According to Showbiz Spy, franchise star Johnny Depp wants English actor/comedian Russell Brand to join him in the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean 5. With the success of the latest film, another two installments in the series is pretty much a certainty and sources indicate that Disney is also keen on adding Brand to the cast.
Columbia Pictures has announced that Thor star Chris Hemsworth will headline their upcoming film Shadow Runner. The film will be a modern-day action thriller based on an original idea by Hossein Amini, who wrote the upcoming Snow White and the Huntsman.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has announced that he's joined the cast of the upcoming G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes. As we reported earlier this month, Johnson has been in talks to join the cast of the sequel to the 2009 film G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra as the heavy machine gunner “Roadblock.”
According to Variety, former child star Haley Joel Osment will return to the big screen in the Frankenstein-themed film Wake the Dead. Best known for his role as Cole Sear in M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 11, the now 23-year-old Osment is ready to make a big screen comeback.
Tom Hanks, who voices the character of Woody in the popular Toy Story franchise, revealed that a fourth installment in the series is currently being developed. Hanks let the news leak in a recently-aired interview with BBC's Breakfast News, saying that computer-animation studio Pixar is "working on it now."
Relativity Media announced yesterday that American screenwriter Alex Tse (Watchmen) will pen their cinematic reboot of The Crow. Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later) will helm the film while actor Bradley Cooper (Limitless) is set to star.
English actor Douglas Booth (The Pillars of the Earth) has been cast as Romeo in Italian director Carlo Carlei's Romeo and Juliet. Variety reports that he'll share the big screen with Academy Award-nominated actress Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) who's set to play Juliet in the film.
Following our report that Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky's next film would be Noah, a dark take on the tale of Noah's Ark, comes more news straight from the man himself! IFC News caught up with Aronofsky at the 2011 Provincetown International Film Festival where he dropped a few hints about his latest project.
Following our report that Hugh Jackman may star in Tom Hooper's Les Misérables comes news that he may be joined by English actor Paul Bettany. According to Screen Rant, Bettany has tested for the role of Inspector Javert in the film, which is to be the Oscar-winning director's follow-up to last year's The King's Speech.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Steven Spielberg has been meeting with screenwriter Mark Protosevich (Thor) to discuss the possibility of rebooting the Jurassic Park franchise. Representatives for Spielberg and Universal Pictures have said that no writer has been hired and that the talks are "purely exploratory." There's also been no indication whether a fourth film in the series would be a sequel to 2001's Jurassic Park III or a complete reboot of the trilogy.
