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Samurai Girl‘s Jamie Chung has joined the highly-anticipated sequel to The Hangover, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The Sorority Row/Grown Ups star, who next appears in Sucker Punch with Vanessa Hudgens, will play star Ed Helms new fiancee in The Hangover 2, which reunites Helms, Bradley Cooper, and Zach Galifianakis, and was just revealed to take place in Thailand.

The Hollywood Reporter revealed the latest list of possible new Spider-Man actors yesterday, and it’s filled with a wide range of ages and backgrounds.

The most well-known names on the list are Josh Hutcherson (pictured), of Bridge to Terabithia and Cirque du Freak, and Jamie Bell, of Billy Elliot and Jumper.  Then there’s an unknown, Alden Ehrenreich, and two British actors, Frank Dillane (who played the teenage Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) and Andrew Garfield (who’s starring in the upcoming movie about the creation of Facebook).

The story doesn’t mention Percy Jackson‘s Logan Lerman, who was rumored to be a front runner for the role earlier.

Any of these guys sound like good choices?  Or do you have better ideas?

Great news guys, there will be no recasting for Emmet and Alice. According to the Hollywood Reporter Ashley Greene & Kellan Lutz have signed a deal for about $1.25 million for each Breaking Dawn movie. We are so excited because having a diferent Emmet or Alice would have been a real bummer. However, even with the above news, there is still no confirmation from Summit on wether Breaking Dawn will be 2 movies. We’ll keep you guys posted!

Now this could get interesting.  It’s been a (very) open secret that The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn was being split into two movies under new director Bill Condon, but before that could happen, Summit needed to make new deals with all its actors — who were only signed on for four films.  And that process just hit a snag.

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that the supporting actors that make up the Cullen teenagers, specifically Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz, are holding out for higher salaries — to the tune of $4 million, for each star, for each movie:

[Ashley and Kellan] are trying to sink their teeth into bigger paydays that, at least at this point, the studio behind the billion-dollar franchise is unwilling to provide. “We may have a situation where one of them is thrown out on the street to make a point,” says a source close to the dealmaking.

So are we headed for a recasting on the final “Twilight”?

There is precedent for such a tactic. After the success of the first film, Summit axed Rachelle Lefevre, who played Victoria, in part because her reps played hardball on money and scheduling.

Entertainment Weekly fills in some more details regarding the other Cullens:

Greene and Lutz had initially banded together with fellow co-stars Nikki Reed and Jackson Rathbone to form a united front, but sources say Reed backed down and is now close to finalizing her deal, which is said to be in the $750,000-$1 million range per film — the amount Summit initially offered the four cast members. (Rathbone’s status remains unclear.)

$4 million per movie is an awful lot for characters who, as beloved as they are, don’t have much screen time — especially given the many other cast members that also have to be paid.  Sure, the movies make boatloads of money, but that’d be $16 million going solely to Ashley and Kellan.

Now, the truth is, they don’t expect to actually be paid that much, and they just want Summit to increase its offer.  But I’m worried that the move could be seen as greedy or could get them fired.  What do you think?

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Kristen Stewart will star in a new movie called Backwoods, which is somehow about the end of the world.  No other plot details have been revealed yet.

Kristen will co-star with Julianne Moore, and the movie will be directed by Bart Freundlich, who knows Kristen from the 2004 movie Catch That Kid.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians star Logan Lerman recently caused a storm of gossip when he implied he was in the running to play Spider-Man in the upcoming reboot that puts the superhero back in high school.

In an interview with Access Hollywood, he said, “Conversations are starting. It’s a long process with the studio and the producers and everything. But it’s definitely a project that I’m really interested in, of course.”

However, the Hollywood Reporter then asked Sony, and the studio spokesperson said that “no offers have been made, nor have any business discussions been made with Lerman.”

That doesn’t mean they haven’t talked about it — it just means they’ve maybe talked about it with a handful of different actors and won’t make a decision for quite a long time.  Still, Logan does look the part.  You think he could pull it off?

We told you last month that The Twilight Saga‘s Ashley Greene would be starring in a new horror movie called The Apparition, but today she just gained a new costar.

Sebastian Stan, who appeared on Gossip Girl this season as Carter Baizen, will play the male lead, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The two will play a couple who “are haunted by a supernatural presence that is unleashed during a college experiment.”  Filming begins on February 1st.

Summit Entertainment wants to keep working with Taylor Lautner: they just signed him onto Cancun, an original action movie.

According to the Hollywood Reporter:

The story follows an out-of-place college kid who travels with a girl to Cancun on a break. While there, the girl and her friends are taken hostage by a drug cartel and he is forced to save them. The story is designed to take advantage of Lautner’s martial arts skills, which he showed off when he hosted “Saturday Night Live” this past weekend.

Sounds like a good vehicle through which Lautner can use his talents.  Remember that he’s also attached to another action movie, Max Steel.

MTV is developing a TV pilot loosely based on the ’80s movie Teen Wolf, and the possible show’s cast has just been revealed.

Tyler Posey (ABC Family’s Lincoln Heights) will play the title werewolf character, total unknown Crystal Reed will play his love interest, and Tyler Hoechlin (7th Heaven) will play a popular good-looking guy who’s actually an evil werewolf.

The Hollywood Reporter says it’s a “dramatic thriller with a buddy-comedy element at the center and a romantic plot line. It revolves around Scott McCall (Posey), a dorky high-school student who gets a rush of new powers, including the ability to attract girls, after a wolf attack.”  Sounds like it could be fun.

Yesterday we reported on a story about New Moon director Chris Weitz publicly coming to the defense of a young woman who inadvertently taped a couple minutes of his movie in a theater — and was arrested on felony charges.

Weitz is apparently a pretty powerful guy, because the charges were dropped today.  From the Hollywood Reporter:

Cook County prosecutors on Friday announced in court that they won’t pursue charges against Samantha Tumpach.

Tumpach was arrested Nov. 28 in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont and faced a felony charge of illegally copying the film.

She had about three minutes of “New Moon” on her digital camera. Tumpach has said she was taping her sister’s birthday party and wasn’t trying to record the movie.

Glad this story has a happy ending!