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Charlie Sheen cast as US President in Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills

Charlie Sheen has been cast in Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills.

The former Two and a Half Men actor will play the President of the United States in the Grindhouse movie sequel starring Danny Trejo and Michelle Rodriguez.

Robert posted a photo of himself with Sheen on Twitter, writing: "I just cast Charlie Sheen in ?#machetekills? as the President of the United States! Who better? More soon..."

Sheen retweeted the news, with the introduction: "My Fellow Americans!"

Mel Gibson joined the film earlier this year as an eccentric billionaire arms dealer hell-bent on launching a deadly missile.

Jessica Alba, Zoe Saldana and Amber Heard have also signed up for the movie.

Sheen is currently promoting his new FX sitcom Anger Management, loosely based on the 2003 Jack Nicholson film of the same name.

The 48-year-old has claimed that he plans to retire from acting after he finishes Anger Management.

"At some point you just get tired of wearing somebody else's clothes, saying somebody else's words and working in somebody else's space," he said.

Anger Management debuts on Thursday, June 28 at 9pm ET on FX.

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Transformers 4' is not a reboot, says Michael Bay

Michael Bay has insisted that Transformers 4 is "not a reboot".

The director explained that the film will have an entirely new cast and a "new direction", but will still build on the three previous movies.

The fourth outing of the franchise will also have a smaller budget than previous instalments, with about $30 million (£19 million) less to spend than Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

"It's not a reboot," Bay told the Los Angeles Times. "That's maybe the wrong word.

"I don't want to say 'reboot' because then people will think we're doing a Spider-Man and starting from the beginning. We're not.

"We're taking the story that you've seen - the story we've told in three movies already - and we're taking it in a new direction. But we're leaving those three as the history. It all still counts... We're moving on to something different."

Bay also hinted that the film may partially be set in space.

"That feels like the way to go, doesn't it?" he said. "I want to go a little off [the planet] but I don't want to go too sci-fi. I still want to keep it grounded."

The director has already said that the fourth Transformers film will be his last.

The movie is scheduled for release on June 29, 2014.

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Aaron Eckhart to play US president in new White House thriller

Aaron Eckhart has been cast in an upcoming White House thriller.

The Dark Knight Rises actor is set to portray the US President in Olympus Has Fallen, reports Variety.

The movie, however, is listed as White House Taken on IMDB.

Eckhart will join the previously-announced Gerard Butler, with Training Day's Antoine Fuqua serving as director.

The project is about a former Secret Service agent who has to prevent terrorists from attacking the White House.

Eckhart will also be seen in the film adaptation of the graphic novel I, Frankenstein, which he said won't be "dumbed down".

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Susan Sarandon joins animated comedy 'Hell & Back

Susan Sarandon has signed on for a voice role in the upcoming stop-motion comedy Hell & Back.

The R-rated movie will star TJ Miller and Nick Swardson as two slackers who go to Hell to save their best friend.

Sarandon will voice the role of Barb the Angel in the upcoming animated feature, Deadline reports.

Hell & Back is currently in production.

Also voicing roles are American Pie star Jennifer Coolidge, Maria Bamford and Mila Kunis.

Hell & Back is being produced by ShadowMachine, which is behind the Adult Swim shows Robot Chicken and Moral Orel.

It will be directed by former Saturday Night Live writer Tom Gianas and Ross Shuman, a former set construction supervisor on Robot Chicken.

Sarandon also recently joined the upcoming drama The Big Shoe, also starring Jim Sturgess.

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Will Ferrell's 'Flamingo Thief': Craig Gillespie to direct?

Craig Gillespie is reportedly in talks to direct Flamingo Thief.

Red Hour Films are currently in negotiations with the Fright Night helmer, according to Variety.

Will Ferrell's dramatic comedy is based on a Susan Trott novel, in which a man discovers a peculiar way of dealing with his grief over his son's death.

Multimillionaire Tim Forester begins by stealing a flamingo figurine from his niece, but his thievery soon escalates to the point where he loses his business and his wife, and gets several gunshot wounds in return.

Michael LeSieur (You, Me and Dupree) has written the screenplay.

Gillespie is best known as the director of 2007's Lars and the Real Girl.

He was previously attached to the troubled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies film adaptation.

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Samuel L Jackson to star in gospel musical 'Black Nativity'?

Samuel L Jackson has entered talks for Black Nativity.

Angela Bassett and Jennifer Hudson are also in negotiations to star in the gospel musical, reports Variety.

Director Kasi Lemmons has been working on the adaptation of Langston Hughes's 1961 Broadway production, which centres around a black teenager from Baltimore who is sent by his mother to stay with his grandparents in Harlem, having never met them before.

The boy experiences stylised dream sequences recounting the nativity story and learns the true meaning on family and faith.

Jackson will play the grandfather, Reverend Clarence Cobbs, with Bassett as his wife Aretha.

The Pulp Fiction star was last seen in Avengers and is in line to appear in Captain America 2, the RoboCop remake and Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.

Bassett will appear in the forthcoming Olympus Has Fallen.

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The Amazing Spider-Man' to get two sequels

The Amazing Spider-Man will be the first of three films.

A trilogy centring on Andrew Garfield's incarnation of Peter Parker/Spider-Man was confirmed via the film's official Facebook page.

It's finally here!" the message said. "The Amazing Spider-Man is the first instalment in a movie trilogy that will explore how our fave hero's journey was shaped by the disappearance of his parents."

Marc Webb's rebooted take on the arachnid superhero has already broken box office records in the US.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman 'signs for Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire'

Philip Seymour Hoffman has signed a deal to appear in The Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire, reports have claimed.

The Academy Award-winning actor, who was first linked with the role of Plutarch Heavensbee last month, is now believed to have formally committed to the movie.

"The deal was made right before the Fourth of July holiday," an insider claimed to E! News.

Studio Lionsgate has not commented on the reports and does not usually answer such speculation except in the event of an official announcement - said to be due imminently.

Heavensbee takes over as the new Gamemaker in Catching Fire following the demise of Seneca Crane (Wes Bentley).

Catching Fire is due to start filming this autumn with Francis Lawrence replacing Gary Ross as director.

Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth will reprise their roles from the first movie.

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James Bond director: 'Henry Cavill could be a future 007'

GoldenEye and Casino Royale director Martin Campbell has said that Henry Cavill could potentially play James Bond in the future.

Man of Steel star Cavill auditioned for the 007 role in 2005, eventually losing out to Daniel Craig. Campbell told The Express that Craig had the edge thanks to his turn as a gangster in Layer Cake.

Henry did a great screen test for Bond. So did Daniel, although he arrived for his looking really tired after a night flight from America where he was finishing up a movie called The Invasion," Campbell said.

"None of us making the casting decision were 100% sure. I needed a couple of days to think about it. Over that weekend I saw Daniel's film Layer Cake and he showed such terrific charm in that that it convinced me he should get the part."

Campbell suggested that Cavill could follow in the footsteps of Pierce Brosnan, who screen tested to play Bond for The Living Daylights but lost the role to Timothy Dalton when his TV series Remington Steele was renewed.

"Perhaps Henry Cavill was too young for it then, he was 22 at the time we auditioned for Casino Royale, but maybe he could still be James Bond in the future," he said. "After all, Pierce Brosnan did a great screen test only to eventually get the part years later."

The new James Bond movie Skyfall will open in cinemas this October. A 'Designing 007 - Fifty Years of Bond Style' exhibition is currently running at London's Barbican Centre through September 5.

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Dredd': Alex Garland lines up sequels

Alex Garland has revealed plans for a Dredd trilogy.

The director said at the London Film and Comic Con that a sequel to his Judge Dredd film will be made if the first takes enough money in the US, reports Bleeding Cool.

We'll see a sequel if the gross is above $50 million (£32 million) in the US," said Garland. "It's a simple financial equation. We're an independent movie."

He explained that he had formerly planned to include Judge Death and his fellow Dark Judges in the film, but was forced to reject the idea "after about 16 drafts".

"I needed to have set up the city and Dredd first before taking on what is essentially a riff on the Judges," he said. "You need to know what the Judges are before you can subvert them.

"I wrote a second script which was about Dredd going out to the Cursed Earth. That was rejected for similar reasons.

"If they want to make sequels, I've got a story that goes from this one into the origins of Dredd and the city. Then the third one would have a strange, existential attack from the Dark Judges."

Dredd stars Karl Urban, Lena Headey and Olivia Thirlby. It will debut in cinemas on September 21

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Johnny Depp, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson for Wes Anderson's new film?

Johnny Depp, Bill Murray and Owen Wilson have been linked to a new Wes Anderson film.

The Moonrise Kingdom director is said to be approaching the three stars along with Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Angela Lansbury, Jude Law and Edward Norton to star in the ensemble cast of his untitled project, reports Twitch.

Many of the actors Anderson is looking at previously appeared in his movies.

Both Murray and Wilson starred in six of Anderson's films, appearing together in The Darjeeling Limited, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Fantastic Mr. Fox.

Norton was featured in Moonrise Kingdom, while Brody was in The Darjeeling Limited and Fantastic Mr. Fox along with Dafoe.

Anderson's current film Moonrise Kingdom received positive reactions from critics.

"I don't think I've ever had a film that got quite as enthusiastic reviews as this one, which is great," he said.

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Independence Day 2' has a worthy concept, says writer Dean Devlin

Independence Day co-writer and producer Dean Devlin has revealed that a "worthy concept" for a sequel has been written.

Two sequels to the 1996 sci-fi blockbuster were announced by Fox to be in the pipeline back in October.

Devlin explained that he has begun working with Roland Emmerich on the next instalment, and that the brainstorming process has been a fruitful one.

"I can tell you that Roland and I have been working together for the first time in 11 years and we're very excited about the idea of doing it," Devlin told The Hollywood Reporter.

"Whether or not we can make this happen, if we can get all the pieces to come together, that's gonna be challenging. But creatively, for the very first time since we did the original, I feel we have a worthy concept, a worthy path to go."

On writing a sequel, he said: "We resisted doing the sequel for years because we still wanted to honour the first one. The first one gave us all careers and we really love that movie and loved the experience.

"We didn't want to make a movie because it was financially a good idea, we only wanted to do it when we had an idea and a concept that creatively felt like it honoured the first one - that it felt like an organic sequel as opposed to, 'Let's just go make some more money'.

"I feel like we got it. I think it took a long time, but I feel like we finally got something that really feels like, 'That's worth seeing as a sequel to Independence Day'."

Devlin added that he has begun contacting the original film's actors for possible comebacks, including the likes of Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman.

"We're beginning a long process of talking to everybody. We'll just have to see what happens," he said.

The original Independence Day will be re-released in 3D on July 3, 2013.

To date, the film has grossed worldwide takings of over $800 million (£498 million).

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Need for Speed' DreamWorks movie gets confirmed 2014 release date

Need for Speed has had its release date confirmed for 2014.

DreamWorks's adaptation of the Electronic Arts video game franchise will debut in cinemas on February 7, 2014, reports Coming Soon.

Act of Valor director Scott Waugh will step behind the camera for the big-screen adaptation, which has been written by George and John Gatins.

DreamWorks chairman Steven Spielberg said last month that the Need for Speed script was "exhilarating" and the game "seems to have been made for the movies".

The film will not be based on a specific game from the EA series, although it will stay true to the franchise while paying homage to classic car movies of the 1970s.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted, the next game in the EA series, was officially announced at the E3 Gaming Expo in June.

It will release for Xbox 360, PS3, PC, PlayStation Vita and mobile devices on October 30.

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Ghostbusters 3': 'Men in Black 3' writer Etan Cohen hired

Ghostbusters 3 has hired writer Etan Cohen.

The Men in Black 3 scribe has been brought on board to rewrite Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky's script for the long-awaited movie sequel, reports ComingSoon.net.

Dan Aykroyd has hinted that the new film will see the original Ghostbusters hiring in a new generation to continue their battle against the unquiet spirit world.

The star of the previous two films recently said that new writers had been hired.

Stars Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson are expected to return alongside Bill Murray, although Murray has remained reluctant to confirm his participation until the script is satisfactory.

Cohen has also worked on Tropic Thunder, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Idiocracy, and has performed rewrites on numerous screenplays.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger confirms 'Twins' sequel at Comic-Con

Arnold Schwarzenegger has confirmed plans for a Twins sequel.

The actor and former Governor of California revealed during the Expendables 2 Comic-Con panel on Thursday (July 12) that the project is in development and that Twins director Ivan Reitman and Universal Pictures have shown interest.

Schwarzenegger added that he is looking forward to finding the right writer for the project, which reportedly has the working title of Triplets.

Twins was released in 1988, starring Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito as fraternal twins who were separated at birth and reunited as adults.

Schwarzenegger was previously quoted as saying that he would "love to do another Twins", while DeVito has said that he hopes the sequel will be filmed next year.

It was originally understood that Reitman would produce rather than direct any Twins sequel, while Eddie Murphy has also been linked to the movie.

Comic-Con International runs until July 15 at the San Diego Convention Centre.

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Kung Fu Panda 3' confirmed by DreamWorks

Kung Fu Panda 3 has been officially announced.

DreamWorks Animation CCO Bill Damaschke confirmed that the project is in development, but did not reveal casting or plot details, Variety reports.

Jack Black and Dustin Hoffman are both expected to reprise their roles for the sequel, along with members of the supporting cast from Kung Fu Panda 2.

Black, who has voiced protagonist Po in two feature films and spinoffs, previously said that he would "love" to reprise the role for a third cinematic entry in the series.

The original Kung Fu Panda film made more than $631m (£389m) at the worldwide box office, with the 2011 sequel taking in an even larger $665m (£410m).

Kung Fu Panda 2 also earned an Academy Award nomination for 'Best Animated Feature'.

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The Wolverine' casts 'Total Recall' star Jessica Biel as Viper

Jessica Biel has been cast in The Wolverine.

The movie is a sequel to 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine and will be set in Japan.

The actress will play the role of Victoria/Viper, who has a long story arc in the X-Men series, reports Deadline.

Viper is a peer and an enemy of Logan (Hugh Jackman).

The Wolverine also stars Will Yun Lee and Brian Tee as villains.

Biel can soon be seen in the Total Recall remake, also starring Collin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale.

Total Recall will arrive in movie theatres on August 3 in the US and August 29 in the UK.

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Thor 2', 'Captain America 2' titles revealed at Comic-Con 2012

Marvel Studios has revealed the full titles of the sequels to Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger.

President Kevin Feige announced at Comic-Con that the Avengers follow-ups will be called Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

The Thor sequel is scheduled for release on November 8, 2013, while the next Captain America instalment arrives on April 4, 2014.

Thor: The Dark World - to be directed by Game of Thrones' Alan Taylor - will involve "a major, major new antagonist".

Meanwhile, Captain America: Winter Soldier - helmed by Joe and Anthony Russo - will be the Marvel sequel "most closely associated with Avengers".

Also at Comic-Con, Marvel unveiled its plans for two new comic book movies - cosmic superhero film Guardians of the Galaxy and Edgar Wright's long-awaited Ant-Man project.

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Iron Man 3's Don Cheadle: 'War Machine could be in The Avengers 2

Don Cheadle has hinted that War Machine could feature in The Avengers 2.

Cheadle's Iron Man 2 character James Rhodes, a confidant of Tony Stark, was absent from Marvel's record-breaking Avengers, but will feature in the upcoming Iron Man 3.

Speaking to Fandango at Comic-Con last weekend, the actor hinted that James Rhodes and his War Machine alter ego could also appear in the already-announced Avengers 2.

"The good thing about the Marvel Universe is that all the characters can intersect and everybody can play with each other," Cheadle hinted.

He went on to say: "So, that may happen just for War Machine on his own. We'll see. Everything's been discussed."

War Machine was played by Terrence Howard in the original Iron Man film, but Cheadle stepped in for the 2010 sequel.

Cheadle reunites with Robert Downey Jr in Iron Man 3, opening on April 26, 2013 in the UK and May 3, 2013 in the US.

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Gossip Girl's Jessica Szohr joins films 'Interns', 'Ten Cent Pistol

Jessica Szohr has been cast in new films Interns and Ten Cent Pistol.

The Gossip Girl alum will act opposite Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn in Interns and Jena Malone in Ten Cent Pistol, reports Deadline

Interns follows Wilson and Vaughn's characters, who must start over in the workforce after losing their jobs.

Szohr plays Marielena, a dance instructor who secretly holds another "dancing" job on the side.

In Ten Cent Pistol, Szohr will play the close friend of Jena Malone's character.

The film follows "two brothers whose crimes have spirally consequences".

Szohr previously admitted that she was ready to move on from Gossip Girl after portraying Vanessa Abrams for four seasons.

Last year, the actress appeared in I Don't Know How She Does It, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Pierce Brosnan.

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