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Sexy Transformers star Megan Fox can't wait to sink her teeth into her next role - as a demon-possessed boy eater.

The actress will play a groupie a rock band sacrifices as part of a deal with the devil in Jennifer's Body - but they pick the wrong girl and she comes back literally looking for blood.

Fox tells WENN, "It's a really dark comedy with a lot of secret messages lying underneath the script.

"I play the captain of the flag team and I get improperly sacrificed by this rock band, who are trying to obtain a record deal - so they sell their soul to Satan. They need to sacrifice a virgin.

"I'm not a virgin, so what happens is I get taken over by a demon and, in order to stay alive in this sort of undead period, I have to eat flesh, so I eat boys."

To prepare for the gory role, Fox conjured up her own storyline about her character being molested by her father: "It's not in the script but, in my head, my character was victimised by my dad, so I take it out on the boys in my high school.

"So it's me eating them and having this bizarre pseudo-lesbian relationship with my best friend. It's all very manipulative and is basically how frightening young girls can be - they're completely terrifying."

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A theatre company is auctioning off a speaking role in a play alongside Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson.

Shakespeare Festival/La, a professional and community-based non-profit theater company, has offered a part in the Simply Shakespeare adaptation of The Comedy of Errors.

The winner will attend rehearsals, appear in the show for one performance on 18 May, and receive an invite to the VIP post-show party.

The sale began on Internet auction website eBay earlier this month and will end on Monday, with proceeds going to the Shakespeare Festival's summer youth employment and enrichment initiatives.

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Jennifer Aniston is set to send movie gossips into overdrive after signing up to make a new action thriller similar to the film that ended her marriage to Brad Pitt.

And her co-star is British actor Gerard Butler, who has been romantically linked to the actress.

In Bounty Hunter, Aniston plays a journalist on the run from her hitman ex-husband after he's instructed to kill her.

She says, "She's a witness to a murder, and the bounty hunter - her ex-husband (Butler) - is given her as a hit."

Ironically, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie played rival assassins in Mr & Mrs Smith - the film that brought the couple together and partly resulted in Pitt and Aniston's split.

In that film, Pitt and Jolie try to kill each other before teaming up to defeat the bad guys.

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Sylvester Stallone, Superman Brandon Routh and former Bond girl Denise Richards have reportedly shot secret cameos alongside Bollywood pin-up Akshay Kumar in a colourful new Indian movie about a Hollywood stuntman.

Kumar will play the stuntman in Kambakkht Ishq (Unfortunate Love), which will hit cinemas at the end of May - and the Hollywood stars jumped at the chance to be part of Sabir Khan's new film.

And U.S. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, who broke the news about the film, hopes this will be the first of many Hollywood/Bollywood collaborations.

He tells WENN, "Bollywood stars used to seek entry into Hollywood, but now the tables seem to turning with this upcoming Bollywood movie.

"We welcome Hollywood and Bollywood working together to provide universal entertainment. I trust there will be more joint ventures in the future."

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J.J. Abrams' franchise reboot boldly went where no Star Trek movie has gone before, grossing a stellar $72.5 mil from Friday through Sunday, according to early estimates by Hollywood.com Box Office.

That's the second-best opening of 2009 (after X-Men Origins: Wolverine's $85.1 mil last weekend), and it includes a whopping $8.2 mil earned in IMAX showings, a new one-weekend record for the large format (beating The Dark Knight's $6.3 mil). What's more, if you add in the $4 mil that the movie starring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto earned in late-Thursday showings, Star Trek has banked an impressive $76.5 mil so far -- well ahead of most expectations.

This result is highly logical. Considering all the hype and buzz and strong reviews that Star Trek has garnered, it's no surprise that this film's opening sum is by far the biggest of any Star Trek movie: Of the nine previous flicks in the franchise, 1996's Star Trek: First Contact bowed best, with (only) $30.7 mil over three days. Moreover, a look at the movie's CinemaScore report card reveals some potentially good news. While it drew an expected crowd mostly comprised of older males, Star Trek's solid-A grade shows that word of mouth could be strong enough to bring in fans outside of the franchise's usual demographic (i.e. people who weren't alive in the 1980s...and women) as the weeks go on. Unless said folks are too distracted by Angels & Demons, Night at the Museum 2, and all the other big flicks on tap, of course.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (No. 2) was next with $27 mil on a 68 percent decline. Fanboy-driven films always fall hard, but this drop is particularly hefty. Nevertheless, Hugh Jackman's franchise flick has already banked $129.6 mil in 10 days.

Fellow holdovers Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (No. 3 with $10.5 mil), Obsessed (No. 4 with $6.6 mil), and 17 Again (No. 5 with $4.4 mil) rounded out the top five. And the comedy Next Day Air failed to take off, grossing just $4 mil at No. 6.

And in limited release, neither Rudo y Cursi nor Little Ashes made much of a mark, as each averaged well under $7,000 per theater.

Overall, the box office was up nearly 22 percent from the same frame a year ago (when the infamous Speed Racer hit a bump in the road). And, really, what could be a better Mother's Day gift than that? Love ya, Mom! Have a great day!

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Hundreds of applicants had to be turned away from an open call for extras to star in Ridley Scott's new movie Robin Hood, it has emerged.

Over 1,000 people queued up at the Technium Centre in Pembroke Dock to appear in the film alongside Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett, the BBC reports.

Technium manager David Thomas said: "It's a very straightforward process. They will basically form an orderly queue. They will be seeing up to 800 people.

"They will measure them for costumes, photograph them, and answer any questions. The photos will go to the casting director."

He added: "There are no auditions or anything like that. They need 600 soldiers, so it is just for extras."

Director Scott recently revealed that the name of the film had been changed from Nottingham to Robin Hood to reflect a shift in the creative direction of its script.

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Ken Loach has said that he admired Eric Cantona as a footballer because of his strong personality.

The director, who directs Cantona in upcoming movie Looking For Eric, told The Guardian that he appreciated the star's individuality on the field.

Loach said: "He was a player of consummate skill and great cheek. Most people who enjoy football just saw in Eric's performance a very strong personality that communicated the joy of football."

He added: "I mean, I'm not overimpressed by anybody in films because it's the business and we just work in it.

"When it's somebody from outside who is very special in their own field, and particularly if it's a field you care about...you are impressed because, that level, it's something you can't approach. You can only stand back and admire really."

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Antonio Banderas will lead the cast of neo-noir detective movie The Big Bang.

In the project, to be directed by Tony Krantz, Banderas will play a private investigator looking for a missing stripper. His search leads him to New Mexico, where he encounters a trail of dead bodies, a Russian boxer, three Los Angeles cops and a tycoon attempting to create a nuclear Big Bang, reports Variety.

Band Of Brothers writer Erik Jendresen penned the screenplay and will produce alongside Krantz and Richard Rionda Del Castro.

Krantz, who spent 15 years working as a talent agent for CAA, previously helmed the straight-to-video films Sublime and Otis.

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Darth Vader's supposedly famous utterance "Luke, I am your father" has been voted the most misquoted movie line by film fans.

The poll from LOVEFiLM put Vader's comment from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back at the top of the list, with the movie villain actually saying, "No. I am your father," The Daily Telegraph reports.

Communications manager Darren Bignell said: "Iconic film lines are part of everyone's vocabulary these days, but it's interesting how years of quoting have had a Chinese whisper effect on accuracy."

The top ten misquotes were:

"Luke, I am your father" - Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?" - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
"Do you feel lucky, punk?" - Dirty Harry
"Play it again, Sam" - Casablanca
"Hello, Clarice" - Silence of the Lambs
"Beam me up, Scotty!" - Star Trek: The Motion Picture
"Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a damn" - Gone with the Wind
"If you build it, they will come" - Field of Dreams
"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto" - The Wizard of Oz
"Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?" - The Graduate

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Matthew Goode has been added to the cast of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's Cemetery Junction.

The Watchmen star will play Mike, an employee at insurance firm Prudential who is dating his boss's daughter.

He joins Christian Cooke, Tom Hughes, Jack Doolan, Felicity Jones and Ralph Fiennes in the cast of the '70s-set comedy-drama.

Cemetery Junction marks Gervais's first movie collaboration with his Office and Extras co-creator Stephen Merchant. The pair will write, direct and produce the project.

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Christian Bale forced writers of Terminator Salvation to rework the script to give him a bigger part - as the British actor was determined to play the iconic role of John Connor in the sci-fi franchise.

Bale was originally offered the lead role of Marcus Wright in the upcoming sequel, but the Batman star turned the part down - insisting he would only play Connor in the film.

The character featured in all three previous Terminator movies but was only set for a brief appearance in the latest outing.

So writers were ordered to revamp the script to give Bale a bigger role.

Terminator Salvation scriptwriter John Brancato says, "A lot of the work was integrating (Connor) into scenes... and having that feel integral and sensible, as opposed to grafted on just because there was a star in the part."

The new movie hits cinemas on 21 May.

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A movie based on hit video game series Call Of Duty is allegedly in the works.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, publisher Activision has been been holding discussions about bringing the first-person shooter to the big screen.

In addition, Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures are continuing with plans to make a movie based around Activision's World Of Warcraft universe.

"They are being talked about for the big screen," said an insider.

There have been been five instalments in the Call Of Duty series, four of them set during World War II and one, Modern Warfare, in the present day.

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James McTeigue is the frontrunner to replace Brett Ratner as the director of Conan, reports say.

According to Chud.com, the V For Vendetta helmer is Nu-Image/Millenium's choice to steer the big budget reinvention of the Arnold Schwarzenegger barbarian franchise.

Producer Joe Gatta last week revealed that Ratner had exited the director's chair due to a scheduling conflict.

McTeigue, a long-time first-assistant director on The Wachowskis, recently oversaw Ninja Assassin for the Matrix duo. The movie is due out on November 25 in the US and November 27 in the UK.

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John Cleese has revealed the outline of a Fawlty Towers movie that he considered writing.

The co-writer of the 1970s BBC sitcom said that he "didn't put a single line down" for the film, but admitted that he was "amused" by the idea of a big screen outing for his lead character Basil Fawlty.

"I did speculate about doing a film...I thought what would be really funny would be if Basil and Sybil got on a plane to visit Manuel in Spain," Cleese told DS.

"The reason I wanted to do that was because I thought Basil would be terrific if a plane ever got hijacked. He would become so furious and he would probably overcome the hijack. And then of course they would bring the plane back to Heathrow, which would make him even more angry. So he would then hijack the plane himself, force the pilot to take him to Spain, where he would be arrested on arrival, and spend the rest of the holiday in a Spanish jail."

The Monty Python comic added: "It amused me for a while to play with that idea, but I don't think I ever mentioned it to Connie [Booth, co-writer]."

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened and Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits will air exclusively on G.O.L.D. at 9pm on May 10 and 17 respectively.

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Jason Lewis has hinted that he might be returning for the sequel to Sex And The City: The Movie.

The actor, who played Samantha Jones's (Kim Cattrall) boyfriend Smith Jerrod, told Pop Sugar that he would be open to reprising the role on the big screen.

When asked if he would be appearing in the highly-anticipated sequel, he replied: "[There's] a good chance, yeah."

He went on to say that he saw his female co-stars "out every now and then" and also offered his congratulations to Sarah Jessica Parker on the impending birth of her surrogate twin daughters.

"She's a really neat lady. She's obviously prolific in what she's done - she's successful - but when she brought the kid to the set, mum would come on. She's very sweet with children, you can see that joy and innocence come out of her."

Sex And The City 2 is scheduled for release in May 2010. All four main cast members, as well as Chris Noth (Mr Big), David Eigenberg (Steve Brady) and Evan Handler (Harry Goldenblatt) have confirmed that they will be returning.

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Batman has been named as the top movie superhero.

MTV News has devised a 'Power Ranking' system, which equates the box office receipts for every post-1978 film performance, Oscar nominations, and how many times the particular character has ruled the comic book charts during the last 13 years, to determine the standing of each hero.

The success of The Dark Knight landed the Caped Crusader at the top spot, while the three Spider-Man movies placed the cinematic web slinger at number two, and the combined strength of Superman’s five films was enough to round out the top three.

Recent box office champ Wolverine came in fourth on the list.

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Kylie Minogue has revealed that she would love to try her hand at more movies.

The popstar, who shot to fame in Neighbours, admitted that she had "definitely done the wrong things" in her film career, but was hoping that she still had a chance of winning a good role.

Speaking to Reuters, she said: "I would love to do more movies. I really got waylaid and sidetracked. I started out as an actress and I thought that's what I would do."

She added that she was hoping she could someday emulate the success she had with musician Nick Cave in their 1996 music video for 'Where The Wild Roses Grow'.

"[He] saw me in a totally different way, believed in me and had this idea and a vision for a number of years before he contacted me. We worked together and it was just absolutely perfect.

"My daytime fantasy is that there is a director somewhere who will be thinking that kind of way but putting it into the context of the film."

Minogue's most prominent movie roles to date have included Street Fighter, alongside Jean Claude Van Damme, and a small part in Moulin Rouge!.

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Kevin Costner is developing a new Western movie for A&E, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The untitled four-hour project sees Costner partnering with producer Armyn Bernstein to tell a post-Civil War story which covers major conflict in the settlement of the West.

A&E's Tana Nugent Jamieson said of the film: "Costner understands the Western better than anybody, and he respects the genre. He knows every bit of detail about the West; this is a genre he feels a lot of passion for. It's a perfect fit."

Jamieson also said that Costner has expressed interest in one of the roles and may appear in the project.

"There is a character that he's interested in, and we're hoping he will potentially play, but until we have a script we can't say too much," she said.

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Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Alba are in talks to join Garry Marshall's all-star ensemble cast for Valentine's Day.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Shirley MacLaine, Bradley Cooper and Ashton Kutcher are also finalising deals to appear in the New Line romantic comedy.

The movie is comprised of five loosely connected stories that unfold over the course of a Valentine's Day in Los Angeles.

Roberts will play an army officer flying home from Iraq, Hathaway a talent industry assistant and Kutcher a flower shop owner who proposes to his girlfriend (Alba).

Marshall previously directed Roberts in Pretty Woman and Runaway Bride, and Hathaway in the Princess Diaries movies.

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The Mentalist actor Simon Baker has signed up to star in Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me.

Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson and Casey Affleck are already confirmed for the adaptation of Jim Thompson's noir classic novel.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Baker will play an attorney on the trail of a murderer.

The movie will tell the story of a Texan sheriff (Affleck) who turns from a "boring small-town cop" into a "ruthless, sociopathic murderer". Alba will play a prostitute, while Hudson is cast as the sheriff's lover.

Shooting begins this week in New Mexico and Oklahoma.