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Jan 20, 2016 2:45 PM
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John Cusack

Transitioning from one thriller to another, the actor-writer-producer triple threat will go from playing Edgar Allen Poe in The Raven to defending a CIA code operator as a disgraced black ops agent in The Numbers Station. Malin Ackerman will costar, playing the role of the code operator.


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Mickey Rourke & Kellan Lutz

These two action stars, who are already costarring in the upcoming mythological action film The Immortals, are also set to be on screen together for a new film called Java Heat. In this thriller, the two stars will face off as Lutz is in hot pursuit of a mastermind thief, Rourke.


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Shia LaBeouf

The Transformers star has recently attached himself to a new project, A Giant. The film is described as a modern-day, adult dramatic fairy tale.


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Nicolas Cage

In addition to upcoming superhero flick Ghostrider: Spirit of Vengeance, the actor will begin filming a new project, Black Butterfly. In the film, Cage will play an antisocial author who makes friends with a drifter, but with fatal consequences.


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Charlize Theron

Theron, who is already turning heads as The Queen in Snow White and the Huntsman, will be playing another powerful female in the remake of the Dutch film, Zwart Water. In the thriller, Theron will play the mother of Lisa, a 9-year old with an imaginary friend who begins to reveal secrets about her mother's past.


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Johnny Knoxville

The wild and crazy Jackass host has set his sights on more serious ventures. Knoxville will star alongside superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger in the upcoming thriller The Last Stand, directed by Kim Jee-Woon. The film follows Schawarzenegger as a small-town sheriff who faces off against an escaped drug kingpin.


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Jim Carrey & Steve Carell

It is quite possible that we may be seeing these two funnymen together on the big screen in the comedy Burt Wonderstone. The Crazy, Stupid, Love frontman will be playing Wonderstone, a popular Vegas magician on the hunt for something new and winds up meeting an unsuspecting talent to possibly become his new stage partner.


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Don Johnson

According to Variety, Mr. Miami Vice will be in Tarantino's new project Django Unchained, the story of a freed slave turned bounty hunter on a mission to liberate his wife from an evil plantation owner. Johnson is set to play a plantation owner.


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Anna Kendrick & Terrence Howard

The two actors have recently been signed onto the star-packed thriller The Company You Keep, directed by Robert Redford. We get to follow Redford as he plays a wanted ex-Weather Underground militant on the run from the likes of Kendrick and Howard, who play FBI agents.


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Michael Fassbender

The X-Men star is teaming up once again with writer and director Steve McQueen to make the film called 12 Years a Slave. Fassbender's character is not clear yet, but the true story takes us to the 1840s where the main character gets kidnapped and thrown into forced labor.


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Cam Gigandet

Having recently starred in the thriller The Roomate, now he may be shacking up with True Blood's Anna Paquin in the upcoming indie drama Free Ride. Based on a true story, we will see Paquin playing an abused single mother running off to Florida to start a new life for herself. Gigandet comes into the mix as her love interest.

 


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Jeremy Renner

The guy who helped run The Town, is getting back into the heist game. According to Deadline, the Oscar nominee is set to star in King of Heists, the story of George Leslie, who pulled off a $3 million robbery in New York in 1878.


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Liam Hemsworth

Stalone. Statham. Willis...Hemsworth? The Last Song star is bringing some youth to the new Expendables 2, starring alongside some of the biggest names in the action genre as a sniper. Does this mean we'll soon be adding the star's name to the canon of kickass heroes?


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Stephen Moyer

The True Blood star is ready to take on the Jersey Devil in The Barrens. Moyer will star as a man who takes his family on a camping trip to a New Jersey forest called Pine Barrens. But the trip quickly gets sidetracked when the family realize they are being stalked by the winged monster that has been the source of legend for centuries.


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Ashely Greene

The Twilight hottie is branching out big-time from her vampy role in Olivia Twisted, a modern take on Charles Dickens' classic Oliver Twist. The film follows Olivia (Greene) and her gang of street kid friends as they accept a kidnapping job but quickly find themselves mixed up in a war between rival criminal factions.


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Marisa Tomei

The Oscar-winning actress is getting some seriously A-list parents for her next role. In Us & Them, Tomei has joined the cast to play the daughter to Billy Chrystal and Bette Midler, two grandparents who have no idea how to handle their tech savvy grandkids when tasked with watching them.


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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Looks like there's one ex-Governator that won't let controversy get in the way of his career. His roster of films includes The Expendables 2, The Last Stand and now, the new film project Captive. The independent film centers around a wealthy magnate who is kidnapped and imprisoned in a landfill.


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Vanessa Hudgens

The High School Musical starlet is doing big things to break her sweetheart mold. Vanessa has signed on to star in Frozen Ground, opposite A-list veterans Nicolas Cage and John Cusack, based on Alaska's most notorious serial killer, Robert Hanson (Cusack), a murderer convicted of abducting and killing 24 women over 12 years.


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Rooney Mara

As one of Hollywood's newest leading ladies to hit the A-list, the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo star is continuing her career rise. She's now set to join Warren Beatty's still-untilted comedy project about the late Howard Hughes, a film that will mark the end of his 13-year-long directorial hiatus.


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Marion Cotillard

As if Inception, The Dark Knight Rises and Contagion weren't enough for one girl, the French actress is set to star in Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone, a follow-up to A Prophet, which won the Gran Prix at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.


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Hugh Grant

The charming English actor joins an all-star cast of Halle Berry, Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess and more in the film adaptation of the novel Cloud Atlas. The film, directed by Matrix trilogy creators the Wachowski brothers and Tom Tykwer, charts the progress of a single soul from the 19th century South Pacific to a post-apocalyptic future.


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Colin Firth

The Academy Award winner is set to star in Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson's new film The Railway Man, based on Eric Lomax's best-selling account of his torture by the Japanese during contruction of the "death railway" during World War II.


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Charlie Sheen

The infamous warlock is reclaiming his Hollywood thrown by signing on to star in director Roman Coppola's A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charlie Swan III, the story of a successful graphic designer whose life takes a hit when his girlfriend leaves him.


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Kate Winslet

The Contagion star scores a leading role in a new film called Labor Day alongside Academy Award nominee Josh Brolin. Winslet plays a single mother who gives shelter to an escaped convict (Brolin) over the long weekend. Doesn't sound like the typical Labor Day BBQ at the beach, does it?


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