Samuel L. Jackson
If you thought Nick Fury was badass, wait until you see Jackson's newest project. He's lending his voice as the lead character in a big-screen, animated adaptation of the popular series Afro Samurai. Jackson has already done the voice for several TV adaptations.
Kevin Costner
Joining an all-star line up (featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson...to name a few), this actor usually cast as the wholesome hero is jumping head first into Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained as a villain, complete with twisted storylines and gory violence. Costner plays the brutal slave and prostitute trader, Ace Woody.
Tom Cruise
He may be one of Hollywood's top A-listers, but he sure has Jack Reacher fans scratching their heads with this interesting casting choice. Cruise is casted as Reacher in the film adaptation of One Shot, book No. 9 in Lee Child's best selling 16-book series starring a scruffy, 6'-foot, 5-inch former military policeman.
Justin Timberlake
The Friends With Benefits costar seems to be genre jumping from drama to rom-com, and is now, proving himself on the acting grounds with a new action flick. A little birdy on the Warner Brothers' lot dropped the news that the singer-turned-comedian-turned-actor has joined the cast of the Joel Silver produced action film Fully Automatic.
Nick Frost
Remember that nice Disney classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? Well, with this Shawn of the Dead star casted as the seventh little shorty in the up and coming film Snow White and the Huntsman. That G-rated cartoon classic is headed straight for a very dangerous makeover...complete with Kristen Stewart!
Paul Rudd
Sure, he can play the awkwardly charming hubby-to-be, and he might even warm our hearts as a stoner in Our Idiot Brother, but will we feel the same way when he's cyrogenetically freezing dead bodies? The I Love You, Man star has been casted in Errol Morris' untitled project as Bob Nelson, a TV-repairman turned cyrogenics pioneer who's newly mastered technology of freezing dead bodies proves to be a failure.
Sean Bean
The kingdom now has its king! Bean, star of Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings, is all set to join Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer and Lily Collins in director Tarsem Singh's untitled Snow White adventure. With such a great cast lined up the only thing this movie is lacking is...a title.
Matthew Morrison
The star of Glee is the latest to sign on to What to Expect When You're Expecting. Morrison's character Evan is the baby daddy to Cameron Diaz's bun in the oven and the two quickly have to figure out how to sync their hectic lives given the upcoming addition.
Bruce Campbell
Those evil dead had better watch out. Campbell and the original Evil Dead director, Sam Raimi, are teaming up again to helm a remake of the cult classic. While it's still unclear at this point, we're hoping Ash at least makes a comback.
Chris Hemsworth
The busy acting is feeling the Rush. He is slated to join the new drama based on Austrian race car driver Niki Lauda's rivalry with English racer James Hunt.
John Cusack
Replacing Tobey Maguire, the actor will star in the upcoming drama The Paperboy. He will play a deathrow inmate two brothers (played by Zac Efron and maybe Matthew McConaughey) are trying to save.
Elizabeth Banks
Yet another star is headed to the film What to Expect When You're Expecting. The actress will play a children's book author and owner of The Breast Choice boutique, who is ver opinionated on how a child should be raised until she get pregnant for the first time.
Seth Rogen
What if you could take you're funniest vacation and make it into a movie? This comedian is set to produce and star in a film title Jamaica based on writer Will Reiser's vacation with his gandmother when he was 14.
Vince Vaughn
The funny guy is joining his old pal Ben Stiller in the comedy Neighborhood Watch. The movie follows a group of guys that form a neighborhood watch as a way of getting male bonding but end up uncovering someone's plot to destroy the world.
Christopher Walken
The is getting a new name...Zeus! In his newest flick Gods Behaving Badly, Christopher will paly a version of thegreek god that lives in New York City.
Dwayne Johnson & Adrianne Palicki
Are you bummed that that whole Wonder Woman thing didn't work out? Don't be because Adrianne Palicki is moving on to the big screen. This time she'll be in G.I. Joe 2 alongside Johnson. When these two combine their abilities to kick ass, Cobra doesn't stand a chance.
Jamie Foxx
After weeks of rumor and speculation, the Oscar winner has confirmed he'll be appearing in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. The film tells the story of a recently freed slave who sets out to rescue his wife from an evil plantation owner.
Adam Sandler
The funnyguy is going into the hotel business and getting in on the vamp craze. Sandler's been tapped to lend his voice to Dracula in Hotel Transylvania, an animated feature about the five-star resort the famed bloodsucker owns where monster families can get a break from the human world.
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Ben Affleck
Looks like Ben has developed a taste for directing and starring in movies, because that's exactly what he's planning on doing in Argo. The film tells the story of a CIA attempt to free Iranian hostages by claiming they were actually part of a Hollywood crew filming a movie in the country. Affleck stars as the mastermind behind the idea.
Haley Joel Osment
The boy who saw dead people is back, but this time he's college student Victor Franklin, a young man trying to reverse death in Wake the Dead, a contemporary retelling of the Frankenstein story.
Scarlett Johansson
Seems someone could be showing off more her singing skills. Scar's set to appear in the Judd Apatow-produced flick Can a Song Save Your Life. From the director of Once, the film follows a washed-up music exec who forms a bond with a young singer-songwriter (Johansson).
Chris Hemsworth
With Thor in the past for now, the Aussie star is gearing up for some time with black ops in Shadow Runner. Although details are being kept hush-hush, the story is about elite commandos and comes from the writer of Snow White and the Huntsman, also starring Hemsworth.
Emma Sone
The Zombieland actress is heading back to more undead fun with the lead role in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. This spin-off of Jane Austen's classic, will throw in an outbreak of a deadly virus that turns the dead into zombies.
Ryan Gosling
And the bromance continues. Ryan is taking over for Luke Evans in Only God Forgives, joining his BFF and Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn for a big-screen project once again.