Director Todd Phillips has confirmed that Liam Neeson's cameo in the forthcoming The Hangover: Part II has been cut from the film. » 4/10/11 3:50pm 4/10/11 3:50pm

The internet is all abuzz over the announcement that 36-year-old Oscar-nominated actress Amy Adams will play Lois Lane in Zach Snyder's upcoming "Superman: Man of Steel" movie, due to her nine-year age difference from co-star Henry Cavill. » 4/02/11 2:20pm 4/02/11 2:20pm

The Social Network's Armie Hammer has signed on to play Prince Andrew Alcott in the The Brothers Grimm: Snow White. Well, he definitely has the molded plastic dream hair. Always a good place to start. » 3/26/11 4:55pm 3/26/11 4:55pm

Not one but two new "Snow White" movies are in the works, with all kinds of weird casting being batted around. Who would you choose? » 12/14/10 5:20pm 12/14/10 5:20pm

Expect Old Spice Guy Isaiah Mustafa on a show! Casting EVP Grace Wu says NBC "felt he was a piece of talent worth developing… He's an attractive guy who's just as funny and charming." To which we reply: Duh. [CNN] » 6/14/10 4:40pm 6/14/10 4:40pm

Although Bollywood films are famously chaste, now one star is coming forward to talk about the realities of the "Casting Couch." » 9/03/09 6:00pm 9/03/09 6:00pm

Here's a first look at the Dorian Gray poster. Didn't you picture him blond, though? No? Okay, then. [ONTD] » 8/14/09 12:20pm 8/14/09 12:20pm

*Inspired by Shirley MacLaine's assertion that the best parts for actresses fall into one of the above categories. » 4/04/08 4:40pm 4/04/08 4:40pm

Along with playing the ubiquitous hooker, victim or doormat character, actresses are often pegged playing "the wife of," or "the mistress of," or even "the best friend of", especially in films that…

We're starting to sense a pattern in the career of Katherine Heigl! Following up her roles in romantic comedies playing an accidentally-impregnated TV producer and an unlucky-in-love personal assistant, Hollywood's "hottest blonde" is set to star as an unlucky-in-love TV producer in the romantic comedy The Ugly Truth. » 1/30/08 9:45am 1/30/08 9:45am

Julia Roberts, who first made her name playing, well, a hooker, continues to use her box office mojo to secure more assertive parts: The actress/mother will be both starring in and producing the film adaptation of the upcoming novel Hothouse Flowers, playing "a divorced woman who chucks her career at a New York… » 1/29/08 9:45am 1/29/08 9:45am

Marion Cotillard went home without a statuette at the SAG Awards, but the Gallic La Vie en Rose gamine may win a lesser prize: working opposite Johnny Depp. The French actress, 32, is in talks to join Depp and Christian Bale in the Depression-era drama Public Enemies, portraying Billie, the chanteuse and (probably… » 1/28/08 9:45am 1/28/08 9:45am

Kirsten Dunst is thisclose to signing onto a starring role in the period (it's set in the '80s!) film All Good Things, playing a "beautiful girl from the wrong side of the tracks" who falls in love with a rich guy (Ryan Gosling) and then disappears, reports Variety. And one of Dunst's peers in young Hollywood… » 1/22/08 10:45am 1/22/08 10:45am

Salma Hayek has been keeping a low profile since giving birth to her daughter, Valentina, and now she's ready to get back to work. The actress will star opposite John C. Reilly in the horror film Cirque du Freak, according to the Variety. Hayek, 41, will play a bearded lady, "Madame Truska" opposite Reilly's vampire… » 1/11/08 9:30am 1/11/08 9:30am

Royal victim! Scarlett Johansson is set to star in the Phillip Noyce-directed Mary Queen of Scots, playing the Scottish queen, who, in 1542, became Scotland's queen (she was only an infant), and was later imprisoned on charges for plotting to murder Elizabeth I and beheaded. In other casting news, the actress who can… » 1/09/08 9:45am 1/09/08 9:45am

Diablo Cody's ascent in Hollywood continues apace: Her hit film, Juno, made second place in the weekend box office, surpassing the Will Smith starrer I Am Legend, and, in a hat trick for women in Hollywood, the Juno screenwriter's script, Jennifer's Body, has been picked up by Fox Atomic with director Karyn Kusama (… » 1/08/08 9:45am 1/08/08 9:45am

More great news for women in Hollywood: A poll of motion picture exhibitors conducted by Quigley Publishing has determined the top 10 box office-earners for 2007 and, for the first time in 24 years, there was nary a lady to be found. Johnny Depp came out on top, followed by Will Smith, George Clooney, Matt Damon,… » 1/03/08 1:45pm 1/03/08 1:45pm

Hollywood's most famous reincarnated superstar (and inspiration for this very feature), Shirley MacLaine, is set to star as none other than Coco Chanel, reports Variety. MacLaine, 73, "will play the designer in her later years, as she set out to re-establish her reputation as a fashion trendsetter" in a Lifetime… » 12/21/07 9:45am 12/21/07 9:45am

Talk about Dreamgirls: Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson, box-office behemoth Queen Latifah, singer Alicia Keys and British actress Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda) are set to star in the Fox Searchlight drama The Secret Life of Bees, based on Sue Monk Kidd's 2002 novel of the same name. Latifah, Keys and Okonedo will play… » 12/20/07 9:45am 12/20/07 9:45am

*Inspired by Shirley MacLaine's assertion that the best parts for actresses fall into one of the above categories » 12/19/07 9:45am 12/19/07 9:45am

• Victim? Perp? Or blatant grab for Glenn Close-like Oscar nom? That's the question we have after reading this morning that actress Mischa Barton in the "indie thriller" , in which she'll play the…

*Inspired by Shirley MacLaine's assertion that the best parts for actresses fall into one of the above categories » 12/18/07 10:30am 12/18/07 10:30am

Today in Hollywood casting news: Actress Rhona Mitra () is set to star as the wife of a police chief (Jon Hamm) and grieving mother of a missing boy in the independent thriller , . And in other…