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I was starting to think my devotion to the franchise was just compelling me to believe Final Destination 5 would be a huge step up from the last installment, but now it's really looking like it's got a shot at returning to the good old days, the pre-The Final

Sylvester Stallone has joined Twitter and one of his first Tweets was a bit on the possible sequel to The Expendables .

He may be the posterboy for 1980s lovey dovey comedies, but John Cusack also does tall, dark and stormy quite well. It's fitting then that he'll star as horror author Edgar Allen Poe in James McTeigue's upcoming murder mystery/Poe not-biopic "The Raven." News of the casting comes from Cusack himself, via his Twitter feed.
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The ever-expanding cast of "X-Men: First Class" continues to grow, with Bill Milner (young Magneto), Zoe Kravitz (Angel), and January Jones (Emma Frost) making the latest additions.

BFI's Movie-Con III is in full effect in London right now and ComingSoon.net's man abroad Ben Mortimer has learned that actor Jason Flemyng, last seen playing Calibos in Louis Letterier's Clash of the Titans and in a small role in Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass , will be reteaming with Vaughn for a role in X-Men: First Class . That role will be Azazel, who was described as a "teleporter" during Flemyng's presentation, but who is in fact none other than Nightcrawler's father!

A few weeks back, there were murmurings out of Comic-Con that the new Judge Dredd had been cast and that it would be none other than New Zealand's own Karl Urban ("Bones" McCoy from Star Trek with upcoming comic movies Red and Priest ). Empire Online has gotten confirmation from the film's producers Andrew MacDonald and Allon Reich, who were asked about it during a Q 'n' A at the first Movie-Con, currently taking place in London.

Studio insider insists newcomer will get role despite whispers Natalie Portman may come back into the picture.

Alcon Entertainment's 3D family adventure to begin production in September.

Tim Blake Nelson has joined John Krasinski and Drew Barrymore in "Everybody Loves Whales," a Working Title project for Universal.

For many years, Liam Neeson was attached to star in Steven Spielberg's Abraham Lincoln biopic, which would reteam Neeson with the filmmaker who helped take him to an Oscar nomination for his role in Schindler's List . The casting seemed perfect because the resemblance is uncanny and Neeson is one of the most respected actors in the industry, but it now looks like the project will have to look for another star. Neeson told the site Digital Spy recently he's no longer attached to the project essentially because it's been taking too long since his name was first mentioned.