I guess this is really the first Movie News Cheat Sheet of the year. Sure, we ran one on January 1st, but considering that edition was packed with the top stories of 2011, this is your first taste of the best of the best in movie news for 2012. There’s a couple big casting updates to report from Joel Edgerton signing on to lead Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama bin Laden feature to Spike Lee losing another villain option for his remake of Oldboy. Then, of course, awards season nominations continue to come in and this time around, it’s the Writers Guild and Producers Guild pinpointing the finest films of last year….

Juno Temple, Wes Bentley and Sharon Stone have joined the cast of the upcoming biopic ‘Lovelace,’ Collider is reporting. They join already cast main star Amanda Seyfried, who’s set to portray Linda Boreman, more widely known by her stage name Linda Lovelace. ‘Lovelace’ will follow Linda as she films ‘Deep Throat,’ chronicle her abusive relationship with Chuck Traynor, played by Peter Sarsaard, and her eventual leading of the feminist anti-pornography movement. Temple, Bentley and Stone will play Linda’s best friend, second husband and mother, respectively. The screenplay was written by Andy Bellin, who adapted the story from Eric Danville’s biography ‘The Complete Linda Lovelace.’ In the book, Danville quoted Lovelace,…

Happy Sunday Shockya readers and happy Mother’s Day to all of the loving mothers out there. We’re back with a brand new installment of your weekly Movie News Cheat Sheet and we’ve got some big items to report. Not only is Paul W.S. Anderson putting together a historic disaster film, but the cast of Piranha 3DD is getting bigger and bigger and prettier and prettier. We’ve also got a handful of brand new trailers to show you, one of which proves Zoe Salanda still kicks butt even off Pandora and another that suggests Conan might just be more of the same. Meanwhile Thor is tearing up the box office and…

Who can say no to a film starring Rodrigo Santoro? Not only is he a fine actor, but not half bad to look at for two hours either. In his latest production, There Be Dragons, Santoro combines his experience playing the dashing love interest in like Love Actually with his understanding of working with factual material in Che as well as his know-how in action-packed realms like 300. Santoro plays Oriol, a leader of the revolution during the Spanish Civil War. While at a rally, Oriol catches sight of a Hungarian radical, Ildiko (Olga Kurylenko). However, Oriol isn’t the only one to fall for this gun-toting fighter; so does another…

Title: There Be Dragons Directed By: Roland Joffé Starring: Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Olga Kurylenko, Dougary Scott, Golshifteh Farahani, Rodrigo Santoro First and foremost, you should know there are no dragons in There Be Dragons. Of course we can’t take every title literally, but when you’ve got one that pronounces a particular beast will exist, you either must deliver or provide a valid explanation for the name. Again, There Be Dragons features no dragons, merely a weak reasoning of the title and just about everything else that happens in the film for that matter. Inspired by true events, There Be Dragons focuses on childhood friends Josemaría Escrivá (Charlie Cox) and…

Lionsgate casting news of “The Hunger Games” is blazing like wildfire! There is so much anticipation for this adaptation of Susanne Collins’ widely popular young adult series. Maybe because this summer will conclude the “Harry Potter” movie series and this fall will start the conclusion of the “Twilight” saga. Hollywood is itching to tap into the tween audience, yet again, with a new series. It is reported that Wes Bentley will join the cast of Hollywood’s young, up and coming stars. He will be joining the Oscar Nominated, Jennifer Lawrence (“Winter’s Bone”), who will play the lead role of Katniss Everdeen, Liam Hemsworth (“Thor” Chris Hemsworth’s brother), Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth…

Three additional actors have signed on to star alongside Amanda Seyfried in Lakeshore Entertainment and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment’s new movie ‘Gone,’ including Emily Wickersham, Wes Bentley and Jennifer Carpenter, www.collider.com is reporting. The thriller will be helmed by Brazilian filmmaker Heitor Dhalia. The script, which was penned by ‘Fame’ screenwriter Allison Burnett, follows Seyfried’s character, a kidnap survivor, who tries to find the killer she believes abducted her sister. ‘Gone,’ which is believed to jump-start Seyfried’s action career, much like ‘Taken’ did for Liam Neeson in 2009, is set to begin shooting in April 2011. However, there’s no word yet what roles Wickersham (of ‘I Am Number Four’), Bentley (most…

Synopsis: Set on Christmas eve, the film finds Rachel Nichols on the run from a deranged security guard (played by Wes Bentley) beneath the garage sub-levels of an office building. Click on the title link above for our review, clips, a trailer and photos. P2 stars Rachel Nichols (The Amityville Horror, Charlie Wilson’s War) as a beautiful and driven young professional and Wes Bentley (Ghost Rider, The Four Feathers, American Beauty) as the deranged loner who stalks her through a shadowy urban landscape. Aja and Levausser produced the film along with Patrick Wachsberger (In the Valley of Elah, Step Up, Mr. and Mrs. Smith) and Summit President of Worldwide Production…