Last year's animated flick
THE SMURFS has become quite a hit around the world, and as I announced before the sequel is planned for 2013. A fresh update on the production over at "The Hollywood Reporter" says that
Christina Ricci will lend her voice to Vexi, an evil version of Smurfette, who will again get her voice from that horrid screeching tart Katy Perry. It is also expected that
Neil Patrick Harris and
Hank Azaria will be in the cast again.
Meanwhile, Paramount has officially confirmed that
Saoirse Ronan has joined
Russell Crowe and
Jennifer Connelly in dark Biblical epic
NOAH and it was revealed that it will be a big, robust production of tremendous scale with the budget being at rather stunning $125 million.
HOLLYWOOD SPY HEADLINES
The first photo from
Ang Lee's upcoming movie adaptation of famous
LIFE OF PI novel is here. Ready to be released this December, the movie revolves around Pi Patel (young
Suraj Sharma), who shares a
lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, a hyena, an injured zebra, and an orangutan after a shipwreck. All animals in the film are CGI, which makes this picture even more amazing, since the tiger looks
extremely realistic. The film will also star
Tobey Maguire and Gerard Depardieu.
Speaking of cute animals,
Pixar has released new pictures from this year's
biggest animated adventure BRAVE showing three
adorable little bears whom Merida comes upon during her mission, and there's also the picture of their mother trying to save Merida from a hole.
And your trailer for today is the first adorable one for the upcoming comedy drama
HOPE SPRINGS with
Meryl Streep and
Tommy Lee Jones which will hit cinemas this August: Many years of marriage have left Maeve (
Meryl Streep) wanting to spice things up and reconnect with her husband. When she hears of a famed relationship guru (
Steve Carell) in the town of Great Hope Springs, she must persuade her skeptical husband (
Tommy Lee Jones) to get on a plane for an intense week of marriage and sex therapy. Getting there was hard enough... Now shedding their bedroom hang ups, learning some new moves and rediscovering their youthful spark is when the real adventure begins.
lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, a hyena, an injured zebra, and an orangutan after a shipwreck. All animals in the film are CGI, which makes this picture even more amazing, since the tiger looks 
extremely realistic. The film will also star Tobey Maguire and Gerard Depardieu. Speaking of cute animals, Pixar has released new pictures from this year's biggest animated adventure BRAVE showing three 
adorable little bears whom Merida comes upon during her mission, and there's also the picture of their mother trying to save Merida from a hole. 
