Now that House has finished on TV, Hugh Laurie can do what British actors are supposed to do in American entertainment – play villains! THR reports that he’s now in talks to play the bad guy in MGM’s planned remake of Robocop.
The actor will play the villainous CEO of OmniCorp, the conglomerate responsible for building the title character, played by Joel Kinnaman. The cast also includes Gary Oldman as an OmniCorp scientist, Samuel L. Jackson as a TV mogul, and Abbie Cornish as Joel Kinnaman’s wife, who still thinks he was killed in action.
José Padilha is directing from a screenplay by Joshua Zetumer, with shooting slated to begin later this summer in Toronto.
Lindsay Lohan may not be able to stop her car from hitting things, but she’s slowly getting her career back on track, and has now joined the cast of The Canyons, along with adult film star James Deen. The flick is a new indie project from director Paul Schrader and writer Bret Easton Ellis.
It appears Anton Yelchin likes vampires, as after last year’s Fright Night he’s heading back into a film about the bloodsuckers, although this time with a more arthouse bent, as 
Fox Searchlight has signed a deal with Limitless director Neil Burger to follow-up his thriller success with the crime drama Animal Rescue, according to 
A month or so ago Liam Neeson was in talks to play the bad guy in Darren Aronofsky’s biblical epic Noah. That didn’t work out, and now the role looks like it’s going to Ray Winstone, who’s in talks to join the film, according to 
Paramount adores being in the JJ Abrams business, because at the moment it seems to guarantee them profits. They’re getting together again for The God Particle, as Paramount Pictures and JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot production company are now putting together the sci-fi thriller God Particle, based on a script by Oren Uziel, and have also picked up an action thriller spec script called Wunderkind from Patrick Aison. At the moment it appears Abrams will produce by not direct both movies.
Idina Menzel is a huge name on the Broadway stage, but she’s never made as much of an impact on screen, despite popping up in the likes of Rent, Enchanted and playing Rachel’s birth mother in Glee. However now her voice will be getting a major outing in Disney’s Frozen, which is inspired by the fairytale The Snow Queen.
Thanks to the success of The Avengers and Snow White and the Huntsman, Chris Hemsworth is just about the hottest new actor around at the moment. He’s now attached to star in the hot property In the Heart of the Sea, according to 
Tonka Trucks have been around for 65 years, and now the Hasbro brand is planning to bring its Tonka toughness to the big screen in an animated motion picture to be produced by Sony Pictures Animation, Hasbro and Happy Madison Productions, according to