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Sep 18 2012 10:14 PM ET

Casting Net: Bill Paxton aiming to fight with Tom Cruise in 'All You Need Is Kill.' Plus: Melissa Leo, Gong Li, Taryn Manning

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Bill Paxton is in talks to join Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt in the sci-fi thriller All You Need Is Kill, playing the head of a platoon of soldiers that includes a man (Cruise) who re-lives the day he dies over and over again — so, Groundhog Day, but with aliens. (Perhaps not surprisingly, it’s based on a Japanese graphic novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka.) Doug Liman (Mr. and Mrs. Smith) is directing from a script by Dante Harper (the upcoming Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters) and Joby Harold (Awake). [Variety]

• Melissa Leo will costar with Hugh Jackman in Prisoners, about a man who struggles to find his kidnapped daughter and best friend in spite of the police’s inability to help. Denis Villeneuve (Incendies) is attached to direct from a script by Aaron Guzikowski (Contraband). [Variety]

• Gong Li (Memoirs of a Geisha) will star in The Last Empress, a U.S.-China co-production about the infamous Empress Dowager Cixi, who ruled China from 1861 through 1908. No director has been announced. [Variety]

• Taryn Manning (Hustle & Flow, FX’s Sons of Anarchy) will star in The Shallows, a thriller about a group of friends who fight to survive in the wilds of the Florida Everglades. Rupert Smith will direct. [Variety]

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Jul 23 2012 10:47 AM ET

'Why Stop Now' clip: Tracy Morgan contends with unruly sock puppet -- EXCLUSIVE

In Why Stop Now (titled Predisposed at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival), Jesse Eisenberg plays Eli, a promising concert pianist whose career rests on a single audition, which happens to fall on the same day he needs to drop off his drug addicted mother, Penny (Melissa Leo), at rehab. Things don’t quite unfold as planned, and her main drug dealer, Sprinkles (Tracy Morgan), and his associate, Black (Isiah Whitlock Jr.), get involved.

In this exclusive clip, Penny, Eli, Sprinkles, and Black all pick up Penny’s daughter, Nicole (Emma Rayne Lyle), who has developed perhaps an unhealthy attachment to her ill-mannered sock puppet Julio. One could observe that having a family as unconventional as Nicole’s might lead the young girl to escape into her own fantasy, but, really, it’s just funny watching Tracy Morgan yell at a sock puppet. Who knew that drug addiction could be such fertile ground for family comedy? Check out the clip below:

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Jul 17 2012 07:23 PM ET

'Catching Fire' zeroing in on actors for Finnick and Beetee -- REPORT

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UPDATE: Melissa Leo is reportedly no longer in the running for the role of Mags. The following story has been amended accordingly.

The tributes for the Hunger Games of The Hunger Games were stocked mostly with young actors unknown to most audiences. But as the casting sweepstakes for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire really begins to (forgive me) catch fire, it appears that Lionsgate hopes to dial up the star wattage a bit for its wildly anticipated sequel.

Variety is reporting that Sam Claflin (Snow White and the Huntsman, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) and Tony Shalhoub (Monk) are the latest actors to top the shortlist to play the new tributes in Catching Fire. (Some SPOILERS follow for those who have not read Suzanne Collins’ novel.)  READ FULL STORY »

Jul 10 2012 09:53 PM ET

Casting Net: Jason Bateman to star in and direct spelling bee comedy. Plus: Channing Tatum circling Evel Knievel biopic, and 'The Wolverine' gets villain

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Jason Bateman is in talks to star in and make his feature directing debut with the indie comedy Bad Words, about an unhappy adult who games the system to enter a national children’s spelling bee. First-time screenwriter Andrew Dodge penned the script, which was on the 2011 Black List. [Variety]

• Channing Tatum is in talks to produce and star in an untitled biopic about famed daredevil Evel Knievel. Tatum’s producing partner Reid Carolin (Magic Mike) penned the script, based on the Stuart Barker book Life of Evel. No director is attached. [THR]

• Hiroyuki Sanada (LostRevengeRush Hour 3) will play Big Bad yakuza crime boss Lord Shingen opposite Hugh Jackman in The WolverineJames Mangold is directing. [Deadline]

Melissa Leo and Rick Yune (Die Another Day) have signed onto the White House thriller Olympus Has Fallen (this is the one starring Gerard Butler as a Secret Service agent, and Aaron Eckhart as the president, with Antoine Fuqua directing). Leo will play the Secretary of Defense, and Yune will play the mastermind behind the North Korean takeover of the White House. [THR]

• Rob Corddry is negotiating to join the untitled Sandra Bullock/Melissa McCarthy cop comedy. Paul Feig (Bridesmaids) is directing. [Variety]

• The Steve Jobs biopic jOBS added a raft of new actors to its cast, the filmmakers announced today, including JK Simmons (as Apple investor Arthur Rock), Victor Rasuk (as Apple’s first employee Bill Fernandez), and Kevin Dunn (as Apple chairman Gil Amelio). Also joining the cast about the Apple Computer co-founder (played by Ashton Kutcher) are Elden Henson (The Butterfly Effect), Lenny Jacobson (Nurse Jackie), Giles Matthey (True Blood), and Ahna O’Reilly (The Help).

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May 21 2012 09:46 PM ET

Casting Net: Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy team for cop comedy. Plus: Mila Kunis, Peter Dinklage, Chloe Moretz, Rupert Everett, Tom Cruise

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• Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy are joining forces for an untitled comedy about an F.B.I. agent (Bullock) and Boston cop (McCarthy), with Bridesmaids director Paul FeigParks and Recreation scribe Katie Dippold is penning the script. [Deadline]

• Robin Williams, Mila KunisPeter Dinklage, Melissa Leo, and James Earl Jones have signed on for The Angriest Man in Brooklyn, about a patient who is erroneously told he has 90 minutes to live. The comedy marks the first film from Field of Dreams director Phil Alden Robinson since 2002′s The Sum of All Fears. [Screen International]

• Jessica Biel, Chloe Moretz, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan will star in The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea, about a widower (Morgan) who helps a girl (Moretz) construct a raft to cross the Atlantic Ocean. (Biel will play Morgan’s late wife.) Justin Timberlake will add two more hyphens to his multi-hyphenate resume, meanwhile, serving as the film’s composer and music supervisor. Bill Purple will make his feature directing debut from a script by Robbie Pickering (Natural Selection). [THR]

• Speaking of Chloe Moretz, the in demand actress is also in talks for Kick-Ass 2, reprising her role as Hit Girl, who will go into retirement. But will she stay there?! (No.) [Total Film]

Colin Firth, Emily Watson, and Tom Wilkinson will star in actor Rupert Everett‘s directoral debut The Happy Prince, a biopic about Oscar Wilde. Everett will play the famed author and playwright, and also wrote the screenplay. [Variety]

Check out new projects for TOM CRUISE, ABIGAIL BRESLIN, PAUL DANO, OWEN WILSON, RACHEL McADAMS, and ELIZABETH BANKS below:  READ FULL STORY »

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