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--- Spy Guy - We were very happy to hear that Rose Byrne was teaming up with her Bridesmaids co-star Melissa McCarthy for that lady-spy movie called Susan Cooper (written and directed by Bridesmaids Paul Fieg too) - but now that we're hearing that Jason Statham is also joining the cast as another spy? Oh my god, my entire body is tingling.

--- Old Lady - Inspired by the news that Laura Dern is going to play Reese Witherspoon's mother in a new movie (despite the fact that she's all of nine years older), at The Film Experience Nat takes a look at all the viable older actresses out there not getting nearly enough work because Hollywood sucks for older women. I'm happy Dern got a job, at least.

--- Night Walkers - Chris Evans is going to star in and direct 1:30 Train, a movie about a dude who meets a lady on a train and they spend some real-time together falling in love a la Before Midnight movies - the lady in question will be played by infamous Star Trek boob-popper Alice Eve.

--- Berlin Stories - Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer is going to make a twelve-part series for German television called Babylon Berlin, which will be based on the writings of "Volker Kutscher and centre on the figure of Inspector Gereon Rath who hails from Cologne and arrives in the Berlin of 1920s, the epicentre of political and social changes of those years." (Shades of Berlin Alexanderplatz much?) Tykwer's making a movie with his Cloud Atlas star Tom Hanks first though, called A Hologram For the King.

--- The Nicky Show - Channing Tatum just sold a sitcom to CBS - not for himself to star in; he will produce and his good friend Nick Zano will star. Yeah the same Nick Zano who got his guts sucked out through his ass in the Final Destination movies. I want to hear more about his and Channing's close friendship. Click here and here and here and here and here for lots of Nicky.

--- More Most Ghost - Tim Burton might actually really direct the sequel to Beetlejuice, which will star Michael Keaton. That's nutso. Course the Tim Burton of Now is not the Tim Burton of the 1980s, so perhaps we should be horrified by this idea? If they hire Winona, I promise to be good.

--- Queen's Fella - I finally caught up on Homeland last night, and right while I was watching it I saw the news that Damian Lewis is going to co-star with Nicole Kidman in Werner Herzog's long-gestating biopic Queen of the Desert, so that was weird.

--- High Enough - There are two big mountain-climbing movies coming our ways apparently, and The Playlist does a good job sorting out what's what - on one of them Tom Hardy had to drop out and might be replaced by Benedict Cumberbatch, while a host of hotties are named as his possible co-star; on the other Jake Gyllenhaal, full stop.

--- Wood Nymphs - Yesterday over at The Film Experience I wrote up the news that Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood are set to play sisters in Into the Forest, which is adapted from a book that sounds up my alley - they must survive together as the world falls apart.

--- Big Gun - Michael Fassbender's Kiwi Western Slow West with Kodi Smit-McPhee started filming this week, so hopefully we'll start seeing set pictures of Michael Fassbender in slim cowboy pants and/or chaps any time now.
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