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Jan 20, 2016 2:45 PM
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Avatar's Aussie hunk is going the Robert Pattinson route, signing on to star in the epic period flick Dracula Year One. Shouldn't be long now until the first shipment of "Team Drac" T-shirts arrives.


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Robert Pattinson & Sean Penn

The New Mooner and the Oscar winner are in talks to bring life to Sara Gruen's best-seller, Water for Elephants. Reese Witherspoon and director Francis Lawrence are also attached.


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Sam Mendes

The Oscar-winning director has accepted a dangerous assignment: to direct the next James Bond film starring Daniel Craig.


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Robert Zemeckis & More!

The director of the Yellow Submarine reboot is gathering his own Fab Four, which is reported to be Cary Elwes, Dean Lennox Kelly, Peter Serafinowicz and Adam Campbell.


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Maura Tierney

After leaving the upcoming series Parenthood to focus on her cancer treatments, the actress has signed on to appear with Frances McDormand in the play North Atlantic.


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Hugh Jackman

The awesome Aussie will star in Real Steel, a film about robot boxers and a father who reunites with his son. (But mostly we hope it's about robots.)


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Natalie Portman

Every fanboy's dream, the former Princess Amidala makes the jump to Marvel's Thor, starring as female lead Jane Foster in director Kenneth Branagh's big-screen vision of the famed comic book.


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Sam Worthington

The Avatar hunk is going back...to the future! No, literally. The budding sci-fi star has jioned The Last Days of American Crime, a story set in the near future wherein the U.S. government broadcasts a secret signal which prevents anyone from knowingly committing any crimes. It's based on Rick Remender's same named comic book.


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Brad Pitt

The A-lister is set to develop and likely star in the big-screen adaptation of the video game Dark Void. He'll play a downed pilot who awakens to find himself battling aliens in a parallel universe. Typical slice of life piece, in other words.


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Jennifer Hudson

The Oscar winner may be making another go at the little gold statue, this time by portraying the controversial wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela in the biopic Winnie.


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Jake Gyllenhaal

Reese Witherspoon's real-life better half is the go-to source for Source Code. Per the Hollywood Reporter, Gyllenhaal will star in the sci-fi thriller as a soldier who wakes up aboard a commuter train and must quickly figure out what was behind its explosion.


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Ashley Greene

Who needs vampires when you've got ghosts? The New Moon star is set to star in the Joel Silver-produced horror flick The Apparition, following a hapless college couple who unleash a spooky force. And it ain't R.Pattz.


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George Clooney

The old school movie star teams up with Sideways writer-director Alexander Payne for an Academy-baiting family dramedy in which a father of two searches out his wife's new lover.


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Owen Wilson

The big screen funny guy is going back to the dogs, this time of the CGI variety. The Marley & Me star will be voicing the titular canine in Fox's live-action adaptation of the long-running comic Marmaduke.


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Katie Holmes

Mrs. Tom Cruise replaces fellow raven-haired thesp Liv Tyler in The Romantics, a star-studded indie flick chronicling the reunion of eight college friends at pal's wedding.


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Morgan Freeman

When you think raunchy frat boy comedy, think Morgan Freeman. The venerated actor will star in Dirty Old Men, intriguingly described as a cross between Wedding Crashers and The 40-Year-Old Virgin. It revolves around an aging playboy who finds the love of his life only to see his longtime wingman and best pal attempt to sabotage the relationship.


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Will Smith & Tommy Lee Jones

Nothing's official yet, but Sony is working on a third installment of Men in Black, so we're hoping to see these gentlemen getting involved.


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Reese Witherspoon

Reese rules! Or at least she'll be in Rule #1,  a film about a woman who befriends a young girl with ADD.


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Anthony Hopkins

The erstwhile cannibal will play Norse god Odin, the father of Thor, in Kenneth Branagh's comic book flick.


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Zach Galifianakis & Amy Adams

The Hangover and Julie and Julia stars are hooking up in Town House, following an agoraphobic man who meets a call girl while living with his teenage son in a historic Boston townhouse that he inherited from his rock-star dad.


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Adam Sandler

Twice is nice when Adam puts on his silly face to play a guy named Jack and his twin sister Jill in Columbia's romantic comedy, Jack and Jill.


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January Jones

The Mad Men star joins Nicolas Cage in The Hungry Rabbit Jumps, in which a husband's plan for revenge goes awry.


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Angelina Jolie

The movie star is fashion-forwarding her career by signing on to star in a drama chronicling the sartorial highs and murderous lows of the famed Gucci clan. Jolie will play Patrizia Reggiano, the ex-wife of the fashion house's heir who's serving three decades behind bars for his 1995 slaying.


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Kristen Bell

Get ready for the battle of the blondes! Bell will play rival to no less a talent than Christina Aguilera in the pop star's big-screen debut, Burlesque, set for release next Thanksgiving.


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