SuperHeroHype is reporting that Dominic Cooper will play a younger version of Howard Stark in Joe Johnston's Captain America: The First Avenger. Howard Stark was played by John Slattery in Jon Favreau's Iron Man 2, but Captain America will take place during World War II, 30 years earlier than the 1974 Stark Expo.
"It wouldn't be the same actor, probably, because he would be much younger," Favreau explained. "[Howard Stark] was starting out during that time, and [he] was involved with the war effort, much like Howard Hughes."
For the sequel to video game flick Hitman, 20th Century Fox is hiring Spanish director Daniel Benmayor (best known for his cooking commercials), which essentially only means that Fox is apparently committed to keeping costs down.
Benmayor's first film Paintball is about a paintball match in the middle of the jungle with one player who decides to use real ammo. He just completed a film called Bruc, "about a 19th Century Catalan drummer boy who helps gives Napoleon’s army its first taste of defeat. Studio Canal releases the film in the fall."
No word as of yet whether Timothy Olyphant will return, but the paycheck would likely be the same or even smaller than the first, something which may not appeal to the man now that he's got a starring villain role in the Die Hard franchise under his belt.
We know that gorgeous brat Megan Fox is out of Transformers 3, but what about her replacement? Rumors have been circulating that the actress' shoes will be filled by the beautiful Rosie Huntington Whiteley, who you may recognize from the pages of recent Victoria's Secret catalogues. See for yourself why that's a really, really good thing:
Transformers 3 began production on May 17, shooting in Los Angeles. Find out more at SuperHeroHype.
Orlando Bloom has been cast as The Duke of Buckingham in Paul W.S. Anderson's upcoming Three Musketeers film.The 3-D film has already reached deals with Logan Lerman, Christoph Waltz, Mads Mikkelsen, Ray Stevenson, Matthew Macfadyen, Luke Evans, Milla Jovovich and rising star Juno Temple.
Alex Litvak, who worked on the script for the new Predators reboot, and Bridget Jones screenwriter Andrew Davies have put together the script for 3-D Musketeers, which is shooting in September and will hit theaters next summer. Meanwhile, the Warner Bros. version of the classic tale is scheduled for 2012, and will likely have bigger stars and a bigger presence.
Martin Scorsese is looking to score a real far-fetched one this time around: he wants his own most beloved onscreen duo to play one of the most iconic musical pairs in history.
"I'm yet to spot the actor who can bring back Frank Sinatra alive on screen. My choice is Al Pacino, and Robert De Niro as Dean Martin," the legendary director said.
Bizarre, right? Scorsese does acknowledge the challenge, but he also contends that the footprint of Sinatra is so big you can't just focus on one part of his life. You have to go all in, and that requires someone of a much higher caliber than most.
"We can’t go through the greatest hits of Sinatra’s life," the legendary director explained. "We tried this already. Just can’t do it. So the other way to go is to have three or four different Sinatras. Younger. Older. Middle-aged. Very old. You cut back and forth in time – and you do it through the music. See what I’m saying? So that’s what we’re trying for. It’s very tricky [laughs]."
Multiple Sinatras means you can bet a whole lot more than your $25 popcorn that Leo's going to be in it.
Count Dracula is summoning director Quentin Tarantino to Austria in search of a location for an upcoming film about the legendary vampire.
Austrian press claimed over the weekend that the "Pulp Fiction" director will stay for four nights in Vienna to visit castles in the nearby countryside, while Kreuzenstein Castle in Lower Austria – one of the locations picked by Season of the Witch"director Dominic Sena – has been selected as a possible location for Tarantino’s new project.
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A handful of interesting actors have joined DreamWorks’ sequel Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom. Gary Oldman has signed on to play Lord Shen (a peacock), and he will be joined by Michelle Yeoh, Victor Garber, and Jean Claude-Van Damme.
The film will star Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross and James Hong and is slated for release on May 27, 2011 (Memorial Day weekend).
Yeoh will bring to life the mystical character of The Soothsayer (a goat), while Van Damme and Garber round out the cast as Master Croc and Master Thundering Rhino.
Miramax founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein have lost their bid to buy back Miramax from Disney after the children's product giants backed away from negotiations.
The Weinsteins: lovable, cuddly, impeccable skin.
The Weinsteins sold their company to Disney in the '90s for $80 million, but they continued to run the operation until 2005. The buy-back would've cost about $600 million, and the brothers (who haven't had much financial luck of late) recruited billionaire Ron Burkle to invest in the deal. But disagreements over the finer points of the deal created a chaotic situation that discouraged Disney, so they pulled out of talks.
We've got some new pics from the upcoming 3D sequel Resident Evil:Afterlife, featuring franchise newcomer Wentworth Miller as iconic Resident Evil hero Chris Redfield.
Milla Jovovich is set to return once again as zombie executioner Alice in the film (the first pic in the series, featuring Jovovich, can be found in the article header). According to Milla, her character will not have the superpowers granted to her in previous Resident Evil films – this time, she’ll have to depend on her standard undead-killer badassery to take out legions of zombie monsters.
