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High Noon - 30th April 2008
Written byPaul Arendt
Jonah Hill Transformed
Superbad star Jonah Hill is eyeing a role in the forthcoming Transformers sequel. Will he be turning himself into shabby Volkswagen Beetle festooned with sweet wrappers? Apparently not. According to Entertainment Weekly, Hill will play the comic relief to Shia LaBoeuf's character Sam Whitwicky.

Hang on though, in the last movie, wasn't Shia LaBoeuf the comic relief to all those stomping robots of ultimate death? Hey ho, as long as Megan Fox is still around, we don't care. High Noon is feeling laddish today, although we still quite fancy Karl Urban (see below). Oh, Transformers 2 is due in June 2009.
Urban in 3D
Brooding Lord of the Rings star Karl Urban will lead the cast of a 3D thriller, Variety reports. Urban will star in Relentless, the story of four extreme sports pros who crash land in the Amazon jungle only to find themselves stalked by murderous natives. Well, we'd be murderous too if a bunch of gurning snowboarders crashed into our forest.

Director Demian Lichtenstein has been learning about 3D filmmkaing on the set of James Cameron's gargantuan sci-fi epic Avatar, so he's all set to render Urban's monster pout in glorious jump-outa-the-screenovision for our viewing pleasure. When is Angelina Jolie going to catch on to this technology, eh?
Ferrara Turns Invisible
She was ugly on telly and now she's invisible in the movies: America Ferrera, metal-mouthed star of Ugly Betty, has landed a starring role in An Invisible Sign Of My Own. A coming-of-age drama, the film will see Ferrera building on the dweeby persona she established in Ugly Betty, playing a lonesome maths teacher.

According to Hollywood Reporter the film, which is based on a novel by Aimee Bender, is the first film from director Marilyn Angelo since her breakout documentary Mad Hot Ballroom.
Miramax In Debt
Miramax has teamed up with producer Matthew Vaughn to remake The Debt, an Israeli thriller. According to Hollywood Reporter, the story revolves around a group of Mossad agents hunting down a Nazi war criminal 20 years after World War Two. So, Munich meets The Odessa File then.

Vaughn directed the gangster drama Layer Cake, although he's best known as the producer of Guy Ritchie's mockney shootathons. The Debt is yet another Euro period thriller for Miramax, who are also embroiled in the movie version of Brideshead Revisited, and Stephen Frears' forthcoming Parisian drama Cheri.