The first trailer for action-comedy Knight and Day starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz has been released online. When I heard about the film I wasn’t sure how Cruise and Diaz would work together on-screen, but from the trailer it looks like they’ve got some good comedic chemistry.

In the film the fugitive couple are lead on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately hinging on the battle of truth vs. trust.

Knight and Day (still not a fan of the title) is directed by James Mangold, director of Walk the Line and 3:10 to Yuma, and will be released next July.

The first trailer for the fourth outing of Shrek, Shrek Forever After, has been released online. We heard last month that this would be the last Shrek film, and DreamWorks are using that as a marketing ploy. “It’s the last film everyone, come and see it!”

Watch below:

After challenging an evil dragon, rescuing a beautiful princess and saving your in-laws’ kingdom, what’s an ogre to do? Well, if you’re Shrek, you suddenly wind up a domesticated family man. Instead of scaring villagers away like he used to, a reluctant Shrek now agrees to autograph pitch forks. What’s happened to this ogre’s roar? Longing for the days when he felt like a “real ogre,” Shrek is duped into signing a pact with the smooth-talking dealmaker, Rumplestiltskin. Shrek suddenly finds himself in a in a twisted, alternate version of Far Far Away, where ogres are hunted, Rumplestiltskin is king and Shrek and Fiona have never met. Now, it’s up to Shrek to undo all he’s done in the hopes of saving his friends, restoring his world and reclaiming his one True Love.

USA Today got the first official image from Shrek Forever After, which they say will be the last outing for Shrek and the gang. It had to end at some point, and I got the feeling they were running low on creative steam during Shrek the Third. However, they plan to finish on a high:

“All that was loved about Shrek in the first film is brought to the final film,” promises Bill Damaschke, head of creative production at DreamWorks. Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz are back as the voices of Shrek, sidekick Donkey and ogress wife Fiona.

After rescuing a princess, getting hitched and fathering triplets, Shrek is feeling over-domesticated. “He has lost his roar,” says director Mike Mitchell. “It used to send villagers running away in terror. Now they run to him and ask him to sign their pitchforks and torches.”

To regain his ogre mojo, he strikes a deal with Rumpelstiltskin, the wee troublemaker who popped up briefly in Shrek 2 and 3. Of course, the pact goes awry and Shrek must confront what life would be like in Far Far Away if he had never existed. That translates into Donkey being forced into cart-pulling duty, fat and lazy Puss in Boots trading his sword for a pink bow and the underhanded Rumpelstiltskin ruling the kingdom.

Shrek Forever After will be released next May in the US (July in the UK) and we will be getting the first trailer with James Cameron’s Avatar next month.

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In the film a suburban couple receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger, delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. But, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world; someone they don’t know.

Here’s the trailer:

The Box is directed by Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) and will be released on November 6th in the US and December 4th in the UK.

Last month it was reported that Cameron Diaz was in talks to join Seth Rogen in The Green Hornet as his love interest. We haven’t heard anything since, but now Cameron has confirmed that she’s “in” to SplashPage:

Diaz has officially signed on to play Lenore “Casey” Case, historically Britt Reid’s beautiful secretary and one of the few people aware of the fact that Reid (who will be played by Seth Rogen), spends his off-hours fighting crime as the Hornet. In the soon-to-shoot film, however, Casey will be reimagined as a forensics-TV-show loving amateur sleuth who remains in the dark about Green Hornet’s true identity—and is smarting from a recent divorce.

Diaz also told us that she recently met the new Kato, and that they’re hard at work in pre-production for the Summer 2010 flick. “Seth and Michel are awesome, and Jay Chou too,” she said. “We’re having a really great time.”

Diaz has been hard at work reviewing the past incarnations of Casey, but explained that it will ultimately be a modern, very different take on the character. “I think she’ll have her own little [differences],” explained the “Charlie’s Angels” series star. “I’m going with Michel, because this is Michel’s movie and Seth’s movie. So, I’m playing the character that they wrote for us.”

We also heard last month that Nicolas Cage was in talks to play the villain. Now that the casting seems to be getting finalized we could hear confirmation on that soon.

According to Variety Nicolas Cage is in talks to play the gangster villain in The Green Hornet. When I first read the news I misread it as the Green Lantern and mouthed the words ‘oh dear God’, however when my eyes stopped confusing me and I realised it was just the comedy movie of a superhero not many people care about, I warmed to the idea. Variety also confirm the news that Cameron Diaz is in talks to join the cast. She will play a reporter and love interest to Seth Rogen’s Hornet.

The picture is moving full steam ahead for a fall start date, even as the studio looks to replace Stephen Chow, who was going to play sidekick Kato. Rogen and Evan Goldberg wrote the script and Neal Moritz is producing through his Original Films banner.

Cameron Diaz has been taking on roles that we wouldn’t usually expect to see her in (ie. non-Shrek and non-rom-com). She recently starred in My Sister’s Keeper, a tear jerking drama about a leukemia-stricken girl, and will next be seen in The Box, a horror movie about…a box. But even though she is taking on roles that are out of her comfort zone, I wouldn’t expect to see her in any superhero/comic books movies. She wouldn’t really fit in the serious Marvel and DC movies, however I could see her in a superhero movie if it were more comedy-based.

From EW:

Cameron Diaz is considering an offer to play the female lead in Green Hornet, opposite Seth Rogen. A deal hasn’t been sealed yet, but sources tell EW that she is in early talks for the role. Her reps at CAA declined comment. Michel Gondry is set to direct the film based on a script by Rogen and his writing partner Evan Goldberg. Shooting is supposed to begin shortly, with a release date already set for July 9, 2010.

I don’t really know much about The Green Hornet or it’s back story so I’m not sure if the Diaz casting would be good for the film or not. Although, I do know Diaz is a good comedy actress so she will suit the film in that respect.

Cameron Diaz and Cyclops from X-Men (James Marsden) are in a movie together. The film is set in 1976 and revolves around an unhappily married couple (Diaz and Marsden) who receive a box from a mysterious stranger (Frank Langella), who tells them that pushing a button on the box will award them with a large monetary sum, and simultaneously, someone the couple does not know, will die. While the plot doesn’t sound that great, it looks quite interesting. Watch the trailer below!

The Box is directed by Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) and will be released in October.

The first Charlie’s Angels movie was a fun ride, however Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, while still fun, was rather stupid. They had Demi Moore flying around, annoying pre-Transformers Shia LaBeouf and too many silly CGI scenes that made things laughable. However, despite the weaker second film the Charlie’s Angels franchise made $523 million worldwide, which shows that people liked it and could possibly want more.

Recently Drew Barrymore told E! Online that she’s ready to play Dylan Sanders again in a third installment of the franchise:

“I’m so into it,” Barrymore said while promoting her new star-filled romantic comedy, He’s Just Not That Into You. “I’m so into it—Charlie’s Angels III!”

“It’s percolating up,” said Nancy Juvonen, Barrymore’s Flower Films producing partner. “It’s rising to the surface.”

Barrymore added, “They’re hard movies to make, but they’re fun.”

Ideas are being kicked around, including the possible introduction of a fourth Angel.

Let’s not forget about a villain. Sam Rockwell and Crispin Glover were among the baddies the first time around. Demi Moore appeared in Full Throttle as Madison Lee, a former Angel turned vamped-up villainess. For the next flick, they say they’ll probably go with another guy.

If memory serves me right Drew Barrymoore owns the rights to Charlie’s Angels and made quite a lot of $$$ from the films, so a third one will be another big payday for her.

There are 25 people (or, groups of people, depending on how you look at it!) set to receive their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next year.  Each year, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce’s Walk of Fame Committee chose the recipients, who are then ratified by the board of directors.

The new recipients are:

Hugh Jackman, Ben Kingsley, The Village People and Tinkerbell, along with Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy, Cameron Diaz, Robert Downey Jr., Tim Burton, Leslie Caron, Charles Durning, Ralph Fiennes, William Petersen, Kyra Sedgwick, John Stamos, Mark Burnett, Chuck Lorre, Kenny “Baby Face” Edmonds, Dave Koz, The Miracles, Doug Morris, Rush, Shakira, KFI radio personality Bill Handel and KCRW host Harry Shearer, who also provides voices for characters on “The Simpsons.”

Congrats to everyone!