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Surprise, surprise: Damon Lindelof's rewrite of Ridley Scott's "Alien" prequel has allegedly made the film infinitely more awesome. Culture Vulture got the exclusive that executives at Fox read the new draft of the screenplay (originally penned by Jon Spaihts) and were "very pleased with it indeed."

Although there are a lot of people who still are discovering or absolutely love the Swedish version of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" doesn't mean Hollywood isn't going to stop anytime soon to go and remake the hell out of it. Columbia currently is in the middle of casting the Americanized version of the first novel for the Stieg Larsson. So far they've managed to wrangle up Rooney Mara, Robin Wright, Stellan Skarsgård and Daniel Craig in the main cast with David Fincher directing, but now there's a new person in the fold.

The latest big screen outing for "Sherlock Holmes" is shrouded in as much mystery as one of the great detective's famous cases but British multihyphenate Stephen Fry has revealed he will play Mycroft Holmes in it.

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Director and an actress to play Selene's daughter yet to be named for January 2012 release; filming set for Vancouver in March.

Christoph Waltz and Matt Dillon will play their husbands in Roman Polanski's schoolyard drama.

The once-retired actor would play J. Edgar Hoover's lover and protege Clyde Tolson opposite Leonardo DiCaprio.

Missy Schwartz confirms exclusively efforts to juggle scheduling to allow actor to play Bilbo Baggins continue.

The "Spy Kids 4" cast is rounding out more and more, and damn if it's not looking pretty great. Jessica Alba is already set to play the kids' mother, herself a retired spy who is forced back into the game. While raising two grown kids and a new baby, no less.

Hollywood hitmaker Jan de Bont has signed up to direct Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi in an independently-produced, English-language co-production of the classic tale of Hua Mulan, the legendary young heroine soldier who joins an all-male army.

With Jeremy Renner on board to star in what may or may not be called Mission: Impossible IV we're pretty much set on the male roles for the film, if you include guys like Ving Rhames, etc. But what about the female roles? Deadline is reporting on which Hollywood actresses are up for roles in the Tom Cruise action-fest:I'm told that Lauren German and Paula Patton are testing for the job. UPDATE: I'm told that Kristen Kreuk will also test for the role....