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Thurman keen for 'Kill Bill 3' training

Uma Thurman has revealed that she is keen to begin training for the upcoming third  Kill Bill  instalment.

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino recently confirmed that the follow-up will be out in cinemas in 2014.

The actress, who starred as martial-arts trained The Bride in the first two films of the franchise, equated her previous regimen to "basic training in Vietnam". However, she admitted that she has grown lazy since the last movie completed filming in 2004.

She told Empire: "They train you so hard that when you come to shooting, it's actually quite comfortable. It's not the same as real kung fu and I could not defend myself now if someone picked a fight!"

She added: "It was a transforming experience; I was part of a fight team for almost nine months and that changed my life. They taught me to work harder than I had ever done before, physically, and it's an incredible thing to discover that your breaking point is actually much higher than you think. It's a great gift.

"It did change my life back then. Not that I'm changed still; I'm back to being the bum that I was! But I do miss it, and hopefully I'll get back on the stick one day."

The 39-year-old previously revealed that she has discussed possible storyline ideas with her Kill Bill director.

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Cooper takes LaBeouf's 'Dark Fields' role

Bradley Cooper has signed up to replace Shia LaBeouf in Universal's thriller Dark Fields, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The Neil Burger-directed film will centre on an unsuccessful writer who finds a pill that boosts his intelligence but with dangerous side effects.

Leslie Dixon penned the Fields script based on Alan Glynn's 2002 novel.

Cooper is the star of last summer's comedy hit The Hangover and can soon be seen playing Templeton 'Faceman' Peck in the big screen A-Team movie.

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50 Cent: 'Danny Dyer as good as De Niro'

50 Cent has compared his Dead Man Running co-star Danny Dyer to some of Hollywood's top actors.

Speaking to Sport, the rapper and actor said that Dyer is in the same league as Hollywood stars Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Sharon Stone.

"He's one of the best actors I've ever worked with, and I've worked with a lot of great actors - like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Sharon Stone," he commented. "He just has charisma and bounces off the screen."

Dead Man Running, about an ex-con who is given 24 hours to repay a loan shark, is in cinemas now.

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Eminem 'to star in 3D horror film'

Eminem will reportedly produce and star in an upcoming 3D hip-hop horror anthology entitled Shady Talez.

Producers John Davis and Dallas Jackson, who worked on I, Robot, will helm the movie alongside the rapper, according to Screendaily.com.

The project will also be adapted as a series of four comic books on the Marvel Icons imprint next year.

The film is due to be Eminem's first return to the big screen since 2002's 8 Mile.

A release date for Shady Talez is still to be confirmed.

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Jackson film 'This Is It' surpasses $100m

Michael Jackson concert film This Is It has grossed more than $100m (£60.2m) internationally as it enters its second week in cinemas.

The movie has earned $144m (£86.7m) since its worldwide release, including $44m (£26.5m) from the US and Canada, reports Reuters. It has taken $11.1m (£6.6m) in the UK.

This Is It, directed by Kenny Ortega, is currently playing in a total of 97 countries.

The picture documents Jackson's rehearsals for the concert series of the same name. It features the late star working on stage and behind the scenes mentoring his team of musicians and dancers.

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Daniel Craig to star in 'Dream House'

Daniel Craig has signed to star in forthcoming psychological thriller Dream House, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The 41-year-old will play a father who moves his family to a small town where they live in a house haunted by its former inhabitants.

Dream House will be helmed by Oscar-nominated In America director Jim Sheridan.

Craig's next project The Adventures of Tintin is due out in 2011.

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Bullock: 'Nudity made Proposal a hit'

Sandra Bullock has claimed that baring her backside in her last film was behind its success.

The Hollywood star insisted that her nude scenes in romantic comedy The Proposal made the movie a box office hit, reports STV.

The 45-year-old stated: "We had all the right people, the right elements in the right place. But to be honest, I think nudity had a great deal to do with it. People liked it."

Co-star Ryan Reynolds has said that he enjoyed filming the sex scenes with Bullock.

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Jim Carrey: 'Scrooge transformed me'

Jim Carrey has claimed that his latest film mirrors his own journey out of depression.

The 47-year-old actor, who has admitted to taking prescription drugs to battle his mood disorder, said that starring as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol helped him find perspective in his own life.

Carrey told The Mirror: "Everybody loves a good transformational story - somebody who sees the light and finds out what's important in life. It was wonderful to get to the bottom of a character I've seen done a hundred different ways."

He also revealed that leading a healthy lifestyle and becoming stepfather to Jenny McCarthy's 6-year-old son Evan has assisted him in discovering "more light".

Carrey added: "I created tools to help my treatment and I went down a path with some amazing scientific minds who are using supplemental treatments for depression.

"I'm so happy to have a beautiful family and to be able to sit there with Evan showing him clips of the movie. I took him through the scary parts and told him the ghost was coming and he loved it."

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Jake Gyllenhaal to star in 'Source Code'?

Jake Gyllenhaal is reportedly in negotiations to star in Source Code.

The sci-fi thriller will be helmed by David Bowie's son and Moon director Duncan Jones.

According to Variety, Source Code focuses on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown commuter.

Gyllenhaal can next be seen in the drama Brothers alongside Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire, as well as Disney's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

Jones is writing the screenplay for the forthcoming film Mute.

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John Cusack to star in 'Preacher'?

John Cusack has revealed an interest in starring in a comic book adaptation, pointing towards Preacher as a project he would consider.

The 2012 actor was quizzed whether he knew of any comic book movies floating around Hollywood that he would like to be involved in.

"Yeah, I can, there was one or two that I heard of that sounded really cool," he told io9.com.

"One of them was about, I think... it's a vampire and a killer, and they're on the road, and it's this really strange story. I thought that sounded pretty cool."

He added: "I think it might have been Preacher."

Preacher, written by Garth Ennis and pencilled by Steve Dillon, follows down-and-out preacher Jesse Custer as he goes on a journey across the US trying to find God after becoming possessed by a supernatural creature named Genesis.

Sam Mendes is currently attached to direct.

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Paltrow to join Kidman in 'Danish Girl'

Gwyneth Paltrow will reportedly join Nicole Kidman in The Danish Girl.

The film is an adaptation of the David Ebershoff novel about the first post-operative transsexual, Variety reports.

Kidman has been linked to the lead role of Einar Wegener and Paltrow has reportedly been cast as Wegemer's wife Greta.

The script has been penned by Lucinda Coxon and will be helmed by Let The Right One In director Thomas Alfredson.

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Mortensen uncertain about 'Hobbit' return

Viggo Mortensen has said that he is unsure if his Lord Of The Rings character will appear in The Hobbit.

Speaking to Coming Soon, the actor revealed that filmmakers Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson are currently concentrating on getting the first of the Hobbit prequels made, which won't feature Mortensen's Aragorn.

"I think they're just worried about shooting the first part of that movie which doesn't involve my character," Mortensen said. "My character is around at times - in the middle, but it would only be if they made a second movie or connecting movie that connected The Hobbit to The Lord Of The Rings that I might appear, which would be great."

Aragorn does not appear in JRR Tolkien's fantasy novel The Hobbit, but is included in the supplemental appendices from Lord Of The Rings that brings the two stories together.

Mortensen can next be seen in the big-screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road.

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Winona Ryder joins 'Black Swan' cast

Winona Ryder has joined the cast of Natalie Portman's new movie Black Swan, reports Slash Film.

The supernatural thriller, directed by The Wrestler's Darren Aronofsky, centres on a rivalry between two ballerinas at a prestigious New York company. Ryder will play Beth, a dancer who is coming to the end of her career.

Vincent Cassel (playing ballet director Yevna) and Barbara Hershey (as Portman's mother) have also boarded the film's cast, which includes Forgetting Sarah Marshall star Mila Kunis.

Reports have claimed that the movie will feature a lesbian sex scene between Portman and Kunis.

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Foxx, Lawrence to cross-dress in 'Sheneneh'

Jamie Foxx and Martin Lawrence will bring their comedy creations Sheneneh and Wanda to the big screen, reports Variety.

The project began life as a parody trailer for a movie called Skank Robbers that aired at the BET Awards this year. In the skit, the actors cross-dressed to portray two women who make a living robbing banks.

Foxx will write Sheneneh And Wanda and produce alongside Lawrence. It will be the first time the pair, who have known each other since they started out as stand-up comics, have worked together on a movie.

Lawrence has previously donned women's clothing for the Big Momma's House films.

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Cameron: 'I want to blow audiences away'

James Cameron has said that he likes his films to blow the audience away.

The director of upcoming 3D sci-fi movie Avatar also told The Times that it was "incorrect" that he was scared of filmmaking after 1997's Titanic.

Cameron said: "I like to blow an audience away. I like to f**k with their heads. I like to show 'em stuff they've probably seen in a dream but they've never seen in a movie.

"Like they've had an experience outside their day-to-day life, outside this world, maybe outside their body. It will have been a visual journey, a physical journey - in the sense you feel like you've actually climbed that mountain - and an emotional journey."

When asked if studio executives were worried about the technology used in Avatar, Cameron continued: "Oh, yes, absolutely. Any sane person would be. We had taken them very slowly by the hand through what we were doing, but many of the answers we were giving them were things we had found out ten minutes earlier.

"My God, they were pulling the reins as much as they could. But ultimately what brought them back was the possibility of doing something really unprecedented."

Of the future of filmmaking, he added: "Budgets may plunge, but I have already told the studio executives, 'I don't care if the highest-budgeted film of the year costs just $2m - as long as I'm the one making that motherf**ker, I'm happy'."

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Fanning: 'Being mean to Stewart is weird'

Dakota Fanning has claimed that she became "really close" to co-star Kristen Stewart while filming New Moon together earlier this year.

The actress, who stars as Volturi vampire Jane in the Twilight sequel, told Teen Vogue that she found it "weird" being nasty to Stewart on screen.

"We became really close, like we'd known each other for our whole lives. We talk all the time," she explained.

"I've never been such an evil character, and because I do know Kristen so well, being mean to her was really weird. It's like, 'Sorry, dude!'."

Discussing her upcoming biopic The Runaways - which also co-stars Stewart - she said: "The relationship that Joan (Stewart) and Cherie (Fanning) have in the script is kind of the one that Kristen and I have in real life, minus the destructive part."

Stewart added: "Dakota is one of the most consistently moving actors I have ever worked with. I'm always better with her."

New Moon arrives in cinemas on November 20.

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Ritchie: 'I'm making Holmes to be popular'

Guy Ritchie has admitted that he took the Sherlock Holmes directing job in order to show that he can make accessible films.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the British director acknowledged that Holmes will attract a bigger audience than his previous movies, which include Snatch, Revolver and RocknRolla.

"I've spent too much time messing around in inaccessible, esoteric material," he remarked. "I've never had my day in popular court. Sherlock Holmes will allow me to express my accessible side."

Ritchie added that his earliest memories of Holmes came from listening to audio tapes of the detective's exploits.

"My first recollection of Holmesian narrative was at boarding school when I was very young," he said. "They had these tapes of old stories that were a reward for not making too much noise in the dormitory."

Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr as the famed Baker Street sleuth and Jude Law as his sidekick Watson, opens in cinemas on December 26.

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Martin: 'Baldwin might be funnier than me'

Steve Martin has backed the decision to select Alec Baldwin to co-host next year's Oscars ceremony, joking that the star might be more entertaining than he is.

The Father Of The Bride comedian and 30 Rock star Baldwin were recently confirmed to front the Hollywood awards show together on March 7.

Speaking to Sky News, he joked: "He does Saturday Night Live, and he's so funny in that show.

"In fact if I have one worry it's that he's funnier than I am! He does voices and accents, and he's game for anything, he's great."

When asked if it was strange presenting the ceremony, the two-times host replied: "I've been in showbusiness for so long that I walk out on stage and you look out and you just see a bunch of friends - or rivals!"

Martin is currently promoting his new album The Crow: New Songs For The Five-String Banjo.

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Kate Winslet 'worth £60m' to the UK

Kate Winslet has been valued and is deemed to be worth about £60 million to the UK.

The Oscar-winning actress, who has starred in movies such as Titanic and Revolutionary Road was the first celebrity to ever be audited by the UK Film Council, which was looking to put a value on Britain's creative industries.

David Steele, head of research and statistics at the UK Film Council, told The Guardian: "When an actor achieves international prominence, they have a general effect of boosting their country of origin that works its way through television appearances, advertising and celebrity news."

A friend of Winslet said that the actress found the accolade "both flattering and very funny".

The audit, which assessed profile, box office effect and salaries of film stars to discover who was most valuable to the country, is rumoured to be working on audits for Christian Bale and Daniel Craig.

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Spacey, Albarn star in 'Buskers' film

Kevin Spacey, Damon Albarn and Mos Def will star in a movie adaptation of graphic novel Buskers, it has been announced.

Singer and music producer Jeymes Samuel will direct the film, based on the book he co-wrote with Sean Michael Wilson and artist Michiru Morikawa, reports HeyUGuys.

Inglorious Basterds producer Pilar Savone is also involved with the film, which is expected to start shooting in December.

Insomnia Productions' Buskers tells the tale of a high-paid banker who loses his job and falls in with a group of London's buskers.

The female lead in the movie is yet to be cast.

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