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Jan 20, 2016 2:45 PM
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Christina Hendricks

While on break from Mad Men, Hendricks will star in Seconds of Pleasure. Set on an airplane, the film's story connects the lives of people onboard through vignettes, one of which sees Hendricks' character catching her husband (Brendan Fraser) in a compromising situation. Julia Stiles, Matt Dillon and Kristen Scott Thomas are set to costar.


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Sam Worthington

The Avatar and Clash of the Titans star is hitting the waves in a surfing-centric drama titled Drift. His character is a photographer and journalist who plays a key role in the evolution of surfing from a chill pasttime to a global industry and sport.


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Brie Larson

The United States of Tara star continues her success with the female leading role in Sony Pictures' remake of the classic cop show 21 Jump Street as Molly. Her costars are set to be Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Ice Cube.


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Alison Brie

It's time for the Community to expand. The comedy star will join the cast of the Five Year Engagement and costar with Jason Segel and Emily Blunt. The comedy will follow the ups and downs of a couple (Segel and Blunt) who've been together, well, you can figure that time frame out. Brie will star as Blunt's younger sister, and interesting enough, do a British accent!


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Nicholas Hoult

Things are getting warm for the British actor as he's been cast in the upcoming film Warm Bodies. Director Jonathan Levin has described the story as having a tone similar to Twlight meets Shawn of the Dead. The film follows a tormented zombie named R and his unlikely friendship with one of his victim's human girlfriend.


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Jeffrey Donovan

The brother is in the building. The Burn Notice star is set to play Robert F. Kennedy in Clint Eastwood's new film, J. Edgar. He'll take his place alongside Leonardo DiCaprio who's playing the presidential bro.


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Sienna Miller

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas! The British star will take to the big screen in the upcoming Just Like a Woman, in which she plays a housewife who heads to Las Vegas with her belly dancing instructor to enter a competition.


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Julianne Moore

The four-time oscar nominee is bringing her talent to Another Bulls--t Night in Suck City, which follows a young man (Paul Dano) whose work at Boston homeless shelters brings his struggling estranged father (Robert DeNiro) into his life.


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Alec Baldwin

Baldwin will trade in his 30 Rock persona for a different kind of rock with the '80s musical Rock of Ages. Director Adam Shankman confirms that Baldwin is attached to the project as Dennis, a club owner, joining costars Tom Cruise, Mary J. Blige and Julianne Hough.


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Jake Gyllenhaal

It looks like Gyllenhaal is signed on to star in David Ayer's cop drama End of Watch, which chronicles the friendship between two partners on the force. No other plot details have been released, other than hints that the flick will be "gritty."


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Melissa Leo & Jesse Eisenberg

Guess that Oscars F-bomb from Leo hasn't hurt her career. She's set to team up now with fellow nominee Jesse Eisenberg from The Social Network for Predisposed, a comedy about a Juilliard-bound student (Eisenberg) dealing with his drug-addicted mom (Leo). We're sure his Facebook friends will be there to support him.


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Mandy Moore

Fresh off her beautiful Oscars duet with her Tangled costar Zachary Levi, Moore is getting right back to work in Falling Slowly, a thriller about a couple who unwillingly find themselves sharing their home with a supernatural presence.


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Will Smith

One of the world's biggest movie stars has been quiet on the acting front recently. (Maybe he's putting all his efforts into launching the careers of his kids?) But that's about to change with the flick Joe, a modern telling of the Biblical story of Job, that will see Smith's character go through in one week, all the challenges that otherwise would be spread out over a lifetime.


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Uma Thurman, Gerard Butler & Jessica Biel

All three actors are taking to the pitch for Playing the Field, the story of a former semi-pro soccer player (Butler) who starts coaching his son's team, only to find himself tempted by soccer moms like Uma Thurman.


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James Franco

Deadline has confirmed that the star who's everywhere these days will be playing the title role in the upcoming Oz, the Great and Powerful, a movie that explores the origins of the famous wizard.


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Dakota Fanning

Fanning is joining the cast of Mississippi Wild, an action thriller that follows a teenage couple who go on the lamb after stealing gems from a gangster. Mickey Rourke, Forest Whitaker,and Robert Duvall are reportedly in talks to join the production.


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Gerard Butler

The actor will put on his board shorts for a role in Curtis Hanson's Mavericks, a biopic of the late surfer Jay Moriarty, who passed away in a free-diving accident the day before he turned 23. Butler will play Rick "Frosty" Hesson, a local elder who trained the young Moriarty to surf some of the biggest swells in California.


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Jude Law

Touted as a relationship drama with no overarching theme, Fernando Meirelles' 360 can now add Jude Law to the powerhouse cast, which includes Anthony Hopkins, Rachel Weisz and Ben Foster. The film will reportedly be shot in seven different languages and centers on multiple relationships and where individuals' choices take them.


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Hailee Steinfeld

She made a name for herself as a precocious youngster who could talk your ear off in True Grit, and the Academy Award nominee looks like she's here to stay. Steinfeld is set to star in Paramount's Forgotten, which chronicles a 16-year-old whose memory is wiped out every day at 4:33 a.m.


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Mila Kunis

Kunis is onboard to play the Wicked Witch of the West in Sam Raimi's Oz, the Great and Powerful alongside James Franco. While the details around the script are being kept on the hush-hush, the film explores the origins of the Wizard and multiple Witches who call Oz home.


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Blake Lively

It's a far cry from the Upper East Side, but the Gossip Girl star confirms that she's attached to the film adaption of the novel Hick. The indie drama of the same name will have her playing a meth addict whose 13-year-old daughter (Chloe Moretz) runs away from home and falls in with a grifter.


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Zac Efron

It looks like Efron will be wielding off unruly henchmen in his next role. As the lead in The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, Efron's character travels to Europe after the death of his mother and finds himself falling for a girl—who just so happens to be involved with a vicious crime boss.


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Steve Carell

Sounds like the Office star's sanity has gone to the dogs. Carell is taking a serious turn with the drama Dogs of Babel, the story of a professor (Carell) who finds his wife dead, and the only witness to what happened is the couple's dog. Overwhelmed with grief, Carell's character attempts to teach the dog how to talk, hoping that he can finally find out what happened.


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Nicole Kidman & Colin Firth

Fresh from The King's Speech, Firth is joining Nicole Kidman for a fantasy, family drama picture Stoker. The story follows an eccentric teen (Mia Wasikowska) who suspects that the return of her estranged uncle (Firth) is the reason behind people going missing in her home town. Kidman is set to play the teen's mother.


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