OBLIVION (Trailer)

• OBLIVION

Universal Pictures has debuted a new trailer for director Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion and you can watch it in the player below.

Hitting IMAX theaters on April 12 and conventional theaters on April 19, the film stars Tom Cruise, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Melissa Leo.

In Oblivion, on a spectacular future Earth that has evolved beyond recognition, one man's confrontation with the past will lead him on a journey of redemption and discovery as he battles to save mankind.

Jack Harper (Cruise) is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack's mission is nearly complete.

Living in and patrolling the breathtaking skies from thousands of feet above, his soaring existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (Cast News)

• RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

Gary Oldman

It looks like things are starting to move forward on Matt Reeves' upcoming Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. In addition to the returning Andy Serkis, recent reports name Jason Clarke and Kodi Smit-McPhee as two of the sequel's principal cast.

ComingSoon.net now reports that Gary Oldman will be boarding the project as the leader of a human colony.

Set 15 years after the events of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Dawn finds most of humanity wiped out and the intelligent apes ruling over the world. Part of the film's focus is said to be on a small group of San Francisco-based scientists that are forming a resistance against the apes and part follows Serkis' Caesar as he, like his namesake, tries to maintain order and power within his new civilization.

Oldman recently starred in John Hillcoat's Lawless and reprised his role as Commissioner Gordon in The Dark Knight Rises. He can be seen later this year in Robert Luketic's Paranoia and early next year in Jose Padilha's RoboCop.

Featuring a screenplay by Mark Bomback, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes starts filming this spring for a May 23, 2014 release. Peter Chernin, Dylan Clarke, Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa are producing.

TRANSCENDENCE (Cast News)

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Paul Bettany is in negotiations to star opposite Johnny Depp in Oscar-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister’s directorial debut, Transcendence.

Paul Bettany

Annie Marter and Straight Up Films, whose company principals include Marisa Polvino, Kate Cohen and Regency Boies, developed the screenplay, written by Jack Paglen. Polvino, Marter and Cohen will produce along with David Valdes (Book of Eli), Johnson and Kosove. Boies will co-produce. Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas and Aaron Ryder are serving as executive producers.

Bettany notably starred in A Beautiful Mind, which earned him a SAG nomination, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, for which he received a BAFTA nomination, and The Da Vinci Code, among many others.

Pfister most recently served as cinematographer on The Dark Knight Rises, and on last year’s best picture nominee, Moneyball. Other credits include such films as The Italian Job and Laurel Canyon.

Principal photography on Transcendence is set to begin in April in Los Angeles. Warner Bros. will release in mid 2014 via its output deal with Alcon.

ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND CONTINUES (Cast News)

Meagan Good

• ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND CONTINUES

Dylan Baker and Meagan Good are the latest names to join the cast of Adam McKay's Anchorman: The Legend Continues, Deadline reports. They join the returning Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Steve Carell, David Koechner and Paul Rudd as well as fellow newcomers Kristen Wiig and James Marsden.

Good, who was on the big screen in last year's Think Like a Man, is currently headlining the NBC crime drama "Deception." Baker, meanwhile, is best known for his recurring role as Dr. Curt Connors in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy. He recently starred in the television miniseries "Political Animals."

A sequel to 2004's Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Anchorman: The Legend Continues is about to begin production in Atlanta, Georgia. It is expected to hit theaters December 20th of this year.

THE MUPPETS… AGAIN (Update)

• THE MUPPETS… AGAIN

With his 21 and Over hitting theaters tomorrow, producer David Hoberman spoke with CraveOnline (via Comingsoon.net) the currently-shooting The Muppets... Again!.

"I think there are so many surprises and different, fun stories going on in this one," Hoberman says. "...We go to a lot of different places. We just happen to end up in London. That’s where the caper culminates.”

Although he won't write out seeing Jason Segel reprise his role as Gary in a future Muppet movie, Hoberman says there won't be a cameo this time around. The Moopets, however, who made their first appearance in 2011's The Muppets, will be back with Miss Poogy making an appearance. Also returning is Oscar-winning songwriter Bret McKenzie.

“Bret wrote all these songs for this new movie and they are so different and cover such a wide range of genres," Hoberman continues. "I think we’ve got a couple of spectacular musical numbers in this one and I think it runs the gamut of ballad and comedy songs. Probably one homage to contemporary rock. I think we have five songs in this and they’re all original, so I’m hopeful. Music is so ingrained in the Muppet culture and history, and it’s part of the fun of doing it, frankly.”

Set for release on March 21, 2014, the Walt Disney Pictures film takes the entire Muppets gang on a global tour, selling out grand theaters in some of Europe's most exciting destinations, including Berlin, Madrid and London. But mayhem follows the Muppets overseas, as they find themselves unwittingly entangled in an international crime caper headed by Constantine—the World's Number One Criminal and a dead ringer for Kermit—and his dastardly sidekick Dominic, aka Number Two (Ricky Gervais). The film stars Tina Fey as Nadya, a feisty prison guard, and Ty Burrell as Interpol agent Jean Pierre Napoleon.