Joaquin Phoenix has officially signed up to the cast of P.T. Anderson's new film.
The actor will play an alcoholic drifter who joins a religious cult led by Philip Seymour Hoffman's character, before having doubts about his faith, Deadline reports.
It will be his first film since the controversial mockumentary I'm Still Here where he played himself.
Anderson is reportedly considering Amy Adams, Laura Dern and Lena Endre for the lead female roles.
Shooting will begin in June, following the Weinstein Company's successful bid for the worldwide rights for the film, formerly titled The Master.
Phoenix is also rumoured to be in talks for the horror comedy Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
Tom Cruise has denied suggestions that he will film a guest appearance on an upcoming episode of Glee.
Last month, sources close to the show claimed that Cruise was close to signing for a multi-episode arc as a failed popstar forced to lead one of McKinley High's rival glee clubs.
Speaking to Extra, the star was questioned as to whether there were any veracity to the reports linking him to the hit Fox sitcom.
"No," Cruise replied. "I'm busy."
While he won't be appearing on Glee in the near future, Cruise noted that he's "having a blast" working on the movie musical Rock of Ages.
"I just like doing different things and it's a dream come true to get an opportunity to do [a film] that's totally different," Cruise affirmed. "I've been training for months and months. I'm very excited about the cast and working with [director] Adam [Shankman]."
It was reported yesterday that frequent Glee guest star Gwyneth Paltrow might join the show's cast on their upcoming live tour.
Glee returns with new episode 'Prom Queen' on Tuesday at 8pm ET/7pm CT on Fox. In the UK, the series airs Mondays at 9pm on E4.
Keith Allen will premiere his controversial documentary about the death of Princess Diana at the Cannes Film Festival this week.
The actor and filmmaker, who has appeared in Robin Hood, Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, is to debut Unlawful Killing on May 13 after working on the project for three years.
The feature will mix interviews with recreations of the official inquest into the Paris car crash that killed the Princess, her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and their driver Henri Paul. The film includes contributions from the late Tony Curtis, Howard Stern, Kitty Kelley, Mohamed Al Fayed, Piers Morgan and Michael Mansfield QC, while Dave Stewart of Eurythmics provides an original score.
The documentary alleges that "dark forces" within the British establishment rushed to cover up Diana's death in 1997. Its premiere this Friday will coincide with what would have been the Princess of Wales's 50th Birthday.
Allen said of Unlawful Killing's Cannes debut: "Screening this film in Cannes for the world's media will be both exhilarating and terrifying for me. As far back as 2004, I had been intrigued by Mohammed Al Fayed's unrelenting determination to seek answers to the questions surrounding the death of his son, Dodi and Princess Diana.
"By going 'undercover' at the inquest, I hoped to reconcile some of my own suspicions too - but what I experienced was horrifying. This film is, in short, the inquest of the inquest."
The 64th Cannes Film Festival runs from May 11 to May 20.
Matt Damon has reportedly decided on a script for his debut as a film director.
Deadline claims that Damon is interested in both starring in and helming the film attached to Matthew Aldrich's much-hyped script for Father Daughter Time: A Tale of Armed Robbery and Eskimo Kisses.
Warner Bros are in the process of finalising a deal for the rights to the script, after a heated bidding war in Hollywood that also involved offers from Paramount Pictures and Fox.
"The script is not high concept, it's a smallish, very personal, dark but playful road movie about a father and daughter," Aldrich said.
Warner Bros are also allegedly keen to produce the film through Damon's own production company Pearl Street.
The project will be Damon's first as director, although he both starred in and co-wrote the Academy Award-winning film Good Will Hunting in 1997.
Damon will next be seen in the Kenneth Lonergan drama Margaret, the Steven Soderbergh thriller Contagion and Cameron Crowe's new comedy We Bought a Zoo.
Natalie Portman has suggested that she will retire from acting to raise her children.
The Oscar-winning star of Thor, who is expecting her first child with fiancé Benjamin Millepied this summer, spoke of her desire to emulate screen icon Audrey Hepburn and step away from an illustrious career to start a family.
She argued to The Sun's Buzz Magazine: "Audrey made some good choices in life... More and more I realise how unimportant it is to be in the history books or anything like that. Putting time and energy into your children - that's valuable."
Despite drawing heavily from Hepburn's career, Portman added that she has her own methods for achieving perfection on a film shoot.
She said: "If someone is being nasty on set, I lose my focus... Being kind and calm, that's the discipline."
Portman recently claimed that she is superstitious about her pregnancy.
