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Peck, Palicki tapped for 'Red Dawn'

Josh Peck and Adrianne Palicki will star in MGM/United Artists' Red Dawn, says The Hollywood Reporter.

A remake of John Milius's 1984 film, Red Dawn centres on a group of US teens who band together to fight off an invasion from Chinese and Russian soldiers.

Chris Hemsworth will lead the cast as high school quarterback Jed Eckhert, with Peck playing his younger brother and Palicki his love interest. The new trio's roles were originated by Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen and Jennifer Grey.

Stunt coordinator and second-unit veteran Dan Bradley (Quantum Of Solace) will make his directorial debut on Red Dawn. Carl Ellsworth and Jeremy Passmore wrote the update of the Cold War action drama.

Red Dawn is expected to arrive in cinemas on September 24, 2010.


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Elton John snubs 'Bruno' song request

Sir Elton John has rejected Sacha Baron Cohen's request to use 'Can You Feel The Love Tonight' in Bruno.

According to The New York Times, Cohen wanted to play the Lion King track in a scene where his flamboyant Austrian fashion guru takes part in a cage fight, then pulls down his opponent's trousers and kisses him.

Cohen's efforts to clear the song for use in the film were turned down by John and copyright owners Disney, with both objecting to its use in such a risqué scene.

However, John has reportedly agreed to let Cohen use another of his songs towards the end of the movie.

Bruno, Cohen's eagerly-awaited follow-up to his 2006 hit Borat, opens in cinemas on July 10.

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Nolan 'won't return for more Batman'

Christopher Nolan will not direct a third instalment of the Batman franchise, it has been reported.

The filmmaker previously said that he had concerns about helming another chapter in the series after the massive success of the first two superhero films.

According to Movie Hole, an insider has told Batman-On-Film.com that the likelihood of the director tackling another Caped Crusader adventure is in question.

The website claims that Nolan was so shaken by the passing of Heath Ledger that The Dark Knight would be his last Batman outing.

The future of the pictures is reportedly "back at square one".

Nolan’s next film Inception stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Michael Caine, scheduled for a July 2010 release.


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Cera 'not good enough' for 'Ghostbusters 3'

Michael Cera has claimed that he is not important enough to star in Ghostbusters 3.

The Superbad actor, who next appears in biblical comedy Year One, told Moviefone that he doesn't rate his chances of winning a role in the planned Ghostbusters sequel.

"No. I don't think so," Cera remarked. "Ghostbusters is too important for me to try and be one. I would feel like a phony. I would feel like an impostor."

However, Cera's Year One co-star Jack Black admitted that he would like to get involved in the sci-fi comedy, which will see the four original Ghostbusters return to train new recruits.

"Could I see myself in it?" Black said. "Yeah, I can bust some ghosts! I ain't afraid of no ghosts, buster!"

Year One scribes Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky are penning the new Ghostbusters movie, while director Harold Ramis starred in and co-wrote the first two franchise instalments.


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Radcliffe 'tried not to laugh on Potter set'

Daniel Radcliffe has revealed that he had a hard time trying not to laugh while shooting the latest Harry Potter movie.

The 19-year-old admitted that Sir Michael Gambon, who plays his wizard mentor Albus Dumbledore, attempted to crack him up during takes, Contactmusic reports.

He said: "All the scenes with Dumbledore were quite difficult, but they were great fun. [Gambon] is wonderful and I love him and he's one of the greatest actors I've ever worked with.

"But it is amazing because he will be actively trying to make you laugh right up until the point the director says, 'Action'."

Radcliffe also hopes that his camaraderie with the 68-year-old will translate onto the screen.

He added: "I think I'll be vaguely happy with the scenes between myself and Michael. I think they'll be good. Because we got to like each other very much off screen, I'm hoping on screen that'll come across."

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince arrives in US cinemas on July 14 and in the UK on July 15.


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Marshall: 'Jurassic Park 4 a long shot'

Producer Frank Marshall has revealed that a proposed fourth instalment of Jurassic Park is "a long shot", according to reports.

Speaking to i09, Marshall admitted that a continuation of the dinosaur movies were more of a "backburner project".

He said: "I just think, I have to see if they can come up with a story, we don't have a story yet. At this point, you could call it a long shot."

His producing partner Kathleen Kennedy was previously quoted as saying that a follow-up would not transpire in the wake of author Michael Crichton’s death.

Universal had commissioned screenplays from John Sayles and William Monahan on the possible sequel.


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Michelle Pfeiffer: 'I’ll give whipping lessons'

Michelle Pfeiffer has offered up her acting services for the next woman to portray iconic villain Catwoman.

The Cheri star, who played the feline-inspired criminal and her alter-ego Selina Kyle in 1992’s Batman Returns, hopes that the character will be brought into play for upcoming instalments of the franchise.

She told MTV: "You would think so. They better... They should!"

Rumours have suggested Angelina Jolie or Rachel Weisz for the role in Batman 3, while Pfeiffer said that "both would be awesome".

She added: "I can give the whipping lessons. I did my own whipping."

Earlier this week, it was reported that Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan will not return to helm the next chapter.


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'Mission: Impossible IV': Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams to return for 2011 release

Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams have agreed to co-produce Mission: Impossible IV for Paramount, Variety reports. The film is scheduled for a 2011 release. Abrams is currently at work on a Star Trek sequel -- he has not decided if he will direct or just produce that film -- and Cruise is committed to make an untitled film with Cameron Diaz for 20th Century Fox, directed by James Mangold (3:10 to Yuma). No writers have been assigned to M:I4 yet, but a decision is likely soon. Abrams will not decide if will direct M:I4 until after he sees a finished script. Reports surfaced last week that Cruise and Abrams had met to discuss the project.

M:I4 would be Cruise's first film at Paramount since his production company left the lot in August 2006. Sumner Redstone, the head of Paramount parent company, Viacom, had made disparaging public comments about the star, saying that Cruise's now-infamous couch-jumping on Oprah and the resulting media firestorm had cost the studio between $100 million and $150 million on M:I3 because Cruise had turned off women. (The film earned $398 million worldwide, the lowest-grossing installment of the franchise.) Cruise's 14-year relationship with the studio ended soon afterward. Cruise took over United Artists in the wake of the break-up. In March 2008, Redstone began trying to mend fences and invited Cruise to lunch in Beverly Hills. Redstone said of the meeting that he and Cruise "agreed the past is the past and we would put it behind us and renew our relationship." Which is not to say that they'll be taking family vacations together anytime soon. "I wouldn't exactly say that they 'made-up,'" a source familiar with the situation tells EW.com. "It was more like a gentlemen's handshake." At recent appearance, Redstone reportedly described Cruise as a "great actor and a good friend."


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Witherspoon is Universal's 'Pharm Girl'

Reese Witherspoon will produce and star in a comedy about the pharmaceutical industry.

Pharm Girl centres on an ambitious employee who rises through the ranks of a shady drugs company, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (Bad Santa, I Love You, Phillip Morris) will write the screenplay and are in talks to direct the Universal project.

Witherspoon will next star in James L. Brooks's untitled comedy and is also in talks to appear with Ben Stiller in cloning comedy Used Guys.

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'Ghostbusters 3' to avoid 'Indy' problems

Harold Ramis has said that he is hoping the new Ghostbusters movie will avoid the problems of last summer's Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull.

Ramis, who starred as Egon Spengler and co-wrote the first two movies with Dan Aykroyd, told Movieline that he does not want to disappoint fans of the popular franchise.

"The Star Trek reinvention worked great because they were able to project back in time," Ramis said. "We're not going to tell an origin story of who the Ghostbusters were before you met them in the first movie.

"But I would hate to do Indiana Jones And The Crystal Skull. It didn't seem like there was a lot new going on there - just more of the same and not as interesting."

The 64-year-old refused to comment on speculation about new cast members, but said that Michael Cera and Seth Rogen "would be great" as younger spook hunters.

Ramis's Year One, penned by Ghostbusters 3 writers Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, opens in US cinemas this Friday and on June 26 in the UK.


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Rathbone 'not prepared' for 'Twilight'

Jackson Rathbone has admitted that he was "not prepared" for the international frenzy surrounding the Twilight franchise.

The actor, who plays vampire Jasper Hale in the saga, told Shock Till You Drop that he was stunned by the interest in sequel New Moon, despite it not being released for another six months.

"We started making this movie and people are already loving it and it's not even out yet," he explained.

"That was an experience in and of itself. I wasn't really prepared for it, but I was really thankful for it, because they're so supportive of what we do. As an actor, you need an audience."

Rathbone went on to say that the New Moon trailer, which depicts a scene from the start of the book, is just a hint of what fans can expect.

"That's only the beginning of it. They didn't show the entire thing. It's gonna be a really action-packed movie," he said.

New Moon will hit cinemas in November.


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Bay: 'I've had enough of Transformers world'

Michael Bay has reportedly revealed that he does not plan to return for Transformers 3.

Paramount and DreamWorks greenlit a third cinematic outing for the Autobots and Decepticons in March, giving the film a July 1, 2011 release date.

A proposed sequel is now in development, but the director of the first two instalments has "had enough of the Transformers world", Total Film reports.

He said: "It's easy to go shoot an art movie in a winery in the South of France. But people have no idea how hard it is to create something like Transformers.

"After the three-and-a-half years I've spent making these movies, I feel like I've had enough of the Transformers world."

He added: "I need to do something totally divergent, something without any explosions."

Bay will next serve as producer on the Nightmare On Elm Street remake.

Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, opens in cinemas on June 24.


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'The Hangover' wins UK box office

The Hangover has landed at the top of the UK box office on its debut weekend.

The raunchy Las Vegas-set comedy pulls in £3.2 million to knock Terminator Salvation from the top of the chart.

Night At The Museum 2, Drag Me To Hell and Angels & Demons complete the top five, each slipping a place from last week.

The box office also sees new entries from horror remake The Last House On The Left (number seven) and the Ken Loach/Eric Cantona team-up Looking For Eric (at eight).

The UK top ten in full:

1. (-) The Hangover - £3,193,806

2. (1) Terminator Salvation - £1,951,047

3. (2) Night At The Museum 2 - £1,083,668

4. (3) Drag Me To Hell - £534,849

5. (4) Angels & Demons - £514,507

6. (5) Star Trek - £405,242

7. (-) The Last House On The Left - £392,163

8. (-) Looking For Eric - £366,242

9. (6) Last Chance Harvey - £263,946

10. (7) Coraline - £161,642


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Cantona: 'Sport more intense than acting'

Eric Cantona has said that it is a more intense experience to play football than it is to act in films.

The former Manchester United player and Looking For Eric star told thelondonpaper that the live element of sport gives it a different dimension.

Cantona said: "It's more intense in sports. Acting is different. It's not live. It's different being in front of the fans.

"In a film set, it's more exciting. The energy when you and your co-stars are together is stronger and excites you even more."

He added: "You can lose your mind, like when you score a goal. You can share it with 60,000 people and you can feel the energy."


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Nolan 'may still direct Batman 3'

Screenwriter David Goyer has revealed that Christopher Nolan may still return to the Batman franchise.

It was reported yesterday that the director was considering breaking off from helming the third superhero instalment partly due to the passing of Heath Ledger.

However, Goyer, who penned both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, said that Nolan would come back to the film series if the right plotline was presented to him.

Speaking to IGN, he said: "Well, I believe he said if we can find the story that he's happy with, that he would return. And unfortunately, respecting Chris... You know, talk to him after he finishes Inception, which he's shooting right now. That just started shooting."

Goyer also revealed that the two have been discussing storylines for Batman 3.

Nolan’s Inception, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Michael Caine, is scheduled for a July 2010 release.


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Woody Allen 'wants to cast Carla Bruni'

Woody Allen has said that he would like to cast former supermodel Carla Bruni in one of his movies.

The director told AFP in Paris that he would "without question" pick the wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy to appear in a future film.

Allen said: "I'm sure she would be wonderful. She has charisma, and she performs, so she's not a stranger to an audience, and I would cast her in many different ways.

"I don't have a story at the moment, but you know, maybe even I'll ask her, if she's interested."


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Johansson, Hathaway 'inspiration for Bride'

Scarlett Johansson and Anne Hathaway are the inspiration for the female creature in The Bride Of Frankenstein remake, it has been reported.

The project, based on the 1935 horror classic, was announced earlier this week, and will be directed by Neil Burger.

In the original film the titular character, played by Elsa Lanchester, was portrayed as a frizzy-haired ghoul, while producer Brian Grazer reportedly wants the new bride to have sex appeal, says The New York Post.

"She'll be young. They're looking for a person with great power and sex appeal," said a source.

"Someone along the lines of Scarlett Johansson or Anne Hathaway."

Grazer recently confirmed that he will produce a Stretch Armstrong movie, centred around the popular ’70s toy.


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Shyamalan still keen on 'Unbreakable' sequel

M. Night Shyamalan has revealed that he is still keen to make a sequel to Unbreakable.

The director previously stated that he was toying with the idea of a follow-up to the 2000 superhero-inspired film, which starred Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson.

The Sixth Sense helmer said that he’d be interested in continuing the storyline, if all the first movie's cast are available.

He told MTV: "I don’t know where all the parties are in the world. Sam [Jackson] is like 'Mr Comic Book' now. And Bruce, I don’t know what he’s up to. I don’t know where Disney’s at in their head and what kind of movies they’re up for making.

"But yeah, I love that movie."

Shyamalan’s latest project The Last Airbender is scheduled for release on July 2.


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Four join Scheuring's 'Experiment'

Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Elijah Wood and Cam Gigandet have been added to the cast of The Experiment.

Prison Break creator Paul Scheuring will write and direct the psychological thriller, a remake of Oliver Hirschbiegel's German film Das Experiment.

The story centres on a group of ordinary men who take on the roles of guards and prisoners for an experiment to examine how power and control affect the subjects. Brody will take on the role of the prisoners' leader, while Whitaker has been cast as a guard who abuses his power.

The Experiment begins production in Iowa next month.


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Common added to Latifah's 'Just Wright'

Common will play the romantic lead opposite Queen Latifah in comedy Just Wright, says Variety.

The Terminator Salvation actor has been cast as an injured basketball player who attracts the attention of Latifah's sports trainer when she helps him recover from a major injury.

Sanaa Hamri is directing the Fox Searchlight film from a script by Michael Elliot. Latifah will serve as a producer on the project alongside Shakim Compere and Debra Martin Chase.

Her last big screen outing was in drama The Secret Life Of Bees.


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