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‘Spartacus’ Alum Jai Courtney Lands Coveted ‘Die Hard’ Lead

A prolonged search has ended, and 20th Century Fox has set Jai Courtney to play the son of John McClane (Bruce Willis) in A Good Day To Die Hard, the fifth installment of the Die Hard franchise. John Moore will direct a film that has been dated for February 14, 2013 release. Alex Young is producing.

Feed Source: Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood
Author: MIKE FLEMING

Sacha Baron Cohen Banned From Oscars

The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has pulled actor Sacha Baron Cohen‘s tickets from the 84th Academy Awards. This means he is banned from attending the Oscars even though he is one of the stars from Hugo, Paramount’s 11 nominated Best Picture contenders. “Unless they’re assured that nothing entertaining is going to happen on the Red Carpet, the Academy is not admitting Sacha Baron Cohen to the show,” an insider just told me.

Feed Source: Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood
Author: NIKKI FINKE
movies: Hugo, The Dictator
actor: Sacha Baron Cohen

Sacha Baron Cohen Banned From Oscars

The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has pulled actor Sacha Baron Cohen‘s tickets from the 84th Academy Awards. This means he is banned from attending the Oscars even though he is one of the stars from Hugo, Paramount’s 11 nominated Best Picture contenders. “Unless they’re assured that nothing entertaining is going to happen on the Red Carpet, the Academy is not admitting Sacha Baron Cohen to the show,” an insider just told me.

Feed Source: Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood
Author: NIKKI FINKE
movies: Hugo, The Dictator
actor: Sacha Baron Cohen

Edgar Wright to Direct Johnny Depp in The Night Stalker

He's got Dark Shadows coming out this summer, but Johnny Depp already has plans to adapt another supernatural TV drama for the big screen. Deadline reports that Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) has signed on to direct Depp in a feature transfer of The Night Stalker, a seventies TV show starring Darren McGavin as a crime reporter investigating things that go bump in the night. (It was also remade as a TV show in 2005, though it only lasted six episodes.) Do you think Wright and Depp bonded over their similar hairstyles?

Feed Source: Vulture
Author: Kyle Buchanan
movie: The Night Stalker
actor: Johnny Depp

Tickets to 'The Hunger Games' On Sale Now!

We're now officially very close to the start of the "Games."

"The Hunger Games" don't officially commence until March 23, but you can buy your tickets to one of the most anticipated movies of the year, like, right now. You don't have to wait in any line, either -- just click here to be among the first people to witness the opening of the "Games."

Feed Source: Next Movie
Author: Bryan Enk
movie: The Hunger Games
actors: Alexander Ludwig, Josh Hutcherson, Isabelle Fuhrman + 7 more »

Will Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘The Dictator’ Character Walk The Oscar Red Carpet?

The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is concerned that, on Sunday, Sacha Baron Cohen will come to the Oscars and walk the Red Carpet. While ordinarily that would be fine since he’s a big international star, the Academy is dismayed that he’ll come dressed as the title character in his upcoming Paramount comedy The Dictator. That proposal has been floated with the Academy, and I’m told that everyone involved in the ceremony is adamantly against it on the grounds that it makes a mockery of what Hollywood considers its most prestigious event.
Feed Source: Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood
Author: MIKE FLEMING
movie: The Dictator
actor: Sacha Baron Cohen

Act Of Valor - 'Making Of' Featurette (Red Band)

Author: IGN
movie: Act of Valor

Warner Bros Plans More ‘I Am Legend’ With Will Smith

Warner Bros has closed deals with Akiva Goldsman and Overbrook Entertainment to produce another installment of I Am Legend, the 2007 hit film. The intention is for Will Smith to reprise his role as scientist Robert Neville, who was the last man on Earth doing battle with a mutated mob in New York City after an apocalyptic man-made virus wiped out the population. A deal was made with Arash Amel to write the script. The film is not being called a prequel, which had been rumored for the past few years.

Feed Source: Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood
Author: MIKE FLEMING
movie: I Am Legend
actor: Will Smith

Gael Garcia Bernal Is Your New Zorro

Last April, rumours began to spread that 20th Century Fox had its eye on an ambitious new take on the Zorro legend, with post-apocalyptic version Zorro Reborn bubbling away in development. Now it’s closer to reality, with Gael Garcia Bernal anointed to take over the trademark sword-swishing duties.

Since it’s set in The World Of Tomorrow, it’ll be a change from the usual Californian / Mexican setting, though the ruined world concept does suggest a lot of desert will still be involved. Bernal’s Zorro will this time be a masked vigilante out for revenge.

Feed Source: Empire
Author: James White
movie: Zorro
actor: Gael García Bernal

Josh Duhamel Not Coming Back for Transformers 4: Is Anyone?!

Bye, bye, robots!

News hit earlier this week that Michael Bay is developing a fourth Transformers flick, but the fate of the original cast remained a mystery.

Until now...

"I don't think anybody's doing it," Josh Duhamel told us last night at the launch party for Sony PlayStation's new PS Vita portable entertainment system. "I know Shia [LaBoeuf]'s not doing it. I don't think Tyrese or Rosie [Huntington-Whiteley] or anybody else is doing it."

Feed Source: E! Online
Author: MARC MALKIN AND BRETT MALEC
movie: Transformers
actor: Josh Duhamel

Jason Statham to star in Jason Statham-produced 'Heat' remake

EW has confirmed that Jason Statham is producing a reboot of Brian de Palma’s 1986 action movie Heat, and he’s cast himself in the lead role. William Goldman penned the original Heat screenplay based on his novel of the same name. Statham will take over the role originated by Burt Reynolds of an ex-mercenary-turned-gambling addict working as a bodyguard in Las Vegas. Steven Chasman (Killer Elite, the Transporter series) will also produce. Shooting is scheduled to begin later this year in France. No costars or release date has been announced yet.

Feed Source: EW.com
Author: Lanford Beard
movie: Heat
actor: Jason Statham