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Fox 'responds to Transformers letter'

Megan Fox has reportedly responded to the open letter that Transformers crew members wrote about her.

The 23-year-old was referred to as "dumb-as-a-rock" and "as ungracious a person as you can fathom" by the film crew. They were apparently responding to comments she made in a Wonderland magazine interview in which she likened director Michael Bay to "Hitler".

The filmmaker came out in her defence and said that he did not "condone" the letter, while he expects "more crazy quotes" when the third Transformers movie is released.

The actress has now revealed that she has addressed the film's behind-the-scenes team, according to Entertainment Weekly.

"I have spoken with the parties involved privately," she said in a statement through her publicist. "I am very fortunate to be involved in this amazing franchise and look forward to Transformers 3."

It was previously reported that Bay, Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Ehren Kruger are meeting this week to determine possible plotlines and a release date for the third film.

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Cage 'not interested' in 'Green Hornet'

Nicholas Cage has explained why he turned down a role in the upcoming film adaptation of The Green Hornet.

Speaking to The Canadian Press, the actor revealed that the deal fell through due to creative differences with screenwriter Seth Rogen and director Michel Gondry.

"The Green Hornet was something that I wanted to do, I think Michel Gondry is very talented and I had hoped it would work but I think Seth Rogen and Michel had a different take on the character," said Cage.

"I had to have some humanity and to try to give it something where you could understand why the character was the way he was but I don't think there was enough time to develop it."

It was previously announced that Inglourious Basterds actor Christoph Waltz has been cast as the film's antagonist Chudnofsky. Cameron Diaz and Tom Wilkinson will also star in the movie alongside Rogen.

Originally created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker in the 1930s, the masked crime fighter has appeared in numerous film serials, a network television programme and multiple comic book series.

The Green Hornet arrives in cinemas next December.

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Lucas added to 'Life As We Know It' cast

Josh Lucas has been added to the cast of romantic drama Life As We Know It, says Variety.

Starring Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel and Christina Hendricks, the movie centres on two single adults who are named joint guardians of a young girl after her parents, mutual friends of the pair, are killed in a car accident.

Greg Berlanti is directing the Warner Bros film from a script by Ian Deitchman and Kristin Rusk Robinson. Heigl and her mother Nancy are serving as executive producers.

Lucas has previously appeared in Poseidon, Stealth and American Psycho.

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Gael Garcia Bernal circles 'Earthbound'

Gael Garcia Bernal is in talks to star alongside Kate Hudson in romance Earthbound, according to Variety.

The movie will tell the story of a terminally ill woman who falls in love with her doctor.

The Woodsman director Nicole Kassell will direct the film, which is scripted by Gren Wells. Shooting is scheduled to begin in January.

Bernal is currently working on Letters To Juliet opposite Amanda Seyfried, while Hudson's next project is Rob Marshall's musical Nine.

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Huston 'not expecting Pattinson stardom'

Twilight newcomer Jack Huston has admitted that he is not expecting to receive the same level of attention as co-star Robert Pattinson.

The Eastwick actor was recently cast in third instalment Eclipse as Royce King II, a human who lived during the Great Depression and was engaged to Rosalie (Nikki Reed).

Speaking to E! News, he said: "I don't think I will [face the madness] because of my part.

"I'm actually kind of a nasty guy. I'm her fiancé who ends up basically trying to rape her. It's rather horrible."

He added that the only cast member that he had met so far was Reed, saying: "She's actually a real sweetie and the very first day she made me feel very welcome. We were away from the madness which is, I think, Robert and Kristen [Stewart].

"I think they have hundreds of incessant fans following them, which, fair enough. We were quite lucky. We were in the park, beautiful, and it was fun... It's a great film to be a part of. This is a small part, but a relevant part in the movie. I think it'll be cool. Hopefully."

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Winfrey, Mendes team for 'Netherland'

Oprah Winfrey and Sam Mendes have teamed up with Focus Features to produce drama Netherland.

Christopher Hampton will adapt Joseph O'Neill's acclaimed novel, which centres on an isolated Dutchman in New York who finds himself drawn to cricket and the city's immigrant culture, says Variety.

Mendes, whose new film Away We Go opens this Friday, may also direct the movie through his Neal Street firm and Winfrey's Harpo's production label.

"This project's emotional power has resonated with us all," remarked Focus Features CEO James Schamus.

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Barrymore: 'Ellen Page is my muse'

Drew Barrymore has described Whip It star Ellen Page as her muse.

Speaking at the movie's Toronto International Film Festival premiere, Barrymore praised the 22-year-old's performance in her directorial debut.

"It was the ideal situation where you hope that you'll fall in love with your muse and your hero and I literally could burst into tears about how much I did fall in love with her," she explained.

Page was equally as enthusiastic about working with the actress on the comedy-drama, saying: "Unbelievable, mind-blowing. Drew's amazing, she's incredibly grounded, she treats everyone the same. She's so compassionate, a luminous quality like no other person [and she has] an energy on set where she just constantly gives."

Whip It, about a small town misfit who joins a roller derby team, co-stars Barrymore, Kristen Wiig, Juliette Lewis and Alia Shawkat.

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'Nice guy' Hopkins 'wows movie co-stars'

Sir Anthony Hopkins has impressed his latest movie colleagues by displaying a generous attitude on set, a report claims.

The 71-year-old actor has been working on an as-yet-untitled project directed by Woody Allen in recent months.

A source on the film told the Daily Express: "He has to be the nicest guy in showbiz. During filming he flew off for a weekend break to Italy and came back bearing presents for everyone.

"He bought silk scarves for all the make-up girls and even painted them a picture each."

The insider added: "He kept everyone laughing with his proper dad-style jokes. He's so funny."

Hopkins's new movie also stars Freida Pinto, Naomi Watts and Josh Brolin.

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No Edward Norton in 'Iron Man 2'

Edward Norton has revealed that he has not been approached to reprise his role as the Hulk in the upcoming superhero movie Iron Man 2.

After starring as Bruce Banner in last year's The Incredible Hulk, Norton has been linked to a cameo role in the Iron Man sequel. However, the actor recently debunked these rumours in an MTV interview.

"I heard that. I don't know where that's coming from," he said. "I am not in Iron Man 2 to my knowledge."

Norton's future as the Marvel character is currently uncertain, with the star previously refusing to comment on whether he would appear in The Avengers film. It is also unknown whether Marvel has designs for another Hulk movie in the foreseeable future.

Iron Man 2 arrives in theatres on May 7, 2010. The Avengers is slated for 2012.

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Damon "pleased" with Douglas team-up

Matt Damon has admitted that he is hoping to learn from Michael Douglas in Steven Soderbergh's new project about American entertainer Liberace.

The Informant! star is to play the younger lover of the late pianist, who will be portrayed by Douglas.

Damon told PA: "I'm sure Michael can teach me a few things, I'm pleased it's Michael."

The biopic will see the pair share an on-screen kiss in a scene which the actor compared to Douglas's Basic Instinct romp with Sharon Stone.

He added: "Well I'm not doing that thing with my legs! I haven't actually thought about that stuff seriously. I'm sure it will be a bit awkward but the roles are great and the story is great and the script is great so we'll work our way through."

Soderbergh's as-yet-untitled movie is due to start shooting next year.

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Matt Damon to lead Eastwood's 'Hereafter'

Matt Damon will lead the cast of Clint Eastwood's supernatural thriller Hereafter, says Variety.

The film is expected to be the next directing job for Eastwood, whose sports drama Invictus, also starring Damon, will open in December in the US and next February in the UK.

Details on the Peter Morgan-scripted Hereafter are being kept secret by studio Warner Bros, however the film is thought to be in a similar vein to M. Night Shyamalan's ghost movie The Sixth Sense.

Eastwood will also produce the movie alongside Kathleen Kennedy. Steven Spielberg and Morgan are among the executive producers.

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Litigation delays 'Superman' movie

The ongoing litigation between Warner Bros/DC and the estate of Jerry Siegel has been revealed as the cause of the delay of a new Superman movie.

Earlier this week, Warners announced that it had no current plans to make a follow-up to 2006's Superman Returns.

Warner Bros senior vice president of corporate communications Scott Rowe confirmed in an email to the Superman Homepage that this was due to the legal dispute.

"Superman is an important member of our family," he said, "but because of ongoing litigation we cannot announce any concrete plans at this time. That said, at some point in the future, you're likely to see a new Superman. So... have no fear."

A prior legal ruling states that Warner Bros must either get another movie into development by 2011 or seek the permission of the heirs of Siegel and Superman co-creator Joe Shuster if it wishes to make a film beyond that date.

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Michelle Monaghan gets 'Due Date' role

Michelle Monaghan will star opposite Robert Downey Jr and Zach Galifianakis in road comedy Due Date.

The Eagle Eye actress has been cast as the pregnant wife of a man (Downey Jr) who must race across the country with a friend (Galifianakis) to make the birth of his first child.

Director Todd Phillips is helming the movie before going on to make a sequel to his and Galifianakis's summer hit The Hangover, reports Variety.

Phillips and Daniel Goldberg are producing Due Date, with Downey's wife Susan Downey acting as executive producer.

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Noel Clarke making thriller '4.3.2.1'

Production has begun on Noel Clarke's latest directorial outing 4.3.2.1, says Screen Daily.

Emma Roberts, Ophelia Lovibond, Tamsin Egerton, Shanika Warren Markland, Rosanna Arquette, Adam Deacon, Ben Miller and Sean Pertwee will star in the heist thriller, which Clarke is co-directing with Mark Davis.

Producer Damon Bryant said: "I'm incredibly excited to be working with Noel Clarke as I have been a long-term fan. When he asked me to get involved there was no question what my answer would be."

Clarke, who appeared in Doctor Who and wrote and directed Adulthood, won the Orange Rising Star Award at this year's BAFTAs.

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'X-Men' actor confirms 'First Class' role?

Tim Pocock has confirmed that he is to star in the upcoming X-Men: First Class film.

The 23-year-old was featured as the younger version of James Marsden's Cyclops character from the original trilogy in X-Men Origins: Wolverine earlier this year.

It is understood that the actor wrote on his Twitter page that he will reprise his role and that filming begins after February of next year, Ace Showbiz reports.

He wrote: "[I am] currently shooting Australian TV series till February 2010... then X-men first class."

In April, franchise producer Lauren Schuler Donner announced that the project - which details the early days of Professor Xavier’s school for mutant youngsters - was in development.

Gossip Girl creator Josh Schwartz was commissioned in November to write the Marvel Comics-based superhero prequel.

Wolverine director Gavin Hood recently said that he didn't expect filming on the sequel to happen anytime soon.

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'Green Lantern' characters confirmed

A casting call for upcoming superhero film Green Lantern has revealed its lineup of characters, Spoiler TV has reported.

According to the press release, the film's antagonist will be rogue Lantern Sinestro, one of the most popular villains in the series' canon. It was also confirmed that Hal Jordan's love interest will be Carol Ferris, who later became the villainess Star Sapphire in the comic books.

Peripheral characters were also unveiled, including Dr Hector Hammond, described in the casting call as "austere and impersonal, real scummy, a pathologist and also the son of a senator". His comic-book counterpart is a wealthy villain with mind-control abilities.

The part of Abin Sur, a member of the Green Lantern Corps and mentor to Hal Jordan, is also up for grabs.

It was previously announced that Ryan Reynolds will star as the movie's protagonist, while Martin Campbell will direct. Green Lantern is slated for release on June 17, 2011.

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Connery to return to 'Indiana Jones'?

Studio bosses are reportedly hoping that Sean Connery will return to the Indiana Jones franchise for the next film.

The 79-year-old veteran actor previously rejected the opportunity to reprise his role in the last instalment of the series, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of the Crystal Skull.

However, producers working on the fifth film of the hugely successful franchise are believed to be considering the idea of tempting Connery back with a major role in the new project, Contactmusic reports.

A source said: "Steven Spielberg has been working on a script with George Lucas and there is an element of the story that could see Sean returning. Anything is possible in these movies and if Sean wants to return he will become central to the new story."

Earlier this week, Harrison Ford revealed that he would be happy to reprise his lead role in the franchise, as long as the script was "good enough".

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Eckhart wants role in 'Batman' sequel

Aaron Eckhart has expressed interest in reprising his role as Two-Face in Christopher Nolan's follow-up to The Dark Knight.

The actor portrayed Harvey Dent and his disfigured alter-ego in Batman's last film outing, which saw the character seemingly killed off in the end. Eckhart, however, is now appealing to Nolan to bring the villain back in a soap opera-inspired twist.

"I think I've talked myself out of the job. I thought I'd died. But you know, America's grown up on soap operas and reinventing people so why doesn't Chris take that into consideration," he said.

Eckhart added that he would "love" to return as the character, but would understand if Nolan made a clean break from the last film out of respect for the late Heath Ledger, who died from an accidental drug overdose in January 2008.

"If Chris asked me back, I would love to. Heath really was meant to come back as The Joker [for the next movie] as we all would want him to do so. Maybe this will be the way it is and be its own little thing."

Production on the next Batman film is rumoured to begin next year.

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Connelly: 'Sex scenes aren't a big deal'

Jennifer Connelly has insisted that actors shouldn't make a big deal out of doing sex scenes.

The Oscar-winning actress admitted that it was "embarrassing" to shoot intimate scenes with co-stars but also revealed her opinion that they were over-hyped.

She told the The Guardian: "Sex scenes are incredibly awkward, they're always uncomfortable. I think they're overused and people get very flustered by them.

"People don't know how to discuss them and there's a lot of embarrassment. It's not my favourite thing to do, but there are circumstances in which they make sense. I just wish people wouldn't dance around them."

Connelly added that she was glad that she did not have to get intimate with husband Paul Bettany in their upcoming movie Creation, which centres around the scientist Charles Darwin.

She explained: "There are certain scenarios people don't want to see, like a married couple having sex in a film. But I don't want to see a sexy movie about Charles Darwin, and the filmmakers didn't want to make that film, so it seemed like there was nothing about our personal pairing that could take away from the film."

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Thurman 'pondering return to Hollywood'

Uma Thurman has revealed that she thinks it's time to return to Hollywood.

The Kill Bill star has admitted that she is worried she will "choke her career to death" if she does not leave New York, where she has lived exclusively for the last few years.

Thurman told W magazine: "I am a mother, but I need to do what I'm good at doing. Even your kids need you to be who you are.

"I've been living at home for work for a long time. If I don't leave soon, I'm going to literally choke my career to death."

The 39-year-old actress, who has two children with actor Ethan Hawke, has also said that life has taken her by "surprise" and that she is in no rush to set a date to marry businessman Arpad Busson.

She said: "I feel like I lived my life backwards. Getting older has been a process of realising I wasn't as grown up as I had thought. I've certainly learned the hard way.

"And that's kind of nice, to realise that just when you think you've figured it out, life surprises you."

Thurman added: "I'm happily engaged, but we haven't set a wedding up. I'm not in a rush to do anything. One day we'll do it, when we're ready."

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