Johnny Depp Will Play the Legendary Magician Houdini

Johnny Depp is getting ready for a magical role, Robert De Niro and Rachel Weisz are in talks to team up for a gangster drama, and Kevin James has signed on for a new family comedy. Plenty of deals have gone down this week in Hollywood, so catch up with all the news, and check back as we update with more!

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Johnny Depp will star as Harry Houdini in The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero.

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Shirley MacLaine will star in Men of Granite, about a group of basketball players in a small Illinois town in the 1940s.

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Melanie Griffith joined Facing the Wind alongside Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, and Evan Rachel Wood. The film tells the true story of a New York lawyer who murdered his wife and kids in 1978.

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Zoe Lister-Jones joined Food, a political thriller about genetically modified organisms. She joined Kunal Nayyar, Victor Garber, and Danny Glover.

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Robert De Niro joined Idol's Eye, an action-thriller starring Robert Pattinson. Rachel Weisz is also in talks to join the Chicago-set gangster film.

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Anders Holm (Workaholics), Danny McBride, and Paul Rudd will lend their voices to Sausage Party, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's raunchy animated film.

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Rhys Ifans joined Alice in Wonderland 2 as Zanik Hightopp, the Mad Hatter's (Johnny Depp) father.

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Katie Holmes will star in The Woman in Gold, starring Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, and Daniel Brühl.

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German YouTube star Flula Borg has joined Pitch Perfect 2 as a member of a competing a cappella troupe.

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Chasing Mavericks' Jonny Weston joined Insurgent in an undisclosed role. Here's the full cast of the Divergent sequel.

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Anna Camp is confirmed to return for Pitch Perfect 2 as the uptight but driven Aubrey Posen.