The battle of the White House taken over by terrorists movies is heating up, with barely a day going by without news of a new actor being added to the cast of either Olympus Has Fall of White House Down. Both films essentially have the same story, with bad guys taking control of the White House and Secret Service agents needing to take it back.
Yesterday James Woods signed up for White House Down, and today it’s the turn of Olympus Has Fallen, with THR reporting that Melissa Leo and Rick Yune have joined the cast. The movie, directed by Antoine Fuqua goes into production this week, with Gerard Butler in the lead role.
Leo is in talks to play a tough secretary of Defense who cracks when tortured. Yune meanwhile will play the villain of the movie, a North Korean posing as a South Korean ministerial aide who is described as a sociopathic monster. Aaron Eckhart, Angela Bassett, Cole Hauser and Radha Mitchell also star.
Eli Roth hasn’t made a movie since Hostel II, and while he’s developed a lot of projects, nothing has actually come to fruition, other than films he’s written or produced. Now he may have found a new movie, and unusually for Roth, it’s a film that he hasn’t originated himself. 
He’s heating up UK cinemas today with the release of Magic Mike, but Channing Tatum is busy looking to the future, as 
After a lot of speculation, Lionsgate has officially confirmed that the final installment of The Hunger Games franchise will be split into two movies. The studio announced that The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 will be released on November 21st, 2014, with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 ending the series November 20th, 2015.
Jason Bateman may not be at the top of the a-list, but he’s got a great reputation in the comedy field. Now he’s hoping to stretch his wings by turning director. 
There can only be a couple of screenwriters in Hollywood who haven’t had a crack at Ghostbusters 3 by now. Last week, Dan Aykroyd teased that there was yet another “new writing staff” working on the screenplay. Now 
As part of its deal with Hasbro, Universal Pictures was developing a movie based on the Stretch Armstrong toy. Despite signing up Taylor Lautner to star, the films got stuck in development, before being dropped by the studio. A few months ago it was picked up by Relativity Media (who are still likely to release the film through Universal), who have chosen Breck Eisner (The Crazies) to direct, according to 
Sometimes it seems like James Franco should just shag a guy and get over it. He’s virtually made his indie career out of exploring everything homosexual, playing the likes of gay poets Allen Ginsberg and Hart Crane (he also directed the film about the latter) and directing a movie about gay actor Sal Mineo.
Many were surprised last week when the mother of Brad Pitt came out as being against gay marriage in a letter to her local newspaper. The letter encouraged people to vote for Mitt Romney, which slamming Obama for coming out in support of same-sex couple being allowed to wed. It raised many eyebrows as Brad is known as one of the most staunch supporters of equal marriage in Hollywood.
In the world of British gay trailblazers, there was no one quite like Danny La Rue. While most other female impersonators shied away from making what they were doing explicitly gay, La Rue spent his life on the edge, becoming incredibly popular while putting his sexuality as close to the surface as society would allow.