OLV is all about finding out where movies are filming, but its no fun watching a movie shoot if there aren’t a few celebs to scope out! So here’s a list of who we can look forward to seeing on a set sometime soon!
– Best. News. Ever. James Van Der Beek has been cast as himself in ABC’s pilot Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apt. 23. Its about time! [EW]
– Halle Berry has rejoined the cast of New Year’s Eve. [THR]
– Johnny Depp is out and James Franco may be in for Oz, which is expected to shoot in Michigan later this year. He’s also in talks to play Kaneda in the live action feature-film Akira. How does this guy find the time for everything?? [JustJared, THR]
– Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter have joined Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows with Johhny Depp, filming begins in April in the U.K. [DailyBlam]
– Andrew Garfield, Jennifer Garner and Marcia Gay Harden are set to star in Back Roads, based on the novel of the same title by Tawni O’Dell. [BroadwayWorld]
– Jason Segel will play an undercover cop in the 1980s in the movie, Undercover Cop. [THR]
– Olivia Wilde may play Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider Reboot. Yes, Hollywood has completely run out of new ideas. [DailyBlam]
– Gerard Butler has been cast as Frosty Hesson in the biopic Mavericks, which will begin shooting in California in October. Frosty Hesson was the mentor of Jay Moriarity, a well known surfer who died one day beofre his 23rd birthday in a free diving accident. [MercuryNews]
– Alice Eve has joined Men in Black III as the younger version of Emma Thompson’s character. [ComingSoon]
– Mary J Blige may star alongside Tom Cruise in Rock of Ages. [Playbill]
– Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman have signed on to star in Stoker. The mystery drama, written by Wentworth Miller, is about a girl and her mother who are visited by a mysterious uncle after the girl’s father dies. [AccidentalSexiness]
– Paul Walker will star in Pawn Shop Chronicles, a thriller that Fred Durst will direct. [THR]
– Amanda Seyfried has joined Summit’s thriller Gone about a girl who returns home after the night shift to find her sister’s bed empty and she believes that the serial killer who kidnapped her two years before has come back to finish the job. [Collider]
– Ioan Gruffudd has signed on star opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in the upcoming CBS drama Ringer. [JustJared]
– The Farrelly Brothers apparently want Cher to play a nun called Mother Superior in The Three Stooges. [ComingSoon]
– Freida Pinto has been cast in Michael Winterbottom’s Trishna which begins filming on February 25. [SlashFilm]
– Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, Paul Dano, and Zoe Kazan have all been confirmed for the road trip movie, He Loves Me. [IndieWire]
– Diane Keaton and Ed Harris will star in The Look of Love, about a woman who meets a man that looks exactly like her late husband. [Deadline]
– Annette Bening has landed the lead in Rob Reiner’s Third Act. [CinemaBlend]
Glee’s Cory Monteith is going to star in what is being called Ocean’s 11 for twentysomethings. [BadAssDigest]
– Barbra Streisand had confirmed she will play Mama Rose, the ultimate stage mother, in a new film adaptation of Gypsy. [Advocate]
– Willow Smith is set to star in a remake of Annie that may be directed by Glee’s Ryan Murphy. [CinemaBlend]
