Leonardo DiCaprio & Cillian Murphy

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Ellen Page

Ken Watanabe

Marion Cotillard

Tom Hardy

The details are about as murky right now as those trippy, drugged-out, hallucinogenic visions in Ang Lee’s Hulk movie, but apparently Edward Norton will not be playing Bruce Banner/the Hulk in The Avengers movie after playing the character in The Incredible Hulk back in 2008, although he we would like to be.

Norton wants to reprise his Hulk character — especially in with Joss Whedon directing and Robert Downey Jr. starring as Tony Stark/Iron Man — but inside sources report that Marvel has pushed him out of the way. The likely culprit? Economic reasons. The company has decided that they are going to cast "an unknown" to play Bruce Banner and The Hulk in the film. Source

Unconfirmed reports have KickAss’ Aaron Johnson wearing the Cyclops visor in Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class.

More possible casting news from director Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class. Last week we reported that Alice Eve (She’s Out of My League, Sex and the City 2) had been cast as Emma Frost, and now it is reported that actor Aaron Johnson has been cast to play the future X-Men leader Scott Summers/Cyclops. Source

Last we heard, the "Bourne" franchise was headed in a new direction without frequent director Paul Greengrass. Leading man Matt Damon has long testified that he would reprise his role as super spy Jason Bourne, and he's echoed those comments in a new interview -- but he insists he'll only return if Greengrass comes back as well.

"Absolutely yes," Damon said when asked if he'd participate in another "Bourne" movie. "I love the character. I love the stories. But only if Paul Greengrass says he will direct again. So far, though, he's decided not to. I'd definitely say yes if he went for it. I know he would have a great story, and it would protect the legacy of what we created." Source

After a comprehensive worldwide casting search, Andrew Garfield has been chosen to portray Peter Parker when Spiderman swings back onto the screen in 3D on July 3, 2012. The new film will begin production in early December directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt.

Casting of Angelina Jolie instead of a black actress as Cleopatra fuels race debate. The news that Angelina Jolie has been hired to play Cleopatra in an upcoming biopic has some in the African-American community fuming that Jolie is "too white" to play the famous Egyptian pharaoh.

A commentary entitled Another White Actress to Play Cleopatra? insists: "Honestly, I don't care how full Angelina Jolie's lips are, how many African children she adopts, or how bronzed her skin will become for the film, I firmly believe this role should have gone to a black woman." Source

Amber Heard may end up stripping naked and covering herself in blue body paint for her next movie role of Mystique in X-Men: First Class.

Amber Heard

Since this is a prequel Heard would be playing a younger version of the shape-shifting character made famous by Rebecca Romijn in the other X-Men films. Physically at least, she seems a suitable replacement. Romijn’s take on the character required almost no dialogue, and the character spends a lot of time as other people (which means being played by other actors), so I’m not sure the part really requires anything beyond the ability to look good naked. Heard has that nailed. Source

Rebecca Romijn

But she won’t… The role will be played instead by Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence with the Marcello Mastroianni Prize for best emerging actor or actress, for her role in Burning Plain

Sofia Vergara has been cast in the big screen adaptation of the Smurfs Movie, the upcoming live-action/CGI-animated fantasy-family film directed by Raja Gosnell.
Vergara will play a live-action character named Odile, a powerful executive at a high-end French cosmetics company who is married to the main live-action character played by the womanizer of How I Met Your Mother, Neil Patrick Harris. Source

Sofia Vergara

Other cast members include:

• Anton Yelchin as Clumsy Smurf
• Katy Perry as Smurfette
• Hank Azaria as Gargamel
• & George Lopez as Grouchy Smurf

The Smurfs in New York

Watch the trailer: