* Fox sitcom Ben and Kate may be cancelled, but its stars are doing just fine. Nat Faxon, has his co-directing debut The Spectacular Now coming up later this year, and now Dakota Johnson has joined the video game adaptation Need for Speed. Already starring Aaron Paul, Imogen Poots, Michael Keaton, Dominic Cooper, Kid Cudi, and Rami Malek, the story follows a car enthusiast who is forced into a dangerous cross-country race to get revenge on the man who killed his friend and framed him for the crime. Act of Valor's Scott Waugh is directing. [Deadline]
* When Adam Shankman and Jason Bateman dropped out of an adaptation of Jonthan Tropper's This is Where I Leave You, it looked like the project was dead in the water. But Shawn Levy stepped in to fill the director's chair, and his arrival has apparently stirred Bateman's interest because he's now back on board. The story follows a family who are forced to sit Shiva for a week after the death of a patriarch, and all sorts of issues are brought to light. At one point the cast would have included Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Mann, Zac Efron, Malin Akerman, and Goldie Hawn, but now a new round of casting is taking place. Ari Graynor, Isla Fisher, Zoe Saldana, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Kathryn Hahn are being asked to read for a role, while Amy Adams is also in the mix. [THR]
* Fast-rising star Douglas Booth already has Romeo & Juliet with Hailee Steinfeld, and Darren Aronofsky's Noah coming up, and now he's signed on for the next film by the Wachowskis. He's joined Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne, and Sean Bean in Jupiter Ascending, the large-scale science fiction film about a poor Russian immigrant (Kunis) who has the same genetic make-up as the Queen of the Universe, making her a target for assassination. It's unclear what Booth's role is at this point. [Variety]
