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Preston "laughed" filming with Travolta

Kelly Preston has revealed that she had fun filming with husband John Travolta and friend Robin Williams.

The actress, who stars with the pair in film Old Dogs, said that they all laughed a lot during the making ot the movie.

Preston told USA Today: "The hardest part of being in a scene with any of these guys was not laughing and ruining every single take."

She continued: "And if you did laugh, the director just let us go with it, because they're going to be goofy and try to make you laugh."

Old Dogs is scheduled for release next year.

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Mark Kermode: 'Michael Bay is terrible'

Mark Kermode has hit out at Transformers director Michael Bay.

The BBC film critic told Metro that Bay is the most overrated director currently working in cinema.

Kermode said: "His films take millions of dollars but I think he's terrible. His films are rotten. It gives the lie to the idea critics can affect how well a film does.

"If critics made any difference Michael Bay wouldn't be making movies. He's just terrible. Watching a Michael Bay movie is like being hit over the head with tax returns."

When asked if stars ever reacted badly to his reviews, he added: "Every now and then you get a small bit of comeback. An actor very gently punched me on air for saying something about Keira Knightley.

"I called her Ikea Knightley as her acting was so wooden. She is better now. She was pretty good in The Duchess."

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Eddie Murphy lines up 'Fluffy'

Eddie Murphy will produce and potentially star in buddy comedy The Misadventures Of Fluffy, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The R-rated script, penned by Sam Pitman and Adam Cole-Kelly, centres on a road trip through New York and features several talking animals.

Murphy's last two films, Imagine That and Meet Dave, have failed to perform at the box office. Fluffy is reminiscent of the comedy star's Doctor Dolittle movies, which grossed $470 million worldwide.

A fourth movie in Murphy's action-comedy series Beverly Hills Cop is also in the works.

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Ferrell named Hollywood's most overpaid star

Will Ferrell is Hollywood's most overpaid actor, according to Forbes magazine.

Ferrell heads the list, which measures cinema, DVD and TV sales against star's salaries, thanks to the commercial failure of his recent comedy Land Of The Lost. The movie cost $100 million to produce and made just $65 million at the worldwide box office last summer.

The business publication calculated that for every dollar Ferrell was paid, his films make an average of $3.29 million. Ewan McGregor, Billy Bob Thornton and Eddie Murphy also ranked highly, while Drew Barrymore is the most overpaid actress with $7.43 million returns for every dollar she earned.

The top ten most overpaid stars are:

# Will Ferrell ($3.29m)

# Ewan McGregor ($3.75m)

# Billy Bob Thornton ($4m)

# Eddie Murphy ($4.43m)

# Ice Cube ($4.77m)

# Tom Cruise ($7.18m)

# Drew Barrymore ($7.43m)

# Leonardo DiCaprio ($7.52m)

# Samuel L. Jackson ($8.59m)

# Jim Carrey ($8.62m)

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Bullock 'worried about messing up role'

Sandra Bullock has admitted that she was hesitant to sign on for new film The Blind Side because she was unsure if she could master the role.

The movie - based on the novel by Michael Lewis - revolves around a wealthy woman (Bullock) who takes in a homeless teenager who goes on to play college football.

Speaking to Extra, Bullock said: "I don't even remember saying yes [to the movie]. I kept turning it down.

"Not because I didn't like it, but because I didn't know how to do it. I didn't know how to make it the story that it deserves to be. I couldn't bring to the role what it needed."

She added: "These are the kinds of roles that actresses can mess up, and that's one of the reasons I didn't want to step into it! I didn't know how to make it as good as the story.

"I'm glad I did [it]. It's still a scary thought for me. I don't know how I did it, but I had a lot of time to prepare for it."

The Blind Side is released in the US this week.

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Hathaway 'approached for Spider-Man 4'

Anne Hathaway is the latest actress rumoured to be up for the role of villain Black Cat in Spider-Man 4.

According to Deadline Hollywood, the Devil Wears Prada star has been approached by producers to appear in the latest instalment in the superhero saga.

Julia Stiles, Rachel McAdams and Romola Garai have all been linked to the project in recent weeks, but the latter two have ruled out appearing in the film.

Spider-Man 4 is due out in cinemas on May 5, 2011.

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Pitt to star in big screen 'Dark Void'?

Brad Pitt could reportedly star in a planned film version of the game Dark Void.

The actor's production company Plan B and Reliance BIG Entertainment have the rights to the Capcom shooter and want to bring it to the big screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Both companies have said that it could be a potential starring vehicle for Pitt. The game, available on PS3, PC and Xbox 360 in January, focuses on a cargo pilot who crashes into the Bermuda Triangle and lands in a universe full of aliens, known as the Watchers.

The project is the first to come out of a development partnership between Plan B and Reliance, announced at the Festival de Cannes in 2008.

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Mandalay acquires 'Unthinkable' rights

Mandalay Pictures has acquired the movie rights to Boom! Studios' Unthinkable comic.

Mandalay's Peter Guber and Cathy Schulman will produce the film alongside Ross Richie and Andrew Cosby of Boom! reports The Hollywood Reporter.

Unthinkable - written by Mark Sable and illustrated by Julian Totino Tedesco - is the story of a man who is hired by a government think tank post-9/11 to dream up nightmare attack scenarios that could possibly be targeted against the US.

Years after the think tank is disbanded, these imagined attacks begin to come true.

Sable was stopped by security guards in Los Angeles International Airport earlier in the year when a script for an issue of Unthinkable was found in his luggage.

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Thurman signs for Pattinson's 'Bel Ami'

Uma Thurman will star opposite Robert Pattinson in period drama Bel Ami.

The Kill Bill actress will take on the role of a wealthy woman who has an affair with Pattinson's corrupt journalist as he ascends the Parisian social ladder. Nicole Kidman had previously been offered the role.

Kristin Scott Thomas is also on board to star as a socialite who falls for the lead character in Declan Donnellan's film.

Pattinson's latest movie, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, opens in cinemas today.

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Wright slams Times over Woodward article

Edgar Wright has criticised The Times for printing his tribute to Edward Woodward without permission.

Wright posted an article recounting his memories of Woodward on his EdgarWrightHere.com site earlier this week following the actor's passing.

Wright, who directed Woodward in 2007's Hot Fuzz, blasted the newspaper for reprinting his tribute in Tuesday's edition as if it had been written for them.

"They just lifted it from my blog without asking," Wright wrote on his Twitter page. "And cut off the entire end section about my last meeting with him... I'm not talking about quotes. Am talking about the entire article. But with edits they made that make me look ill informed and unfeeling."

The British director added that he was seeking "an apology, a reprint of the full tribute and donation to Edward's memorial" from the paper.

The Times has now published Wright's article in full and clarified the original source.

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Keaton: 'I want to surprise moviegoers'

Michael Keaton has said that he does not want people to easily pigeonhole his directorial debut.

The Beetlejuice star told The Guardian that he hopes the path of The Merry Gentleman will surprise moviegoers.

Keaton said: "I never wanted the audience to feel they knew what the movie was or where it was going. I hoped they'd be, like, 'Oh, it's this kind of movie? But I thought it was that kind of movie'.

"If I've done it right, they'll enjoy spending time with these people, and they'll want to see how the relationships play out."

He added of the largely unknown cast: "I like people-people rather than movie people. Did you see Gomorrah? You could be watching real people in that.

"I have all these actors you haven't seen, so hopefully you go, 'Oh, I'm watching some guy', as opposed to, say, Tom Cruise in a Nazi uniform."

The Merry Gentleman is released in the UK on December 4.

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Janet Jackson 'can't watch This Is It'

Janet Jackson has revealed that she has so far refused to watch her brother Michael's concert film This Is It.

The singer claimed that it is too soon after his death for her to watch the footage of him rehearsing for his planned comeback shows.

"I have not seen it. I definitely won't, not right now. I don't know if I'd ever see it. It's too soon," the Daily Star quotes her as saying.

"It's hard when I see the posters around the city, the commercials, the trailers on TV. It has caught me off guard."

This Is It grossed more than $100m (£60.2m) internationally in its first week in cinemas.

Janet recently confirmed that she will talk about Michael's death in a primetime interview on Good Morning America later this month.

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Idris Elba added to 'Thor' cast

Idris Elba has joined the cast of director Kenneth Branagh's Marvel Comics movie Thor, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The Wire star will play Heimdall, a guardian who stands to defend Asgard from intruders. Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Tom Hiddleston and Natalie Portman will lead the cast of the mythological epic, which begins shooting in California in January.

Earlier this week, Marvel announced that Ray Stevenson, Tadanobu Asano and Stuart Townsend have signed up to play Asgardian warriors in the blockbuster.

Thor is scheduled to open in cinemas on May 20, 2011.

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Hoffman sunbs 'Fockers' return?

Dustin Hoffman will not reprise his Meet The Parents role in sequel Little Fockers, according to Entertainment Weekly.

The actor portrayed the father of Ben Stiller's Greg Focker in the 2004 film, but talks with Universal allegedly collapsed over salary and scheduling issues.

Hoffman's character Bernie reportedly makes a cameo appearance in John Hamburg's Fockers script.

Barbra Streisand's Roz Focker also features in the story, however the singer and actress's involvement in the movie has yet to be confirmed.

Little Fockers, starring Stiller, Teri Polo, Robert De Niro, Owen Wilson, Jessica Alba and Harvey Keitel, will begin production next year for a July release.

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Atkinson in talks for 'Johnny English 2'

Rowan Atkinson is in discussions to star in a sequel to his 2003 movie Johnny English, reports The Guardian.

The original film, which parodied the James Bond series, cast Atkinson as a bumbling secret service agent who faces off against John Malkovich's French megalomaniac. The character is partially based on the character Atkinson played in TV advertisements for Barclaycard.

Johnny English pulled in $160 million in ticket sales at the worldwide box office on a budget of $40 million.

Atkinson last appeared on screen in 2007's Mr Bean's Holiday.

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Robert Downey Jr considering retirement?

Robert Downey Jr has claimed that he will consider quitting acting if his upcoming film Sherlock Holmes flops.

However, the actor admitted that he may follow rapper Jay-Z's lead, by announcing his retirement before later returning.

He told Entertainment Weekly: "I can only be a guy on a call sheet probably, I don't know, maybe a couple more times. It's something I'm so grateful to have in my palm, and yet I already see its inevitable decay.

"If Sherlock Holmes performs well, I could be busy for the next five or seven or ten years."

The star added: "But we'd like to go ahead and suggest the Jay-Z model wherein one announces his retirement, soaks in all the requisite fanfare, and then behaves like it never happened. It's really the best of both worlds."

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Bay won't kill off Fox in 'Transformers 3'

Michael Bay has said that Megan Fox will return for a substantial role in the next Transformers sequel.

The director revealed that he does not plan to kill off Fox's character in Transformers 3, despite controversial comments she has made about him.

"She's got a great part in Transformers 3," he told USA Today.

Bay and Fox have reportedly been involved in an ongoing feud after the actress compared the helmer to Hitler and Napoleon in September.

Last month, Bay posted on his website that Fox should "consult a doctor" before working with him on the next Transformers movie.

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'Shield' writer to pen 'Underworld 4'

The Shield writer John Hlavin has signed on to pen the screenplay for the fourth Underworld movie.

The screenwriter said that the forthcoming film will not be a prequel like the recent Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

"It will satisfy old fans and excite new audiences, meaning that we don't want to redo the first three movies, so steps are being taken to honour what fans have loved but at the same time introduce fresh elements," he stated.

Len Wiseman, who directed the first two Underworld films, is producing the picture. Wiseman's wife Kate Beckinsale starred in the first two thrillers, though she has not cut a deal to return to the series.

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'Thor' director impresses Marvel creators

Kenneth Branagh’s vision for the Thor movie has been praised by creators at Marvel, including comic legend Stan Lee.

Lee, who described Branagh as "the nicest guy in the world as well as the most talented", told MTV News that he had been promised a cameo in the film.

He joked: "When we had lunch, I was sure he had asked me to lunch because he wanted me to play Odin, but it was a big disappointment.

"I figure I’ll end up carrying his spear."

Marvel’s editor-in-chief Joe Quesada and writer Brian Michael Bendis were also impressed by Branagh after a meeting this week.

Quesada said on Twitter: "I could listen to Branagh talk about Thor all day long. Cast is in place, sets are being built and screenplay is brilliant. Marveldom rules."

Thor is scheduled to open in cinemas on May 20, 2011.

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Beckham 'turns down 'Madagascar 3' role'

Victoria Beckham has reportedly turned down a role on Madagascar 3.

Reports had suggested that Beckham had agreed to voice a character in the film.

However, her spokesperson told Now that she doesn't have enough time to work on the movie.

"She was approached to do it," her representative explained. "But she declined the offer because she is too busy."

Madagascar 3 is due for release in 2012.

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