Anthony Hopkins Is Now Old Enough to Play Lear
Posted June 24, 2008 
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Sir Anthony Hopkins is reportedly thrilled to be given the shot of playing King Lear in a big screen movie of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Gwyneth Paltrow and Naomi Watts will play the bitchy conniving older daughters and Keira Knightley will likely play lithe Cordelia who’s dead body Hopkins will have to carry around and weep over insanely in Act V.
Director Josh Michael Stern insists there will be many more suitable big-name surprises in his blockbuster.
Mike Myers should stick to Austin Powers and Shrek - his Borat-inspired comedy film has been universally panned and reviled by critics as being un-funny garbage that goes for gross-out more than anything else. Myers spent 5 years trying to get this made?
Lots of rumors swirling around this week that scrawny Titanic actor Leonardo DiCaprio is being considered for the Captain America movie. No, not to play sidekick Bucky Barnes - which would be a better fit - but as the military man superhero himself. Say it ain’t so!
No Princess Leia here: Amanda Lucas, the adopted daughter of Star Wars director George Lucas has taken up an odd past time - she likes to hit other girls. 
Christian Bale says he was thisclose to losing his pretty head by rotor blades of a helicopter on the set of the new Batman movie. The star narrowly avoided a grisly death when the plunging chopper missed him by just feet. 
Sarah Jessica Parker and her ‘Sex and the City’ co-stars have attended the American premiere of their movie in New York.
Usually a 4th sequel is stretching it but ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ grossed an estimated $151 million from Thursday to Sunday, according to Paramount Pictures. The Harrison Ford picture ranks just slightly behind the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End’ which set the record of $153 million over the Memorial Day weekend. So much for those bad reviews of Indy 4!
Batman star Christian Bale has been confirmed for not just one but — “I’ll be back!” all 3 Terminator films in the works! Bale will pick up the role of John Connor, the leader of the human rebels who battle the machines in the future. The Welsh-born Bale, who loves the franchise, has already begun filming “Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins”.
Even though it officially bowed out of 1st place in the US box office, Robert Downey Jr.’s ‘Iron Man’ continued strong in a third straight weekend of pulling in crowds by adding another $31 million to it’s take. 
George Clooney is shocked - SHOCKED! - and hurt by the failure of ‘Leatherheads’. The football movie - which was ridiculously released at the start of baseball season - grossed only $36 million which is $22 million short of its $58 million budget. 