New Upcoming Heroes for 'The Expendables'

This just in: Every action hero from the last century who hasn't been in one of "The Expendables" movies will 
automatically be cast in the third one.

The producers of "Expendables 3" are negotiating with Jackie Chan, Nicolas Cage, Wesley Snipes and Milla Jovovich to fill out the next cast of mercenaries, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer said during a conference call with investors Friday.

They're also talking to Charlton Heston's people, just in case someone made a mistake.


Chan, of course, starred in the "Rush Hour" franchise and has been bringing Karate to the big screen for more than three decades. Cage stopped behaving like a real actor back in the '90s, becoming one of Jerry Bruckheimer's favorite Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone and Randy Couture are shown in a scene from "The Expendables." (AP Photo/Lionsgate Entertainment, Karen Ballard)action heroes in films like "The Rock" and "Con Air."

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Impressive Cast in Marvel Galaxy

Marvel's upcoming movie of Guardians Of The Galaxy has put together a rather impressive cast to date, with Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista and Michael Rooker playing key roles. The casting for the movie is far from over, however, as the studio and director James Gunn are still looking to add a few more quality actors to the cast.

Firstly then, while not confirmed, the latest rumour seems to indicate that John C Reilly is set to join the film as Rhomann Dey, the Agent Coulson of the film. Dey acts as an intermediary between the Earth-based Guardians and those not from this planet. He looks over them and reports their actions to S.H.I.E.L.D. Reilly would be a fine choice.

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GRIMM's Cast Joins GRIND Musical

The producers of "Grind" have just announced the first of many casting announcements for this musical short film. The inaugural announcement boasts the addition of Claire Coffee from NBC's "Grimm" as the female lead, Autumn.

Autumn is Vincent and Thane's straight gal pal. She is both wildly fascinated with the gay online dating culture and cautious of its potential dangers. She lives alone in Hells Kitchen, but hopes to one day find her own true connection. "Grind" takes a sexy and artistic look at the ways we connect in today's world and some of the dangers that come with that. Because, in the end, do we REALLY know who we're talking to?

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Casting Offer for 'College Donnie Basco'

Fox has snapped up life rights for the true crime project Narc, based on the actual story of an All-American college kid-turned-police informant. Zac Efron is attached to star as a student, frat president, and lacrosse team captain who’s busted for drugs intended for a party, then secretly turns narc and helps the cops bust criminals while carrying on his BMOC campus life. Efron’s manager and producing partner Jason Barrett will exec produce with Underground-repped Doug Banker. They’ve got a familiar friend in Fox exec Jason Young, who briefly departed the studio to help Efron establish Ninjas Runnin’ Wild in 2010 before returning as Fox’s VP of Production.

Grant Myers (The Maze Runner), a scribe from Fox writers program, will script Narc – described as a “college Donnie Brasco.” Julie and Rick Yorn are producing for LBI, and Matthew Reilly will co-produce. Narc joins a raft of Efron projects in the works which include Einstein Theory, Art Of The Steal, and the Snabba Cash remake, all set up at WB. Efron will next be seen in Open Road’s JFK drama Parkland and Treehouse Pictures’ Are We Officially Dating? He is repped by CAA and Alchemy Entertainment.

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UFTA Sheds Some Light on Acting Workshops and Film Casting

On May 24, 2013, United Film & Television Artists (UFTA) announced that they would be offering acting workshops over the summer beginning June 10, 2013. At a later date UFTA will also be casting for the short film "Casting."

UFTA President Al Quinn, and board members, have been discussing the possibility of such workshops all year. In order for this to happen they had to first, find a location to hold them and second, come up with good and appropriate subject matter for the workshops.

The location will be at The Alliance of the Arts in Fort Myers, Fla. in their Edwards Building.

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Casting a 6 Year Old Child Makes 'What Maise Knew' Possible

Dramatizing the human interplay of a bitter divorce through the eyes of a 6-year-old child is a risky creative assignment. All the more so when the source material is by an abstruse, introspective author generally associated with waxen costume dramas. In “What Maisie Knew,” co-directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel have preserved the spirit of Henry James’ century-old story of innocence and broken attachments while radically reworking its outer details. The result is a superb film about childhood, “Kramer vs. Kramer” with a literary pedigree.

“It began with a great screenplay by Carroll Cartwright and Nancy Doyne,” McGehee said during the filmmakers’ visit to the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. “We responded to the idea of seeing this situation from the vantage point of this little girl. The outer trappings were never central to the story.” Moving the story from wealthy gaslight-era London to today’s upper-class Manhattan was less challenge than finding a cinematic equivalent for the writing’s rich subterranean moods.

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Casting Negotiations Over Indie Film 'While We're Young'

Fresh off a SAG nomination for her turn as Cosette in "Les Miserables," Amanda Seyfried is in final negotiations to join Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts and Adam Driver in Noah Baumbach's indie movie "While We're Young," TheWrap has learned.

Seyfried emerged as a potential candidate for the role of Driver's love interest several weeks ago and she has now cleared room in her fall schedule for the movie, which is being produced by Scott Rudin and Eli Bush.

The long-gestating project stars Stiller and Watts as a married couple that strikes up an unlikely friendship with a free-spirited younger couple, to be played by Driver and Seyfried, whose character makes homemade ice cream.

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