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Jason Lewis has hinted that he might be returning for the sequel to Sex And The City: The Movie.

The actor, who played Samantha Jones's (Kim Cattrall) boyfriend Smith Jerrod, told Pop Sugar that he would be open to reprising the role on the big screen.

When asked if he would be appearing in the highly-anticipated sequel, he replied: "[There's] a good chance, yeah."

He went on to say that he saw his female co-stars "out every now and then" and also offered his congratulations to Sarah Jessica Parker on the impending birth of her surrogate twin daughters.

"She's a really neat lady. She's obviously prolific in what she's done - she's successful - but when she brought the kid to the set, mum would come on. She's very sweet with children, you can see that joy and innocence come out of her."

Sex And The City 2 is scheduled for release in May 2010. All four main cast members, as well as Chris Noth (Mr Big), David Eigenberg (Steve Brady) and Evan Handler (Harry Goldenblatt) have confirmed that they will be returning.

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Batman has been named as the top movie superhero.

MTV News has devised a 'Power Ranking' system, which equates the box office receipts for every post-1978 film performance, Oscar nominations, and how many times the particular character has ruled the comic book charts during the last 13 years, to determine the standing of each hero.

The success of The Dark Knight landed the Caped Crusader at the top spot, while the three Spider-Man movies placed the cinematic web slinger at number two, and the combined strength of Superman’s five films was enough to round out the top three.

Recent box office champ Wolverine came in fourth on the list.

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Kylie Minogue has revealed that she would love to try her hand at more movies.

The popstar, who shot to fame in Neighbours, admitted that she had "definitely done the wrong things" in her film career, but was hoping that she still had a chance of winning a good role.

Speaking to Reuters, she said: "I would love to do more movies. I really got waylaid and sidetracked. I started out as an actress and I thought that's what I would do."

She added that she was hoping she could someday emulate the success she had with musician Nick Cave in their 1996 music video for 'Where The Wild Roses Grow'.

"[He] saw me in a totally different way, believed in me and had this idea and a vision for a number of years before he contacted me. We worked together and it was just absolutely perfect.

"My daytime fantasy is that there is a director somewhere who will be thinking that kind of way but putting it into the context of the film."

Minogue's most prominent movie roles to date have included Street Fighter, alongside Jean Claude Van Damme, and a small part in Moulin Rouge!.

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Kevin Costner is developing a new Western movie for A&E, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The untitled four-hour project sees Costner partnering with producer Armyn Bernstein to tell a post-Civil War story which covers major conflict in the settlement of the West.

A&E's Tana Nugent Jamieson said of the film: "Costner understands the Western better than anybody, and he respects the genre. He knows every bit of detail about the West; this is a genre he feels a lot of passion for. It's a perfect fit."

Jamieson also said that Costner has expressed interest in one of the roles and may appear in the project.

"There is a character that he's interested in, and we're hoping he will potentially play, but until we have a script we can't say too much," she said.

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Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Alba are in talks to join Garry Marshall's all-star ensemble cast for Valentine's Day.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Shirley MacLaine, Bradley Cooper and Ashton Kutcher are also finalising deals to appear in the New Line romantic comedy.

The movie is comprised of five loosely connected stories that unfold over the course of a Valentine's Day in Los Angeles.

Roberts will play an army officer flying home from Iraq, Hathaway a talent industry assistant and Kutcher a flower shop owner who proposes to his girlfriend (Alba).

Marshall previously directed Roberts in Pretty Woman and Runaway Bride, and Hathaway in the Princess Diaries movies.

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The Mentalist actor Simon Baker has signed up to star in Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me.

Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson and Casey Affleck are already confirmed for the adaptation of Jim Thompson's noir classic novel.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Baker will play an attorney on the trail of a murderer.

The movie will tell the story of a Texan sheriff (Affleck) who turns from a "boring small-town cop" into a "ruthless, sociopathic murderer". Alba will play a prostitute, while Hudson is cast as the sheriff's lover.

Shooting begins this week in New Mexico and Oklahoma.

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Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams will play a married couple whose relationship is falling apart in independent drama Blue Valentine.

The Derek Cianfrance-directed movie will focus on the pair as they recall happier days, reports Variety. Cianfrance also wrote the script alongside Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis.

The movie, which recently started production in New York and Pennsylvania, also features Mike Vogel, John Doman and Maryann Plunkett among its cast.

The film is Gosling's second collaboration with producers Lynette Howell, Jamie Patricof and Alex Orlovsky, who oversaw his Oscar-nominated performance in Half Nelson.

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Channing Tatum has described his Fighting co-star Terrence Howard as "one of the mad ones".

The actor told DS that he learned an "immense amount" from working with Howard, whose character Harvey Boarden leads penniless Shawn MacArthur into the world of bare-knuckle boxing.

"There's a line in American literature, 'the only ones for me are the mad ones', and he's mad and I love it," Tatum said of Howard. "I think he puts it on a bit. He's so smart and I think that's his way of jesting at people."

The 29-year-old recalled Howard explaining to him how to break out of jail using his own urine: "He'll just go on and on about it. I'm like, 'I hope I'm your cellmate if I'm ever in prison'."

Discussing his role, Tatum added that he was able to draw on his own experiences, having moved to New York with little money to support himself.

"I've lived in my car in New York," he revealed. "I couldn't get anyone to call me back to go see an apartment. I lived for about three weeks in a car. I know what it’s like to have nothing."

Fighting is released in UK cinemas tomorrow.

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A woman has found a copy of the New Moon script in a waste paper bin, reports The AP.

Casey Ray is reported to have stumbled across pages from the highly anticipated sequel to Twilight and the script for a separate movie called Memoirs in a trash container outside a St. Louis hotel.

According to her attorney, Ray briefly considered selling the exclusive pages to a national tabloid before deciding to return them to the movie studios.

"My client didn’t really want to get paid," he explained, adding that she had been more interested in hanging on to the scripts as collector’s items.

Ray has since been invited to the premieres of both movies, with Summit Entertainment - the company behind the Twilight saga - claiming that it will verify the authenticity of the script once the film has been released.

"Summit doesn’t comment on any of the deals it does, [but] we thank Ms Ray for doing the right thing," said a studio representative.

Details of New Moon, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer, have been kept heavily under wraps to ensure that fans are still surprised by what aspects of the storyline have been included.

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Jim Carrey's controversial black comedy I Love You Phillip Morris has secured distribution in the US.

Reports surfaced earlier in the year claiming that the movie was struggling to find a distributor Stateside because it contains an explicit gay sex scene between Carrey's conman character and his prison cellmate, played by Ewan McGregor.

According to Variety, Consolidated Pictures Group has now picked up North American distribution rights to Glenn Ficarra and John Requa's movie, which is based on the book by Steven McVicker.

CPG has handed I Love You Phillip Morris a February 14, 2010 release date. The film is expected to arrive in the UK this summer via E1 Films.

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Channing Tatum has said that his upcoming action film G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra is a "ridiculously big, huge movie".

The Fighting star told DS: "It's one of those movies where I didn't realise how big it was. I've seen parts from it that are in the trailer now and I'm like, 'this movie is nuts'.

"On the second day of filming, I turned around and Snake Eyes is standing next to me and I'm like, 'Woah, now I'm in this.' It's a huge ride."

Discussing his part in Public Enemies opposite Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, Tatum said: "I play a big role in American history, Pretty Boy Floyd, but it's a small role in the movie. I introduce Purvis, Christian Bale's character, the head honcho of what will eventually be the FBI."

G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra and Public Enemies open in cinemas this summer. Fighting is on general release from tomorrow.

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Tom Hanks was forced to omit sex scenes his new movie Angels & Demons - because there just wasn't any time for "smooching" in the action-packed film.

Hanks stars as Harvard professor Robert Langdon who investigates the murder of a physicist and a terrorist act against the Vatican by a secret brotherhood.

But moviemakers had to downplay the blossoming romance between Hanks' character and his female companion, played by Ayelet Zurer. And the actor is disappointed he didn't get to kiss his pretty co-star.

He tells Parade magazine, "We really don't have time to make out or go to bed when Cardinals are being killed on the hour. We tried to work it into the screenplay over and over again. We were like, 'Isn't there a bigger car with a bigger backseat?'

"But we were stuck with an Alfa Romeo so we didn't have an opportunity to grab some smooching on the way to the Pantheon or the Piazza Del Poppolo. It's my loss, but I think it did make it easier for Ayelet."

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The writers behind Star Trek have revealed that they already have ideas in place for the sequel.

Director J.J. Abrams recently suggested that a follow-up would be likely if the current box office smash was a success.

Screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman told MTV News that they have started discussing preliminary ideas for the next flick's storyline.

Orci said: "We wanted to see what fans think of the first one; let's see what works, and what people think is the best in what we've done. And then we can take that into account when we think about the next movie. I don't think we ever need to talk about time travel again."

Kurtzman added: "Now we're in this new world. And we're just gonna have to live through the unpredictable future."

Orci admitted that they would begin writing the sequel on the day it was announced that the first film was successful, and that he has started reading past Star Trek novels for inspiration.

He added: "I'm trying to read every Star Trek book I can get my hands on. We did that a lot for the first movie...I'm starting to re-immerse myself again in what's come before."

Star Trek has grossed £70.9m worldwide in its opening weekend.

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Eric Bana has admitted that he jumped at the chance to play a villain in Star Trek.

The actor, who stars as evil Romulan Nero in the sci-fi reboot, told STV that he was excited at the prospect of playing a bad guy.

He said: "It’s fun, the opportunity to get a role like this."

Bana also noted that the anonymity he was given during the makeup process was an extra incentive for taking part.

"It’s a bonus that we can’t tell who you are. It’s so rare, so I jumped at the chance," he added.

Star Trek opened at number one in 23 markets over the past weekend.

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Hugh Jackman has admitted that training sessions for his part in X-Men Origins: Wolverine left him close to collapse.

The Australian actor was forced to bulk up for the movie's title role - a mutant with retracting bone claws and animal-like instincts.

Speaking to Celebs On Sunday magazine, Jackman explained: "I wanted audiences to think, 'This guy could easily rip someone's head off', so I worked hard to achieve that physique. I ran and had to lift very heavy weights.

"Every morning I'd get up and there was a part of me that just wanted to collapse, but you just have to keep going, it's full-on testosterone."

Asked if his wife Deborra-Lee Furness enjoyed the results, he replied: "She loves it. When we met, I was in a prison drama. I had long hair, a mullet, a lot of muscles and tattoos. I was seriously pumped up."

X-Men Origins: Wolverine was released to cinemas last month.

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Kevin Spacey is to star in Casino Jack, a movie about disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

The thriller will detail the bribery and corruption schemes that resulted in Abramoff being jailed for fraud, conspiracy and tax evasion. His misdemeanours included making a fake wire transfer in an effort to buy SunCruz Casinos.

George Hickenlooper (Factory Girl) will direct Casino Jack from a script by Norman Snider. Production begins later this month in Toronto, reports Variety.

Spacey recently appeared in 21 and HBO TV movie Recount.

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Kristin Davis has revealed that the sequel to Sex And The City: The Movie will be "very different" from its predecessor.

The actress, who plays art dealer Charlotte York Goldenblatt, refused to tell reporters any details about the highly anticipated script, but insisted that fans will be happy with the result.

"It’s very exciting and very different than the first one, which is the luxury of getting to do another one," she said.

"We did the first one, and those were our pent-up things that we hadn’t finished in the show, so now we’re just starting fresh in a way, which is really, really exciting. It’s just a new adventure."

She went on to say that she was excited by the prospect of reuniting with co-stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall and Cynthia Nixon, explaining: "It’s like getting to be with your girlfriends for 18 hours a day, which, you know, nobody gets to do in their lives.

"We see each other when we’re not working. Everyone thinks we don’t, I don’t know why, [maybe] because we don’t parade down the street when we’re together."

Recently, Parker also hinted that viewers could expect Sex And The City 2 to mark a significant departure from its more "mature" and "sophisticated" prequel.

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Rachel Weisz is eyeing the lead role in Face Value, an independent film about 1940s Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Austrian-born Lamarr, whose most famous role is in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson And Delilah, retired from acting in 1957 and went on to have a career as a pioneering scientist. She was involved in creating a method of changing frequencies, which helped pave the way for modern wireless communications.

Amy Redford, daughter of Robert, will direct the movie, which was at one point touted as a vehicle for Charlize Theron. Jose Rivera and Gretchen Somerfeld have penned the script for Face Value.

Weisz recently signed up for political drama The Whistleblower, in which she will play a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia.

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Al Pacino is circling the lead role in Stephen Gaghan's new movie Blink.

The project, which is set up at Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way company, is based on Malcolm Gladwell's book which examines the benefits and drawbacks of making snap decisions.

In the movie version, Pacino will play a financial worker who reconnects with his adult son. Pacino's character discovers his son's ability to make effective fast judgements and uses him to make money on Wall Street.

Blink is expected to move forward once an actor has been found for the son role.

Gaghan is the Oscar-winning writer behind Traffic. He directed the 2002 movie Abandon and George Clooney's Syriana in 2006.

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Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz and Robert Pattinson have joined the cast of Madeleine Stowe's period drama Unbound Captives.

Stowe, who has starred in films such as The Last Of The Mohicans,, Twelve Monkeys and Short Cuts, will make her directorial debut on the drama.

The movie, set in 1859, revolves around a woman (Weisz) whose husband is murdered and her children kidnapped by a Comanche war party. Jackman will play a frontiersman who rescues Weisz and her son (Pattinson).

Stowe wrote the Captives script with her husband Brian Benben in the 1990s. They turned down an offer of $5 million from Fox to make the film with Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe so Stowe could oversee the movie on her own terms.

"There was never a moment's hesitation on my part, but it felt unreal, and I can remember my husband putting a finger across his neck to signal not to take the offer," Stowe told Variety.

"There are moments in life where you need to follow your heart. The script remained my singular focus, but directing it myself wasn't something I ever dreamed of."