Compiled by the staff at Moviehole, Quick News is an assortment of news bites and other miscellaneous items, linkage and plugs that we just couldn’t find either time or space (or both) to place as individual news items. If you’d like something included in this section email us or tweet us!
THR says Elizabeth Banks is a lock as Effie Trinket, while Woody Harrelson (“Cheers”), singer Lenny Kravitz and Stanley Tucci (“The Devil Wears Prada”) are being courted for parts in “The Hunger Games“. Harrelson is rumoured to be playing Seneca Crane, the designer of the titular game. (More…)
“Something Borrowed” director Luke Greenfield has set up a new action-comedy at Fox, one said to be designed for two male-stars. Simon Kinberg is producing. (More…)
“Man on a Ledge“, a Heist thriller starring Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks and Jamie Bell, is confirmed for a January 13, 2012 release; New Line’s “Final Destination 5” has been slotted in for August 12; “Apollo 18“, previously set for release next January, is now set to go wide August 26.
Charles Ferguson (“Inside Job”) s attached to helm HBO Films’ movie about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. (More…)
The title of the next “G.I Joe” movie? “G.I Joe : Cobra Strikes” (More..)
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“Shameless” star Jane Levy is in talks to star in “Fun Size“, a teen comedy from “Chuck” creator Josh Schwartz. The film stars Victoria Justice as “a sarcastic teen who takes her little brother-trick-or-treating only to lose him along the way”. Levy would play Justice’s best friend. (More…)
Paul Greengrass and Universal recently put their Martin Luther King biopic on hold… giving Dreamworks and Warner Bros the opportunity to get to work on one. Kario Salem is writing the screenplay. (More…)
Daniel Cudmore (“X-Men”), Andre Braugher (“Men of a Certain Age”) and Travis Fimmel (“The Beast”) have joined Billy Bob Thornton and Eva Longoria in the Southern drama “The Baytown Disco“. (More…)
Ben Kingsley (“Gandhi”, “Species”) will play one of two Middle Eastern characters (the other played by Jason Mantzoukas) in Sacha Baron Cohen’s next flick, “The Dictator“. (More…)
Summit has acquired “Enders Game“, writer/director Gavin Hood’s science-fiction yarn about humans being trained for an impending alien invasion. Orson Scott Card wrote the book on which the film, due to lens early 2012, is based. (More…)
Poster and Images from the new comedy “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy” starring Jason Sudeikis (“Hall Pass”) and Will Forte (“MacGruber”) are online.
The popular kids book “It’s the First Day of School…Forever!” by R.L Stine has been optioned by the Gotham Group. (More…)
Jeremy Renner is developing – and will star in – a biopic of Steve McQueen for director Ivan Zacharias. (More…)
Ron Howard will direct “Amnesty“, a spy thriller from writer Max Landis. Details are scarce on the project but it’s said to be a cross between “Lord of the Rings” and the “Bourne” films. (More…)
Brett Ratner will direct ”Hercules: The Thracian War” for MGM. This is the second ‘Hercules’ project that Ratner has been interested in; a while back he was said to be helming a ‘Hercules’ flick for Avi Lerner. (More…)
”Complacent” duo writer/director Steven R.Monroe and actress Cerina Vincent will reunite for ”Hole in the Desert”, a revenge/action/thriller focusing on Reagan Tyler, a man who is troubled by visions and premonitions that ultimately lead him to a small desert town. It’s there that Reagan meets the beautiful and mysterious Monika, a young woman who turns out to have been killed the night before he even met her. Reagan is then forced to put the puzzle together of what happened, how she is still present, and help Monika with her revenge on the killers of her younger sister.
