1.) Katee Sackhoff (“Battlestar Galactica”) is the latest to join the as-yet-untitled female Expendables film. She joins the previously cast Gina Carano (Haywire). Who else will join this thing? Who are the other prominent female action stars? Kate Beckinsale comes to mind. I wonder if they’ll go with actresses such as Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez or Summer Glau. It would be pretty cool to see Pam Grier and Michelle Yeoh play a part and I’m sure they’re looking at Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hamilton. [Variety]
2.) Sienna Miller has joined the cast of Bennett Miller‘s Foxcatcher and will star alongside Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum. The film is based on the true story of John du Pont (Carell), the paranoid schizophrenic heir to the du Pont chemical fortune who built a wrestling training facility called Team Foxcatcher on his Pennsylvania estate. David Schultz (Ruffalo) was a longtime friend of du Pont who had repeatedly tried to help him before du Pont shot and killed him in 1996. [Deadline]
3.) A new batch of pics from the set of The Wolverine have arrived featuring Hugh Jackman and Rila Fukushima (pictured right). Click the link for the full set. [Kinopoisk via CS]
4.) Nate Parker, who turns in a great performance in the out-now thriller Arbitrage, has joined the cast of Jaume Collet-Serra‘s airplane thriller Non-Stop in which Collet-Serra reteams with his Unknown star and current box-office topper, Liam Neeson, who will play a federal air marshal who matches wits with an embittered American terrorist threatening to kill a fellow passenger every 20 minutes unless the protag kills himself. Parker will co-star as a passenger who helps Neeson solve the mystery. [Variety]
5.) Finally, the Weinstein Co. spent $2 million earlier this year picking up Code Name: Geronimo, a film, like Kathryn Bigelow‘s Zero Dark Thirty, focusing on the mission to capture Osama Bin Laden. However, unlike Zero Dark Thirty it was made on a small budget, directed by John Stockwell (Turistas), stars Cam Gigandet, Freddy RodrÃguez, Xzibit, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Robert Knepper and William Fichtner and instead of a theatrical release will be shown on the National Geographic Channel on November 4, two days before the election. Oh, and it will go by the name Seal Team Six. To watch the trailer it’s quite obvious why they are skipping a theatrical release and I just hope Bigelow’s film doesn’t take a hit as a result once it arrives on December 19.
