Movie Casting News

• Rachel McAdams cast in 'Sherlcok Holmes'
  The 'Wedding Crashers' beauty will play Irene Adler, enimatic love interest to the eponymous detective (Robert Downey Jr.) in Guy Ritchie's action-oriented take on the legendary sleuth. Jude Law co-stars as Watson.
  
  
  

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• Will Smith cast in 'I Am Legend' Prequel
  Smith returns as Dr. Robert Neville in this prequel chronicling the days leading up to the unleashing of a man-made virus that leaves Neville the lone human survivor in New York City.
  
  
  

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• George Clooney cast in 'Up in the Air'
  He's set to star in director Jason Reitman's 'Juno' follow-up 'Up in the Air,' based on the Walter Kirn novel. Clooney will play a corporate downsizer obsessed with collecting 1 million air miles.
  
  
  

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• Brad Pitt cast in 'Inglorious Bastards'
  Pitt will star as Lt. Aldo Raine, the leader of a band of soldiers forced to undertake a suicide mission into Nazi-occupied France, in Quentin Tarantino's WWII spaghetti Western.
  
  
  

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• Angelina Jolie & Tom Cruise cast in 'Edwin A. Salt' & 'The Tourist,' respectively
  Jolie is in talks to replace Cruise as a CIA officer who must prove she isn't a Russian sleeper spy in 'Salt.' Cruise, meanwhile, is eyeing a trio of films: 'Food Fight,' 'The Tourist' and 'Sleeper.'
  
  
  

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• Tom Cruise possibly cast in 'Sleeper'
  Cruise and 'Spider-Man' director Sam Raimi are teaming to develop an adaptation of the eponymous comic about an operative whose fusion with an alien artifact makes him impervious to pain. Cruise is eyeing the lead, with Raimi producing.
  
  
  

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• Sacha Baron Cohen & Robert Downey Jr. cast in dueling 'Sherlock Holmes' films
  Cohen partners with Will "Watson" Ferrell for a comedy take produced by Judd Apatow. Downey will star in a Holmes drama for director Guy Ritchie.
  
  
  

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• Guillermo del Toro & Peter Jackson writing 'The Hobbit
  In the best news to hit Middle Earth this year, soon-to-be Hobbit helmer del Toro and erstwhile 'Lord of the Rings' director Jackson announced they will pen 'The Hobbit' together. Casting is still TBD.
  
  
  

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• Jack Black cast in 'School of Rock 2'
  Jack Black just wants to 'Rock.' The 'Tropic Thunder' star will reprise his role as substitue teacher/rock star wannabe Dewey Finn in a sequel to the hit 2003 comedy.
  
  
  

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• Sigourney Weaver
  interested in possible 'Alien' sequel
  The 58-year-old actress has said she wants to reprise the iconic role she first made famous almost 30 years ago in 'Alien' -- muscle-bound, vicious-E.T.-bashing badass Ellen Ripley.
  
  
  

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