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News Briefs – May 16, 2014

Is Universal and Legendary prepping a “Sub-Mariner” movie? Is Max Borenstein (“Godzilla”) writing? That’s the rumor!

Dave Franco (“Neighbors”) is in talks to star in the feature film adaptation of the Shane Kuhn book “The Intern’s Handbook”.

Jonathan Ames (“Bored to Death”) is adapting an Icelandic comedy called “World’s End” for Showtime.

Amanda Peet, Jason Mantzoukas and Natasha Lyonne have been cast in “Sleeping With Other People”, a rom-com starring Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie and Adam Scott.

Veronica Ferres has joined the cast of the John Travolta-Salma Hayek flick “A Three Dog Life”.

Matt Davis will return as a regular for the sixth season of “The Vampire Diaries”.

Millennium Entertainment has acquired “God Only Knows”, starring Ben Barnes, Harvey Keitel, Leighton Meester and Toby Jones. Ben Barnes plays Nick, an ambitious young man running with the Boston crime syndicate. Once on the inside he realizes that the glory days of the Mafia are long gone. Behind his boss’s (Keitel) back he decides to strike out on his own and expand the business. Seemingly on top of the world with more money than he could have dreamed of and a great girl (Meester), Nick soon realizes that by making his own rules he’s put himself and everyone he loves in grave danger.

Halle Berry has joined Luis Prieto’s kidnap thriller “Kidnap”, a heart-stopping action thriller following a mother (Berry) who will stop at nothing to rescue her kidnapped son.

“San Andreas”, starring Dwayne Johnson, recently shot a couple of days in Los Angeles before returning to L.A.

A poster for “The Gunman”, starring, has been released.

A new 5-minute trailer for The CW’s “The Flash” is online :

Promos for USA Network’s new series have been released.

Here’s a look at Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn “Mississippi Grinding” :

Zoey Deutch (“Vampire Academy”) will star in the rom-com “Cover Girl”, about a “a Queens, NY girl who finds herself a fish out of water attending Cambridge Business School while financing her studies in an unusual way.”

The film version of “Mass Effect” could be coming in 2016.

Nicolas Cage now has to Pay the Ghost

Brad Pitt for True Detective Season 2?