Penelope Cruz has reportedly signed up to become the next Bond girl in Sam Mendes’ follow-up to Skyfall, which currently has the working titled of Bond 24. Cruz’s husband Javier Bardem played the villain Raoul Silva in Skyfall
The web is abuzz with rumours that singer Florence Welch is being courted to play a lead role in the new Star Wars movies. A production source told The Sun: 'Almost every actress in Hollywood wants a role in the new movies but we are keen to cast people who are unexpected'
Shah Rukh Khan is back on Twitter after a hiatus of close to five months. The Bollywood superstar shared an update following a surgery on his shoulder last week. ‘Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life,’ he posted to his 4 million followers
Deadline reports that Benicio Del Toro has joined the ensemble of Guardians of the Galaxy. Marvel says it’s a lead role, but will not specify the exact part. All they will say is that he’s signed a deal that includes options for multiple movies
Jon Stewart, who’s taking a three-month hiatus from Daily Show to direct his debut film Rosewater, has tapped Gael Garcia Bernal as the movie’s star. The film is based on Maziar Bahari’s Then They Came For Me, about a journalist who covered Iran’s 2009 election and was imprisoned by the Iranian government for 118 days
Johnny Depp has backed out of Black Mass, the biopic on the Boston mobster Whitey Bulger. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Depp originally signed on at his standard cost, US$20 million, but after the producers struggled to sell the project in Cannes, the budget was cut
Jim Carrey will publish a children’s book, How Roland Rolls, in September. The illustrated book, about a wave named Roland, is Carrey’s first. ‘He brings amazingly vivid characters to life, and children will respond to the energy he has brought to How Roland Rolls,’ said a publisher’s statement
Steven Soderbergh, who said he was retiring after his new film Behind the Candelabra, has signed on to produce a series for Cinemax. Titled The Knick, it will be set in 1900 New York at the Knickerbocker Hospital. Clive Owen is in talks to star and Soderbergh intends to direct an entire season
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Thomas Pynchon adaptation Inherent Vice has added Josh Brolin to the ensemble of Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Benicio del Toro, Jena Malone and Martin Short. Joaquin Phoenix is set to headline, and Sean Penn is also reportedly eyeing a role
The filmmaker Michael Gracey announced he’s directing an Elton John biopic titled Rocketman. Who’s he wooing to play Sir Elton? An unexpected choice in the form of Tom Hardy
Trent Reznor revealed Nine Inch Nails have finished a new album: 'I've been less than honest about what I've really been up to lately. For the last year I've been secretly working non-stop with Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder on a new, full-length Nine Inch Nails record, which I am happy to say is finished and frankly great'
