Alison Brie to 'Get Hard'; Danny Trejo Finds 'Hope Lost'; 'American Ultra' Adds Walton Goggins

* Alison Brie (Community, The Kings of Summer) has joined Get Hard, the prison comedy starring Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart. Directed by Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder), the film has Ferrell as an investment banker wrongly convicted of a crime, and must toughen up for jail with the help of the guy who washes his car. Brie will play the fiancee of Ferrell's character.

* Now that he's done singing and dancing in Muppets Most Wanted, Danny Trejo is moving on to the Italian crime thriller, Hope Lost. Directed by David Petrucci and starring Mischa Barton, Daniel Baldwin, and Michael Madsen (basically a murderer's trio of washed up actors), the film follows a "bored young woman who dreams of the life of soap opera characters meets a mysterious man who charms her away from her small hometown then sells her to a pimp."

* Walton Goggins (Justified) has joined Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg in American Ultra, the intriguing and highly sought-after action film Lionsgate just shelled out a ton of cash to acquire. Directed by Nima Nourizaden, it has Eisenberg as a stoner who goes on the run with his girlfriend when it's discovered he was part of a government program to create Jason Bourne-esque soldiers.

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Rosario Dawson Joins 'Incarnate'; Walton Goggins In 'Mojave'; 'Poltergeist' Adds Jane Adams

 * Blumhouse Productions has had no trouble finding big stars for their micro-budgeted horrors, and the latest to join the family is Rosario Dawson. She'll star in Brad Peyton's exorcism thriller Incarnate, which recently cast Aaron Eckhart in the lead role. The film centers on “an unconventional exorcist who can tap into the subconscious of the possessed who meets his match when a 9-year-old boy is possessed by a demon from his past”. [THR]

* Walton Goggins (Justified) is joining Oscar Isaac and Garrett Hedlund in Mojave, the latest thriller from writer/director William Monahan. His role is unclear at this point, but Goggins is best when he's a bad guy putting the screws to somebody, so hopefully there will be some room for that. Hedlund stars as a suicidal artist lost in the desert who meets his doppelganger, a brilliant homicidal drifter played by Isaac.

* Gil Kenan's Poltergeist remake continues to shape out its cast, adding one of my favorite character actresses and someone else I've never heard of. Jane Adams, who I loved on Hung and in The Anniversary Party, has come aboard the horror film that already stars Rosemarie DeWitt, Sam Rockwell, and Jared Harris. Also joining Saxon Sharbino (Touch) as the 16-year old daughter of the terrorized family. Adams will play "a parapsychologist called in to help the family find their daughter and identify the supernatural forces at work in their home." [THR]

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