* Hey look, I know some of you were dying to have the original Karate Kid turn up to teach Jaden Smith how to do the crane kick, but if it's ever gonna happen then people need to remember that Ralph Macchio still exists. His most significant feature film role in years is the perfect doorway to greater things, joining the unbelievable ensemble in Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. He'll play screenwriter Joe Stefano, who impressed the director with his script after Hitchcock nixed another writer's first draft. Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel, James D'Arcy, Michael Stuhlbarg, Toni Collette, and Danny Huston star, with Sacha Gervasi directing. Definitely as step up from Dancing with the Stars.
* Here comes James Van Der Beek! The Dawson's Creek star has had a rough go of it trying to make the transition to more adult roles, especially when you compare him to ex-castmate Michelle Williams. But he's slowly edging his way back into the spotlight, joining the cast of the ABC sitcom, Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23, and now he's got a role in the next film by Jason Reitman(Juno). Van Der Beek will join Josh Brolin and Kate Winslet in Labor Day, an adaptation of Joyce Maynard's novel about a mother and son who pick up a complete stranger on Labor Day weekend who turns out to be a wanted convict that teaches the boy some of life's greatest lessons. Tom Lipinski and Maika Monroe co-star.
