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!

Celebrity Update Imogen Poots (Solitary Man) has signed on to play the female lead in Craig Gillespie’s remake of the 1985 cult horror-comedy Fright Night. She joins Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Toni Collette, David Tennant and Christopher Mintz-Plasse in the remake directed by Craig Gillespie from a script by Marti Noxon. Poots will play Yelchin’s girlfriend, part of the popular crowd and unaware of his earlier life as a nerd.

Poots has a handful of films on her resume including V for Vendetta, 28 Weeks Later, Me and Orson Welles and Solitary Man, but she’s certainly far lesser known than her fellow cast members. THR describes her role as “part of the popular crowd and unaware of his earlier life as a nerd,” which clearly reflects the filmmakers’ effort to modernize the production a bit.

Celebrity Update Leonardo DiCaprio is confirmed to be teaming up with the legendary Clint Eastwood for a biopic on the life of J Edgar Hoover. Back in March, a bunch of news came out about a biopic of founding FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Milk’s Dustin Lance Black wrote the script, and it was at Universal before the studio passed. The film ended up at Warner Bros. and Malpaso Productions, with Clint Eastwood set to direct. There was a rumor that Leonardo DiCaprio was poised to star as Hoover, and that casting is now confirmed.

J. Edgar Hoover was the first director of the FBI. His life story is quite interesting including unconfirmed reports that he was a homosexual and cross-dresser. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a large and efficient crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modern innovations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.

Late in life, and after his death, Hoover became an increasingly controversial figure. Not just in his sexual orientation questions but also being accused of exceeding jurisdiction of the FBI many times.

Celebrity Update Micheal Fassbender has been confirmed that he will be playing Magneto in X-Men First Class. According to EW, the rumors regarding Michael Fassbender’s involvement with the film were true! The actor WILL play the role of Eric Lensherr (Magneto) opposite James McAvoy’s Professor Charles Xavier.

“I’m pretty comfortable with this decision. I prefer seeing Fassbender as Magneto playing against/alongside McAvoy’s Charles Xavier. I like both as actors; so I’m pretty excited about this setup.”

Celebrity Update Micheal Fassbender has been confirmed that he will be playing Magneto in X-Men First Class.

Celebrity Update Benjamin Walker is has joined the First Class cast as Dr. Hank McCoy, better known as the blue, furry Beast. He would be joining James McAvoy, who will play Charles Xavier, and possibly Michael Fassbender, who is in negotiations for the role of Erik Lensherr (AKA Magneto).

Those unfamiliar with the comics may not know that despite being big and blue in The Last Stand, Beast (aka Dr. Hank McCoy) originally looked human and his mutant ability has always been strength and agility coupled with a scientific genius. It wasn’t until an unfortunate medical experiment that his physical appearance was permanently transformed.

Celebrity Update Russel Crowe is attached to star in the feature film adaptation of The Equalizer. Crowe would play the enigmatic title character Robert McCall, portrayed on the 1985-89 CBS television series by the late Edward Woodward.

McCall’s past was shrouded in mystery, but it was known that he’d once been a secret agent for an unnamed intelligence organization and had an estranged adult son. In an attempt to redeem himself for his dark past, he offered his services for free to those in need of help in the form of a newspaper classified ad that read: “Got A Problem? Odds Against You? Call The Equalizer.” He also drove a sweet black Jaguar XJ6 Series III.

Celebrity Update Amber Heard could be landing for the part of Mystique, the blue-skinned shapeshifter previously played by Rebecca Romjin.

Pike was previously rumored to play Emma Frost after being spotted with comics of the character outside the offices of the film’s casting agent. The MacTaggert character was played by Olivia Williams in “X-Men: The Last Stand.”

Celebrity Update Gemma Ward will join the cast of the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and will be playing as a mermaid alongside other actress. Gemma Ward will be joining Johnny Depp and fellow Aussie Geoffrey Rush in Rob Marshall’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, which is currently shooting in Hawaii.

There’s no details on Ward’s character but it was said that the role is “a small speaking part.”

The model/actress had previously starred in 2008 horror film The Strangers and The Black Balloon and in 2001 Pink Pyjamas.