* Eva Green has been cast in
Dark Shadows
, Tim Burton's adaptation of the quirky 1960's gothic series. Johnny Depp has long been attached as Barnaby Collins, and Green will be the witch who transforms him into a vampire. I haven't been able to get worked up over this for some reason, which is why I've barely written about it. I'm bored of Burton and Depp, and never paid any attention to Dark Shadows.
* Jason Segel(
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
) is set to play an undercover cop in...well,
Undercover Cop, based on the true story of a "former cop that infilitrated the New Jersey criminal scene". Set in the 1980s, the film is produced by Steve Zaillian(
American Gangster
), but it's described as a comedy so I'm expecting something along the lines of
Beverly Hills Cop
.
* Talk about weird, and a hell of a departure from
The Town 
and
Gone Baby Gone
. Ben Affleck's next flick is shaping up to be
Argo, based on the "true" story of a CIA operation to set up a fake movie production as a means of rescuing Americans during the Iran Hostage Crisis". If it sounds like some far out
The Men Who Stare at Goats 
stuff, that could be because it's being produced by the same folks from that film, George Clooney and Grant Heslov.