Director Bryan Singer has wooed Tom Cruise into taking a role in an untitled thriller based on an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the height of World War II.... The Devil Wears Prada's Emily Blunt will topline The Young Victoria, a biopic of the 19th-century monarch.... Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer, John C. Reilly and Elijah Wood will voice rag dolls from a parallel universe in the animated 9.... Emile Hirsch is in talks to star in the Wachowski siblings' Speed Racer, to film this summer and to be released next year.... New Line has acquired film rights to the hit video game Gears of War.
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SOAPnet has added two more hours of Beverly Hills 90210 to its schedule, airing Sundays from 5 to 7 pm/ET.... Sandra Oh (Grey's Anatomy) and Elijah Wood will announce the nominees for this year's Screen Actors Guild Awards next Thursday, Jan. 4, at 3:05 pm/ET, on E! and TNT.... Starting today, Fox Sports is digitally distributing college-football bowl games and preview shows, via FoxSports.com, iTunes and other outlets. Additionally, the New Year's Day Cotton Bowl Classic will be streamed, a first for a major bowl game.... Pirates of the Caribbean 2 reclaimed the No. 1 spot on the DVD sales chart last week, unseating Ricky Bobby, while The Devil Wears Prada remained the top rental.
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, country icon Willie Nelson will reunite with his Dukes of Hazzard costar when he plays grandpa to Jessica Simpson in Blonde Ambition, the bombshell's Working Girl redo. Also joining the cast is Larry Miller, as the CEO of a conglomerate.... The Lord of the Rings' Elijah Wood will head the international cast of Oxford Murders, a whodunit in which a university student (Wood) delves into a murder mystery with a Sherlock Holmes-style mentor (John Hurt).
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In town to promote Oliver Stone's World Trade Center and the new CBS sitcom The Class, Jon Bernthal gave TVGuide.com an inside look at doing a movie about the city's darkest day, living at home with "mom" and planning his ultimate dream.
TVGuide.com: What was it like to be part of World Trade Center?
Bernthal: It was really an honor, and different from any other acting job. Normally when you get a script and you meet with the director, you work together to create somebody, but this was really going the other way. It was a
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Assuming she can still drive herself to the set, Lindsay Lohan will play wife to Elijah Wood in Bobby, an independent film about Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination. Directed by Emilio Estevez, Bobby also stars Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore and Sharon Stone. "Lindsay, who you do not think of as an indie film actress, is an inspired choice," says producer Edward Bass, unaware that he didn't need that little "indie film" qualifier.
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