

Hasselhoff recently said that he would like to revive the British TV series Lovejoy, which followed the complicated love life of an antiques dealer.

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Lewis Hamilton: 'I'd love to play James Bond

Lewis Hamilton has revealed that he would love to be "the first black James Bond".

The Formula One star, who is in a relationship with Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger, said that he would consider acting when his racing career is over.

He explained to The Sun: "I could do movies after I finish racing I suppose. I'd love to be the first black James Bond."

Scherzinger has also expressed her interest in the films, previously admitting that she would love to be a Bond girl.

Hamilton, who presented the award for 'Best Animation' at the National Movie Awards, has a cameo in the new Pixar movie Cars 2.

Last month, it was announced that Sony Pictures has reached an agreement to co-finance and distribute the 23rd and 24th James Bond movies, having officially emerged from bankruptcy at the end of 2010.

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Alex Pettyfer in Channing Tatum stripper biopic

Alex Pettyfer is to play the lead role in Steven Soderbergh's biopic of the stripper-turned-actor Channing Tatum.

Magic Mike follows the GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra star's entry into the stripping world at the age of 19, Deadline reports.

Tatum made his acting debut at the age of 23 in the series CSI: Miami. The actor pitched the idea to Soderbergh himself and will take on the part of the dance teacher and mentor "Magic Mike".

Soderbergh has compared the film to Saturday Night Fever.

Pettyfer, 21, recently described Los Angeles as a "s**thole" and an "insidious pool".

He was last seen in Beastly, the modern-day take on the Beauty and the Beast fairytale.

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Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton in wedding film

Robert De Niro has signed up to a new comedy penned by The Bucket List writer Justin Zackham.

The actor will co-star with Diane Keaton in Gently Down the Stream as one half of a long-divorced couple forced to pretend they are still together for their adopted son on his wedding day, Variety reports.

Zackham said: "I'm excited to be able to continue what we started with on Bucket List – iconic actors in a funny, adult, character-driven story, albeit with a little more sex and bad behaviour on everyone's part."

De Niro recently committed to his ninth collaboration with Martin Scorcese, an adaptation of the Charles Brandt novel I Heard You Paint Houses.

Zackham has also produced a script about the Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts's rise to fame, which is to be directed by David Frankel.

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Rob Lowe signs on for 'Knife Fight'

Rob Lowe has joined the cast of the political drama Knight Fight.

The West Wing star will play a maverick political crisis specialist working on an electoral campaign, Deadline reports.

Director Bill Guttentag is planning to release the film for October 2012, during the campaigns for the next US presidential election.

Lowe has form playing political figures, following his role as a presidential aide and a California senator in The West Wing and Brothers and Sisters respectively.

He was reportedly approached to take over Charlie Sheen's role in Two and a Half Men in March.

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Will Ferrell 'doesn't get Anchorman 2 delay

Will Ferrell has confessed that he is unsure why Anchorman 2 has not been greenlit by Paramount Studios.

The sequel has gone through several rounds of stalled negotiations, leading Ferrell to say that while it could still happen, fans should not get their hopes up as it is unlikely that the film will get made.

In an interview with PopEater, the actor and star of the 2004 comedy expressed his frustration at the lack of progress made on the follow-up as there has been considerable interest from the public.

"Yeah, I don't understand how [Paramount] conduct their business. It's funny I think they... actually I don't know what they think," he said. "Once again, they don't comment either way but it's not like it's coming from us unsolicited... We try to explain there's so much interest in a sequel, we're not making this up!"

Ferrell went on to reveal that he may reteam with John C. Reilly for a follow-up to his Sony Pictures comedy Step Brothers in the near future.

"We've had a wonderful working relationship with [Sony]. We might do it. We're talking about trying to potentially do it," he said.

"We're just kind of two kindred souls. We were probably brothers in a past life. We just kind of click with our comedic sensibility. It really comes down to the basic thing of thinking the same thing is funny and we totally do."

Ferrell was recently announced as the recipient of the 2011 Mark Twain Prize for American Comedy.

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Tim Burton's 'Dark Shadows' gets release date

Warner Bros has announced the official release date for Tim Burton's next film.

Dark Shadows, starring Burton's wife Helena Bonham Carter and regular collaborator Johnny Depp, will launch in May next year.

Adapted from the gothic soap opera of the same name, which aired on ABC during the '60s, the film will follow the lives of a family who move into a haunted house.

Depp will play the film's lead character, a vampire called Barnabas Collins, while Carter will star as alcoholic doctor Julia Hoffman.

Other names confirmed for the film include Kick-Ass star Chloe Moretz, Stardust actress Michelle Pfeiffer and former Bond girl Eva Green.

The film's music will once again be handled by Burton favourite Danny Elfman.

Dark Shadows will hit cinemas on May 11, 2012.

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McConaughey, Maguire, Efron for 'Paperboy

Matthew McConaughey and Tobey Maguire are to star in a new sexual thriller from Precious director Lee Daniels.

The Paperboy has been adapted from Peter Dexter's 1995 novel and will also star Modern Family actress Sofia Vergara and High School Musical actor Zac Efron.

The book follows a reporter for the Miami Times who returns to his hometown in Florida to cover the imprisonment of a death row inmate.

"This is a good film for us," executive producer Avi Lerner said following the announcement. "A project that has Pedro Almodovar attached, is set in the steam South, directed by Lee Daniels, and with the incredible cast of Matthew, Tobey, Sofia and Zac."

Dexter had been developing an adaptation of the novel with Volver director Pedro Almodovar for the past ten years, before bringing Daniels on board at the beginning of 2011.

Millennium Films are producing the adaptation but have yet to announce a release date

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Jack Black signs up to 'Bailout'

Jack Black has signed up to Michael Winterbottom's forthcoming comedy Bailout.

The feature film will see the actor playing a near-bankrupt man who tries to salvage his finances through drug-dealing after he meets a pair of down-and-outs in a supermarket, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Jess Walter penned the script from her novel The Financial Lives of the Poets.

Black will next be seen in Bernie, taking on the role of a mortician who has to pretend that a woman he kills by accident is still alive.

The actor recently had a pilot about a writer called My Life as an Experiment picked up by US channel NBC.

Brit director Winterbottom's past work has included 24 Hour Party People, The Killer Inside Me and A Mighty Heart.

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