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Cillian Murphy (28 Days Later, right) will be one of the Caped Crusader's villains in the new Batman film. Katie Holmes is also being courted to to play the female lead, subject to a screen test with star Christian Bale and director Christopher Nolan.

BE COOL

Uma Thurman is re-teaming with her Pulp Fiction co-star John Travolta in the sequel to Get Shorty, and now Vince Vaughn (Swingers) is also in talks to join the cast.

Thurman will play the female lead, Edie - a widower who takes over her late husband's record label. That puts her in business with Travolta's Palmer, the loanshark-turned-movie producer who has entered the music business in search of another film idea.

Danny DeVito reprises his role as actor Martin Weir and WWE wrestler The Rock will play a bodyguard with acting aspirations.

Peter Steinfeld wrote the script which starts shooting in February.

GLADIATOR II

'E! Online' received word on the possible storyline for the sequel to Gladiator 2. Apparently the movie will be set 20 years later and focus on the life of Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) and her son, Commodus' nephew Lucius.

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BOND

'The Toronto Star' published an interview with Ewan McGregor (right) in which he addresses rumours that he may be the next James Bond, saying: "There has been talk of it, but not with the people that matter. I believe Pierce is either doing his last (Bond film) or he's doing one more."
"It's interesting. It's a fun thing to talk about when it's not really even on the cards. In the same respects, I'm not sure what would happen if it cropped up. You'd have to really think about it. I think you'd have to really think about it in the same way that I did with the Star Wars films. I really thought about it and spoke to people I knew and in the end I just wanted to do it more and more, the closer it got.

"I think it would be the same with Bond. It might take a bigger man to turn it down."

HARRY POTTER & THE GOBLET OF FIRE

Director Mike Newell, who is set to direct the fourth Harry movie, told 'Sci Fi Wire' that he has spoken with Prisoner Of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuar�n to make sure his film picks up where Cuar�n's finishes.

Production of Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fire begins in late April or early May next year, with Daniel Radcliffe (Harry), Rupert Grint (Ron) and Emma Watson (Hermione) reprising their roles.

"They're all actually the age they are in the story", Newell said, adding "What Alfonso has done very remarkably is he's developed the films from a sunny vision of childhood into something that is much darker and blacker. And he's done that without taking away any of the romance of the thing. But he has transformed it into adolescence, and I must go on from what he's done. [I] can't go back."

KING KONG

The 'Sunday Star-Times' has posted more interesting rumours on the possible King Kong cast. Naomi Watts is in talks to play Ann Darrow, the female lead played by Fay Wray in the 1933 original and director Peter Jackson may also utilize his Lord Of The Rings actors Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis (as the CGI Kong).

But Jackson is also considering either George Clooney or Robert De Niro for the male lead of Carl Denham, the adventurer who captures the giant ape and brings him back to New York.

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X-MEN 3

Director Bryan Singer (right) has signed a deal with '20th Century Fox' to develop projects he'll direct and produce. Singer has begun negotiations to return for a third instalment of the X-Men franchise as part of this deal.

'Fox' production president Hutch Parker told 'Variety' that X-Men 3 is in the early stages of being prepped, saying: "We are always wary of sequels because so often they are an invitation to mediocrity, because not enough attention is paid to the skills that allowed the first film to succeed."

"We had such a fantastic experience with Bryan on X - he was a great partner who navigated the process, which included the magnitude of the budget, the number of visual effects, and our desire to build on the first film and make a better and more satisfying movie. The deal is an outgrowth of the strong relationship we built on those two films."

The two-year deal is the first studio pact for Singer, who named his production company Bad Hat Harry, a line from his favourite movie Jaws. Singer will have an office on the lot and will bring with him development director Alex Garcia and add to his existing staff as he accumulates projects.

Singer: "I've been stockpiling a number of different projects in movies, TV and videogames, and it's great to have a base of operation and a place to put writers to work."

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN II

According to the 'USA Today' production is set to begin on Pirates Of The Caribbean 2 in January 2005. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Gore Verbinski, writers Terry Rossio and Ted Elliott, and actors Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley are all set to return.

All figures are weekend box-office gross.

1. The Last Samurai ($24.2m)
2. Honey ($12.8m)
3. The Haunted Mansion ($9.3m)
4. Elf ($8.0m)
5. The Cat in the Hat ($7.1m)
6. Bad Santa ($7.0m)
7. Gothika ($5.2m)
8. The Missing ($4.0m)
9. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ($3.7m)

10. Love Actually ($3.5m)

UK TOP 10 (CINEMA)

1. Love Actually (�3.20m)
2. Elf (�2.31m)
3. SWAT (�1.96m)
4. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (�1.10m)
5. Brother Bear (�0.88m)
6. The Matrix Revolutions (�0.28m)
7. Timeline (�0.27m)
8. Kal Ho Naa Ho (�0.27m)
9. Finding Nemo (�0.18m)