Sylvester Stallone will reprise his role as Rambo in the fourth installment of the franchise. Also, Wesley Snipes and Jean-Claude Van Damme are teaming up for The Hard Corps. In the movie, Van Damme plays a combat veteran who becomes the bodyguard of a former boxing champ. Complications arise when the boxer suspects that his sister is falling in love with Van Damme. You have got to be effing kidding me! After Rocky VI, Rambo IV and the return of Van Damme to the big screen, it can't get much worse. Unless Ah-nuld decides to do Terminator 4.
Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet and Jack Black are teaming up for director Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy Holiday. The film is about the friendship between two women, both of whom have recently been dumped.
Kevin Costner will play the titular role of a serial killer in Bruce A. Evans' psychological thriller Mr. Brooks.
Michael Caine is joining Clive Owen and Julianne Moore for filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron's adaptation of The Children of Men. Caine is also re-teaming with Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale for Warner Bros.' The Prestige. Hugh Jackman also stars in the film, which features Caine as a retired magician who teaches tricks to Jackman's character, who has developed a rivalry with another magician (Bale).
Erin Brockovich's Aaron Eckhart has signed on to star opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones in Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures and Castle Rock's remake of the 2001 German film Mostly Martha. Zeta-Jones plays the titular character, a chef who loses her sister and is obligated to care for her 10-year-old daughter. Eckhart plays a fellow chef and romantic interest.
Hayden Christensen (Star Wars: Episode III) has been cast in three new movies. First, he joins Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce and Jimmy Fallon for the Edie Sedgwick biopic Factory Girl. Miller plays Sedgwick, Pearce plays Andy Warhol, and Christensen landed a role based on Bob Dylan. Christensen is also teaming up with Sigourney Weaver and Jessica Alba for the psychological drama Awake. Finally, he'll star opposite Christina Ricci in the modern-day fable Penelope, about a woman under the influence of a curse.
Charlie Sheen, Eva Longoria, Wayne Brady, Chris Kattan and Christopher Lloyd will lend their voices to Lions Gate's 3-D animated comedy Foodfight! The movie takes place in a supermarket that comes to life after hours.
Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt and Alison Lohman have signed on for the indie flick Delirious. The film follows a celebrity photographer (Buscemi), a homeless man with a desire to become an actor (Pitt) and the hottest pop star of the moment (Lohman), as their paths intersect.
Michael Vartan (Never Been Kissed) and Radha Mitchell (Finding Neverland) are teaming up for the Weinstein Co.'s thriller Rogue. The movie is about a giant crocodile stalking tourists in the Australian outback.
Emily Mortimer (Lovely & Amazing) is joining Ryan Reynolds (Van Wilder) for Warner Independent Pictures' romantic comedy Chaos Theory. The movie centers on a compulsive organizer (Reynolds) who decides to live his life without planning and in the process starts a romance with Mortimer's character.
The "flying" Ford Anglia seen in the Harry Potter movies has been stolen from the lot of South West Film Studios in southwestern England.
Charlize Theron won Best Actress at the Hollywood Awards for her performance in North Country, while Joaquin Phoenix won Best Actor for his portrayal of Johnny Cash in Walk the Line.
A weeklong celebration is being planned in Hong Kong to mark the unveiling of a statue of Bruce Lee on the city's Avenue of Stars on Nov. 27, which would have been the actor's 65th birthday.
Late night talk show host Craig Ferguson will host the 32nd Annual People's Choice Awards live on CBS on Jan. 10.
Of the 91 countries invited, a record 58 countries have submitted films for consideration for the Best Foreign Film Award category for the 78th Annual Academy Awards. The 58 will be narrowed down to five on Jan. 31, when the nominations are announced.
Stanley Kubrick's archives will be housed at University of the Arts' London College of Communication for public viewing and student research beginning summer 2006.
Actor William Hootkins (Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark) passed away Oct. 23 from pancreatic cancer. He was 58.
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