Dianna Agron

Extraordinary teen John Smith (Pettyfer) is a fugitive on the run from ruthless enemies sent to destroy him. Changing his identity, moving from town to town with his guardian Henri (Olyphant), John is always the new kid with no ties to his past. In the small Ohio town he now calls home, John encounters unexpected, life-changing events-his first love (Agron), powerful new abilities and a connection to the others who share his incredible destiny.

Expect a mid February 2011 Release Date

Cast:

Dianna Agron … Sarah
Timothy Olyphant … Henri
Alex Pettyfer … Number Four
Teresa Palmer … Number Six
Kevin Durand … Mog Commander
Jake Abel … Mark James
Callan McAuliffe … Sam
Judith Hoag … Sarah’s Mom
Beau Mirchoff … Drew
Emily Wickersham … Nicole

Teresa Palmer

Alex Pettyfer is Number 4

Anne Hathaway

From CBC News

Anne Hathaway has landed a coveted role in Christopher Nolan’s next installment of the Batman saga, with the Oscar-nominated actress to portray Selina Kyle and her alter ego, Catwoman.

Warner Bros. announced Wednesday the casting of Hathaway and Tom Hardy for Nolan’s forthcoming The Dark Knight Rises.

The film will see Christian Bale reprise his role as Bruce Wayne and Batman.

U.S. actress Hathaway, who is set to co-host the Academy Awards with James Franco in February, has seen her profile in Hollywood rising over the years. Her breakout role came with The Princess Diaries and she followed with several similar films, including a Princess Diaries sequel, Ella Enchanted and Hoodwinked.

She began landing more mature roles, however, after her turns in Brokeback Mountain and The Devil Wears Prada. Hathaway earned her highest acclaim for her starring role as a recovering drug addict in the 2008 drama Rachel Getting Married, which earned her a best actress Oscar nomination.

British actor Hardy, who appeared in Nolan’s mindbending 2010 thriller Inception and has a decade-long career in U.K. TV and film, is set to portray the intelligent, superstrong villain Bane.

The Dark Knight Rises is set for release July 20, 2012.

From BBC News

Juan Of The Dead: Cuba’s answer to Shaun Of The Dead

Blood-spattered, flesh-eating monsters have been roaming the Cuban capital, Havana, in recent months – all part of filming for the country’s first zombie movie.

Bearing a similar title to Britain’s 2004 comedy horror Shaun Of The Dead, Juan Of The Dead’s plot is actually closer to the 1984 ghoul classic Ghostbusters.

In the film, an entire city is overrun by zombies while Cuba’s Communist leaders insist it is just a plot by US-backed dissidents to bring down the government.

So it is left to hero Juan – played by Cuban actor Alexis Diaz de Villegas – to rid the island of the undead for money.

But as the zombie outbreak begins to spread, he is left with no choice but to fight for his own survival.

The film, due for release later this year, was written and directed by 34-year-old Alejandro Brugues.

It is only his second movie since graduating from Cuba’s International School of Film and Television.

“It’s a zombie film but it’s about Cubans and how we react in the face of a crisis because we’ve had a lot of them here over the last 50 years,” Brugues told the BBC World Service’s The Strand.

“It is a social comedy, it has a bit of everything. It has horror, it has action and it pretty much laughs in the face of problems.”

The movie is a joint Cuban-Spanish production with much of the funding coming from overseas.

It is the latest in a wave of independent cinema which has been struggling to find its feet after state funding all but dried up following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.     Read more here