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Bradley Cooper's 'Paradise Lost': Camilla Belle favourite to play Eve

Camilla Belle is reportedly the favourite to land the role of Eve in Warner Bros' Paradise Lost.

The 10,000 BC actress is said to be the first choice of the studio and director Alex Proyas, Deadline reports.

Paradise Lost is based on John Milton's poem depicting Adam and Eve's banishment from Heaven. It was first published in 1677 across ten volumes.

Proyas has promised that his adaptation will be "an adventure about the origins of good and evil" and "a family saga about a group of brothers" which stays "as faithful as possible" to the source material.

Bradley Cooper will play Lucifer in the movie, while Benjamin Walker is the Archangel Michael. Casey Affleck recently joined the cast as the Angel Gabriel.

Paradise Lost begins principal photography in Sydney in January 2012 ahead of a planned release in 2013.

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Thor' sequel will visit other worlds, says Marvel president

Thor 2 will see the titular Thunder God visit other worlds, according to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige.

The executive told Entertainment Weekly that Don Payne's script for the follow-up focuses on the character's relationship with his father Odin, and takes place across various realms of the Marvel Universe.

Feige revealed that the story will "take Thor literally to other worlds," and "primarily be the journey of that character, of he and Jane Foster and how the new dynamic with his father is working out, as well as what are the broader stakes for The Nine Worlds."

Monster director Patty Jenkins was confirmed to be in the running for the Thor 2 director's chair earlier this week. Game of Thrones director Brian Kirk is also said to be a contender.

Thor - which stars Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston and Anthony Hopkins - has grossed $447 million (£288m) worldwide since arriving in cinemas in May.

The sequel is scheduled for release on July 26, 2013.

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Michael Fassbender rumoured for 'RoboCop' role

Brazilian director José Padhila has suggested that Michael Fassbender would be perfect for the lead role in his reboot of RoboCop.

While speaking on Brazilian TV channel Globo 1, the Elite Squad director said that he plans on talking to the critically-acclaimed Shame actor once casting gets underway.

"I can't talk yet, it's too early to speak, but there are some actors I like," Padhila revealed, as translated by Bleeding Cool. "I really like [Michael] Fassbender. I'd like to talk to him - I'll take to him.

"There's a possibility, and there's a lot of other great actors that would play RoboCop."

The director recently insisted that now was the right time to remake Paul Verhoeven's 1987 sci-fi original.

Padhila also confirmed that filming on the project will commence in Detroit, Michigan in early 2012.

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Blake Lively linked to 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Gossip Girl star Blake Lively has reportedly been offered the lead role in Craig Gillespie's adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

According to Twitch, the director met with Lively recently, although it is unknown whether she has accepted the part.

Based on Seth Grahame-Smith's reworking of Jane Austen's classic, the film follows Elizabeth Bennet, a young zombie hunter struggling to repel a zombie outbreak.

The Help star Emma Stone was originally linked to the lead role of Bennet, but is believed to have turned the part down.

The director has previously insisted that his adaptation will be completely faithful to Austen's original romance.

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Karl Urban to play Vaako in 'Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking

Karl Urban has signed up to The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking.

The actor will be reprising his role as the leader of the Necromongers in the series' new sequel, according to Bloody Disgusting.

Urban's character Vaako was commanded by Lord Marshal to kill Riddick in the second film. It is unknown whether Vaako will feature in a cameo or a larger role for the latest instalment.

Lead actor Vin Diesel recently told fans that progress for the current film was underway, with the artwork in place. Universal Studios has handed the new movie an 'R' rating like the first film Pitch Black.

Diesel claims to have taken a pay cut as a compromise for the adult certification.

Priest 3D star Urban is to play the titular role in an adaptation of Judge Dredd by 28 Days Later writer Alex Garland.

Urban is also currently attached to JJ Abrams's planned follow-up to his rebooted Star Trek, which begins shooting this year.

Abrams confirmed this month that he will be directing the film, after months of speculation.

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Seth Rogen rules out 'Green Hornet' sequel

Seth Rogen has ruled out a sequel for The Green Hornet for the time being.

The 29-year-old admitted that the cast have no desire for a follow-up, despite the action movie's box office success earlier this year.

"Not any time in the foreseeable future," he told PA. "It's just not something we're interested in right now."

The star then joked: "It's a lot more fun to make cheaper, much dirtier movies."

The Green Hornet, which hit cinemas in January, also starred Cameron Diaz.

Rogen, who played the lead role, also co-wrote the film.

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Russell Brand, Julianne Hough join Diablo Cody's 'Lamb of God'

Russell Brand has signed up to Diablo Cody's directorial debut Lamb of God.

The film centres on a woman who loses her religion after a near-fatal plane crash. She decides to go to Las Vegas to celebrate her new freedom, but finds herself unable to stop believing in God.

Arthur star Brand takes on the part of a bartender who guides her through her crisis of faith, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He will act opposite Rock of Ages co-star Julianne Hough, who takes on the title role.

The two actors were reported to be in the running for the lead roles in August.

Lamb of God marks Cody's first movie as director. Her previous screenplays have included Juno and Jennifer's Body.

Diablo is also reportedly planning an adaptation of the popular teenage novel series Sweet Valley High.

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Michelle Rodriguez, Johann Urb Join Milla Jovovich In ‘Resident Evil 5

Constantin Film and Screen Gems have cast up the fifth installment of the Resident Evil franchise. The film brings back Milla Jovovich and is directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, who wrote the script and produces with Jeremy Bolt, Robert Kulzer, Don Carmody and Samuel Hadida.

Michelle Rodriguez, Johann Urb, Boris Kojoe, Shawn Roberts, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr and Kevin Durand will star in the film. Urb, who was a regular on ABC’s Eastwick and starred in 2012. Here, he plays the leader of the Resistance, who teams with Jovovich’s Alice character as she battles the Umbrella Corporation and the swarm of undead.

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Men in Black III' to feature 'B-movie style retro aliens'

Men in Black III will feature "retro" aliens from the past, according to the film's lead make-up artist.

Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are returning for the third film of the sci-fi franchise, which will see Agent J (Smith) travel back in time to meet a younger version of Jones's Agent K, to be played by Josh Brolin.

Special effects make-up artist Rick Baker revealed that the aliens featured in the film will have a "B-movie" style of the 1950s and 1960s as opposed to modern day versions.

"The thing that's cool is there is a time travel element [to the story]," he told Coming Soon.

"Where I had fun is that we go back to the Men in Black headquarters of the '60s. The first thing I said is that we should have retro aliens, not aliens of 2012. More based on B-movies of the '50s and '60s. So, a lot of the aliens are based on that. Space suits with fishbowl helmets and ray guns."

Jemaine Clement, Emma Thompson, Nicole Scherzinger, Alice Eve and Michael Stuhlbarg will also appear in science fiction comedy.

Men in Black III will also be released in IMAX 3D theatres when it is released on May 25, 2012

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Dead Island' film to be made by Lionsgate

Dead Island is to be made into a feature film through Lionsgate.

Sean Daniel (The Mummy, Tombstone, Dazed and Confused) will lead the film's production through his Sean Daniel Company. He will be joined by Stefan Sonnenfeld, who has worked on post-production for filmmakers including JJ Abrams, Michael Bay and Gore Verbinski.

The film is said to be inspired by Dead Island's dramatic announcement trailer, and will be "an innovation of the zombie genre because of its focus on human emotion, family ties and non-linear storytelling".

"Like the hundreds of journalists and millions of fans who were so passionate and vocal about the Dead Island trailer, we too were awestruck," said Lionsgate's Joe Drake.

"This is exactly the type of property we're looking to adapt at Lionsgate - it's sophisticated, edgy, and a true elevation of a genre that we know and love."

Dead Island released on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC earlier this month, topping sales charts for two weeks in a row.

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Wanted 2' hires screenwriters

Wanted 2 has found a pair of screenwriters.

Derek Haas and Michael Brandt, who penned the original Wanted, have been tapped to write the follow-up to the 2008 action film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Wanted starred James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie as members of a group of super-human assassins.

In May, it was rumoured that Jolie had been dropped from the sequel, with her character being deemed "not crucial" to the follow-up film.

A sequel was first reported to be in the works in June 2008, shortly after the original movie's release.

However, in April of this year, Mark Millar revealed that while a number of screenplays had been put forward, none of them were good enough for a sequel

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Hugh Jackman: 'The Wolverine has more ladies

Hugh Jackman has said that The Wolverine will feature more female characters.

The Real Steel star revealed that he is looking forward to shooting Wolverine's next adventure, saying that he cannot wait to take the character to Japan.

"This time, more than anything, I think we've really nailed down that character," Jackman told Collider. "I think the audience and myself and the writers were like, 'Enough of the [missing] memory... I think we've explored that a lot."

He continued: "Now, it's this great backdrop of Japan, which is going to be fantastic for this character. It's a very rich source material with the comic book. And, there's more ladies in this movie, which is a nice change from the last one. It was very testosterone heavy."

Jackman recently opened up about why the original screenplay for The Wolverine is being rewritten, claiming director James Mangold has ordered a reworking of the script.

The actor is currently on track to begin shooting Les Misérables early next year.

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Twilight' maker Summit buys rights for 'Area 52' movie

Summit Entertainment has acquired the screen rights to Area 52.

The Twilight, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and RED producers will adapt the four-issue Image Comics series into a movie, reports Deadline.

Area 52 is a top-secret storage facility in Antarctica, used as a dumping ground for unwanted alien technology.

Brian Haberlin and Clayton Henry's miniseries follows the adventures of the facility's rag-tag employees, who must band together when an extraterrestrial killing machine is set loose.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian will produce Area 52, and Benderspink's JC Spink will be executive producer.

Benderspink most recently executive produced I Am Number Four and The Hangover Part II.

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Quentin Tarantino casts Dennis Christopher in 'Django Unchained

Dennis Christopher has been cast in Quentin Tarantino's latest movie Django Unchained.

The 55-year-old actor - best known for his role in 1979 film Breaking Away - will play lawyer Leo Moguy opposite Jamie Foxx's slave-turned-bounty hunter and Leonardo DiCaprio's villainous plantation owner Calvin Candie in the southern-style spaghetti western.

Christopher has appeared in one movie during the past six years, according to Variety. However, he has filmed guest spots on television dramas such as Criminal Minds and CSI.

Django Unchained will also star Deadwood's Gerald McRaney, Oscar-winning Inglorious Basterds actor Christoph Waltz and Samuel L Jackson as DiCaprio's right-hand man.

After Foxx confirmed that he would be playing the lead role in Django Unchained, he said: "I think, just to be able to work with Quentin Tarantino and Samuel L Jackson, Leonardo DiCaprio, and to be able to tell a story that needs to be told. If you're a fan of Inglorious Basterds, I mean, you know... It's just amazing. It should be amazing."

Kevin Costner was originally linked to the film back in July, but "scheduling conflicts" caused him to leave the project last week.

Django Unchained is scheduled to open in cinemas on Christmas Day next year.

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Wes Craven: 'Scream 5 is likely

Wes Craven has said that a fifth instalment in the Scream series is on the way.

The director revealed that he believes executive producer Robert Weinstein is keen on making a sequel to Scream 4.

"The odds are that there will be (a Scream 5). It is something that Bob Weinstein wants to do. He tends to do what he wants to do," Craven told MovieWeb.

He continued: "So I am inclined to think that there will be (another sequel). Whether I will be a part of it or not? I don't know. My contract gives me the first look. If they show me something that is really wonderful? Of course I will be a part of it."

In May, Harvey Weinstein said he is expecting a fifth instalment of the Scream franchise in spite of Scream 4's relatively poor domestic box office results.

Craven had previously claimed that he was in no rush to make Scream 5, saying he intends to take a break from films for a while.

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Dark Knight Rises': Former 'Batman' cast member to reprise role?

Cillian Murphy has allegedly been spotted on the set of The Dark Knight Rises.

Comic Book Movie reports that separate eyewitnesses saw the 28 Days Later star during a filming session in Los Angeles.

"Cillian Murphy is returning in TDKR. You can see him at Union Station in Los Angeles, but at least that's where I saw him earlier on my way back home from taking spy photos," an anonymous source posted on the Superhero Hype forums.

"I couldn't take a picture of him because there are a ton of security guards, but he's definitely there. You can take this as 100% legit fact."

Murphy portrayed Jonathan Crane in 2005's Batman Begins, a role his revisited for a cameo in The Dark Knight. The actor also teamed up with director Christopher Nolan for Inception last year.

Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard and Michael Caine will star in The Dark Knight Rises, to be released in theatres on July 20, 2012.

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Spartacus’ Jai Courtney Takes On Tom Cruise In ‘One Shot

EXCLUSIVE: Jai Courtney, who starred in the first season of the Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, has landed a lead in One Shot, Paramount’s Christopher McQuarrie-directed drama based on the Lee Child-penned  Jack Reacher novel series. In One Shot, Reacher investigates what seems like an open and shut case of a sniper who guns down five random victims. Reacher, teamed with a detective (Rosamund Pike) and uncovers a conspiracy. Courtney plays a highly trained sniper who is motivated to stop Reacher. Courtney starred in the first Spartacus season along with the late Andy Whitfield, a fellow Australian who took Courtney under his wing and got him signed by his manager, Sam Maydew, at The Collective. He’s repped by UTA and Australia-based Mark Morrissey.

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Dominic Cooper for revenge movie 'Motor City'

Dominic Cooper is currently in negotiations to star in Albert Hughes's Motor City.

The History Boys star could be playing a recently released convict who decides to go after the man who wrongly landed him in prison, according to Variety.

Motor City was plucked from the Black List of the best unproduced screenplays of last year. The script by Chat St John, which is to be produced by Joel Silver, has no dialogue at all.

Cooper could be joining Captain America star Chris Evans, who has been in negotiations for the lead role in Motor City.

Hughes has previously directed the action thriller Book of Eli and was most recently attached to the stalled Akira.

Cooper and Liv Tyler were recently rumoured to be joining the long-gestating horror The Cure, where he may play a man whose wife is saved by a doctor who turns her into a vampire.

He was previously seen in The Devil's Double, playing Latif Yahia, the man hired to be Uday Hussein's body double.

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David Duchovny replaces Andy Garcia in KGB thriller 'Phantom

David Duchovny has signed up to the independent Cold War thriller Phantom.

The Californication actor is to replace Andy Garcia as the head of a Soviet special forces team who are on secret mission, according to Variety.

Phantom centres on a Russian captain who has to deal with a maverick KGB unit and a ghost while undersea.

He will be joining confirmed stars Natasha McElhone, William Fichtner and Ed Harris, under the direction of Lonely Hearts director Todd Robinson.

Robinson, who wrote Ridley Scott's water thriller White Squall, will be directing from his own script.

Duchovny has just wrapped Goats with Ty Burrell and Vera Farmiga.

The film sees him playing a character called Goat Man, who enters into the life of 15-year old Ellis, who has been sent to a boarding school on the East Coast.

He has also joined the cast of Relative Insanity, a contemporary New York-set update of Chekhov's classic play The Seagull.

The star can currently be seen starring in the fifth season of Californication, where he plays the writer Hank Moody, a man contending with his difficult relations with his ex-wife and daughter.

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Bérénice Marlohe to star in 'Bond 23', says report

French actress Bérénice Marlohe has reportedly been cast as the Bond girl in the as of yet untitled Bond 23.

The young actress is said to have joined the long-awaited sequel to 2008's Quantum of Solace, according to Twitch Film.

It would mark Marlohe's first appearance in an English language film. She has previously starred in the TV series Équipe médicale d'urgence, as well as the TV movie Le pigeon. Marlohe is currently shooting Un bonheur n'arrive jamais seul opposite Sophie Marceau.

Naomie Harris was previously rumoured to be a contender for the role, though she has since said that she is not sure who she will be playing in the film, if indeed she is cast.

Bond 23, which will see Daniel Craig reprise his role as the titular spy, will reportedly film in Delhi, India, as well as in Mumbai and Goa.

Sam Mendes will helm the feature, which is slated to be released on November 9, 2012

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