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The best way to convince us that a “RoboCop” remake is totally necessary is line up an awesome cast for it, and MGM is doing just that. Hot off the news that Samuel L. Jackson has joined the film as a “charismatic TV mogul and a powerful force in the Robocop world,” the studio has seemed to have found itself a female lead as well.

Deadline is reporting that Abbie Cornish is currently in talks for a big role in the movie. But instead of playing Alex Murphy’s former partner Anne Lewis, who was the most important female character in the original “RoboCop,” Cornish is in talks to play Murphy’s wife.

In the Peter Weller “RoboCop,” we meet Murphy’s wife during a flashback and are told that she and Murphy’s son moved on after his alleged death. Deadline describes Cornish’s role the same way for the reboot — she’s been offered “the role of his wife, who thinks she is a widow” — but it seems as though it will be a bigger part in this flick.

Hopefully that means there still is a role for Anne Lewis in this film, as she was such a pivotal character in the original “RoboCop.” Our guess is we will hear of someone being cast in that part pretty soon. So far the only other people who have been officially cast are Joel Kinnaman as Alex Murphy and Gary Oldman as the scientist who created RoboCop.

“RoboCop” is due in theaters on August 9, 2013.

Do you think that Cornish is a good fit for this role? Do you think that Murphy’s wife should have a beefed up part? Tell us in the comments section below or on Twitter!

Considering the box office success of “Snow White and the Huntsman,” it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that a sequel to the film is being created.

Deadline has the news that Universal is moving forward with their planned follow-up to “Snow White,” with David Koepp writing the script and Rupert Sanders potentially returning to direct. And if reports are correct, this movie could see its title character getting a bit darker. When we saw her at the MTV Movie Awards, Kristen Stewart said she is not a fan of that journey for Snow White.

“It would be so weird to do that. It would break me, which probably would be interesting to watch,” she said, after which Chris Hemsworth joked “we’d have to rebuild you.” “That’s the third one. The rebuilding,” Stewart teased.

When MTV News caught up with director Rupert Sanders recently, he said that he has some ideas for a sequel to “Snow White and the Huntsman” that teased Snow White’s downfall in the near future.

“I think the corruption of power would be the second one. I think we’ve created this very chaste girl who’s got to this position and now she’s in this position of supreme power,” he said. “We wanted to be contemporary with the theme here and I think in the next film we’ll do the same. There’s so many examples of people corrupted by power. When we were talking about it, myself and [producer] Joe Roth, there were so many things happening in the newspapers of these very powerful men abusing that power in hotels and sports locker rooms. People who get powerful sometimes lose their bearings and abuse that power and that’s kind of an intoxicating theme.”

What would you want to see in a “Snow White and the Huntsman” sequel? Tell us in the comments section below or on Twitter!

Okay, now our belief that Darren Aronofsky was watching Sunday’s MTV Movie Awards before casting the younger characters in his take on “Noah” is confirmed. Emma Watson is the latest actress to have her name be attached to the project.

Deadline has learned that Watson is in talks to play Ila, a “young woman who develops a close relationship with Noah’s son, Shem.” Shem will be played by Douglass Booth, while Logan Lerman is playing Noah’s other son, Ham. Considering Lerman and Watson already worked together on “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” we’re excited to see her chemistry with Booth on the big screen.

The only other actor cast on the project is Russell Crowe, who is playing Noah. There are still roles open for Noah’s wife and enemy. Jennifer Connelly and Liam Neeson had at one point had their names attached to those roles, but it doesn’t seem like those deals will come to fruition. There also are likely other roles, like Watson’s Ila, that we don’t know about that need to be cast.

The official plot synopsis for “Noah” says it’s “a close adaptation of the Biblical story of Noah’s Ark. In a world ravaged by human sin, Noah is given a divine mission: to build an Ark to save creation from the coming flood.” It’s due in theaters on March 28, 2014.

Do you think Watson is a good fit for “Noah”? Tell us in the comments section below or on Twitter!

Our favorite evil clown is making his sadistic return. Warner Bros is set to adapt the best-selling Stephen King novel “It” and they’ve hired “Jane Eyre” filmmaker Cary Fukunaga to helm the project over two films.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fukunaga will direct and co-write the screenplay with Chase Palmer, who previously turned “Dune” by Frank Herbert into a script for Paramount. Roy Lee and Dan Lin are on board to produce along with Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg from KatzSmith Production.

The book, published in 1986, was previously adapted in 1990 as a TV miniseries for ABC starring John Ritter, Harry Anderson, Tim Reid, Annette O’Toole, Richard Thomas and Tim Curry. The late Jonathan Brandis and “Robot Chicken”‘s Seth Green were also part of the cast playing the younger versions Thomas’ and Anderson’s characters.

The story centers on the Losers Club, a group of neighborhood kids who encounter a demon called It in 1960. It targets children, killing them by taking the form of a vicious clown called Pennywise. They see floating balloons pop midair and blood run out of the faucet in lieu of water. Frightening stuff for a child! Thirty years later, these same kids—now adults, as scared as ever—are called back to battle the creature again, even though they have no recollection of the first time they fought It.

We’re just hoping the red-headed monster won’t turn into an awful (special effects wise) giant spider at the end again. Don’t let us down, Fukunaga!

What do you think of this new adaptation of “It”? Were you a fan of the miniseries? Let us know in the comments and on Twitter!

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We’ve been hyped for “Cosmopolis” ever since it was first announced, and we’ve been anxiously awaiting the announcement of a release date. The film was recently screened and picked up at Cannes to be released in the United States.

eOne plans to distribute the flick to the United States starting on August 17. To be honest, this doesn’t exactly seem like an end of summer movie, but the sooner we get to see “Cosmopolis” the better. The movie will initially open only in Los Angeles and New York, but will expand to other cities soon after.

The trailers and clips released of the movie show a Pattinson that we’ve never seen before, and seems distinctly David Croenenberg. But the Cannes reviews of the film have been generally positive, which leads us to believe that this project will be well-received even if it doesn’t appeal to everyone.

“Cosmopolis” will be released in Canada today and in the UK next week. Another one of Robert Pattinson‘s non-”Twilight” films hit theaters today. We’ve been waiting to see “Bel Ami” for ages, so at least we only have to wait two more months for “Cosmopolis.”

Are you excited “Cosmopolis” finally has a US release date? Let us know in the comments section below or on Twitter!

RIM is reminding BlackBerry users that they may be able to upgrade their device to the latest software…

Sony teases a “fun, social and exciting” product launch for next week via its Facebook page. What could possibly be in store?

O2 and Vodafone have announced plans to combine their respective UK network infrastructure, to help improve coverage and speed along the introduction of 4G…