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Will Smith has been cast in 'Brilliance'. The 45-year-old actor is set to star in the film adaptation of the Marcus Sakey's novel of the same name and he is in early talks to begin filming in May, according to the Wrap.com. Producer Julius Onah - wh...

Christoph Waltz will present at the forthcoming Academy Awards.
The 57-year-old actor will take to the stage on March 2 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood to hand out a prize at the ceremony which will be hosted by Ellen DeGeneres.
Waltz won the Best Supporting Actor Award for playing Dr King Schultz in 'Django Unchained' last year and was previously applauded for Quentin Tarantino's 2009 hit film 'Inglourious Basterds', where he starred alongside Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender.
Others stars who will present include five time Oscar-nominee Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence and Anne Hathaway.
Day-Lewis took home the third Oscar of his career last year for his performance as President Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln', making him the first person ever to win the Best Actor award three times in the history of the Academy.
While screen beauty Lawrence - who won an Oscar for widow Tiffany Maxwell in David O.Russell's 'Silver Linings Playbook' in 2013 - has been nominated for Best Supporting Actress for 'American Hustle' at this year's ceremony.
And Hathaway - who who co-hosted the ceremony with James Franco in 2011 - won the Best Supporting Actress award last year for her role as Fantine in Tom Hooper's 'Les Misérables'.

Jennifer Aniston is in talks to join 'Mean Moms'. The 45-year-old actress is reportedly in early negotiations to take a role in the new comedy following her success in 'Horrible Bosses' and 'We're the Millers', according to The Hollywood Reporter. T...

Hugh Jackman says "great parts" outlive the stars who play them.
The 45-year-old hunk insists an actor's alter-ego can be remembered for longer than the person who portrayed the part if it is done well.
He explained: "I always think the great parts outlive the actors that play them and that's a stage tradition, that goes back hundreds of years and it should be that way."
Jackman is soon to hit the big screen in forthcoming superhero flick 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' and reprise his role as Wolverine - who he first played in 2000's 'X-Men' - for the sixth time, and insists he does the less dangerous stunts in his films himself but leaves the "stupid stuff" to the experts.
The A-Lister said: "I do a lot of my own stuff, except the stupid stuff like bashing your head against walls or crashing cars and all that jazz."
Jackman admits his preparation for the latest films was better than the earlier ones and meant he avoided injuries.
Talking to collider.com, he said: "I had a good amount of time to prepare, so I built slowly, I hit 'The Wolverine' and this movie without any injuries, which is was the first time - every time I've played Wolverine before I've carried some kind of injury because I've had to race to get ready ... Physically for me, I feel better now probably than I did in the earlier films."

Jamie Bell is in talks to star in a reboot of 'Fantastic Four'. The 27-year-old actor - who currently appears in Lars von Trier's 'Nymphomaniac' alongside Shia LaBeouf and Uma Thurman - is said to be in negotiations to take on the role of Ben Grimm, ...

Elizabeth Banks' character in 'The Lego Movie' gets treated like "junk" by Batman.
The 40-year-old actress voices female fighter Wildstyle, who is in a relationship with the superhero in Warner Bros. latest adventure, and she insists he treats her badly but her alter-ego learns a valuable lesson when she realises she deserves better.
Banks explained: "She's in a bad relationship. She's dating Batman [voiced by Will Arnett] in the movie, and he treats her like junk. He's totally narcissistic and as Oprah says, 'When you know better, you need to do better', and she figures that out in the movie."
Wildstyle wants to "feel special" throughout the film and Banks thinks the animation portrays how you don't have to make extravagant gestures to do so.
She told DigitalSpy.com: "Wildstyle is actually an homage to 80s hip-hop and she's a little lost. She can't quite figure out her place in the world.
"She wants to feel special, she's not quite sure she ever will, and that's one of the great messages of the movie - that you don't have to do anything great and huge to feel special."

Matthew McConaughey couldn't find Ron Woodroof's voice in 'Dallas Buyers Club' until he read his diary.
The 44-year-old actor plays the AIDS patient in the biographical drama directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, but he admits he struggled to show the true side of Woodroof to start with until he started digging into his past and found the "secret weapon".
He told the Belfast Telegraph newspaper: "His [Woodroof's] family gave me his fairy and it was the diary he kept before he got HIV. That gave me his monologue, this dialogue he was having with himself. Because the tapes were from after he had the Dallas Buyers Club.
"The diary was: 'I got nothing to do. I got up again this morning, six o'clock. I had my coffee. I tucked my shirt in, pressed my pants, waited for my pager to go off, to get a call, get a little job done and nobody called. So damn it - I got to get high.'
"Seeing who he was before he got HIV really informed me because here is a guy who turned 30 days of life, as he was told, to seven more years. That was the first time when he had purpose in his life, ironic because he was having to fight for his life."
The hunky star also credits a friend, who he has chosen to keep anonymous but has since died, for helping him get into role because he watched him battle against cancer until he had nothing left to give.
He added: "He was going through a battle with cancer and, as the cancer starting eating his body away, I saw his fight coming out more ferociously, not receding."

Kate Winslet initially turned down her role in 'Labor Day'.
The 38-year-old actress was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Globe for her portrayal of depressed single mother Adele Wheeler - whose character was written by director Jason Reitman with Kate in mind - in the film, and admits she turned down the role at first only to be persuaded by filmmaker Reitman to reconsider.
She said: "I had just finished working in Paris with Roman Polanski [on 'Carnage'] and it was March of 2010 and Jason wanted to start filming in June and I knew that was quite quick for me. I wouldn't normally do things so close together.
"I loved the script, but said 'Sadly I can't do it' and he said, 'Why not?' Which I thought was incredibly bold, and I was enamoured by that response."
Despite Winslet - who is mother to three children from three different marriages - turning down the role, Reitman even changed the films production schedule to suit her.
She told Total Film magazine: "I'd made a commitment to myself in my life that I wasn't going to work until the following year. And he said, 'When would you do it?' And I said, 'A year from now,' and he said 'Ok.'
"And that has never happened to me before - someone's actually waited a whole year. And I felt very, very fortunate that he was prepared to do that."

Meryl Streep has joined 'Suffragette'. The 64-year-old actress has signed up to take on the iconic role of political activist Emmeline Pankhurst in the upcoming biopic, directed by Sarah Gavron, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Pankhurst was the...