Nicholas Braun
Nicholas Braun (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) is one of those actors who feels like he’s waiting for the right role to break out (it sometimes seems his hulking 6ft 4in frame is limiting the role the 25-year-old gets). However now Deadline reports that he and Jane Levy have signed on to star in Good Kids for writer/director Chris McCoy.
The film is about four overachieving high school kids from Cape Cod who decide to reinvent themselves after graduation, when the summer tourism season begins. There’s no info on exactly who Nicholas Braun and Jane Levy will play, and the other two primary roles have not been cast yet.
Chris McCoy is making his directorial debut, working from his own screenplay, which landed on The Black List in 2011. Most recently McCoy has been working on the Guardians of the Galaxy screenplay.
The cast only started to come together about a week and a half ago, but with shooting starting next week, Michael Almereyda is having to pull together actors pretty quickly for his modern day take on Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. He’s doing pretty well as he’s already got Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris and Milla Jovovich.
In the late 90s and early 2000s, Kirsten Dunst seemed to by everywhere, but she’s been getting far fewer high profile roles recently. However now she’s signed on to play the female lead in Midnight Special, alongside Michael Shannon and Joel Edgerton, according to 
While Jermaine Clement and Bret McKenzie where two of the main faces in front of the camera in Flight Of The Conchords, they actually co-created the show with James Bobin, who’s since gone on to Hollywood success as the director of The Muppets (for which McKenzie won the Best Original Oscar for Man Of Muppet).
After a couple of quiet weeks, there was a bit of a crush of new movies at the US box office this weekend, and heading into the weekend nobody was entirely certain which would end up on top. In the end it was the Matt Damon sci-fi Elysium, which took $30 million to top the chart. That’s a passable start, although not as much as the $35 million plus Sony had been hoping for.
Among all the news that Disney has been revealing at their D23 Expo comes the announcement of a new Peter Pan prequel that Disneytoon Studios is making, The Pirate Fairy. While Disneytoon is largely responsible for Disney’s straight-to-DVD offerings, they do sometimes go a little bigger and theatrical, such as with the Cars spin-off Planes, which hit US theatres this weekend.