Celebrity Update Denzel Washington is in talks to star in Universal Pictures’ thriller Safe House. Washington would play the lead role of a dangerous prisoner being escorted through menacing territory by a young CIA agent. Daniel Espinosa (”Snabba Cash”) is directing from a script by David Guggenheim.

Safe House centers on a man at a CIA-run safe house who must help a criminal, who’s being kept there, avoid being killed by villains who want the witness dead.

Celebrity Update Christian Bale is reportedly set to star in the drama The Last Photograph. The film is based off an idea from writer/director Zack Snyder, a drama based on an original idea he had about two men traveling to Afghanistan because of a particularly meaningful photo.

The film is being written by 300 collaborator Kurt Johnstad, and Sergey Bodrov of the epic Mongol was originally signed to direct. Rumor has it, however, that he has been replaced by Oplev, the director behind the stellar The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo adaptation.

Celebrity Update Amanda Seyfried is set to play Cinderella in a new live action film version of the classic tale. After the billion-dollar worldwide success of Alice in Wonderland, Disney is digging through their animated vaults for inspiration, including a live-action edition of Cinderella.

We all know the story: “the wicked stepmother and stepsisters simply won’t have it, this uppity Cinderella thinking she’s going to a ball designed to find the handsome prince an appropriate sweetheart, but perseverance, animal buddies, and a well-timed entrance by a fairy godmother make sure things turn out all right.”

Celebrity Update Andrew Garfield has been officially announced by Sony that he will play the role of Spider-Man/Peter Parker. Garfield was among the final list of contenders along with Jamie Bell, Anton Yelchin, Aaron Johnson, Logan Lerman, Alden Ehrenreich, Frank Dillane, Michael Angarano, and Josh Hutcherson.

We are thrilled to have Andrew Garfield for this new incarnation of Spider-Man under Marc Webb’s direction. We were fortunate enough to meet with a group of fantastically talented young men. In the end, we all agreed that in addition to being an extraordinary actor, Andrew had the right mix of humor, youth, and pathos, along with an underlying sense of strength and power necessary to bring Peter Parker and Spider-Man to life on screen. – Producer Laura Ziskin

Celebrity Update Colin Farrel together with Eric Bana is in talks to star in the movie By Virtue Fall. An indie drama to be directed by the writer of ‘Up in the Air,’ Sheldon Turner.

The indie drama charts the personal and professional relationship between two friends which involves a betrayal that leads to retribution.

Celebrity Update Megan Fox has tied the knot with longtime boyfriend Brian Austin Green. Fox’s publicist Dominique Appel said Tuesday the couple was “happily married.” The 24-year-old actress became engaged to Green earlier this month for the second time. The pair was previously engaged in 2006.

“They had a fairly large wedding, but there were clearly more security people than guests… They had to call in local security because the hotel security alone wouldn’t do. It was very hush hush. Everyone was sworn to secrecy.It seemed like a spur of the moment thing. I don’t think it had been planned long.”

Celebrity Update Alice Eve is reportedly in negotiations to join the cast of X-Men: First Class as the telepathic mutant. X-Men franchise producer Lauren Shuler Donner said we’d be finding out “soon” about more casting updates for X-Men: First Class and she wasn’t kidding. With the X-Men prequel set to being production in August and some key characters cast already, we’re just starting to see producer Bryan Singer and director Matthew Vaughn fill out the ranks of the X-Men: First Class roster.

The latest character about to be confirmed is that of Emma Frost (aka. the White Queen) who once fought against the X-Men but later joined them. Emma Frost is a main character in the current X-Men comics and she was mistreated included in last summer’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine, leading to the obvious inclusion of her character in X-Men: First Class.

Celebrity Update Channing Tatum has joined the Fox project Ion. Described as a sci-fi romance akin to Avatar, Ion comes from a spec script from Hollywood newcover Will Dunn and involves, “a man who travels to different Earths and dimensions in order to find his reincarnated lover.”

The plot revolves around a man who travels to different Earths and dimensions in order to find his reincarnated lover. Execs are using the magic word — “Avatar” — to describe the scope and otherworldly elements of the script.

Celebrity Update Neil Patrick Harris will be returning in the third film in the Harold and Kumar saga, A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas. They already start filming last week as He confirmed this while chatting on the set of the Smurfs when asked what was going on with his character in the franchise.

Explains Hollywood’s Daniel Hubschman: “Even though he was mowed down by Beverly D’Angelo’s madame in the 2008 sequel Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, NPH will make a glorious, unexplained return to the series.”

Celebrity Update Charlie Sheen is is game to reprise his Ricky ‘WILD THING’ Vaughn character for a Major League sequel, according to the original film’s writer/director. Also they are hoping to bring back the stars of the 1989 original.

To date, the original Major League remains one of the best baseball movies out there, combining the absurd, comedic and redemptive in a story about a floundering franchise using a motley crew to win the pennant. Wild Thing, you make my heart sing!