Whatever happened to Nicole Kidman’s career? For a while she was the biggest actress on the planet, before her career seemed to drop off a cliff. However she’s still around and now Variety reports she’s set up a new role opposite Colin Firth in The Railway Man.
She’s taking over the role from Rachel Weisz, who was forced to drop out due to additional shooting being needed on The Bourne Legacy and Oz The Great And Powerful. Kidman was free and so she’s stepped into the breach, with shooting just about to start.
Director Jonathan Teplitzky’s (Burning Man) film is is based on Eric Lomax’s autobiography, which details his capture by Japanese soldiers in World War II, where he was sent to work on the infamous “death railway” in Burma. The story is split between his capture as a young soldier, and his life as an adult who still can’t fully grasp the torturous experience.
Colin Firth will play the adult Eric Lomax, while War Horse’s Jeremy Irvine will portray the younger version. Kidman will play his wife, Patti, who convinces him to set off on a journey to try and reconcile with his former captors.
Daniel Espinosa was already a darling on the foreign film circuit for Snabba Cash, and now he’s scored a big mainstream hit with the recent Safe House. As a result he’s got his pick of projects, and so has booked a new movie in the form of The Outsider, with Warner Bros. currently hammering out a deal with the director to take on the action thriller, according to 
Mila Kunis already has plenty of experience voicing an animated character, as she’s spent years playing Meg in Family Guy. Now she’s signed up for something a little different, as 
Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol has moved a little closer to the big screen, with 
Scarlett Johansson and James D’Arcy have signed up for Sacha Gervasi’s rather intriguing movie, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, a movie that sounds like it’ll be great fun for film fans. The project already has Anthony Hopkins playing Alfred Hitchcock and Helen Mirren is as his wife, Alma, who was almost as important to the Hitchcock filmmaking machine as Alfred was.
It’s a bit of a good news/bad news scenario, as 
Bruce Willis is one of the busiest men in Hollywood, as while a lot of actors like to sign on to an endless stream of project, Willis actually makes most of his, rather than dropping out due to ‘scheduling issues’. Now 
It was already set to be one of the most star-studded plays in history, and now it’s got even starrier as Brad Pitt has signed up for this Saturday’s staged reading of Dustin Lance Black’s play, 8.
Universal Studios unveiled a new static logo a couple of months ago as part of its 100th Anniversary celebration, and now the new animated version, which will appear in front of the studio’s movies from now on, has debuted. It may just be a studio logo, but it’s incredibly cool!