David Cronenberg recently talked about his project “The Matarese Circle.” He revealed that he has ” spoken to both Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington, and they both want to do it.” The delays of the project has been due to the fact that he is rewriting the script, originally by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (“Wanted”), from scratch and is “under a lot of pressure and [doesn’t] want to screw it up.” Also, he talked about how one of things that drew him to the project in the first was his belief that “when you get too comfortable, you need to scare yourself by trying something you’ve never done before.” [Toronto Star]
Rosemarie DeWitt (“Rachel Getting Married”, TV’s “United States Of Tara”) and Chris Cooper (“The Kingdom”,”Syrianna”) have joined the cast of John Well’s indie drama film, “Company Men.” The film details the lives of three men over the course of a year as the company they work for implements corporate downsizing. The cast already consists of Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Kevin Costner. [THR]
Paul Weitz is in talks to helm “Little Fockers,” the next installment of the franchise that stemmed from hit comedy “Meet The Parents.” Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner are all set to reprise their roles. [Variety]
Tyler Perry has added Grammy Award winner Gladys Knights and “CSI: Miami” star Adam Rodriguez to the cast of his next project, “I Can Do Bad All By Myself.” They join Perry himself, Taraji P. Henson, Brian White, Hope Olaide Wilson, Kwesi Nii-Lante Boakye and Frederick Siglar. [THR]
Matt Aselton’s “Gigantic,” starring Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel, has won best narrative at the AFI Dallas International Film Festival. [THR]
Amaury Nolasco (TV’s “Prison Break”) has jumped on board Bruce Robinson’s “The Rum Diary,” an adaptation of the Hunter S. Thompson novel. Starring in the film will be Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, Richard Jenkins and Giovanni Ribisi. [THR]
Tom Cruise will NOT be in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s (“The Lives Of Others”) “The 28th Amendment,” a film scribed by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (“Transformers”,”Star Trek”) [EW’s Hollywood Insider]
A trailer for “Powder Blue”, better known as ‘the film Jessica Biel plays a stripper in’, has been released. The film is being helmed by Timothy Linh Bui. [First Showing]
Kevin Spacey will be involved in the upcoming film “Men Who Stare At Goats,” which stars George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges and Robert Patrick. When are we going to hear some real details about this film, like some studio images, a trailer or a release date? [Variety]
Jason Schwartzman and Rainn Wilson, better known as Dwight Schrute, will have a cameo in upcoming music from Weezer. [Vulture/Weezer]
