Well, here’s an unexpected pairing for you. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cameron Diaz and Benicio del Toro are teaming up for an action comedy called Agent: Century 21. Danish director Adam Hashemi will be making his feature directorial debut here, and Iron Man 3 writer/director Shane Black is producing. Hit the jump for more story details.

This will be yet another film in which Cameron Diaz plays a frazzled, out-of-her-element woman, as this one “tells the story of Mary Kay Curly (Diaz), a recent divorcee who cannot catch a break. Desperate to protect her real estate job and her kids, she agrees to take on an unpleasant task for her boss that gets her kidnapped and tossed into the center of a Mexican drug war.” Del Toro will play the cartel boss who gives her a second chance at life by assigning her a ludicrous mission to avenge his son’s death.

Sounds very clearly like everyone involved is trying to capitalize off Diaz’s recent performance in Knight and Day, but they’re missing the most fun element of that film: Tom Cruise. While Diaz was OK in her role, it was really Cruise that stood out as the memorable part of that equation. We’ll see how she stacks up against another heavy hitter in Benicio del Toro. Agent: Century 21 is the first of (probably) many projects we’ll write about here that are being shopped around at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, so we’ll try to keep you posted as they get picked up and acquire official release dates in the future.

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Despite J.J Abrams declaring that he’d “love” Benicio Del Toro to star as the villain in the Star Trek sequel, it won’t be happening. According to Vulture Paramount and the actor “couldn’t come to terms over monetary issues” so Abrams and the team are now searching for another actor to take on the role before filming begins next month.

The villain in the sequel has not yet been confirmed, however late last week Latino Review ran a story which seemed to confirm the villain would be Khan, the genetically engineered superhuman who Ricardo Montalban famously played in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. HitFix emailed Abrams to get confirmation and the director simply replied “not true”, however Vulture “hears from a highly placed source that Khan is indeed the film’s baddie”, so it looks like Abrams was trying to prevent word getting out while negotiations with Benicio Del Toro were still ongoing.

Though Del Toro won’t be appearing, former Robocop actor Peter Weller will be. Variety said his role is currently under-wraps, but it is believed to be a villain (possibly aligned with Khan). Weller’s casting comes after Alice Eve joined the cast last week as a potential love interest to Captain Kirk.

Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin and John Cho are all returning and the sequel will be released by Paramount on May 17th, 2013.

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Earlier this month we heard that J.J. Abrams was talking with Benicio Del Toro about possibly starring as the villain in his Star Trek sequel. Details on which villain Del Toro would play haven’t been revealed, but in a recent interview Abrams said he’d “love it to be him”.

From MTV:

“Well, we’re just in negotiations, we’re in discussions. It’s not even negotiations — just in discussion. But I would love to work with him. I’ve wanted to work with him for years, and this felt like a good opportunity.”

“It’s too early to talk about what the role is, but he’s such an amazing actor. He’s so versatile. He could sort of do anything. Except play Uhura, I wouldn’t buy that.”

“As soon as we know who it’s going to be—and I’d love it to be him—that’ll be public knowledge,”

Other than the 17th century drama Silence, which may or may not be Martin Scorsese’s next film, Benicio Del Toro isn’t attached to any other projects so scheduling-wise it could work out. Filming is set to begin in January so casting confirmations will likely announced over the upcoming weeks.

Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin and John Cho are all expected to return. No release date has been set for the sequel, but it will probably hit sometime in 2013.

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We know there isn’t much casting required for the Star Trek sequel as most of the main roles were cast in the first film, but a new villain is required and if director/producer J.J Abrams has his way the role may go to Benicio Del Toro.

According to Variety “no offer has been delivered” but “sources close to the project say Benicio Del Toro is expected to be offered the part soon, maybe by weekend’s end. Insiders say Del Toro has met with Abrams but doesn’t know what the role is, in order to keep it a secret.”

Without knowing which villain he’s up for it’s hard to say how suited Del Toro is, but J.J Abrams usually has a good eye for casting so we can probably trust his judgement. Can anyone take a guess as to which villain he could play?

Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin and John Cho are all expected to return, and filming is expected to start in early 2012.

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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps director Oliver Stone has got together an impressive cast for his next movie, Savages, which is based on the Don Winslow novel and follows a pair of marijuana growers who come up against a Mexican drug cartel when their girlfriend becomes kidnapped and held for ransom.

Aaron Johnson (Kick-Ass) and Taylor Kitsch (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) will play the growers, with Blake Lively (The Town) set to play their kidnapped lady friend. Deadline also has word that Stone is arranging a Pulp Fiction reunion with John Travolta and Uma Thurman joining the film. Thurman will play Lively’s mother, Paqu, and Travolta will play a burned out Drug Enforcement agent.

Also among the cast are Salma Hayek, who’ll play the role of Mexican cartel queen-pin Elena; and Benicio Del Toro, who plays the vicious cartel enforcer Lado. Emile Hirsch (Into The Wild) has also joined the film according to Variety, although his role has not been revealed. Other parts are yet to be cast, so we can probably expect more names to join the project before it’s planned July shoot.

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The movie that has taken literally years to get here has finally reached that stage in the marketing process where TV spots are released. We have three of them embedded below:

The Wolfman will be released on February 12th and stars Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Hugo Weaving.

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Good news for horror fans. According to /Film the MPAA have reviewed The Wolfman and have given it an R rating, deeming it unsuitable for anyone under the age of 17 as it contains “bloody horror, violence and gore.” This is a good move by Universal as there were fears they would dilute it to a PG-13. It’s also a brave move as they could potentially make less money because of this rating.

We’ll let them worry about the money and we can just focus on seeing, what could be, one of the best horror movies in 2010. Lets hope so anyway, as director Joe Johnston will soon be working on Captain America and we don’t want that movie to detail The Avengers.

The Wolfman stars Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Hugo Weaving, and will be released next February.

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Universal has released a new featurette which gives us a better understanding of the story behind The Wolfman. It begins by showing clips of The Mummy, Dracula, Frankenstein and other classic monster movies from the black and white era, and then Benico del Toro talks us though the story for this modern take on the “iconic” Wolfman, which will introduce the beast to “a new generation”.

We also see Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt discussing the film, along with some new footage.

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Two new posters for The Wolfman have appeared online. One features Emily Blunt tree bound and popped up over at Cinematical. The other shows us the face of the furry one and comes courtesy of AICN.

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Today Apple debuted a new trailer for Universal’s remake of The Wolfman. This trailer is quite different to the first one we got as it’s just a montage of scenes, whereas the teaser was your typical trailer which set up the story and characters. As we are moving closer to it’s February release date the visuals are nearing completion and some scenes look bad ass. Watch below!

The Wolfman stars Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Hugo Weaving, and is directed by Jurassic Park 3 director Joe Johnston.

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