Barry Pepper, whose most recent high-profile role was in Seven Pounds, is the newest cast member to the Coen Brothers’ upcoming True Grit remake. Pepper joins a cast including Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and Jeff Bridges to play the role of “Lucky” Ned Pepper, the notorious outlaw played by Robert Duvall in the 1969 original. Read the full story

Those of us expecting Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps on April 23 will have to wait. THR is reporting that Fox has bumped its release to September 24.

The long-anticipated sequel to Wall Street is a star-studded affair, featuring the likes of Shia LaBeouf, Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Josh Brolin, Susan Sarandon, Frank Langella, and Oscar darling and new favorite Carey Mulligan.

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With the major success of the first two Men in Black films it’s about time for Sony to try and get some more life out of the franchise. Josh Brolin is apparently on board and set to join series star Will Smith; although the presence of Tommy Lee Jones is not yet decided upon. Perhaps this is the reason that we’re now hearing casting rumors for the potential third picture, and why they’re also from actors of a comedic persuasion.

The two names being thrown around are that of Sacha Baron Cohen, best known for the films Borat and Bruno, and Jemaine Clement, one half of New Zealand’s formerly fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo, Flight of the Conchords. The character is said to be named “Yaz” and is possibly a new agent, although not much else is known at this time. The script was penned by Tropic Thunder co-writer Etan Coen (add an “H” into the first name and I would be more excited for this movie).

What do you think of this potential casting? Are you excited for Men in Black III?

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The Coen Brothers‘ True Grit is easily one of my most anticipated films of the year. Both No Country For Old Men and A Serious Man were my favorite films of that year, not to mention the rest of the modern masterpieces in their filmography. Their next stars Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and Jeff Bridges. The film will focus on a young girl and we knew the Coens wanted a unknown actress. It has now been confirmed by Deadline, after auditioning 15,000 girls that Hailee Steinfeld will be Mattie Ross. She is not a complete unknown, as you can see a few of her credits here. Read the full story

Asger Leth’s 2006 documentary on Haitian gangs, Ghosts of Cité Soleil, was a fascinating, gritty feature. Now, Production Weekly reports (via The Playlist) that he has his next project lined up with Josh Brolin. Waterbug is based on the 1993 Italian film La Scorta. While it was supposed to be a remake, it has now “developed into a different story centering a man on a mission to protect his son after his wife is brutally murdered in the gritty world of Mexican drug cartels.” Peter Craig, who wrote Ben Affleck’s upcoming drama, The Town, has written the script, which was originally supposed to star Sean Penn.

Josh Brolin has quite a packed year, with Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Jonah Hex, Woody Alllen’s You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. Shooting also starts very soon on the Coen’s True Grit, which comes out Christmas Day 2010.

Waterbug will start filming in Mexico this May.

What do you think about Waterbug?

A new international trailer for Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps starring Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Frank Langella, Carey Mulligan, Susan Sarandon, Vanessa Ferlito and Charlie Sheen has been released at Sun TV. You can view the new trailer here.

Plot: Emerging from a lengthy prison stint, Gordon Gekko finds himself on the outside of a world he once dominated. Looking to repair his damaged relationship with his daughter, Gekko forms an alliance with her fiancé Jacob (Shia LaBeouf), and Jacob begins to see him as a father figure. But Jacob learns the hard way that Gekko – still a master manipulator and player – is after something very different from redemption.

The new trailer gives much more of the plot of the film. We see more of LaBeouf’s relationship with Gekko’s daughter which the original trailer did not give us. This trailer does get me more excited for this film. I was a huge fan of the original film and I can’t wait to see what Stone has planned for the film.

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps hits theaters April 23rd.

What do you think of the new trailer?

We posted some new photos yesterday and now the trailer for Oliver Stone’s Wall Street sequel, Money Never Sleeps has crept up on IMDb. The film stars Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Frank Langella, Carey Mulligan, Susan Sarandon, Vanessa Ferlito and Charlie Sheen. Click the image below to check out the intense bass-filled, dialogue light trailer (as no embed is available yet). Read the full story

Paramount Pictures has released updates on two of their films via Variety. The first is for Joel and Ethan Coen’s True Grit remake. The film which stars Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and Jeff Bridges has received a Christmas Day release. On a much lesser note, Paramount’s new Footloose update was looking at a June 18th release, but has now been moved off the calendar. This delay can likely be attributed to director Kenny Ortega dropping out over “creative differences”. Read the full story

Jimmy Hayward, co-director of Horton Hears a Who!, is looking at 10 days of re-shoots for his upcoming live action debut, the summer action film Jonah Hex. Francis Lawrence, who directed I Am Legend, will be helping him during the process. Heat Vision Blog is reporting that stars Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox and Michael Fassbender will be a part of the 10 day reshoot in Los Angeles. “Although no test screenings have taken place, the studio has decided to work on story and action during the shoots, working in 12 pages of additional script mixed in with some re-shoots.” There are conflicting reports that those shoots will help a film that didn’t turn out so well or that that they are geared to add some weight to stand next to the other big-budget films of the summer.

Plot: In the Wild West, a scarred bounty hunter tracks a voodoo practitioner bent on liberating the South by raising an army of the undead.

Jonah Hex hits theaters June 18th, 2010.

Are you interested in the film? Do you think the reshoots are to help a film that is in distress or add to make it better?

Hero Complex (of LA Times Blog) is reporting that No Country For Old Men and Milk star Josh Brolin may be suiting up for the next Men In Black. His possible role in the film is rumored to be “a new single-monikered government agent, with Tommy Lee Jones’ Agent K passing the baton to Brolin’s character. Or he could play Agent K as a young man. Or something else entirely.” Will Smith will be returning and assuming the film does get a greenlit, shooting would begin next year. As we reported over a month ago Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder, Madagascar 2) has written the script. Brolin has quite a lot on his plate including the summer comic western Jonah Hex, the sequel to Oliver Stone’s Wall Street. Each of those films are wrapped but he has two more shooting next year including the Coen brothers‘ remake of True Grit and the mafia crime drama Cartel.

Do you want to see Brolin as a man in black?