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Jan 20, 2016 2:45 PM
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Michael Fassbender

The Inglourious Basterds star is teaming up with Quentin Tarantino once again. The German thesp revealed on his Twitter that he'd be coming aboard Django Unchained, a western tale of a recently freed slave out for revenge.


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Zach Braff

The cast of Oz: The Great and Powerful may be adding yet another big name to it's list. The actor is in talks to play the under-appreciated assistant to Oz, Frank.


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Amy Adams

The actress will star as Philip Seymour Hoffman's wife in Paul Thomas Anderson's currently untitled film about the beginnings of Scientology. Sure to be controversy free.


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Jennifer Hudson

The Oscar winner is headed back to the big screen—this time in her first full on comedy. She will be taking on the role of a nun in The Three Stooges. And yes, hilarity will ensue.


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Susan Sarandon

Another Oscar winner getting her comedy on, as she's set to join the star-studded cast of I Hate You Dad. The actress will play a teacher who becomes Andy Samberg's mother, which she also played in some extremely popular  SNL skits.


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Jessica Biel & Kate Beckinsale

The Total Recall remake just got a lot hotter. Biel is set to play a woman Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell) meets in his spying life, while Beckinsale will play his wife, Lori, when he's back home living his regular life.


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Jeff Bridges

The Oscar winner is going to be starring alongside Ryan Reynolds in R.I.P.D., a comic book adaptation about a pair of detectives, one who recently killed a police officer (Reynolds) and one who's a gunslinger from out West (Bridges).


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James Franco & Heather Graham

James Franco has been keeping things relatively quiet lately. But don't let that fool you, the guy's got projects lined up for years! And on of them has him teaming up with Graham for the indie flick Cherry, which follows a young girl who becomes involved in the porn industry and with her drugged-up lawyer (Franco).


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Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Tommy Lee Jones

The Oscar winner and the Inception star are coming together for Steven Spielberg's Lincoln. Jones will play Republican Thaddeus Stevens, a man who supported the abolition of slavery, while Gordon-Levitt will play Lincoln's son Robert Todd.


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Holly Hunter

This veteran actress is heading into the classroom. She's teaming up with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis for Still I Rise, a drama about a teacher and a mother who take on the Pittsburgh inner-city school system.


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Vin Diesel

He's fast, he's furious and now he's getting back into the comedy game. Diesel's set to star in The Machine, the story of a young boy who discovers and befriends a human-like weapon (Diesel) that the government deactivated long ago.


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Maggie Gyllenhaal

The actress is haunted in her upcoming film. Maggie will star in the new supernatural thriller Voice From the Stone, where she has to fight against an evil presence to save not only herself, but a young boy as well.


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Michelle Williams

This Oscar nominee may be a witch...in Disney's upcoming movie Oz that is. The actress has been offered the role of the good witch, Glinda, in the prequel-esque version of The Wizard of Oz. If she takes the role she will join a cast of stars including James Franco and Mila Kunis.


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Armie Hammer

After catching the audience's attention in The Social Network, Armie has gone from unknow to rising star. And he just landed the leading role in The Lone Ranger opposite Johnny Depp, who will be playing his sidekick Tonto. Talk about a booming career!


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Joel Edgerton

The Austrailian thesp has been tapped to play Tom Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's big-screen adaptation of The Great Gatsby. The role was originally intended for Ben Affleck, who had to bow out because of scheduling conflicts. Edgerton joins Leonardo DiCaprio who'll be portraying the enigmatic Gatsby.


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Lee Pace

The former Pushing Daisies star is heading to Middle-earth as the Elven king Thraindull in Peter Jackson's upcoming two-part epic, The Hobbit. Hope the fitting for those Elven ears goes smoothly.


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Orlando Bloom & Greta Gerwig

Poor Greta's dealing with the worst-case scenario in Lola Versus: Her would-be hubby (Bloom) is calling things off at the last minute. But she'll bounce back and reevaluate her life in a way that can only be done in a big-screen romantic comedy.


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Bryan Cranston

The Breaking Bad star just continues to break out! Now he'll be tackling the role of mayor of Los Angeles in Adam Shankman's Rock of Ages with Tom Cruise and Catherine Zeta-Jones.


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Armie Hammer

Armie's star just continues to rise. Following his star-making turn in The Social Network, he's set to take the lead in 2:22, a thriller about an air-traffic controller who is almost blamed for a disatrous mid-air collision following an unexplained flash of light at, you guessed it, 2:22.


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Jeremy Renner & Jennifer Lopez

There are two new players on the frozen tundra of the Ice Age franchise. For the upcoming installment, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Renner's joining original castmembers like Ray Romano and Denis Leary as Gutt and Lopez is set to lend her voice to Shira, a snow leopard. No word yet on what kind of animal Renner's Gutt is...but with a name like that, he may be a resident gourmand.


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Channing Tatum

Channing's finally shaking it for the big screen. He's teaming up with director Steven Soderbergh for Magic Mike, a loosely autobiographical tale about a young male stripper. Inspired by Tatum's own experiences as a dancer, the film follows him as he mentors a younger performer in the art of getting the most out of life, onstage and off.


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Jane Lynch

Glee's resident cheer coach is taking on a new habit: nunnery. She's set to star as a sister in the upcoming remake of The Three Stooges. There aren't many details yet on her exact role, but we suspect some dry, chastising humor is in store for us.


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Zach Braff, Jessica Biel & Chloe Moretz

The Scrubs star is set to costar with Biel and Moretz in The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. Not to many details are out about the film except that Braff will play the protagonist, a shy architect who befriends a wisecracking girl while trying to overcome the grief of recently losing his wife. He agrees to help the girl build a raft so she can cross the Atlantic.

 


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David Arquette & Susan Sarandon

The two stars are in negotiations to team up for an upcoming indie flick titled Hemlock Drive. The dramedy is set in a small New England town and centers on the Pratt family whose eccentric mother (Sarandon) finds out she's dying and has her three adult children come back home to bond in her final days. Adrien Brody will be one of the children and Arquette will play a bar owner in the town.

 


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