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Mark Wahlberg to star in 'Transformers 4', confirms Michael Bay

Mark Wahlberg will star in Transformers 4, Michael Bay has confirmed.

Reports that the Ted actor would take the lead role in the next instalment of the movie series were originally denied last month. However, Bay confirmed the news in a post on his official website on Thursday (November 8).

"Mark is awesome. We had a blast working on Pain and Gain, and I'm so fired up to be back working with him," said Bay.

"An actor of his calibre is the perfect guy to re-invigorate the franchise and carry on the Transformers legacy."

The fourth Transformers movie is due to start filming in spring 2013, while Pain and Gain will open worldwide on April 26, 2013.

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Kristen Stewart: 'I've not been dropped from Snow White sequel'

Kristen Stewart has said there is a "strong possibility" that she may return for a Snow White and the Huntsman sequel.

She hinted that she could still appear in the Universal Pictures follow-up, despite rumours that she had been dropped from the franchise.

"No-one's positive or anything, but I think there's a strong possibility," she said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Stewart has been rumoured not to be returning for the Huntsman-starring sequel to this year's film, in which she featured alongside Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth.

The film was dogged by scandal after it was revealed that she cheated on boyfriend Robert Pattinson by having a "brief fling" with director Rupert Sanders.

Stewart will soon be seen in the final instalment of the Twilight Saga franchise Breaking Dawn - Part Two.

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Alan Arkin in talks for boxing comedy 'Grudge Match'

Alan Arkin has reportedly entered talks to join the cast of boxing comedy Grudge Match.

The Argo actor will join Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro, Kevin Hart and Kim Basinger if he signs up for the project.

Get Smart helmer Peter Segal will direct the movie based on a screenplay by Entourage writer Doug Ellin. Bill Gerber, Carrie Gillogly and Mark Steven Johnson will act as producers.

Grudge Match is based around a rivalry between two ageing boxers, played by Stallone and De Niro, who plan one final match against each other.

Basinger has been cast as the female lead caught up in the rivalry, while Arkin is in discussions to play the trainer to Stallone's character, Variety reports.

Grudge Match is yet to receive a release date.

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X-Men: Days of Future Past' to shoot 'in April'

X-Men: Days of Future Past will reportedly begin shooting next April.

The Coventry Telegraph claims to have heard from studio insiders that principal photography will begin on the project next spring.

Bryan Singer, who recently took up the director's chair following the departure of Matthew Vaughn, confirmed over Twitter that pre-production on the movie is already underway.

"Well here goes. Beginning full prep on X-Men: Days of Future Past. Very excited," he wrote.

Vaughn helmed the film's predecessor, X-Men: First Class, but dropped out of the upcoming instalment, sparking rumours he was in talks to direct Star Wars: Episode 7 for Disney.

It has since emerged that he departed the X-Men sequel to work on The Secret Service, an adaptation of a Mark Millar comic, but the Star Wars rumours persist.

X-Men: Days of Future Past, starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence, is scheduled for a July 18, 2014 release date.

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McG to direct 'Magic Castle' movie

McG has signed on to direct a movie about famed Hollywood club The Magic Castle.

The This Means War helmer will develop the project based on a screenplay by Andrew Barrer and Gabe Ferrari, details of which are being kept under wraps, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Magic Castle was turned into a private magic club in 1963, and regularly hosts performances from celebrity magic enthusiasts such as Neil Patrick Harris. Shows can be attended by invitation only and are not open to the public.

This is not the first landmark to inspire a Hollywood movie. Ben Stiller's Night at the Museum is based around the American Museum of Natural History, while Disney turned its Haunted Mansion theme park ride into an Eddie Murphy-fronted comedy.

McG will begin work on the movie after wrapping up Three Days to Kill, a Luc Besson-produced action thriller starring Kevin Costner.

The Magic Castle is yet to be assigned a release date.

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Isla Fisher in talks for 'Jackie Brown' prequel 'The Switch'

Isla Fisher has entered into talks for Dan Schechter's upcoming film.

Jennifer Aniston and John Hawkes have already been cast in the writer-director's untitled adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel The Switch, reports Variety.

Quentin Tarantino's 1997 movie Jackie Brown was based on the novel's loose sequel, Rum Punch.

Hawkes and Yasiin Bey will play younger versions of Louis Gara and Ordell Robbie, who were portrayed by Robert De Niro and Samuel L Jackson in the previous adaptation.

The pair are hired to kidnap the wife (Aniston) of a corrupt Detroit real estate developer. When he refuses to pay the ransom, she enlists the men to help her plot her revenge.

Fisher is in line for the role of meddlesome Melanie, who was portrayed by Bridget Fonda in Jackie Brown.

Dennis Quaid was formerly in line for the project, but has had to drop out due to a scheduling clash.

Fisher has leant her voice to the upcoming Rise of the Guardians animation. She will next be seen in The Great Gatsby and Now You See Me.

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Firefly' star Sean Maher wants 'Serenity 2'

Sean Maher wants to return for Serenity 2.

The Firefly star has admitted that he has asked Joss Whedon why there has not been a sequel to the 2005 movie spinoff of the short-lived sci-fi show.

"I wish I could wrap my head around it a little more," Maher told Hero Complex.

"When I see [Joss Whedon], I'm like, 'I don't get it. Aren't you like king of the world right now? Can't you do anything?

"'And I know we can't do another show. I get that. A television show would be very tricky with all of our availability, and I don't think that's in the realm of possibility. But what about another movie? You just shot Much Ado About Nothing in 12 days. You're kind of amazing at that. You made that happen'.

"So when people ask me if there's another one, I say, 'You know, I don't think so, but I don't know, and I kind of don't understand why'."

Whedon is currently working on Marvel Studios' Avengers 2 and the television show spinoff S.H.I.E.L.D.

Maher will appear alongside various other Whedon regulars in Much Ado About Nothing.

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Quentin Tarantino to quit filmmaking after tenth movie?

Quentin Tarantino has hinted that he may stop making films within the next decade.

The director, whose slavery drama Django Unchained is released in the US next month, told Playboy that he doesn't want to continue making films into his old age, and would ideally stop at ten.

"I just don't want to be an old-man filmmaker," Tarantino said. "I want to stop at a certain point. Directors don't get better as they get older.

"Usually the worst films in their filmography are those last four at the end. I am all about my filmography, and one bad film f**ks up three good ones.

"But if I stop at ten, that would be okay as an artistic statement."

Tarantino has directed eight feature films to date, not including his segment in 1995's Four Rooms.

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Twins' sequel 'Triplets' finds writers

Twins sequel Triplets is moving ahead, having appointed screenwriters.

Universal Pictures has appointed Josh Gad and Ryan Dixon to pen the follow-up to the 1988 comedy, according to Deadline.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are expected to reprise their roles from the original, and Eddie Murphy is attached to take on the role of their estranged brother.

Ivan Reitman, who directed Twins, will return to the series as producer. A director for the project is yet to be appointed.

Former governor of California Schwarzenegger confirmed the project's existence at Comic-Con International in the summer, following months of speculation.

Triplets is expected to begin filming next year.

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Hugh Jackman in talks for new 'X-Men' movie 'Days of Future Past'

Hugh Jackman could appear in the new X-Men movie, it has been reported.

The actor has begun talks to play the character in X-Men: Days of Future Past, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Jackman, who appeared in the first three X-Men movies and spin-off X-Men Origins: Wolverine, recently finished filming The Wolverine for release next July.

Director Bryan Singer confirmed on Twitter earlier this week that Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart will reprise their roles as Magneto and Professor X in Days of Future Past.

Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy, who played younger versions of the characters in X-Men: First Class, are also attached to appear in the new movie, along with Nicholas Hoult as Beast/Hank McCoy and Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique.

X-Men: Days of Future Past will be based on Chris Claremont's Uncanny X-Men storyline.

Production is due to start in January 2013, with a release date pencilled in for July 18, 2014.

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Transformers 4' casts Nicola Peltz, Brenton Thwaites

Transformers 4 has cast Nicola Peltz and Brenton Thwaites.

The pair will play Mark Wahlberg's daughter and her boyfriend, reports Twitch.

Wahlberg has taken the lead role in Michael Bay's final Transformers film, following the departure of Shia LaBeouf from the franchise.

Peltz is best known for her starring role in M Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender. She will next be seen in the Hitchcock-inspired television show Bates Motel.

Home and Away actor Thwaites will appear alongside Angelina Jolie in Disney's Maleficent.

Set four years four years after the third film Dark of the Moon, Transformers 4 is due to start filming in spring 2013 for release on June 27, 2014.

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Harry Potter' mini-movie being secretly filmed for theme park?

A Harry Potter mini-movie is reportedly being secretly filmed.

An eighth instalment of the JK Rowling adaptations is allegedly being specially produced for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter attraction in Florida and the two new Hogwarts theme parks currently under construction.

Helena Bonham Carter will be among the film stars to appear in the project, according to The Sun.

A source claimed: "The cast have really enjoyed getting back together - they are so tight-knit."

The theme park in California will premiere the film in 2014, followed by another in Japan in 2016.

The source added: "The shooting schedule is nowhere near as long as the films, so though filming has been intense, the stars have enjoyed being able to pop in and out."

It has yet to be confirmed which other Harry Potter stars will appear in the short film.

JK Rowling recently sold the home in which she wrote several Harry Potter novels for £2.2 million

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Danny Boyle rules out directing James Bond movie

Danny Boyle has ruled out directing any James Bond movies in the future.

The 127 Hours filmmaker has said that he has no plans to make a full-length version of the 007 spy series, after he directed Daniel Craig as Bond for the Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Daniel Craig starred in a short film as Bond for the London 2012 Olympics, which also featured a cameo from The Queen.

When asked if he would ever direct a proper Bond film, he told BBC Radio 4's Front Row: "No, I'm not very good with huge amounts of money."

Boyle also revealed that directing The Beach with Leonardo DiCaprio had put him off working on films with large budgets.

"Don't trust me with huge amounts of money, anybody," he said. "I did a film, The Beach, which was a proper Hollywood-scale budget and it didn't suit me.

"Certain people can handle that and I love watching those kinds of films, but I'm much better with a smaller amount of money and trying to make it go a long way."

Danny Boyle is currently working on the thriller Trance with James McAvoy, which is expected for a spring 2013 release.

Sam Mendes directed the latest Bond movie Skyfall, with Kevin Spacey recently stating he would like to play a villain if Mendes remains.

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Angelina Jolie's 'Salt 2' gets 'Seven Years in Tibet' writer

Salt 2 has acquired screenwriter Becky Johnston.

The Seven Years in Tibet writer has joined the sequel to the 2010 action thriller, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Angelina Jolie, who is expected to reprise her role in the new Columbia Pictures film, has reportedly requested a rewrite of the initial script.

The original film centres around a CIA officer who discovers that she is a Russian sleeper cell agent with a mission to kill the President of the United States.

Johnston has previously worked on Under the Cherry Moon, the Barbra Streisand-starring 1991 film The Prince of Tides and Seven Years in Tibet, which featured Jolie's fiancé Brad Pitt.

Jolie is yet to officially sign on to Salt 2.

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Matt Damon open to 'Bourne' franchise return

Matt Damon has expressed willingness to return to the Bourne film franchise.

Damon left his role as Jason Bourne in The Bourne Ultimatum in 2007, having been replaced by Jeremy Renner as new agent Aaron Cross for The Bourne Legacy.

The actor cast doubt over ever playing Jason Bourne again in October, but has now told Access Hollywood that he is more hopeful about returning.

"I've always been [open]," he commented. "I love that character and I love that series."

The star continued: "It's just really an issue of finding the story. We don't know what that is. How do you get that character going again? If we could crack that, we'd do it."

Damon also revealed that he has even spoken about a new Bourne film with Paul Greengrass, who directed The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum.

"We have a bunch of stuff we talk about but Bourne always comes up, inevitably, because it's a big, significant part of our lives," he disclosed.

"So we would love for it to work out, but it's a tough one."

Renner's The Bourne Legacy was a box office smash this summer, taking in more than $276 million at the worldwide box office.

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Mark Wahlberg: 'Transformers 4 is most important role of my career'

Mark Wahlberg has said that he thinks Transformers 4 will be the "most important role" of his career.

The actor discussed his forthcoming reunion with Pain and Gain director Michael Bay.

"I'm really excited about Transformers," Wahlberg told ComingSoon.net.

"Michael Bay and I just did Pain and Gain, and we had such a good time making it. He came to me and said, 'I'm kind of doing a whole different reboot on Transformers. Are you interested?' I said, 'Yeah, I'll do it!'

"I loved the idea, and I think we can make something really cool and kick-ass. This is not something where it's already established and I'm just in there to get a paycheck. I'm thinking this is the most important role of my career and I can do something really special.

"It's the only time my kids have ever been interested in a movie I'm making."

Transformers 4 is scheduled to begin shooting in May for release on June 27, 2014.

Wahlberg will next be seen in Broken City, which will debut on January 18, 2013, in the US and on January 25 in the UK.

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Riddick' sequel gets September 2013 release date

The latest instalment of the Chronicles of Riddick franchise will be released this fall, Universal Pictures has revealed.

Riddick will star Vin Diesel, reprising his role as an escaped convict in the science fiction series.

Deadline reports that the film is due for release in US theatres including IMAX on September 6, 2013.

It was earlier announced that the film will get an R rating, the first in the franchise's history.

Writer/director David Twohy, who is best known for his work on The Fugitive, is returning to the series to direct.

Diesel is also poised to play Kojak in a film adaption from the writers of the latest James Bond movie Skyfall.

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Hugh Jackman confirmed for 'X-Men Days of Future Past' by Bryan Singer

Hugh Jackman will officially reprise his role as X-Men character Wolverine in Days of Future Past.

Director Bryan Singer confirmed recent speculation surrounding Jackman's casting via his Twitter account on Tuesday evening (December 18).

"I would officially like to welcome @RealHughJackman to the cast of #Xmen Days of Future Past. Very excited! More to come..." wrote Singer.

The sequel to X-Men: First Class is due for release on July 18, 2014. Production is slated to begin in early 2013.

Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart are also said to have signed up for Days of Future Past.

However, Stewart recently stated that he has yet to hear anything about the project and has not officially put pen to paper.

Jackman will next be seen in his X-Men role in The Wolverine, which is released on July 25, 2013 in the UK and on July 26, 2013 in the US.

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Jackie Chan joins 'Expendables 3', new project with Chris Tucker

Jackie Chan has revealed that he has signed up for The Expendables 3.

The martial arts specialist said that he was originally lined up for the second instalment of Sylvester Stallone's action series, but has now joined the upcoming third film.

"Sly had invited me to be in Expendables 2 but I was too busy filming Chinese Zodiac and couldn't make a commitment to the film," Chan said at a Kuala Lumpur press conference promoting his new film.

"But he did extend his invitation to the third movie, which I agreed on the condition that I will be appearing as more than just a minor role with a few scenes."

The Expendables 2 starred Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li and Chuck Norris among others, earning $53 million at the US box office.

Chan also revealed that he may reunite with Rush Hour co-star Chris Tucker on a new buddy comedy titled Skip Tracer.

He said: "The script is currently viewed by Chris Tucker. Personally, I feel that if he were to pick it up, it would be better if we turned it into Rush Hour 4 but I do think that three movies for the franchise is a perfect ending. It would be better to start a new buddy movie with someone new."

Rush Hour 4 was previously reported to be moving ahead with Chan and Tucker back in July.

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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For': Christopher Meloni joins cast

Christopher Meloni has joined the cast of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.

The former Law & Order: SVU actor will be playing a lead role of a cop in the graphic novel sequel directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, reports Deadline.

Josh Brolin is also said to be on the directors' wishlist for the project along with several actors from the original cast.

Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Jaime King and Rosario Dawson are among the cast members who will return for the new movie, while Jamie Chung will replace Devon Aoki.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt was recently announced as one of the film's leading stars. He will play Johnny, a role which was once linked with Johnny Depp.

Talking about the role, Gordon-Levitt said in a statement: "I love how the first movie uses VFX, not to make fake things look real, but to create a heightened world unburdened by the look and feel of reality. Plus, nobody makes a badass like Mr Rodriguez."

Christopher Meloni - who appeared in HBO's True Blood last year - recently said he was open to returning to Law & Order: SVU in the future.

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