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Sabrina the Teenage Witch' for superhero movie from Sony

Sabrina the Teenage Witch is being rebooted for an upcoming movie by Sony Pictures.

The fantasy series will be made into a live action superhero origin story in a similar vein to Spider-Man, following a young girl who discovers she has supernatural powers.

Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari will write the film's screenplay, while Real Steel's Don Murphy and Susan Montford will produce, reports Deadline. Mark Waters is in line to direct.

Archie Comics' Jon Goldwater will executive produce, while screenwriter Jeff Stockwell will co-produce.

The tone of the film is said to be "edgier" than the 1990s TV series. However, Sabrina's black cat Salem will return as a transformed prince who helps with her love life.

"We mentioned it in a meeting to [Sony co-chairwoman] Amy Pascal who chimed in, 'I'm the little witch girl'," Murphy and Montford said. "From then on we knew it was the right home."

Sabrina originally came from the 1960s Archie comics, before spawning animated TV spinoffs in 1969, 1971 and 1999.

Its most famous incarnation, however, is the live action TV series starring Melissa Joan Hart that ran for seven seasons from 1996-2003

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Sin City' sequel 'A Dame to Kill For' officially announced

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For has been officially announced.

Co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller have said that production is ready to begin on the long-awaited comic book movie sequel.

"The first question I am always asked is, 'When will you make another Sin City?' " said Rodriquez.

"I have wanted to re-team with Frank Miller and return to the world he created since the day we wrapped the original, but have felt a duty to the fans to wait until we had something truly exceptional that would meet and exceed what have become epic expectations. A Dame To Kill For will certainly be worth the wait."

A Dame to Kill For is the title of the second volume of Miller's noir series of comics.

The first Sin City film debuted in 2005. There has been much speculation regarding a sequel, but this is the first official announcement.

Rodriguez has teased fans with regular updates on the script and potential start dates for filming.

The film will be produced by AR Films and Quick Draw Productions, and distributed by Dimension Films.

Casting on Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is due to begin next week, with many of the original cast expected to reprise their roles.

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Brad Pitt to appear with Angelina Jolie in 'The Counselor'?

Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem are in talks to appear in Ridley Scott's The Counselor.

The Moneyball star is in line to join his partner Angelina Jolie in the film, reports Deadline.

Scott had previously revealed that he wanted Pitt or Bardem for the role of the movie's villain, and now has both actors in line to take on roles in his Prometheus follow-up.

The Counselor will star Michael Fassbender as a Southwestern lawyer who finds himself involved with drug dealers.

The original screenplay was penned by No Country for Old Men and The Road writer Cormac McCarthy.

Jolie was announced to be in talks for a small role in The Counselor earlier in the week.

Bardem will also star alongside Daniel Craig in the next James Bond movie Skyfall.

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Harrison Ford, Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman in line for 'Paranoia

Harrison Ford, Liam Hemsworth and Gary Oldman are in line to star in Paranoia.

Hemsworth will star in Robert Luketic's corporate espionage thriller, with the two veteran actors in advanced negotiations to join him, reports Deadline.

The adaptation of Joseph Finder's novel was first announced in 2009.

Paranoia centres around a young corporate employee who is caught out after throwing a lavish farewell party for a colleague with company funds.

His boss coerces him into infiltrating a competitor in order to avoid prosecution.

Hemsworth recently appeared in the record-breaking Hunger Games.

Ford is currently shooting Ender's Game and Oldman will soon appear in Batman: The Dark Knight Rises.

Luketic's previous credits include comedies such as Monster-in-Law, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! and Legally Blonde.

He is currently working on diamond heist thriller Brilliant, which stars Gerard Butler.

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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to star in comic movie 'Lore'

Dwayne Johnson has signed a deal to star in upcoming action movie Lore, it has been reported.

The project, which was recently bought by Warner Bros, is based on a graphic novel about an ancient line of protectors called "shepherds" who defend the world from dangerous mythological beasts.

Cory Goodman - writer of the 2011 film Priest - has been tapped to pen the screenplay adaptation.

Johnson signed a seven-figure deal to star in the film, according to Deadline.

The actor is also currently in talks to star in Journey 3, a follow-up to the highly successful family adventure movie Journey 2: The Forbidden Island.

Johnson will next be seen in G.I. Joe: Retaliation, due out this summer.

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Thor 2' to feature 'big villain', says Marvel Studios head

Thor 2 will feature a major antagonist from the Marvel Comics universe, according to Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige.

The executive told Collider that Avengers foe Loki will return for the superhero sequel, alongside a "big villain".

Filming on Thor 2 begins in three months in London and it picks up where the first film left off in terms of Jane and Odin. Thor 2 also addresses what's been happening in the nine realms with the Asgardians unable to use the Bifrost," he said.

"Loki has a part in Thor 2, but there will be a different, big villain. The crux of Thor 2 is continuing the dynamic between Thor and Jane, as well as the relationship between Thor and Odin."

Feige did not offer any hints about the new villain's identity, but Enchantress and The Executioner have been linked with the series in the past.

Game of Thrones director Alan Taylor will helm Thor 2 for Marvel. Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman and Tom Hiddleston will reprise their leading roles from the previous film, as will supporting cast members Idris Elba and Jaimie Alexander.

Thor 2 is slated for release on November 15, 2013.

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Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake for 'Runner, Runner'

Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck are reportedly lined up to star in gambling thriller Runner, Runner.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Timberlake's casting is confirmed while Affleck is in final negotiations.

The thriller, which centres on the world of online gambling, will be directed by Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer), with a script by Ocean's Thirteen writers Brian Koppelman and David Levien.

Leonardo DiCaprio is a producer on the movie, with filming to begin in Puerto Rico this summer.

Affleck recently directed his third film Argo, a thriller centred on a group of CIA agents carrying out an unusual rescue mission. The film is set for release in September, and will star Affleck alongside Bryan Cranston, John Goodman and Alan Arkin.

Timberlake is currently involved in the Coen brothers' next film Inside Llewyn Davis.

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Woody Harrelson and Forest Whitaker join 'Out Of The Furnace'

Woody Harrelson and Forest Whitaker have joined the cast of Out Of The Furnace.

Deadline reports that Harrelson will play a crime boss in the Pennsylvania-set drama, with Whitaker taking the role of town sheriff Wesley Barnes.

Written and directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart), the film centres on two brothers played by Christian Bale and Casey Affleck, who find themselves gradually sucked into a life of crime.

Zoe Saldana has been cast as Bale's love interest, while Sam Shepard will play the brothers' uncle.

Harrelson has recently appeared in The Hunger Games and Rampart, and will next be seen in In Bruges writer-director Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths.

Whitaker's upcoming projects include a role in Robert De Niro vehicle Freelancers.

Production reportedly began on Out Of The Furnace yesterday (April 13) in Braddock, Pennsylvania, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Ridley Scott among the film's producers.

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Vince Vaughn for 'Rockford Files' big-screen remake?

Vince Vaughn has been tapped to star in a movie remake of The Rockford Files.

The Wedding Crashers actor is in line to portray the lead role of Jim Rockford in the cop comedy drama, originally played by James Garner.

Vaughn would also produce the project with sister Victoria Vaughn through their Universal-based Wild West Picture Show Productions if he took it on, reports Deadline.

The Rockford Files originally ran from 1974-1980, and followed private eye Jim Rockford who had spent several years in San Quentin jail before receiving a pardon. He later worked out of his mobile home in Malibu beach while solving cases.

NBC had planned to produce a TV remake of The Rockford Files for several years, with House creator David Shore and Lost actor Josh Holloway once linked to the production before it fell through.

Vince Vaughn recently signed up to reteam with Owen Wilson in comedy project Interns.

He will next be seen opposite Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade in Neighbourhood Watch, which opens in the US on July 27 and in the UK on August 22.

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Charlize Theron attached to 'Agent 13'

Charlize Theron is attached to star in Agent 13.

The Prometheus star will feature in Rise of the Planet of the Apes director Rupert Wyatt's forthcoming sci-fi film, reports Variety.

No plot details have been revealed for Agent 13. The highly anticipated pitch was devised by screenwriting newcomer TS Nowlin.

The project is yet to be acquired by a studio.

Theron will soon be seen in starring roles in both Prometheus and as the wicked queen alongside Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth in Snow White and the Huntsman.

Her role in 2011's Young Adult won Theron a Golden Globe nomination earlier this year.

Snow White will be released in cinemas on June 1, with Prometheus debuting on the same day in the UK and on June 8 in the US.

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Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez in talks for 'Machete 2

Jessica Alba and Michelle Rodriguez are in negotiations to join a sequel to Machete.

The actresses would reprise their roles from the Robert Rodriguez feature, which also starred Danny Trejo.

Both Alba and Rodriguez are close to signing on to the film, which will be called Machete Kills, according to Bloody Disgusting.

In the first film, Alba played an immigration agent who falls in love with Trejo's character Machete, while Rodriguez played a rebel leader named Luz.

The new film will centre on Trejo's character battling his way through Mexico in order to stop a weapons dealer from launching a powerful nuclear weapon.

Michelle Williams and Mel Gibson have been also been linked to starring roles in the movie.

Alba, who is gearing up to release her first book The Honest Life, may also be making an appearance in the recently announced Sin City sequel A Dame to Kill For.

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Penelope Cruz poised for screen reunion with Javier Bardem

Penelope Cruz may reunite with husband Javier Bardem on-screen in Ridley Scott's The Counselor.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actress is the frontrunner for a role in the drug drama, in which Bardem stars alongside Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt.

The couple first worked together in 1992's Jamon Jamon, and have collaborated several times since, most recently in Woody Allen's 2008 film Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

Written by The Road author Cormac McCarthy, The Counselor centres on an attorney badly in need of money (Fassbender) who becomes involved in cocaine trading on the Mexican border. Bardem plays a rich friend with whom he joins forces, and the pair become involved with a "shady type" played by Pitt.

If cast, Cruz will play a love interest for Fassbender's character.

Cruz married Bardem in 2010 and gave birth to their first child the year after.

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Robert De Niro talks 'Midnight Run', 'Raging Bull' sequels at Tribeca

Robert De Niro has confirmed that writing is underway on the planned Midnight Run sequel.

Speaking during a panel discussion at the Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday (April 19), De Niro explained that the follow-up to the 1988 action comedy would focus on his character helping the son of the criminal accountant from the first film.

The actor said of his character Jack Walsh: "He got himself in trouble. So that's where we are. The script is being reworked. I hope to do it - it was a lot of fun to do."

It was reported last month that director Brett Ratner is in negotiations to direct the sequel.

De Niro, who founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002, is currently in talks to join the cast of the upcoming CBS show Last Vegas.

The panel, mediated by director Judd Apatow, was in honour of the 100th anniversary of Universal Studios.

Apatow and De Niro talked about several of the veteran actor's Universal movies including Mean Streets, King of Comedy and Raging Bull, which De Niro said he would return to if the "script was good".

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Iron Man 3': Guy Pearce in final talks to play Aldrich Killian

Guy Pearce is reportedly in final talks to join Iron Man 3.

He is on the verge of taking the role of geneticist Aldrich Killian in the film, Variety reports.

In Warren Ellis's six-issue Iron Man: Extremis comics, the Killian character co-creates a powerful Extremis serum and releases it to terrorists.

The third instalment of the Iron Man series will shoot in Wilmington, North Carolina, with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang director Shane Black taking over from Jon Favreau.

Robert Downey Jr will again take the lead role of Tony Stark. It has been reported that Scarlett Johansson will return as Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff, who was an assistant to Stark in Iron Man 2, and that Sir Ben Kingsley is likely to play the role of the villain.

Mark Ruffalo has also suggested that he might appear in the guise of Bruce Banner.

Pearce will appear this summer as Peter Weyland in Prometheus, which is scheduled for release on June 1 in the UK and June 8 in the US.

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Vampire Diaries' Ian Somerhalder: 'I'd be up for Fifty Shades of Grey'

Ian Somerhalder has revealed that he would love to star in the movie adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey.

The rights to the erotic novel, which was written by EL James, were picked up by Universal and Focus after a bidding war

Somerhalder has now revealed that he'd love a role in the movie while speaking with Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM radio show.

The Vampire Diaries star said that he could "potentially" be in the running for the role of Christian and added: "I absolutely would be up for that... It could be amazing. It could be very, very amazing."

Somerhalder, who said the role would be a "phenomenal opportunity", revealed that he has just started reading the book and continued: "That would be a pretty incredible thing and hopefully that could pan out."

However, he refused to say who should play the female lead Ana in the movie, joking: "My wheels, they're not turning, they're spinning! There are so many phenomenal actors right now... You know what I'm going to do, Ryan? I'm going to think about that, I'm going to put that in a card."

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Hunger Games' Jennifer Lawrence to star in Jeannette Walls adaptation?

Jennifer Lawrence is in talks to star in the film adaptation of gossip columnist Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle.

Lionsgate has purchased the rights to the book and has brought in Marti Noxon to write the screenplay and The Blind Side's Gil Netter to produce, reports Deadline.

The Glass Castle: A Memoir tells the story of Walls, from her unconventional childhood due to her parents' deeply dysfunctional lifestyle, to how she removed herself from that lifestyle as a young adult.

After it was published in 2005, Walls made history when The Glass Castle stayed on The New York Times' bestseller list for over 250 weeks.

Lawrence previously starred in another Lionsgate movie based on a book, The Hunger Games.

The Hunger Games slid to third place in the US box office over the weekend, as new releases Think Like a Man and Zac Efron's The Lucky One took the top two spots respectively in the US box office.

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Sean Penn in talks for Ben Stiller's 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Sean Penn may join the cast of the remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

Penn is in talks to play "a small but pivotal supporting role", reports Deadline.

Directed by Ben Stiller, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty follows a "timid magazine photo manager" (Stiller) who hunts for a missing negative.

The comedy also features Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, Shirley MacLaine and Patton Oswalt.

Earlier this year, the Tree of Life actor was named the official ambassador to Haiti by the country's foreign minister Laurent Lamothe.

"I do accept," Penn said when awarded the honour at a Cinema for Peace benefit in California. "[It will make a good] change being called, 'Hey you [expletive]', to 'Hey Mr Ambassador!'"

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Haywire' star Gina Carano in talks for 'Fast & Furious 6'

Gina Carano is in talks to join the cast of Fast & Furious 6.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the martial arts fighter-turned-actress, who recently starred in Steven Soderbergh's Haywire, could join Dwayne Johnson in the action franchise's sixth instalment.

Vin Diesel and Paul Walker will reprise their roles alongside Johnson, and Carano - if cast - would play an ally to Johnson's Agent Luke Hobbs. Helmer Justin Lin and scriptwriter Chris Morgan will both return for their fourth time in the series.

It was recently reported that some of the film's scenes will be shot in the UK in Southend-on-Sea, Essex.

Johnson has confirmed that filming will begin in May.

Fast & Furious 6 is due for release on May 24, 2013.

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Jessica Chastain back in talks for 'Iron Man 3'

Jessica Chastain is in talks to appear in Iron Man 3, it has been reported.

The Academy Award-nominated actress - who rose to fame as a result of roles in films such as The Help and The Tree of Life - is said to have returned to negotations, according to Deadline.

Chastain was offered a leading role playing a scientist billed as a match for protagonist Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr), the publication reports. However, she reportedly declined due to scheduling concerns.

She is currently working on Katherine Bigelow's Osama Bin Laden movie Zero Dark Thirty and is also attached to star alongside Joel Edgerton in double feature The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby.

However, the filming schedules for both projects are now said to have been worked out.

Chastain was recently named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of the year.

Downey Jr will next play Tony Stark/Iron Man in The Avengers, released on April 26 in the UK (under the title Marvel Avengers Assemble) and May 4 in the US.

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Mel Gibson in line for 'Machete Kills'

Mel Gibson is close to signing on for Machete Kills.

The actor is in "serious discussions" for an appearance next to Danny Trejo, who will reprise his 2010 titular role, reports Deadline.

Gibson was rumoured to be in talks for the movie alongside Michelle Williams earlier in the month.

Rodriguez is in line to direct Machete Kills, but has admitted he may need to enlist another director if the filming clashes with Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.

"Currently I am directing it," Rodriguez told The Hollywood Reporter.

"But we're checking to see if there's going to be the need for another director if I have to go off and do Sin City... But Machete looks like it's going to go pretty quickly, so it's possible that I will direct the whole thing."

Rodriguez continued: "There's so much of it that I want to direct I'll probably end up directing the whole thing, but if I have to step off, I'm going to try and shoot all of the actors and all of the main sequences.

"It's such a fun movie, and it just came out even more fun than I could have imagined."

The original Machete also starred Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Steven Seagal and Michelle Rodriguez. Only Trejo has been confirmed to return for the sequel so far.

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