IRON MAN 3 (Cast News)

• IRON MAN 3

Ashley Hamilton will be firepower

Ashley Hamilton is, according to Variety, up for a small villain role as the Marvel Comics character Firepower in Shane Black's Iron Man 3. Meanwhile, Jon Favreau has tweeted that, while he won't be back in the director's chair this time around, Happy Hogan will again be seen in front of the camera.

A relative unknown, Hamilton regularly appeared on the television series "Sunset Beach" and played a villainous role in 1993's Beethoven's 2nd.

Though he's been seen in various alternate iterations over the years, Firepower first appeared in "Iron Man" #230 in 1988, and is an experimental suit piloted by Jack Taggert. The character recently appeared in issue #513, enlisted by the Mandarin and Zeke Stane (the son of Obadiah Stane, played by Jeff Bridges in the first film) to destroy Tony Stark.

The third installment starts filming this month in North Carolina and stars Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Rebecca Hall and James Badge Dale. Black will direct from a script he co-wrote with Drew Pearce.

Jon Favreau is Back!!

Iron Man 3 will hit theaters on May 3, 2013.

THOR 2 (Cast News)

• THOR 2

Mads Mikkelsen looks like he may be taking a trip to the Marvel Universe, where he might be torturing The Thunder god’s gentiles like he has done to 007. Variety reports that the Casino Royale star is in talks to play a still-unspecified villain in Thor 2.

Mads Mikkelsen

The film will mark the third big screen appearance of Chris Hemsworth's Thor and Tom Hiddleston's Loki following 2011's Thor and this year's Marvel's The Avengers. Natalie Portman, Jaimie Alexander and Idris Elba have been confirmed to be returning for the Alan Taylor-directed sequel as well, though even more of the first film's cast likely to be back as well.

Mikkelsen is no stranger to Norse legend nor to tales of gods and men, having appeared in Nicolas Winding Refn's Valhalla Rising and the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans.

Featuring a screenplay by Robert Rodat and Don Payne, Thor 2 is scheduled to be released on November 15, 2013.

MACHETE KILLS (Cast News)

• MACHETE KILLS

Zoe Saldana is the latest name to join the cast of Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills. Leading man Danny Trejo let the information slip in a recent interview with Moviehole.

Zoe Saldana

"[It's] is going to be a lot more over-the-top than 'Machete'," said Trejo. "We’ve got Sofia Vergara, who is a star in her own right, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez and Zoe Saldana. And guess what? I get to kiss all of ‘em.”

The film is also said to include roles for Mel Gibson and Amber Heard in a storyline that sees ex-federale Machete (Trejo) recruited by the U.S. government to stop an arms dealer (Gibson) from launching a deadly missile.

Saldana recently finished production on the still-untitled Star Trek sequel and is now shooting Out of the Furnace.

Machete Kills begins production soon in Austin, Texas.

VALET GUYS (Cast News)

• VALET GUYS

Kevin Hart

Sony Pictures is eyeing Think Like a Man star Kevin Hart to join Kevin James in the upcoming comedy Valet Guys. Deadline has the news, saying that the project is likely to film later this year in Miami.

Written by James himself with Nick Bakay, Valet Guys was originally reported as a potential starring project for James and his Grown Ups costar Adam Sandler. Instead, both will now appear in the currently-shooting Grown Ups 2.

Kevin James

Valet Guys would star Hart and James as veteran valet parking attendants at a South Beach hotel who witness a murder and find themselves running for their lives.

This just sounds like it could be something quite hilarious, can never get enough of Kevin Hart!

RED 2 (Cast News)

• RED 2

The Hollywood Reporter, is reporting, that Sir Anthony Hopkins is negotiating to join the cast of Summit Entertainment's upcoming RED 2.

Anthony Hopkins as Odin in Thor could be seeing Red

Set to hit theaters on August 2, 2013, RED 2 features the return of Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker and Helen Mirren with new roles for Catherine Zeta-Jones and Byung-Hun Lee.

The sequel is being directed by Dean Parisot with a screenplay from Erich and Jon Hoeber, who wrote the script for the original RED, based in turn on a comic book by Warren Ellis and Cully Hammer.

The film brings back the team of retired CIA operatives as they use their old-school style to take on a new set of enemies all across Europe.

Hopkins, who is currently shooting Hitchcock, would take on the role of a scientist committed to an insane asylum. However, it does depend on how large his role is in Thor 2, and if he will be able to squeeze it in.

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Images)

• THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN

Peter Parker/ Spider-Man and Gwen Stacy

Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-man” released new stills from the July 3rd release that showcase Emma Stone's Gwen Stacy.

Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy

Directed by Marc Webb, the action adventure also stars Andrew Garfield, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, Martin Sheen and Sally Field.

Dano, and Jeff Daniels.  Ram Bergman and James D. Stern produce.