More actors have been announced for the impending Bad Lieutenant remake that will be directed by acclaimed director Werner Herzog.

Among the actors announced are Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk, Jennifer Coolidge, Vondie Curtis Hall, Shawn Hatosy, Denzel Whitaker and Xzibit. The actors join both Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes in the cast.

Other actors announced were Shea Wigham, Katie Chonacas, and Brad Dourif.

Film buffs will now that the original Bad Lieutenant, which was shown in 1992, featured Harvey Keitel in one of the strongest performances of his career. Abel Ferrara directed the original.

A number of characters are reportedly going to be cut out from the Harry Potter movie that is currently in production.

Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince is the sixth book and sixth movie in the franchise and if reports are true, many characters that appeared in the book will be excised from the movie version. One of these characters is Prof. Trelawney, played by Emma Thompson. Trelawney has already appeared in two movies in the franchise.

Mulder fans will kill me for saying this but I really think that Gillian Anderson is the more talented actor
between her and David Duchovny. That’s why I find it so disappointing that she just disappeared after The X-Files concluded.

Fortunately, The X-Files movie sequel may have reignited her passion for acting. She is reportedly going to star in and produce a biopic on the life of Martha Gellhorn a pioneering female war correspondent who managed to gain coverage of the various conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam while also trying to juggle her personal relationships, including a marriage to Ernest Hemingway. Anderson will play the title role in the movie.

Guillermo del Toro is just so freaking red hot right now. He’s got all these wonderful projects lined up for him and the awesome thing is that he hasn’t let down both his fans and critics yet. That is talent for you.

Del Toro’s imagination is just so out of this world wild that anything he puts his opinions on will get a lot of mileage among film buffs, sci-fi/fantasy geeks and even the general media. During the Hellboy II premiere, Del Toro was asked about his vision for the Frankenstein film that he plans on doing. And he dropped the bomb, so to speak.

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Horny cineastes will surely go ga-ga over the news that Robert Rodriguez is going to remake Red Sonja with Rose McGowan in the lead.

According to reports, Rodriguez will produce the new Red Sonja movie for a possible 2010 release.

McGowan is reportedly stoked about her new movie role and so is Rodriguez. The two are a real-life couple, by the way. Rodriguez has raved over his lady’s great attitude, sexiness and strong character. But then I’d probably hear that from any love-smitten guy anyway.

The previous Red Sonja movie featured Bridget Nielsen, with Arnold Schwarzenegger also appearing in the movie as Conan.

Both Pierce Brosnan and Nicolas Cage are set to star in The Ghost, a political thriller under the direction of Roman Polanski. The movie is based on the Robert Harris novel that tells the story of a ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister. In the course of his work he discovers secrets that would endanger his life.

Brosnan is set to play the role of the prime minister and Cage is the ghostwriter.

Shooting for the movie will begin in Europe this fall.

I was one of the most hardcore X-Files fanatic when the hit TV series was still airing. So hardcore in fact that I think that I was one of the very first people to coin the word X-Phile in my community way back in the early 90s when the series was barely halfway through its first season (I’ll never know now though because the internet as we know it now was not yet available at that time!).

Will Poulter, the child actor who appeared in Son of Rambow, has reportedly been cast in the next Narnia sequel.

According to reports, Poulter will play Eustace in “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of The Dawn Treader.”

Poulter will play the annoying Eustace Scrubb, the cousin of the Pevensie children. Michael Apted is set to direct this sequel. The movie is expected to be released on May 7, 2010.

More information about the Astro Boy movie has been revealed recently. According to Summit Entertainment the movie will be made in partnership with Imagi Studios. This is going to be Astro Boy’s first CGI feature film.

Already, a number of top-tier stars are involved in the movie. Such stars as Nicolas Cage, Donald Sutherland, Nathan Lane, Bill Nighy, Eugene Levy and Freddie Highmore are going to be voice talents for the movie.

Astro Boy is the creation of Ozamu Tezuka, the acknowledged god of anime.