Jamie Chung Voices 'Big Hero 6'; Eliza Dushku Joins 'Eloise'; Annabelle Wallis Boards 'Grimsby'

* Ex-Real Worlder Jamie Chung, who will be seen later this summer in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, will be lending her voice to Marvel's animated Big Hero 6. The Disney Animation film is based on the quirky Japanese superteam created by Scott Lobdel, and centers on robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada who, along with his powerful robot Baymax, joins an oddball team of heroes to defend the city of San Fransokyo. Chung joins the only other confirmed cast member, TJ Miller, who will be voicing Fredzilla. Big Hero 6 is set to open November 7th.

* Chace Crawford, Eliza Dushku, Brandon T. Jackson, and PJ Byrne will star in Eloise, a psychological thriller that marks the directorial debut by Academy Award-winning visual effects wiz, Robert Legato. They play four friends who break into the Eloise mental hospital "in hopes of finding a death certificate, which will provide Jacob (Crawford) with the rights to a sizable inheritance. While inside the asylum, the group not only finds that the institution houses a horrifying history but also the truth about their own tragic pasts." The script was written by Vatican Tapes scribe, Chris Borrelli. Filming begins next month at the infamous Eloise Insane Asylum, one of the largest in the world. [Deadline]

* With Mark Strong just coming aboard to play Sacha Baron Cohen's brother in Grimsby, the spy comedy now has a female lead in Annabelle Wallis. Cohen plays a British football hooligan who is forced to go on the run with his brother, a Black Ops super-spy. Wallis will play a love interest, of course. She'll also be seen, coincidentally, in The Conjuring spinoff titled Annabelle.

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Trailer Time: 'Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding', starring Jane Fonda and Elizabeth Olsen

By far the biggest draw for the indie comedy, Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding are the women at the front of it. Jane Fonda, who has made only a handful of movies(mostly forgettable ones) over the last twenty years; the ever reliable indie stalwart, Catherine Keener; and rising star Elizabeth Olsen. In a way, it almost feels like a passing the torch sort of film, with the two veteran ladies stepping aside for the red hot Olsen. Then again, some people said much the same thing about Fonda passing the torch to Lindsay Lohan in Georgia Rule, and that didn't quite work out.

I'll be checking out Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding later tonight ahead of its release this weekend. In preparation for the roll out, a brand new trailer has been released, and judging by the look of it, this is totally Fonda's show. The story revolves around a stick in the mud lawyer(Keener), in the midst of a divorce, who takes her two kids(Elizabeth Olsen & Nat Wolff),to visit their charismatic, hippie grandmother(Fonda) still living in Woodstock on a farmhouse where the animals are as much a resident as the people.

Fonda is the real stand out here as the feisty old activist, howling at the moon and doing things the way she's done them all her life. Mainly this is a story about personal relationships and familial bonds, as she tries to impart some tie-dyed life lessons on her family about love. There will be budding romances, with Chace Crawford popping up as a meat eating love interest for Olsen's vegen character. There will also be old grudges renewed and secrets revealed in what turns out to be one adventurous summer. Bruce Beresford(Driving Miss Daisy) is behind the camera for what is his first crowd pleaser in years. Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding opens on June 8th. Check out the trailer below...

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