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Sex And The City stars Evan Handler and David Eigenberg have reportedly joined the list of cast members returning for the movie sequel.

Handler has agreed to reprise the role of Charlotte's lawyer husband Harry, while Eigenberg will return as Miranda's other-half Steve, according to Entertainment Weekly.

The actors will join the film's four main stars - Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristen Davis - along with Chris Noth (Mr Big) when filming begins in September.

Other former stars to have expressed an interest in returning to the successful franchise include John Corbett (Aidan Shaw), Jennifer Hudson (Louise) and Dancing With The Stars contestant Gilles Marini (Dante).

Details of the potential storylines are being kept firmly under wraps, although Parker has admitted that fans can expect the sequel to be a "massive romp".

Sex And The City 2 will be released on May 28, 2010.

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The film Heath Ledger was making when he died last year is set to premiere at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival in France after becoming a last-minute screening.

Film fans and the media are expected to flock to Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus when it opens on the eve of a day of publicity on 22 May.

The film will not be among those competing for film festival prizes.

As well as Ledger, the film features Christopher Plummer, Verne Troyer, Lily Cole and Tom Waits and Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law, who stepped in to complete the tragic actor's scenes.

Ledger died from an accidental drug overdose in January 2008.

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Corey Feldman has not given up hope of producers making a sequel to 1985 action comedy The Goonies.

The actor told Empire that there is a chance of a follow-up to the Steven Spielberg- produced film, but original director Richard Donner disagreed.

Donner said: "We tried for a long time. Steven and I had many meetings with writers but nothing stuck. It seemed disrespectful."

Feldman said: "So I guess the answer about the sequel is that there's always hope."

Donner responded: "No. No hope."

Co-star Sean Astin added: "A year from now, ten years from now, 50 years from now, I'm absolutely convinced there'll be one. We'll figure it out.

"A sequel could be great. It could be s**tty. You never know. But the original is the thing it is and no-one can ever change it."

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Robert Pattinson almost gave up acting because he was unhappy with the roles he was being offered, it has been claimed.

Oliver Irving, who directed the star in How To Be, told People that Pattinson considered switching to a career in music before he was cast in the movie.

Irving said: "He was thinking about giving up acting and maybe doing music solely when this role came along. He wanted to play the roles he wasn't getting.

"He has a playfulness and naivety that he was able to inject into the character. He's very down to earth and unpretentious. I think that's probably what makes him appealing."

The director added that he was impressed by the Twilight star's guitar and harmonica skills.

"He downplayed how good he was. A lot of the time he would turn out to have a really good technique and we told him he needed to play it more simply," he said.

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Simon Pegg has said that the upcoming Star Trek prequel is everything that Star Wars: The Phantom Menace should have been.

The actor, who plays a young Scotty in the film, told the UK press conference for the movie that he was a "self-confessed fan" of the series before he became part of the Star Trek universe.

Pegg said: "In Spaced there's a line where I'm talking about things that are sure in life, and one of them is that every odd numbered Star Trek film is sh*t.

"That's not true anymore! That's most certainly been disproved by this movie and it's lovely to be part of it."

He added: "I think if I was still doing Spaced now there would be an entire episode dedicated to how Tim Bisley, my character, would just be orgasmic about this movie.

"This is everything he wanted [Star Wars: The Phantom Menace] to be but wasn't. And the irony of being in it now - being part of it - is not lost on me, I can assure you."

Star Trek is released in the UK on May 8.

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Christian Bale has said that the leak of his expletive-laden rant on the set of Terminator Salvation broke the "essential trust" that must exist between cast and crew.

The American Psycho star told Total Film that he nevertheless accepts the consequences of his outburst.

Bale said: "I mean, hey, I did what I did. I'm not hiding that. I went overboard. But there is an essential trust and it's not a tacit one, it's a verbal one, a spoken one, which is every sound guy says: 'We are not only not recording, we are not even listening.'

"I do stress though, it's not in any way a trust that's there to cover up bad behaviour. It's not about that."

He added: "It's an essential trust that's needed for creativity because you'll often try things and they're abysmal, but if you have a trust there then you'll give it a shot.

"I'm not making any excuses. I'm not whining. Hey listen, I did it an, it's in public space. Hey, I take the consequences for it."

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Robert Zemeckis has hinted that he may make a sequel to his 1988 hit Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Speaking to MTV, the director said that he is "buzzing" about the possibility of revisiting the character using modern filmmaking methods.

"I'll tell you what is buzzing around in my head now that we have the ability - the digital tools, performance capture - I'm starting to think about Roger Rabbit," Zemeckis said. "I can't give you more details."

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which combines live-action footage with animation, revolves around a rabbit who seeks help from a detective in order to clear his name when he is accused of murder. Bob Hoskins and Christopher Lloyd starred in the film, with Kathleen Turner providing the voice of Jessica Rabbit.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Rainn Wilson have joined the cast of Natalie Portman's indie film Hesher.

The Spencer Susser-directed project revolves around a man in his twenties who becomes a bad influence on a 13-year-old boy. Gordon will play the eponymous character, while Wilson has been cast as the boy's medication-dependent father.

Portman, also a producer on the project, will appear as a supermarket employee who saves the boy from a bully.

Hesher begins shooting next week in Los Angeles.

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Will Ferrell and Adam McKay have signed up for Tommy Wirkola's Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Wirkola, who directed the Nazi-zombie horror comedy Dead Snow, will write and direct the new movie.

Described as a sequel to the famous Brothers Grimm fairytale, it will tell the story of Hansel and Gretel 15 years in the future, where the duo have become specialised bounty hunters.

Ferrell and McKay, whose credits include Anchorman, Step Brothers and Talladega Nights, are producing the movie via their Gary Sanchez production company.

"The idea is, they've grown up and they hunt witches," said McKay. "It's a hybrid sort of old-timey feeling, yet there's pump-action shotguns. Modern technology but in an old style.

"We heard it and we were just like, 'That's a freakin' franchise! You could make three of those!'"

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Spawn creator Todd McFarlane has revealed that a new movie based on his comic book character is in the pipeline.

The property was adapted for film in 1997 and starred Michael Jai White as Al Simmons, a murdered assassin who returns from Hell to exact revenge on his killer.

Speaking to IESB.net, McFarlane revealed that he has had "five offers" to bring the character back to cinemas.

"Everything from the big studios and the big-budgeted production with a lot of special effects, to a smaller budget," he said, adding that he is more interested in making a low-key "dark" and "grungy" film.

Discussing his hopes for a new Spawn, McFarlane said: "It's not a comic book movie, it's just a scary movie, a creepy movie. Everything's real except for one element, which happens to be the character we know as Spawn.

"It's not going to be supervillain versus superhero. Think of The Departed with something moving in the shadows."

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Megan Fox has blamed running in high heels for giving her shinsplints during the making of Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen.

The actress, whose chararacter is on the run from villainous Decepticon robots in the blockbuster, said that uncomfortable shoes were at fault for her injuries.

Speaking to USA Weekend about her footwear in the movie, Fox remarked: "Stilettos - and for the last part of the film, motorcycle boots. I had major shinsplints and threw out my back a couple times."

Fox added that director Michael Bay insisted that she have a sunkissed complexion for the action sequel: "Michael likes everyone freakishly tan, so we were painted maroon, like in the old Westerns when they hired Caucasians to play Native Americans.

"I had on fake eyelashes, running through the desert with sand stuck in them, and I'm sweating off all the makeup. It looked like we were making a tragedy."

Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen is out in UK and US cinemas on June 24.

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Bruce Willis is in talks to appear in three different action movies, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The 54-year-old, whose role as John McClane in the Die Hard action series launched him onto Hollywood's A-list, has held discussions about starring in Inventory, Red and Scarpa.

Thriller Inventory would cast Willis as a detective working on a murder case, while Red centres on an ex-Black Ops soldier who is brought out of retirement when an assassin threatens him and his girlfriend. Willis's 16 Blocks director Richard Donner is believed to be in the running to helm Red, which is based on a WildStorm/DC comic book.

Scarpa, to be directed by Antoine Fuqua, is about the FBI informant Greg Scarpa who worked undercover in New York's notorious Columbo mob family.

Willis can next be seen in sci-fi thriller Surrogates, released in UK cinemas on September 25.

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J.J. Abrams has admitted that he does not yet have a script or outline for any possible sequel to Star Trek.

The director of the movie suggested at its UK press conference that a follow-up would be likely if the film is a success.

Abrams said: "Nothing would be more fun than working with [the cast] again, but it's insanely presumptuous to be talking about it.

"The good news is that if people like it and if there's demand for another one, then the actors and the writers and I will be back."

He added: "But we don't have a story, we don't have a script, we don't have an outline or a thought. We just have this movie."

Eric Bana, who plays villain Nero in the prequel, then quipped: "Nero: The Younger Years?"

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Ryan Reynolds has admitted that he found the experience of getting in shape for X-Men Origins: Wolverine to be "awful".

The actor, who plays Wade Wilson in the superhero prequel, told reporters at the Los Angeles premiere that he had spent months working out before filming began.

"Well that's awful, in general, working out like that. I think it's fine to work out a little bit every once in a while, it's expected," he explained.

"But each day eating live screaming chickens and hitting the gym for four or five hours is no fun."

When asked how he celebrated the end of shooting, he replied: "I just fell face first into a big bowl of chocolate fudge pudding. Yeah, it was disgusting!"

Reynolds, who is married to Scarlett Johansson, added that co-star Hugh Jackman would "definitely" beat him in a fight, saying: "[He] would turn me into some kind of fine curd cottage cheese-like ass pudding, if I may be so bold to say."

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Former Diff’rent Strokes star Gary Coleman has revealed that he hates his new movie.

The 41-year-old former child actor is reportedly unhappy with his participation in "shockumentary" Midgets Vs. Mascots, according to the New York Post.

The film depicts a faux competition between five diminutive people and five sports team mascots going head-to-head in mechanical bull rides, basketball shootouts and foot races.

"I'm actually pretty embarrassed by this whole thing," Coleman said. "I don’t' like it when small people are made fun of. And I hate the title."

The film’s director Ron Carlson said of its star: "Gary's personality is extremely volatile. But he would be surprised by the way audiences are reacting to him in the film. They love Gary in this movie."

Coleman is currently working on a website geared towards fans of scented candles and model trains.

"My goal is to be retired in five years," he said. "But I seriously doubt that will happen."

Midgets Vs. Mascots will screen at the Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday night.

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Jonathan Pryce and Sally Hawkins have been cast in period drama Hysteria.

The film takes place in Victorian England and is about the invention of the first vibrator, according to Production Weekly.

Tanya Wexler is directing the movie based on a script from married writers Jonah Lisa Dyer and Stephen Dyer. Tracey Becker (Finding Neverland) will produce the film.

Pryce can next be seen in blockbuster G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, while Happy Go Lucky star Hawkins recently signed up to play a women's rights campaigner in We Want Sex.

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Heroes star Hayden Panettiere has auditioned for a role in Paramount's reboot of Footloose.

The actress, who plays Claire Bennet in the NBC show, is thought to have read for the part of Ariel Moore, a small-town girl who falls for dance-loving newcomer Ren McCormack.

"[The filmmakers] were really impressed. No-one realised what a good singer she is," claimed an unnamed insider.

Footloose, based on the 1984 original starring Kevin Bacon, was previously fast-tracked by the studio as a project for Zac Efron following the success of High School Musical 3. However, earlier this month it was reported that Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford was interested in taking over the part of Ren, following Efron's departure for fear of typecasting.

A representative for Panettiere, who released her debut single 'Wake Up Call' last year, has declined to comment.

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Guy Ritchie is planning to direct action star Jason Statham in a new musical, it has been claimed.

The RockNRolla filmmaker has described the project as a cross between "Wurzel Gummidge and Bullitt", The Sun reports.

A source said: "Guy and Jason are collaborating closely on this top secret musical project. They're well into development and realise they're probably going to get a lot of stick.

"But Guy's of the opinion that people have been having a pop at him throughout his career, so he couldn't care less. He wants to do something audacious and a musical is just that."

Another added: "[Statham's] really excited. He's been watching loads of vintage musicals on DVD. He’s poring over Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers classics.

"But West Side Story has really captured his imagination. He was brought to tears the first time he watched it."

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Jim Carrey is reportedly interested in taking the lead role in The Beaver, with Jodie Foster eyeing the comedy as a directing vehicle.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kyle Killen's script has attracted the attention of Carrey, who would portray a man who walks around with a beaver puppet on his hand believing it to be real. Steve Carell was previously attached to the project.

Production firm Anonymous Content is also searching for a new director after the departure of Jay Roach. Foster, who helmed Little Man Tate and Home For The Holidays in the '90s, is said to have held discussions about taking the reins.

Yes Man star Carrey can next be seen in Robert Zemeckis's A Christmas Carol, released in IMAX 3-D and conventional cinemas on November 6.

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Sarah Harding has admitted that she is hoping to follow in the footsteps of Angelina Jolie.

The Girls Aloud singer claimed that she could see herself playing similar roles that the Hollywood actress has previously played.

"I like Angelina Jolie characters, where she plays like the action lady," Harding told Metro.

"I love cars, I'm bit of a tomboy, so I could definitely see myself doing something like that."

The 27-year-old, who stars in new BBC dramam Freefall, went on to say that she was ready to try new projects after Girls Aloud complete their tour.

"I still love my singing, so don't want to quit that completely. It's time to have a bit of a change and utilise some other skills," she added.

"It keeps it interesting. We do need a break from it, otherwise it gets very tedious.

"I could definitely see myself doing something like a comedy, or a psychological thriller - I don't know. As long as it's baby steps, I'm not rushing into it. It's one step at a time."

Harding recently blasted speculation that Girls Aloud were imminently splitting up