- Whitney Houston (The Bodyguard, Waiting to Exhale) has died at age 48. Her last movie, Sparkle, is set to open Auguat 10 and co-stars Jordin Sparks, Derek Luke, Mike Epps and Cee-Lo Green.- Steve Carell and Channing Tatum will star in Foxcatcher, based on the story of John du Pont, a paranoid schizophrenic who killed Olympis wrestler David Schultz. Bennett Miller (Moneyball) will direct.
- At last, Harry Potter and Dexter unite! Daniel Radcliffe and Michael C. Hall will star in Kill Your Darlings. Hall will play a murder victim who inspires the Beat Revolution of 1944. Radcliffe will play Allen Ginsberg, Ben Foster (Contraband) will play William Burroughs, and Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire) will play Jack Kerouac. Elizabeth Olsen, Kyra Sedgwick, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Dane Dehaan co-star.
- At one point there were three dueling Snow White movies. Two of them open this year (Mirror Mirror with Julia Roberts and Snow White & the Huntsman with Kristen Stewart) but the third was to take place in 19th-century China and star Natalie Portman. Now it appears Saoirse Ronan (Hanna) will star in what's now titled The Order of the Seven, about seven Shaolin monks who become outlaws, but they come to the rescue of a British expatriate fleeing an evil woman.
- The plug's been pulled on Alex Proyas's Paradise Lost, based on the John Milton classic. Legendary Pictures decided they couldn't keep the budget under control. It was to star Bradley Cooper and Casey Affleck.
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