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Javier Bardem has officially signed on to star as Roland Deschain in Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower , surprising literally nobody. This is no normal casting news however, as the project is planned as an ambitiously huge franchise. As well as a trilogy …

Jodie Foster has been doing the promotional rounds on The Beaver this week, which means the press have been attempting to milk her for details about new sci-fi Elysium . The sophomore feature from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp, the project is pretty much under lock and key, with only …

Tom Cruise is set to get all political on us in a new, as-yet-untitled film from Dan Fogelman, the writer of Disney’s Tangled . Cruise has signed on to star as a hitherto squeaky clean politician who is caught having an affair, and returns to his hometown a broken man. …

Tim Hetherington, photojournalist and co-director of Oscar-nominated documentary Restrepo , has been killed in Libya. He was covering the ongoing fighting between Muammar Gaddafi’s forces and the opposition. Pulitzer Prize nominee Chris Hondros, 41, was also killed. The pair were among 8 to 10 journalists reporting in Misrata when the …

Natalie Press (My Summer Of Love) is Nikki, a former tearaway who arrives on a remote Scottish island seeking revenge on the mother who abandoned her. Naturally, things don’t pan out as she planned when she finds her mum (Janet McTeer) and her half-brother (a revelatory Colin Morgan from teatime’s …

Sean Penn is keen to join The Last Photograph , according to a report by Deadline. Christian Bale is already attached to the film, which is based on an original idea by Zack Snyder (who’s no longer directing). Instead The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo director Niels Arden Oplev will …

After initial doubts, it seems Alyson Hannigan is now set to star in American Reunion – the third sequel to 1999’s American Pie . There was worry she may be too busy to schedule filming due to a starring role in CBS’ hit sitcom How I Met Your Mother . …

After an irksome amount of to-ing and fro-ing, Fox have finally found a director for Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool spin-off, with visual effects whizz Tim Miller landing the job. Miller has worked on comic-book movies including X-Men , X2 and Daredevil , so he’s no stranger to the superhero scene. He …

Dead in the water? Not quite. Last-minute negotiations to reanimate an adaptation of Max Brooks’s zombie novel are proving quite fruitful, according to sources. With Paramount threatening to cut the rope without a financing partner, all hope on a World War Z film had seemingly been quashed. But today word …

Hailee Steinfeld isn’t going anywhere – but up, that is. Fresh from her True Grit Oscar nomination, she’s up for the lead role in a new Sleeping Beauty movie. While it seems to be a trend in Hollywood at the moment to update fairytales (we have Tim Burton’s phenomenally successful …