Teaser Trailer for Terminator Salvation, Starring Christian Bale

Movie News Roundup: Watts, Fox, Another 300 Movie and More

• According to The Guardian, Naomi Watts will play one of King Lear's daughters in the next film adaptation of Shakespeare's play. Gwyneth Paltrow and Keira Knightley will take on the roles of the other two daughters to Anthony Hopkins's King Lear.
• Matthew Fox is in talks to star in yet another one of Hollywood's comic book-turned-movies, Billy Smoke, about "an elite hit man who's nearly killed during a botched job and realizes that his only way to find redemption is to rid the world of all assassins."
• Hollywood Reporter writes that Helena Bonham Carter will have a "small but pivotal role" in the fourth Terminator movie.
• A follow-up to 300 is officially in the works, with Frank Miller currently writing the graphic novel on which it will be based. Though he's not committed yet, 300 director Zack Snyder is "definitely interested" to see what Miller comes up with. - 4 Comments
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Buzz News Roundup, 6/2

• According to ComingSoon, Dawson's Creek's Kerr Smith will join the cast of the 3-D remake of My Bloody Valentine.
• Rock legend Bo Diddley died today at the age of 79, writes Billboard.
• ABC's Life on Mars adaptation is looking pretty troubled already, according to the LA Times, though it's the network's only new drama for the Fall.
• The Hollywood Reporter announced that Bryce Dallas Howard will replace Charlotte Gainsbourg in the fourth Terminator installment.
• American Idol winner David Cook's recording deal is official, and he's still setting all kinds of iTunes records, USA Today reports.
• Variety reports that Family Guy will compete as a regular comedy at the Emmys — not just an animated one — for the first time.
• Katharine McPhee and Wes Bentley are set to star together in the indie psychological drama The Storyteller, reports ComingSoon.

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Buzz News Roundup, 5/5

• According to Variety, the next Terminator movie will attempt to broaden its audience with a PG-13 rating.
• Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has signed a huge deal with Fox that makes him the highest-paid writer-producer in television, Reuters reports.
• Tom Waits has announced Summer tour dates via a bizarre faux press conference, Billboard reports.
• The Hollywood Reporter has the mind-boggling news that Tristan Wilds (Michael from The Wire) is joining the cast of the 90210 spinoff. Another actor, Michael Steger, has also been cast.
• Meanwhile, TV Guide has news that Brea Grant, who played Landry's rebound girl on Friday Night Lights, has been cast as a Heroes character with the power of superspeed.
• Amy Winehouse won't be recording the new Bond movie theme after all, writes Variety.
• Billboard announces that Nine Inch Nails is offering a free download of its new album, The Slip.

Buzz News Roundup, 2/27

• USA Today has a gallery of images from the psychological thriller The Box, starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden.
• It's official: Hollywood writers approved their new contract with almost 94 percent of WGA members voting in favor of the agreement, the Associated Press reports.
• Miss/Guided, the ABC comedy starring Judy Greer, will premiere in March, Zap2it reports.
• The next Terminator movie, starring Christian Bale, will open Memorial Day weekend of 2009, Variety reports.
• Billboard writes that Justin Timberlake, Lou Reed and Billy Joel are among the people who will induct members of the 2008 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class next month in New York.
• The New York Times reports that several networks are ready to claim Jay Leno once he's done with The Tonight Show next year.
• The Martin Scorsese film Shutter Island, starring Leonardo Dicaprio, just added Emily Mortimer, Jackie Earle Haley and Max von Sydow to the cast, according to ComingSoon.
• Variety has the news that Jonathan Rhys Meyers will join Julianne Moore in the supernatural thriller Shelter.