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Director Duncan Jones has announced his next film, with the British helmer set to stay in the sci-fi realm for thriller Source Code.

Gwyneth Paltrow has joined the cast of transsexual artist drama "The Danish Girl" for Pretty Pictures, Harrison Productions and Blossom Films reports Variety.

Based on the non-fiction novel by David Ebershoff, Paltrow plays Greta Wegener, a portrait painter in 1920s Copenhagen who asked her husband Einar to stand in for an absent female model.

While he's one of the main men of superstardom, George Clooney also keeps one foot firmly in the world of quirk and strangeness. He may be Mr. Ocean, but he's also the dude who was in Return of the Killer Tomatoes and The Men Who Stare at Goats. Clooney knows how to be ridiculous, and now he's jumping into a whole new world of quirk.

Warner Bros. is pre-emptively picking up a comedy spec by Josh Cagan and Greg Coolidge. Morgan Freeman is attached to star, and Peter Segal is eyeing to direct.

Well, that was fast. Barely a week since they were first rumored to be a part of the new "Mad Max" sequel, the news is official — Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy are joining the cast of the George Miller-directed film.

The Hollywood Reporter says that Reese Witherspoon is attached to star in and will produce Terrel Seltzer's original screenplay Rule #1 at Fox Searchlight.

Frank Sinatra is still what many (if not all) red-blooded man aspire to be. Playing him in a Martin Scorsese biopic is not only a dream job for any actor, it's wish fulfillment on the highest level. Is it any surprise that the some of the biggest names in Hollywood are said to by vying for the role of Old Blue Eyes?

The king of kung fu cinema is set to star in a new movie about China's famed shrine of martial arts, the Shaolin Temple.

Following the recent departure of Disney studio chief Dick Cook, Johnny Depp admitted to being less enthusiastic about returning to the role of Captain Jack Sparrow for "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" ("Pirates" part 4, for those who lost count). And the fans in turn admitted that they'd give up on the franchise ...

Vincent D'Onofrio is set to hand over his badge to Jeff Goldblum on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."