Hell & Back already has a huge cast list of great talents, but they’ve now decided to add one more, as Deadline reports that Susan Sarandon has signed up to play an angel called Barb in the R-rated, stop-motion animated movie.
In the movie, Nick Swardson and TJ Miller voice two buddies who must rescue their pal who has been accidentally dragged to Hell. Jennifer Coolidge and Maria Bamford also have been added to the voice cast, which already includes Mila Kunis, Danny McBride, Bob Odenkirk, Kerri Kenney, Michael Pena, David Koechner, JB Smoove, Brian Posehn, Greg Proops, Seth Morris and Jay Johnston.
Robot Chicken’s Zeb Wells and Hugh Sterbakov have come up with the script, with the animation team already hard at work.
Andie MacDowell is going to have something to do other than hawk anti-ageing potions, as she’s signed up to star in the indie flick Mother’s Day. As you’ve probably guessed, this isn’t another remake of the horror flick of the same name, or indeed a Garry Marshall type movie based around a particular day.
America is already interested The Inbetweeners, as MTV has made their own TV movie which starts over there soon. It appears Paramount has been looking at the massive gross the UK movie version made in Britain, where it’s the highest grossing comedy ever, as they’re now looking to make an American movie version.
Fright Night director Craig Gillespie is in negotiations to direct Flamingo Thief for Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films. The movie already has Will Ferrell attached to star in what could be an interestingly quirky film.
A few years ago, Luc Besson was going to retire, and indeed he did take a bit of a break from directing, but he never got over the filmmaking bug, writing and producing all sorts of movies, and more recently directing the likes of The Lady and Adele Blanc-Sec. Now he’s planning another movie, an adaptation of the French sci-fi comic, Valerian.
There’s been a slight lull in the amount of Stephen King adaptations recently, but there are a huge amount in the works, including a film version of The Ten O’Clock People, one of the novellas in Nightmares & Dreamscapes. Now Justin Long is in talks to take the lead role in the movie, according to 
Hossein Amini, the screenwriter of Drive, must have been impressed with Oscar Isaac’s perfomance in the Ryan Gosling film, as he’s now cast him in his directorial debut, The Two Faces Of January, opposite Viggo Mortensen, according to 
Olympus Has Fallen already has Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Angela Bassett onboard, and now it’s added a new name, with