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Casting Notes: Additions To Battle: Los Angeles And Eat, Pray Love It’s a really slow news day (how can you follow Ridley Scott going back toAlien?) so here are a few small casting notes to chew on. First, appropriately, is the news thatBilly Cruduphas joined the adaptation of best-selling memoirEat, Pray Love.Varietynotes that he’ll work alongsideJulia Roberts,Javier BardemandRichard Jenkinsunder the direction ofRyan Murphy. Crudup will play husband to Roberts' protagonist, who leaves him behind to undertake a global journey of self-discovery....

Could Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’ Lose Robert Downey, Jr.? Warning: this is a half-speculative story that could easily be worked out within by the end of the week, so it could amount to nothing. But it’s one more piece of the difficult mosaic that has been the development process forGravity, the space-bound thriller fromAlfonso Cuarón. After a long search, the film finally found a lead inSandra Bullock. And it has boasted, almost since day one, one of the strongest possible supporting actors:Robert Downey, Jr....

Daniel Craig On Female Bond: ‘There Should Simply Be Better Parts For Women’ One thing’s for sure: change is coming to the “James Bond” franchise, one way or another. After “No Time to Die” finally releases, Daniel Craig’s remarkably lengthy stint as Bond will draw to a close (there are people watching these movies who probably can’t even remember the “James Blonde?!” outrage when he was first cast in the role!...

Dave Franco Will Play Vanilla Ice In ‘To The Extreme’ Like it or not, we’re getting aVanilla Icebiopic. It’s calledTo the Extreme, and it will starDave FrancoasRobert Matthew Van Winkle, AKA Vanilla Ice, who was something of a big deal in the 1990s, with his song “Ice Ice Baby” ending up the first hip hop single to top theBillboardcharts. Unfortunately for Vanilla Ice, it all eventually came crashing down. Speaking withInsider, Dave Franco revealed he’s playing Vanilla Ice in the biopicTo the Extreme(which is also the name of Vanilla Ice’s 1990 album that featured “Ice Ice Baby”)....

DC Unveils Its Super New Digital Streaming Service, Offering More Than Just Original Shows DC Entertainmenthas officially unveiled the details of its new digital streaming service, which will go by the nameDC Universe. DC has been hyping up the digital platform since last year, when the comic book company first announced that it would host an array of original shows on its own streaming service. But DC Universe will offer more than just original shows....

Disney Imagineers Developing ‘Tron Legacy’ Theme Park Ride We’ve been hearing rumblings of a possibleTron: Legacytheme park ride for a while now. In fact, the day before I visited the Vancouver Canada set of the film, Disney Imagineers were on set taking a look at the concept art, sound-stages, weapons, props and who knows what else. At the time we only knew that the imagineers were very excited about the possibilities....

Elijah Wood Thinks Amazon’s ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Series Should Be Renamed Elijah Woodknows a thing or two aboutThe Lord of the Rings. Having starred in all three of Peter Jackson’sThe Lord of the Ringsfilms, Wood probably familiarized himself with the source material by J.R.R. Tolkien (though not as much as his co-star andavowed Tolkien scholarChristopher Lee), which spanned the eponymous trilogy as well asThe Hobbitprequel andThe Silmarillionmythopoeic collection. So Wood is more than a little in the right when he calls the titling of Amazon’s upcomingLord of the Ringsseries “bizarre....

Elliot Page Will Continue To Star In ‘The Umbrella Academy’ As Netflix Updates His Past Credits FollowingElliot Page’s announcement that he is transgender, Netflix confirmed that the actor will continue to play the role of Vanya Hargreeves inThe Umbrella Academy. The character, one of the lead roles in Netflix’s major superhero series hit, will reportedly remain a cisgender woman. Varietyreports that Elliot Page will retain his role as Vanya Hargreeves inThe Umbrella Academy, the superhero series based on the comic book series of the same name written by Gerard Way....

Everything We Know About Walker: Independence So Far The “Walker: Texas Ranger” reboot, “Walker,” starring Jared Padalecki, has done well enough over at the CW to warrant asecond season, and now the creative team behind “Walker” are developing a prequel spin-off series, “Walker: Independence.” While the series is still in very early development, some details have been revealed about the setting and characters in the series. We also know who’s going to be in charge behind-the-scenes, though casting and some other production details have yet to be announced....

Exclusive: JJ Abrams' Super 8 Teaser Trailer Description Revealed We’ve told you that the super secret movie trailer forJJ Abramsnext filmSuper 8was attached to Iron Man 2. I have just received a reliable report from someone who has seen the trailer. I am 100% sure that this report is legit. Here are some spoiler free details: Update:If you want to read more about the project without any Spoiler details from the trailer, head here:Everything We Know About JJ Abrams' Super 8 (So Far)...

Filmmakers And Actors Praise ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ You loveGuardians of the Galaxy,we loveGuardians of the Galaxy, pretty mucheveryone lovesGuardians of the Galaxy. After a massive,massive opening weekendto go along with stellar reviews (currently 93% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes), theGuardians of the Galaxyhave officially become a piece of popular culture. How do you cement that? You get celebrities behind the film. Dozens and dozens of comedians, directors and various other famous people took to Twitter over the weekend to praiseJames Gunn’s film and you can check out a bunch of their wildly positive Guardians of the Galaxy celebrity tweets below....

First Look: Emma Stone In ‘The Help’; John Krasinski In ‘Something Borrowed’; Woody Harrelson In ‘Rampart’ In addition to offering up quite a few new images ofCaptain America, the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has first looks at many other films. There’s the first image fromThe Help, starringViola DavisandEmma Stonein what is sure to be one of the prestige pictures of fall 2011. There are also new images fromSomething Borrowed, starringJohn KrasinskiandKate Hudson, and even an on-set image, enlarged above, fromOren Moverman’sRampart, which starsWoody HarrelsonandIce Cube....

FX’s 2021 Directors Will Be Majority Diverse And Female For The First Time In Network’s History For the first time in the network’s history,FXwill have more directors who are women and people of color than white men. FX’s diversity outreach has finally started to shift the balance behind the camera, as the line-up of FX directors of 2021 is set to be majority diverse. During a keynote session at the Edinburgh International TV Festival, FX Networks chairmanJohn Landgrafrevealed that women and people of color will make up 63% of directors for FX shows in 2021, marking the first time in the network’s history that white male directors will not be in the majority....