Have you seen the trailer for Brothers? The war drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, and Tobey Maguire premieres in theaters Dec. 4.

British actor Tom Hardy has been tapped to step into Mel Gibson’s lead role in the new Mad Max movie.

Hardy, a 31-year-old actor who recently won acclaim in a British TV adaptation of Wuthering Heights, will star opposite Oscar winner Charlize Theron in the new movie, Mad Max: Fury Road, British Film Magazine editor Terence Doyle tells The Sunday Express.

“It’s a major coup for Tom, cementing his status as one of our biggest emerging stars. He’s a very versatile actor who is convincingly tough and macho but also hugely sensitive and subtle.”

The new project comes 25 years after the third movie in the series, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, which co-starred Tina Turner. Filming is expected to begin in Australia next year.

La Toya Jackson’s encounter with Austrian fashionisto Bruno was deleted from the motion picture Bruno out of respect for Michael Jackson’s passing, just weeks before the film’s opening last July. Now that four months have passed since the King of Pop’s death, the scene has been revealed as a bonus feature for the film’s DVD and Blu-Ray release, available Nov. 17. For the first time, fans get a complete look at Bruno’s prank on the eccentric former centerfold. Check it out:

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has been cast as Nicole Kidman’s wife in the new film The Danish Girl, according to Variety. The Iron Man actress will replace fellow Oscar winner Charlize Theron as Greta, in the film adaptation of David Ebershoff’s novel.

Theron recently backed out of the controversial film, loosely based on the life of the first man to undergo a sex change operation. Kidman will play transgender artist Einar Wegener. Wegener underwent groundbreaking surgery to become a woman in 1931 after pretending to be a female model in a series of successful portraits painted by Greta.

Thomas Alfredson is on board to direct the movie, which is expected to premiere sometime next year.

A Harriet the Spy Disney Channel TV movie is in the works.

The updated script will see aspiring writer Harriet determined to be her high school’s class blogger as she clashes with her nemesis, popular student Marion Hawthorne, The Hollywood Reporter said Friday.

In 1996, the 1964 book by Louise Fitzhugh was turned into a feature film with a young Michelle Trachtenberg in the starring role.

Eminem is set to star in a 3D hip-hop horror movie, MTV News has learned.

The acclaimed rapper will also produce Shady Talez, a horror anthology cross between Creep Show and The Twilight Zone that will put a hip-hop spin to classic horror films. The frightfest will be Eminem’s first big-screen appearance since his role in the 2002 box office hit 8 Mile.

The film will be accompanied by a four-issue Shady Talez comic book series, due out in 2010.

Whoopi Goldberg was left shamefaced on The View Friday after she confused Lord of the Rings’ star Sir Ian McKellen with the wizard from the Harry Potter film franchise.

The actor who played Gandalf in the hit trilogy was a guest on the when host Whoopi asked: “Are you coming back in Harry Potter?”

Sir Ian, 70, closed his eyes, paused, and said: “I don’t play Dumbledore – I play ‘Lord of the Rings.’”

Whoopi apologized immediately.

Madonna once expressed an interest in producing the critically-acclaimed new movie Precious, author Sapphire has revealed. Sapphire claims the Queen of Pop was eager to be associated with the film adapted from 1996 novel Push, the story of an illiterate, obese girl battling abuse and teen pregnancy in 1987 Harlem.

Madonna was among the first people to show an interest in adapting author Sapphire’s gritty drama into a film.

“There was this really earnest college student with his backpack on who wanted to do his first film, and then Madonna wanted to produce it,” the writer reveals in this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly.

“I was like, ‘Madonna? I don’t think this is her film,’” she added. “I remember this one producer told me that he had found Precious—and it was going to be Brandy,” a shocked Sapphire said. “Excuse me? I literally almost hung up on him.”

The post finally went to moviemaker Lee Daniels who managed to convince her with his credentials. Precious opens in theaters everywhere this Friday.

Dan Aykroyd, Anna Faris, and Justin Timberlake will be voicing characters in a new Yogi Bear movie, Variety has learned.

JT is in talks to play the straight-talking bear, Boo Boo, in a new live-action and computer animated movie version of the animated classic The Yogi Bear Show.

Anna is in negotiations to play a documentary filmmaker who descends on Jellystone National Park in the film, while Dan is up for the role of Yogi.

Shooting is expected to start in New Zealand next month.

Madonna is having a tough time securing funds and getting a cast together for her new film.

With stinkers like Shanghai Surprise and Body of Evidence to her credit, the Queen of Pop, 51, has never had much success in the film industry. Nonetheless, she decided to try her hand at scriptwriting earlier this year, but launching her project is proving to be difficult.

“I just finished writing a script and I am trying to get funding and casting for it, believe it or not,” Madge revealed to London’s Daily Express this month. “It’s called ‘We’ and it’s a love story. It is two parallel love stories told from a woman’s point of view, obviously.”

She added, “One is a historical story that took place with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. And the other is one I made up about a couple in New York.”