* Lost in last night's report on Steve Pink coming aboard to direct Disney's family film, Overnight, was the possibility of Will Ferrell taking the lead role. Ferrell's Gary Sanchez Productions is producing the film as a potential starring vehicle in the story of an absent-minded father and his son in a toy store overnight until it's ransacked by thieves. It's described as "Home Alone in a toy store" for a reason. [Variety]
* Kevin Bacon is keeping plenty busy while on break from The Following (please cancel it), and part of that time will be spent on the set of Black Mass, the Johnny Depp-starring biopic on Irish mobster Whitey Bulger. Bacon will play Charles McGuire, the FBI special agent running the Boston Field Office. Filming is underway now and we should see it in theaters next year. [Deadline]
* Between touring with her band The Shoe and filming The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Jena Malone probably doesn't have a ton of time. But that isn't going to stop her from starring in Claire, a remake of Eric Rohmer's 1982 French film, Le Beau Mariage. Directed by music video helmer Dori Oskowitz, the film centers on "an eccentric young woman in her 20s living in Long Island with her aunt and teenage cousin. Fed up with her married painter lover, Claire sets her sights on a man she barely knows with aims to get herself married." Malone will be seen this fall as part of Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice.
featured Charles Bronson at his steely best as a hitman who begins teaching the tricks of the trade to a young protege. In Simon West's 2011 remake, Jason Statham fits comfortably into a role that he's pretty much been playing his entire career, that of the gritty, cold faced killer. It's only in the addition of Ben Foster as his slightly unstable young charge that that The Mechanic begins to set itself apart from the original. Foster brings a level of nuance to the role unseen in the original, as well as a chaotic energy that is a nice balance to Statham's cool demeanor. 
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) that Natalie Portman crammed in before some dude gummed her all up. The Other Woman is a low key affair featuring the Oscar winner as a woman struggling to connect with her new stepson, who apparently hates her or something. How can anybody hate that face? Does not compute.
; Minka Kelly's smokin' hot bod; Cam Gigandet's futile attempts at acting; and Leighton Meester's innocent/psychotic stares that make her look like the world's most insane babydoll.
or 
. But then you see Hayden Christiansen and there has to be some recognition that this won't be nearly as fun, unless you count the number of times his whiny voice cracks. This is one I really wanted to check out, mainly due to Brad Anderson's direction. The guy has been tops on my list after his film 
wound up on my Top 10 best films a couple of years ago. 
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