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Sony already planning 'Dragon Tattoo' sequel

Sony is already putting together plans to make a big screen version of Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Played With Fire.

The studio has entered talks with Girl With The Dragon Tattoo screenwriter Steve Zaillian about adapting the second novel in the best-selling Millennium Trilogy, reports Deadline.

Zaillian, who is executive producing the upcoming Dragon Tattoo, has also worked on Schindler's List, Gangs Of New York and American Gangster.

Fight Club and Se7en helmer David Fincher is directing the first movie with Daniel Craig in the role of journalist Mikael Blomkvist. Eight actresses - Emily Browning, Sara Snook, Rooney Mara, Sophie Lowe, Lea Seydoux, Ellen Page, Mia Wasikowska and Katie Jarvis - are in the running to take the coveted role of bisexual hacker Lisbeth Salander.

Sony has started work on the sequel early in order to secure time in Craig's schedule around his James Bond contract and a potential Cowboys & Aliens franchise.

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Grace, Pearce to star in Besson's 'Lockout'

Maggie Grace and Guy Pearce will star in Lockout, a space-set thriller from producer Luc Besson.

According to Deadline, Pearce will play a man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the US. He's offered a reprieve on the condition that he rescues the president's daughter from an outer space prison that's been taken over by the inmates.

Besson came up with the idea for Lockout with directors James Mather and Stephen St. Legar.

The sci-fi project will reunite Besson with former Lost star Grace, who starred in his 2008 revenge thriller Taken.

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Hoffman to appear in 'Little Fockers'?

Dustin Hoffman has reportedly been asked to make a last-minute appearance in Meet The Parents sequel Little Fockers.

Studio Universal is undertaking brief reshoots on the comedy and wants Hoffman to reprise his role as Ben Stiller's father Bernie Focker in an effort to inject more comedy into the movie, reports Vulture.

Filming has already completed on Little Fockers, but Universal is considering starting up production again to redo entire scenes if Hoffman decides to come back.

The actor last year turned down the chance to return to the comedy series, allegedly due to salary and scheduling issues.

Meet The Parents: Little Fockers opens in cinemas this December.

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Disney buys 'Tron' helmer's 'Oblivion'

Disney has secured the movie rights to Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski's illustrated novel Oblivion, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Kosinski's unpublished Radical book centres on a future Earth where people live above the clouds and alien scavengers reside on the surface below. The story's protagonist is a surface drone repairman who stumbles upon a beautiful woman in a crashed spacecraft.

Other studios were interested in picking up Oblivion, but Disney production president Sean Bailey splashed out a seven-figure sum to extend his working relationship with Kosinski, who has spent the last three years guiding the Tron sequel.

Oblivion will hit stores this autumn, while Tron Legacy is due to hit 3D, IMAX and conventional cinemas in December.

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Skarsgard to join 'Dragon Tattoo' cast

Stellan Skarsgard has revealed that he is in negotiations to join David Fincher's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo remake.

The Pirates Of The Caribbean and Mamma Mia! star will take on the role of Vanger Corporation chief Martin Vanger, the prime suspect in a decades-old disappearance case being investigated by journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig).

"I have met Fincher, I want to work with him, he wants to work with me. I have a concrete offer and now we are in negotiations," Skarsgard said.

The Swedish actor also confirmed that the thriller will shoot for six months starting in September and the story will retain the Scandinavian setting of Stieg Larsson's novels.

"Most of it is to be shot in Stockholm, but some studio work will be done in the US," he added. "I think there might be some location work as well, when it becomes too dark to shoot [in Sweden]."

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Tim Blake Nelson boards 'Whales'

Tim Blake Nelson has joined the cast of upcoming drama Everybody Loves Whales.

The Incredible Hulk actor joins John Krasinski, Drew Barrymore and Kristen Bell in the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Whales tells the true story of a news reporter (Krasinski) and a Greenpeace volunteer (Barrymore) who try to save three gray whales trapped under ice in the Arctic Circle in 1988.

Nelson has landed the role of a wildlife expert in the Ken Kwapis-directed movie, which is based on Tom Rose's non-fiction book Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World's Greatest Non-Event.

Production is scheduled to begin in the autumn.

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Writer in talks for 'American Werewolf' remake

The Number 23 screenwriter Fernley Phillips is reportedly in negotiations to pen the remake of An American Werewolf in London.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Phillips is close to inking a deal with Dimension Films to help reboot the classic 1981 horror comedy directed by John Landis.

The original stars David Naughton as a US student who is attacked by a werewolf while backpacking through the UK.

Dimension parent The Weinstein Co. purchased the rights to the original film from Landis in 2009.

No casting announcements have been made for the project and a director is not yet attached.

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Adams and Mortensen join 'On the Road'

Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen have both signed to star in the upcoming film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road.

The actors join Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart and Kirsten Dunst in the picture directed by Walter Salles, reports Deadline.

Mortensen will play Old Bull Lee, the character reportedly based on writer William S. Burroughs. Adams is to portray Lee's wife Jane.

Motorcycle Diaries screenwriter Jose Rivera penned the script, based on Kerouac's novel.

On the Road is scheduled to arrive in US cinemas sometime in 2011.

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Nicolas Cage returns to 'Trespass'

Nicolas Cage has reportedly returned to star in director Joel Schumacher's upcoming Trespass after recently leaving the project.

Cage left the movie earlier this week but has since returned and switched roles for a third time, reports Entertainment Weekly.

The actor was originally cast as Nicole Kidman's husband in the kidnapping thriller. However, he later chose to play one of the kidnappers.

It is thought that Cage has now gone back to the role of the husband.

Jordana Spiro is also attached to appear in the film.

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Freeman, Connick, Judd circle 'Dolphin'

Morgan Freeman, Harry Connick Jr and Ashley Judd have reportedly opened talks to star in upcoming adventure film A Dolphin Tale.

Martin Sheen has signed to direct the 3D movie for Alcon Entertainment, reports Variety.

The movie centres on a dolphin that loses her tail and the 11-year-old boy who rescues her. He starts a campaign to persuade a doctor to create a prosthetic tail to help the dolphin swim.

Freeman is eyeing the role of the doctor, while Connick could play a marine biologist with Judd as the boy's mother.

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Neve Campbell: 'Scream 4 is like summer camp'

Neve Campbell has said that returning to the Scream franchise is like going to summer camp.

Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Campbell admitted that she is enjoying the experience of having a cast of younger actors joining herself and series veterans Courteney Cox and David Arquette.

"It's great working with Courteney and David again; it's like summer camp. The biggest change is this younger cast we have, and they're great," she commented, adding that the story picks up after her character Sidney Prescott has "written a book about surviving the tragedy in her life. That's where the film opens".

Campbell also claimed that she doesn't get frightened while making the horror films, saying: "There are 80 people standing around watching you so it's impossible to get scared."

Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Rory Culkin, Adam Brody and Marley Shelton are among the cast for Wes Craven's Scream 4, opening in cinemas on April 2011.

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Aaron Johnson not starring in 'X-Men'?

Aaron Johnson will reportedly not star in the upcoming X-Men: First Class.

In an interview with Movieweb, producer Tarquin Pack confirmed that recent rumours about Johnson joining the film as Cyclops are premature.

"Don't believe everything you read in the papers about Aaron, unfortunately. Aaron's kind of busy, yeah," Pack said about the reports.

It was previously reported that the Kick-Ass star was "100% locked" for the part of a young Scott Summers in the prequel.

Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Kevin Bacon, Caleb Landry Jones and Jennifer Lawrence are starring in X-Men: First Class.

Filming on director Matthew Vaughn's Marvel Comics adaptation begins this summer in London for a 2011 release.

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Steve Austin 'broke Sly's neck'

Steve Austin has admitted that he broke Sylvester Stallone's neck while the pair were filming a fight scene for their new film The Expendables.

The Rocky star was left with a hairline fracture in his neck.

At the Hollywood premiere of the film, Austin said: "I've told him I was sorry a hundred times already. I don't know if he's forgiven me or not.

"I didn't want to hurt anybody but I ended up breaking Sly's neck in a fight scene, I never knew I'd broken his neck until a few months later when he had it fixed."

He added: "I don't know if he drinks beer - the guy's a fitness fanatic - but I'll sure buy him a beer if he wants one!"

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Jonah Hill 'struggled with Cyrus role'

Jonah Hill has admitted that he struggled with his dramatic role in Cyrus.

The actor, who is best known for his comedic performances, revealed that he found it hard to move on from his psychologically disturbed character in the film after production wrapped.

"It's definitely more of a dramatic stretch for me," he told Total Film.

"I'd say it was the first time ever it was difficult to go home at the end of the day and shake off what I was doing earlier in the day and just hang with my friends or girlfriend and be normal after playing such a severely affected guy."

He added that he is glad that he took on the difficult part as it paved the way for future dramatic work.

"Bennett Miller, who directed Capote, saw this movie and cast me as the second lead in a baseball drama called Moneyball that stars Brad Pitt, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Wright. Cyrus already has done more than I could have imagined in that regard."

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Russell Crowe to star in Aussie film

Russell Crowe has agreed to star in his first Australian film in over ten years.

Crowe's role of fisherman Luther Fox in the movie, which is an adaptation of Australian writer Tim Winton's novel Dirt Music, was originally intended for late actor Heath Ledger.

Director Phillip Noyce admitted to The Daily Telegraph that he did not know when filming would begin and said: "We are still working on the script."

Talking about the casting, he added: "We were all set to go with Heath and Rachel Weisz. We had the money at that point. And then Heath decided to play the Joker which you couldn't argue with. And then it just took a while to find someone else to play Luther."

Noyce also said that he likes "opinionated people" and wasn't worried about any conflict with Crowe on set.

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Robin Wright in talks for 'Dragon Tattoo'

Robin Wright Penn is reportedly in talks to join the cast of Sony's US remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

According to Deadline, Penn is circling the role of crusading magazine publisher Erika Berger.

Berger is also the occasional lover of the character Michael Blumkvist, played by Daniel Craig.

David Fincher is directing the film, based on the novel by Stieg Larsson.

The director has yet to cast the key role of computer hacker Lisbeth Salander

Production is scheduled to begin this autumn for a December 21, 2011 release in US cinemas.

Wright and Sean Penn officially finalised their divorce last month.

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Marvel considering 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' movie

Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige has revealed that the firm has provisional plans for a S.H.I.E.L.D. movie.

Speaking to MTV, the exec hinted that Samuel Jackson's Nick Fury could be given his own spinoff series following the release of The Avengers.

"I think S.H.I.E.L.D. could be its own franchise," he told the network. "I think, frankly, The Avengers is going to be told from that point of view more so than any of the other films at that point, so we're going to get an inside look [at how S.H.I.E.L.D.] operates."

Feige also said that Iron Fist, Black Panther, Doctor Strange and The Guardians Of The Galaxy could potentially be in line for the movie treatment in the future.

"I think what Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction have done with Iron Fist lately is exciting," he said. "I think Black Panther and Wakanda has some amazing potential to be a feature film.

"Doctor Strange as you've mentioned. There are some obscure titles, too, like Guardians Of The Galaxy. I think they've been revamped recently in a fun way in the book."

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Stallone 'made no money from Rocky role'

Sylvester Stallone has revealed that he made no profit from the sixth film in the Rocky franchise.

The 2006 film, Rocky Balboa, earned over £133 million ($200m) in box office ticket sales, but the 53-year-old actor insisted that he has not received a share.

"I haven't seen a dime yet. [It made] nearly $200 million. That's life, eh? That's how it works these days," he told GQ.

"They have this thing called 'back end'. Or 'Watch my back end move into the horizon as you lie there, shackled in naivety'. You can make a movie for $12 million that makes $250 million, but it still ends up in the red. The studios say they added $50 million in publicity in the Ukraine or somewhere, and you're like, 'What?'"

Stallone recently admitted that he was depressed about his failed career before finding success again with Rocky Balboa.

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Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine for 'Bernie'

Jack Black has signed to star in director Richard Linklater's upcoming dark comedy Bernie.

Black and Linklater previously worked together on the 2003 comedy School of Rock.

According to Deadline, Shirley MacLaine will star opposite Black in the Mandalay Vision/Castle Rock production.

Black will play a mortician and community leader living in a small Texas town who befriends a wealthy widow (MacLaine).

Production is scheduled to begin in October.

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Arquette: 'Return to Scream is cathartic'

David Arquette has admitted that starring alongside his wife Courteney Cox in Scream 4 is "cathartic".

The actor said that he is enjoying the nostalgia of returning to the franchise and his character Dwight 'Dewey' Riley.

"It's really amazing working with Neve [Campbell] and Courteney and [director] Wes [Craven] and all of the crew members that we've known for 14 years," he told People.

Arquette met Cox on the set of the first Scream film.

He added: "There's this weird element that, you know, it's very cathartic for me. It's just kind of going back to where it all started."

Scream 4 opens April 15, 2011.

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