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Danny DeVito: 'We'll try to do Twins sequel in 2013'

Danny DeVito has said that he hopes to get the sequel to Twins filmed in 2013.

Earlier this year, plans emerged for a follow-up to Ivan Reitman's 1988 comedy with Eddie Murphy playing DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger's long-lost sibling.

Asked about the project, DeVito told ES Magazine: "Yes, Triplets. We're going to try to do it next year.

"Arnold and I find out we have another brother, played by Eddie Murphy. I don't know how it's going to manifest but it will be fun."

Quizzed on his co-star Schwarzenegger's stint as governor of California, he added: "It was a stupid mistake. I told him it was a dumb thing to do. It's ludicrous to want to be a politician.

"I'm telling you, kiddo, I give such good advice but my friends don't listen."

Schwarzenegger recently said that he would "love" to make the sequel, adding of Murphy's casting: "That would be hilarious with what we know about someone like him."

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Spider-Man, Avengers team-up possible, says producer Avi Arad

The Avengers movie series could feature Spider-Man at some point in the future, according to Amazing Spider-Man producer Avi Arad.

The studio executive said it would be "great" for both Sony and Disney if the franchises were to merge, adding that it may be "possible" if the right story came along, Crave Online reports.

"Everything is possible," said Arad. "If something like that happens, it's great for Disney, it's great for Sony. If the right story comes in, we are now working on Venom first.

"It's our first out. So our thinking is in the right direction. Avengers to me was an expected success so I never looked at it because Avengers was successful."

It was previously reported that a Venom movie could spin out of The Amazing Spider-Man, with Chronicle helmer Josh Trank rumoured to be attached as director.

However, there have been several reports downplaying the possibility of Spider-Man teaming up with the Avengers for a big-screen crossover.

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Hugh Laurie in talks to join 'RoboCop'

Hugh Laurie is in talks to join the RoboCop remake.

The House actor and musician is believed to be eyeing a key role in MGM's update of the Paul Verhoeven sci-fi movie.

Laurie is in negotiations to portray the CEO of Omni Corp, the company which is responsible for creating RoboCop. According to Variety, the character is described as "cold and sarcastic".

RoboCop will star Joel Kinnaman (The Killing, Safe House) in the title role.

Samuel L Jackson was cast in the movie last week as powerful TV mogul Pat Novak.

Gary Oldman and Abbie Cornish are also attached to the project.

Oldman is tipped to play the scientist who creates RoboCop, while W.E. actress Cornish has been offered the role of RoboCop's wife, who believes that she has been widowed.

Filming on RoboCop is expected to start in Toronto this September, with a release date of August 9, 2013 pencilled in.

The remake will be directed by José Padilha from a screenplay by Gran Torino writer Nick Schenk, James Vanderbilt and Josh Zetumer.

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Bill Paxton joins '2 Guns'

Bill Paxton has joined the cast of 2 Guns.

He will star alongside Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington in the comic book adaptation, reports Variety.

Based on the BOOM! Studios title, the film centres around two undercover agents for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the navy who find themselves investigating each other after stealing money from the mob.

Paxton will play a high-ranking CIA operative who is drawn into the murky world.

He was most recently seen in Haywire and alongside Kevin Costner in the family feud miniseries Hatfields & McCoys.

Blake Masters is writing the script based on Steven Grant and Mat Santolouco's comic, with Contraband's Baltasar Kormakur attached to direct.

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Selena Gomez: 'Fifty Shades of Grey role is not for me

Selena Gomez has insisted that she will not star in a big-screen adaptation of the sexually charged Fifty Shades of Grey.

The actress recently starred in a spoof-version of the novel for Funny or Die, but has admitted to MTV News that the upcoming movie will be too risqué for her.

"I know I'm taking risks [with new roles], but I don't think I could do that," she joked. "That would be a little too much for me. I think someone older should do that part."

Gomez added that she did enjoy reading passages of Fifty Shades of Grey in preparation for her parody sketch.

"I only read the beginning of it, because when they told me about the skit, I didn't know what it was about. So I started to read it, and I was like, 'Oh, this is spicy'. So I thought it was good, it was intriguing," she said.

Vampire Diaries star Ian Somerhalder has openly campaigned to play Christian Grey opposite Angelina Jolie in the upcoming movie.

Fifty Shades of Grey has topped best-seller lists all over the world since its release last year.

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Django Unchained': Jonah Hill joins cast of Quentin Tarantino film

Jonah Hill has reportedly joined the cast of Django Unchained.

The actor previously turned down a role in Quentin Tarantino's latest tale of revenge due to a scheduling conflict, but commented at the time that he was "thrilled" Tarantino wanted him to be in it.

Deadline reports that Hill will not play his previously mooted character Scotty Harmony, who loses Django's (Jamie Foxx) slave wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) to evil plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

The 21 Jump Street actor's new role in the film is currently unconfirmed.

Will Smith recently spoke about coming very close to playing the lead in Django Unchained, having bowed out on account of his own scheduling clash with Men in Black 3. Smith said that the film had "one of the most amazing screenplays [he] had ever, ever seen".

Django Unchained opens in cinemas on December 25 in the US and January 18, 2013 in the UK.

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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley joins Tom Hardy in 'Mad Max: Fury Road

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has been cast in Mad Max: Fury Road.

The Victoria's Secret model will play one of the five wives in the George Miller-directed action film, reports Deadline.

Last month, Huntington-Whiteley was linked to the movie when she was spotted with Miller at Juanita Nielsen Community Centre in Australia.

Huntington-Whiteley won't be the only model featured in the cast. Supermodel Abbey Lee Kershaw was previously cast as one of the beautiful women locked up in cages in the post-apocalyptic world.

Mad Max: Fury Road stars Tom Hardy in the title role, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult and Zoe Kravitz.

The upcoming film is the fourth instalment in the franchise, with the first movie released in 1979.

Huntington-Whiteley made her movie debut in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, replacing Megan Fox as the love interest to Shia LaBeouf's character.

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Colin Farrell cast in new 'Mary Poppins' film

Colin Farrell has reportedly joined the cast of Saving Mr Banks, a film charting the story of PL Travers, who sold Disney the rights to her work Mary Poppins.

The actor will star alongside Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks (who are to play Travers and Walt Disney respectively) for the feature, which is due to start production this autumn.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Farrell will play Travers's father, who was the inspiration for the character of George Banks in her story. The script is said to shift back and forth between 1961 and 1907, covering the writer's childhood in rural Queensland and her later negotiations with Disney executives.

John Lee Hancock has been confirmed as director, with the screenplay having been written by Kelly Marcel.

The film will reportedly explore the tense relationship between Disney and Travers, who was reluctant to sign over her material to the studio head.

She later hated the animated sequences inserted into the Mary Poppins film so much that she refused to sell anyone any of her other creations.

Farrell's latest film, a remake of 1980s action film Total Recall (which originally starred Arnold Schwarzenegger), is released in the US on August 3.

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Josh Hartnett wanted for 'Daredevil'?

Josh Hartnett has been connected to the role of Daredevil.

The rumour surfaced after director David Slade said that he would like to see the Black Hawk Down star in a Marvel Comics film.

"I hope @DAVID_A_SLADE gets back to the Daredevil stuff soon, and I hope, maybe, Josh Hartnett could finally get a Marvel role," wrote one of his followers on Twitter.

"You and me both," the director responded.

Slade previously worked with Hartnett on the adaptation of Steve Niles's 30 Days of Night comic.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse director was announced for the film last year, which will reboot the 2003, Ben Affleck-starring outing.

David James Kelly is currently rewriting the Daredevil script, which is based on Frank Miller's popular 'Born Again' storyline.

No casting choices for the upcoming film have been confirmed.

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Bourne Legacy' Rachel Weisz: "The tone is very realistic

Rachel Weisz has discussed her role in The Bourne Legacy.

Speaking about the fourth Bourne instalment, the actress called her character "a nice, normal, regular person" who is thrown into a life-or-death situation alongside new franchise protagonist Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner).

The tone is very realistic," Weisz told Vogue magazine. "I'm not playing a superhero, I don't have superpowers. I don't even have a gun. That's really what I love about it, that as this type of film goes it's not implausible at all."

She went on to reveal that Matt Damon's Jason Bourne is "in the periphery" of the story, but not centrally involved.

"It's about a new military programme, and I am thrown together with Jeremy Renner's character by circumstance, because, well, we need each other," she explained.

Damon has said that he "expects to return" to the Bourne franchise in the future, while Renner has expressed a desire to collaborate with Damon on the next instalment.

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Wanted' sequel moving forward

Wanted 2 is moving ahead, according to director Timur Bekmambetov.

The Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter helmer said that a script for the project is in development, adding that it will shock audiences.

An unbelievable thing happened three weeks ago," Bekmambetov told The Playlist. "Because we stopped, we didn't know what to do for three or four years.

"Three weeks ago I came up with a great idea and I pitched this idea and everybody fell in love with it. And now I think we're on track. Right now the writer is working on the script, and it will be shocking."

The original Wanted, based on the comic series by Mark Millar and J G Jones, starred James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie. It raked in $341 million at the global box office, on a budget of just $75 million.

Bekmambetov went on to say that the sequel will continue the story of McAvoy's Wesley Gibson.

"It's a continuation of the story, with Wesley Gibson. Other people are dead, you know, we can't bring them back. The story is the same character, same mythology, but it's got a great twist," he added.

Wanted 2 is yet to be assigned a release date

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Amber Heard joins Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman in 'Paranoia

Amber Heard has been cast in Paranoia.

The Rum Diary actress will join Liam Hemsworth, Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman in Robert Luketic's long-gestating tale of corporate espionage, reports Variety.

She will play the female lead in the movie based on Joseph Finder's novel of the same name.

The film will centre around a young office worker (Hemsworth) who throws a lavish retirement party for a colleague with company funds.

Caught by his boss and accused of embezzlement, he is coerced into infiltrating a rival company's top secret project.

Heard has also been in talks to join Robert Rodriguez's pulp action sequel Machete Kills as an assassin.

Elsewhere, she is in line to appear in Albert Hughes's revenge thriller Motor City, which has also cast Gary Oldman.

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Jim Carrey drops out of 'Dumb and Dumber' sequel

Jim Carrey has quit the proposed Dumb and Dumber sequel.

The actor apparently exited the follow-up to the 1994 hit comedy amid clashes with New Line and Warner Bros over their perceived lack of interest in the movie, sources told ET Online.

Carrey officially confirmed his departure from the film in a statement, saying: "I would have thought Dumb and Dumber To was a no-brainer, after all it's implied in the title."

The news comes two months after Dumb and Dumber To co-director Peter Farrelly announced that Carrey and Jeff Daniels would return for a film set in the present day.

Carrey had first expressed an interest in Dumb and Dumber To last summer while promoting Mr. Popper's Penguins.

The original Dumb and Dumber made $279m (£177m) at the international box office upon release in 1994.

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Charlie Sheen cast as US President in Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills

Charlie Sheen has been cast in Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills.

The former Two and a Half Men actor will play the President of the United States in the Grindhouse movie sequel starring Danny Trejo and Michelle Rodriguez.

Robert posted a photo of himself with Sheen on Twitter, writing: "I just cast Charlie Sheen in ?#machetekills? as the President of the United States! Who better? More soon..."

Sheen retweeted the news, with the introduction: "My Fellow Americans!"

Mel Gibson joined the film earlier this year as an eccentric billionaire arms dealer hell-bent on launching a deadly missile.

Jessica Alba, Zoe Saldana and Amber Heard have also signed up for the movie.

Sheen is currently promoting his new FX sitcom Anger Management, loosely based on the 2003 Jack Nicholson film of the same name.

The 48-year-old has claimed that he plans to retire from acting after he finishes Anger Management.

"At some point you just get tired of wearing somebody else's clothes, saying somebody else's words and working in somebody else's space," he said.

Anger Management debuts on Thursday, June 28 at 9pm ET on FX.

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Transformers 4' is not a reboot, says Michael Bay

Michael Bay has insisted that Transformers 4 is "not a reboot".

The director explained that the film will have an entirely new cast and a "new direction", but will still build on the three previous movies.

The fourth outing of the franchise will also have a smaller budget than previous instalments, with about $30 million (£19 million) less to spend than Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

"It's not a reboot," Bay told the Los Angeles Times. "That's maybe the wrong word.

"I don't want to say 'reboot' because then people will think we're doing a Spider-Man and starting from the beginning. We're not.

"We're taking the story that you've seen - the story we've told in three movies already - and we're taking it in a new direction. But we're leaving those three as the history. It all still counts... We're moving on to something different."

Bay also hinted that the film may partially be set in space.

"That feels like the way to go, doesn't it?" he said. "I want to go a little off [the planet] but I don't want to go too sci-fi. I still want to keep it grounded."

The director has already said that the fourth Transformers film will be his last.

The movie is scheduled for release on June 29, 2014.

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Aaron Eckhart to play US president in new White House thriller

Aaron Eckhart has been cast in an upcoming White House thriller.

The Dark Knight Rises actor is set to portray the US President in Olympus Has Fallen, reports Variety.

The movie, however, is listed as White House Taken on IMDB.

Eckhart will join the previously-announced Gerard Butler, with Training Day's Antoine Fuqua serving as director.

The project is about a former Secret Service agent who has to prevent terrorists from attacking the White House.

Eckhart will also be seen in the film adaptation of the graphic novel I, Frankenstein, which he said won't be "dumbed down".

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Susan Sarandon joins animated comedy 'Hell & Back

Susan Sarandon has signed on for a voice role in the upcoming stop-motion comedy Hell & Back.

The R-rated movie will star TJ Miller and Nick Swardson as two slackers who go to Hell to save their best friend.

Sarandon will voice the role of Barb the Angel in the upcoming animated feature, Deadline reports.

Hell & Back is currently in production.

Also voicing roles are American Pie star Jennifer Coolidge, Maria Bamford and Mila Kunis.

Hell & Back is being produced by ShadowMachine, which is behind the Adult Swim shows Robot Chicken and Moral Orel.

It will be directed by former Saturday Night Live writer Tom Gianas and Ross Shuman, a former set construction supervisor on Robot Chicken.

Sarandon also recently joined the upcoming drama The Big Shoe, also starring Jim Sturgess.

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Will Ferrell's 'Flamingo Thief': Craig Gillespie to direct?

Craig Gillespie is reportedly in talks to direct Flamingo Thief.

Red Hour Films are currently in negotiations with the Fright Night helmer, according to Variety.

Will Ferrell's dramatic comedy is based on a Susan Trott novel, in which a man discovers a peculiar way of dealing with his grief over his son's death.

Multimillionaire Tim Forester begins by stealing a flamingo figurine from his niece, but his thievery soon escalates to the point where he loses his business and his wife, and gets several gunshot wounds in return.

Michael LeSieur (You, Me and Dupree) has written the screenplay.

Gillespie is best known as the director of 2007's Lars and the Real Girl.

He was previously attached to the troubled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies film adaptation.

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Samuel L Jackson to star in gospel musical 'Black Nativity'?

Samuel L Jackson has entered talks for Black Nativity.

Angela Bassett and Jennifer Hudson are also in negotiations to star in the gospel musical, reports Variety.

Director Kasi Lemmons has been working on the adaptation of Langston Hughes's 1961 Broadway production, which centres around a black teenager from Baltimore who is sent by his mother to stay with his grandparents in Harlem, having never met them before.

The boy experiences stylised dream sequences recounting the nativity story and learns the true meaning on family and faith.

Jackson will play the grandfather, Reverend Clarence Cobbs, with Bassett as his wife Aretha.

The Pulp Fiction star was last seen in Avengers and is in line to appear in Captain America 2, the RoboCop remake and Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.

Bassett will appear in the forthcoming Olympus Has Fallen.

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The Amazing Spider-Man' to get two sequels

The Amazing Spider-Man will be the first of three films.

A trilogy centring on Andrew Garfield's incarnation of Peter Parker/Spider-Man was confirmed via the film's official Facebook page.

It's finally here!" the message said. "The Amazing Spider-Man is the first instalment in a movie trilogy that will explore how our fave hero's journey was shaped by the disappearance of his parents."

Marc Webb's rebooted take on the arachnid superhero has already broken box office records in the US.

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