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Bradley Cooper is the latest actor to be rumoured for the lead role in Warner Bros' Green Lantern.

According to HitFix.com, the 34-year-old Yes Man star has held discussions with Martin Campbell about playing the comic book character, who inherits a ring that gives him superpowers.

Star Trek's Chris Pine, Sam Worthington and Ryan Gosling have previously been linked to the superhero role.

Green Lantern is scheduled to shoot later this summer in Australia. The studio has targeted a December 17, 2010 release date for the action blockbuster.

Cooper can next be seen in Warner Bros comedy The Hangover, released in the US on June 5 and June 12 in the UK.

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20th Century Fox has announced plans to make a Deadpool spinoff following the character's appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ryan Reynolds will reprise his role as the comic book character, with Lauren Shuler Donner and Marvel producing the project. Fox is currently seeking writers for the movie.

A source told MTV that the spinoff will be "a complete exploration of this unique character - his origins, his emergence as the Merc with the Mouth".

Wolverine is currently the number one film at the US box office after taking in $87 million over the weekend.

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Hugh Hefner has given Robert Downey Jr the thumps up to portray him in a biopic.

The Tropic Thunder star has previously expressed an interest in developing a movie based on Hefner’s life story.

The Playboy founder told Hollyscoop: "Downey and I have talked about it and it is a very real possibility.

"He's a marvelous actor and I would be honored if he decided to do it."

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Will Ferrell is in talks about taking the lead role in David Dobkin's new comedy Neighbourhood Watch.

However, according to The Hollywood Reporter, discussions about Ferrell's involvement are still at an early stage.

Shaun Levy, who was originally attached to direct the movie, will now co-produce.

Neighbourhood Watch tells the story of "an urbanite who gets more than he bargained for when he moves to the suburbs". The film also involves an alien sub-plot and sci-fi element.

Dobkin, whose credits include Wedding Crashers and Fred Claus, is also currently working on action adventure The Flash and romantic comedy Helium.

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Ridley Scott has said that Nick Cave's controversial screenplay for a sequel to the Oscar-winning Gladiator was a fine piece of storytelling.

Cave, who is best known as a musician but also wrote the award-winning script for The Proposition, was approached by Scott and star Russell Crowe to work out how to follow on from the 2000 epic.

Scott told UGO: "We tried. Russell didn't want to let it go, obviously, because it worked very well. I mean, when I say 'worked very well', I don't refer to success. I mean, as a piece it works very well.

"Storytelling, he works brilliantly. I think he enjoyed doing it, and I think it was one of those things that he thought: 'Well, maybe there's a sequel where we can adjust the fantasy and bring him back from the dead.'"

Reviews of the completed screenplay have appeared online, revealing a story of Crowe's Maximus being brought back to life after meeting with the Roman gods.

Crowe called Cave's work on the proposed movie "one of the best scripts I've ever read".

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine has beaten Hannah Montana: The Movie to take the UK box office crown.

The Marvel Comics adaptation pulls in triple Hannah's total to secure first place over the May Bank Holiday weekend.

Last week's number one State Of Play slips to three, while new release Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past enters at four.

Elsewhere, Monsters Vs. Aliens and Fast & Furious tumble out of the top five to six and seven respectively.

The UK top ten in full:

1. (-) X-Men Origins: Wolverine - £6,658,979
2. (-) Hannah Montana: The Movie - £2,030,657
3. (1) State Of Play - £981,519
4. (-) Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past - £976,780
5. (4) 17 Again - £534,816
6. (2) Monsters Vs. Aliens - £529,594
7. (3) Fast & Furious - £455,558
8. (5) I Love You, Man - £358,530
9. (6) In The Loop - £214,607
10. (7) The Uninvited - £172,973

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David Slade has apologised to Twilight fans after making disparaging remarks about the vampire franchise.

The director, who is set to helm the third instalment Eclipse next year, had reportedly revealed his disregard for the series in an interview last November.

Discussing going to see the film, he wrote: "Twilight drunk? No, not even drunk. Twilight on acid? No, not even on acid? Twilight at gun point? Just shoot me."

In an email to Twilight Lexicon, he said: "When I made these comments, I had neither seen the film nor read the books. I was promoting a comedy short film...and every pop culture subject was seen as a possible comedy target."

He went on to say that he was "being silly" and that he appreciated the "rich storytelling and the beautifully honest characters that Stephenie Meyer created".

Slade added: "I would like to reassure everyone involved that I am invested in making the best film that I am humanly capable of, and that I am acutely aware of the power of the original books we serve."

Eclipse is scheduled for release in summer 2010. New Moon, the second instalment in the saga, will arrive in cinemas this November.

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Sam Rockwell has revealed details about his character in Iron Man 2.

The actor will play the role of Justin Hammer, who is portrayed in the comic books as an English tycoon and arch nemesis of Iron Man’s alter ego, Tony Stark, Total Film reports.

He told MTV: "They wanted to go with a rival for Tony Stark who is closer to his age, and make him American."

Rockwell went on to mention that Hammer won't have many fighting scenes in the movie, though added that his comic book incarnation bears a striking resemblance to a fellow actor.

He said: "That looks like Jeremy Irons. I guess they couldn’t get Jeremy Irons for it."

Iron Man has a release date of April 30, 2010, and also stars Robert Downey Jr. and Mickey Rourke .

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Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has revealed that 20th Century Fox are "in the early stages" of turning the animated TV comedy into a feature film.

Speaking to Wired, MacFarlane admitted that he already has a story idea for the big screen spinoff.

"We want to do it," he said. "Fox wants it. We know what we want to do with it. It's just a question of finding the time. That's why The Simpsons took so many years to do theirs. It wasn't because they didn't know what they wanted to do with it. They just couldn’t fit it into the schedule."

MacFarlane added that the workload for an animated show is "twice as much as you have to do for live-action".

"We're finding time where we can," he said. "We're in the early stages right now."

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Ryan Reynolds wanted a Deadpool movie, and now he's getting it. Fox has green-lit a spin-off of Reynolds' X-Men Origins: Wolverine character into a starring vehicle for the actor, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

A wisecracking mercenary dying of cancer, Deadpool cures himself of the disease with the same Mutant X genetic alteration that transforms Wolverine. Deadpool's mouth was sewn shut in Wolverine, but he will live to mouth off again in the new film.

Wolverine reeled in a monstrous $87 million opening weekend. Fox already locked in Hugh Jackman for a sequel.

What do you think of a Deadpool spinoff? Mouth off below.

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Robert Rodriguez has revealed that his proposed remake of Barbarella will not come to fruition.

The director admitted that he was forced to find funds for the movie after Universal Studios balked at the $80 million price tag, according to Total Film.

He said: "It came to the point where a company from Germany offered us a $70 million budget, which would have been by far the biggest budget I would have ever had for a movie."

However Rodriguez said that he was not willing to separate from his five children to film in Germany.

He also expressed his disappointment that his remake of the 1968 Jane Fonda sci-fi vehicle, which was to star Rose McGowan, will never see the light of day.

"It was a really cool, R-rated, sexy, near heavy metal-style version of a Star Wars movie. Something that no one ever could get to see. It was gonna be really great," he added.

Rodriguez will now reportedly focus on other projects such as Machete, and also plans to release Barbarella’s concept artwork in book form.

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James McAvoy, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney and Anna Friel have signed up to star in black comedy The Details.

According to Variety, the film centres on a couple (McAvoy and Banks) who find raccoons living in their back garden. Their disagreements about how to deal with the infestation sets in motion an escalating chain of events.

Jacob Estes (Mean Creek) has written and will direct The Details, which is slated to go into production this summer in Seattle.

McAvoy can next be seen in The Last Station, a biopic of Russian author Leo Tolstoy.

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The Rock has signed up to star in Phil Joanou's action drama Faster, according to Variety.

The former WWE star, real name Dwayne Johnson, will play an ex-con who is determined to avenge the death of his brother, who was killed in a heist ten years earlier.

Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray, who worked with Johnson on The Game Plan and upcoming movie Tooth Fairy, will co-produce.

The project begins shooting in August.

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Warner Bros has delayed the release of its sci-fi action movie Green Lantern by six months.

The comic book adaptation had initially been handed a December 17, 2010 release date, but the studio has now pushed it back to June 17, 2011.

Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) will direct the film in Australia later this year from script by Greg Berlanti, Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim.

Bradley Cooper is the latest actor to emerge as a contender for the coveted role. He can next be seen in comedy The Hangover, released in the UK on June 12.

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Katie Holmes has signed up to star in Miramx thriller Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark, reports Variety.

The project, scripted by Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins, centres on a girl who moves into a new home with her father and his girlfriend only to discover that the house is inhabited by evil creatures. It is based on a TV movie that aired on ABC in 1973.

Comic book artist and del Toro protégé Troy Nixey will make his directorial debut on the project, which is scheduled to film in Melbourne this summer. It is Holmes's first big screen role since last year's Mad Money.

Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark will be released as 'A Guillermo del Toro Presentation'.

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Nine people have reportedly been injured in the second accident to occur near the set of Nicolas Cage's new movie in three days.

According to reports. the incident happened after a sports car crashed into a parked vehicle near where The Sorcerer's Apprentice was being filmed in New York at around 3.30am yesterday.

The driver of the car later told officials that she had swerved to avoid a taxi, but that the two vehicles had jumped the curb and hit a group of people who were sitting under a marquee.

All those involved, which included some of the movie's crew members, are reported to have received treatment for minor injuries at nearby hospitals.

Earlier this week, two onlookers were hurt after a stunt driver lost control of his car while filming a chase scene in Times Square. A lawyer for one of the victims has reportedly confirmed that she will sue for damages.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice, based on the sequence from Fantasia, stars Cage as a sorcerer who takes a young student under his wing. It is scheduled for release on July 16, 2010.

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Lost actor Matthew Fox has been tapped for the lead role in thriller Billy Smoke.

The project, based on an upcoming Oni Press comic book, focuses on an assassin who quits his profession to rid the world of all contract killers.

Jeffrey Nachmanoff will write and direct the project for Warner Bros. He made his directorial debut on this year's Traitor.

Nachmanoff has been working on the script for Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time, while Fox recently appeared in the films Speed Racer and Vantage Point.

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Jerry O'Connell has joined the cast of Alexandre Aja's Piranha 3-D, reports Entertainment Weekly.

The project is a remake of Joe Dante's cult 1978 original which saw flesh-eating fish accidentally released into a river running through a small town.

Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott, Ving Rhames and Jessica Szohr are already on board for the horror film. Richard Dreyfuss will make a brief cameo appearance in an homage to his role in Jaws.

Piranha 3-D begins production next week in Arizona. It will be released on March 19, 2010 through The Weinstein Company.

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Steve Coogan and Rosario Dawson have been added to the star-studded cast of Percy Jackson.

The Chris Columbus-directed project, adaptated from Rick Riordan's children's book The Lightning Thief, involves Percy, the half-human son of Poseidon who attempts to prevent a war erupting between the gods in present-day America.

Coogan has been cast as Hades, ruler of the underworld, while Dawson will portray his imprisoned wife, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman, Sean Bean and Kevin McKidd have already been cast as Greek gods in the Fox 2000 fantasy. They will be joined by teen actors Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario and Brandon T. Jackson.