Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors) will star opposite Julianne Moore in Shelter, a supernatural thriller helmed by Swedes Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein (Storm).... Max von Sydow, Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children) have joined Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, in which U.S. marshals (Leo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo) investigate the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the insane. Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson and Michelle Williams costar.... Dimension has bought the rights to Locke & Key, Joe Hill's graphic novel about three children who are the caretakers of a magical mansion. Hill is the son of Stephen King.... World Wrestling Entertainment has found a tag-team partner in 20th Century Fox, inking a that gives the studio dibs on pics headlined by the org's wrestlers. — Mickey O'Connor
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Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson and Matthew Goode are among those on board as The Watchmen in Zack Snyder's adaptation of the iconic comic book, Variety reports. Crudup will play Dr. Manhattan, Wilson is Night Owl and Goode is Ozymandias, while Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jackie Earle Haley and Malin Akerman round out the cast as Comedian, Rorschach and Silk Spectre. The film will use a green-screen technique similar to what Snyder used for 300, and also reap similar greenbacks.
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Per Variety, Grey's Anatomy's Katherine Heigl, who stars in this summer's Knocked Up, has booked another rom-com: 27 Dresses, scripted by The Devil Wears Prada's Aline Brosh Mckenna and concerning a perpetual bridesmaid whose 27th time is as her sister marries a man Heigl is madly in love with.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Michael Bay and his Transformers scribes are developing sci-fi author Whitley Strieber's 2012: The War for Souls for the big screen.... Oscar nominee/comeback "kid" Jackie Earle Haley has booked three gigs: Will Ferrell's Semi-Pro, the drama Winged Creatures (with Kate Beckinsale and Forest Whitaker), and the indie biopic Bolden!.... Rudy Ray Moore will exec-produce and perhaps appear in a remake of the 1975 "blaxploitation" comedy Dolemite.
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Hot on the heels of Sunday's kudos handed out by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the American Film Institute, the New York Film Critics Circle has awarded its best-picture honor to... United 93. In other categories, Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) and Helen Mirren (The Queen) solidified their positions as front-runners in the Oscar race, while Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children) and Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) copped supporting honors.
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