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It’s believed Johnny Depp took a very small role in Kevin Smith’s upcoming Tusk as a favour to Kevin Smith. Now it looks like they’re planning a bigger collaboration as THR reports they’re teaming for an comic book style action-adventure called Yoga Hosers (yep, Smith’s retirement is being pushed back once again).

It’ll be a bit of a family affair as Lily-Rose Depp and Smith’s daughter Harley Quinn Smith will star, as will most of the Tusk cast including Michael Parks, Justin Long, Haley Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez, Ralph Garman, Jennifer Schwalbach and Harley Morenstein.

To round things off Tony Hale, Natasha Lyonne, Austin Butler, Adam Brody, Tyler Posey and Jason Mewes are also onboard.

The film ‘centers on 15-year-old yoga nuts Colleen Collette (Lily-Rose Depp) and Colleen McKenzie (Harley Quinn Smith) who have an after-school job at a Manitoba convenience store called Eh-2-Zed. When an ancient evil rises from beneath Canada’s crust and threatens their big invitation to a Grade 12 party, the Colleens join forces with a legendary man-hunter from Montreal named Guy Lapointe (Depp) to fight for their lives’.

The film is the second part of Smith’s True North Trilogy, which are based around Canadian myths and legends. While each of the movies tells a separate story they will be loosely linked together (the lead characters in Yoga Hosers will briefly appear in Tusk).

Smith comments, “People always ask me ‘Are you ever going to make a comic book movie? This is it – but instead of yet another dude saving the day, our antiheroes are the most feared and formidable creatures man has ever encountered: two fifteen year old girls.”

If we needed more proof that Daniel Radcliffe has left goody-two-shoes Harry Potter behind we just need to look at him being mean, moody and extremely horny in the new Horns character poster above. Especially when you compare him to Juno Temple’s angelic look below.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘From master-of-horror Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D) comes this supernatural, offbeat thriller starring beloved British actor Danielle Radcliffe (Harry Potter, Kill Your Darlings) and the talented Juno Temple (Magic Magic, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For).

‘Ig Perrish (Daniel Radcliffe) is accused for the violent rape and killing of his girlfriend, Merrin Williams (Juno Temple). After a hard night of drinking, Ig awakens, hungover, to find horns growing out of his head; they have the ability to drive people to confess sins and give in to selfish impulses. Ig decides to use this effective tool to discover the circumstances of his girlfriend’s death and to seek revenge by finding the true murderer.

‘Daniel and Juno lead an all-star cast with strong support from David Morse (The Green Mile, The Hurt Locker) and Heather Graham (The Hangover I&II, Boogie Nights).’

It’s due in UK cinemas on October 31st.

While its Rio setting might make you think it would have made sense to release Trash to coincide with this year’s soccer World Cup, it appears they have award hopes for Stephen Daldry’s new movie, which looks like it’s hoping to be this year’s Slumdog Millionaire.

Seeing as Daldry has a Best Director Oscar nomination for three of the four movies he’s made – Billy Elliot, The Reader and The Hours, only missing out on a nom for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close – you can understand why they might think it could be an awards contender. The fact it has a script by Richard Curtis doesn’t hurt either.

Now the first poster for the film has arrived, which you can see above.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘When two trash-picking boys from Rio’s slums find a wallet in amongst the daily detritus of their local dump, little do they imagine that their lives are about to change forever. But when the local police show up, offering a handsome reward for the wallet’s return, the boys, Rafael (RICKSON TEVEZ) and Gardo (LUIS EDUARDO), realise that what they’ve found must be important. Teaming up with their friend Rato (GABRIEL WEINSTEIN), the trio begins an extraordinary adventure as they try to hang onto the wallet, evade the police, and uncover the secrets it contains.

‘Along the way, the boys will have to figure out friend from foe, as they piece together the story of the wallet’s owner José angelo (WAGNER MOURA) and realise they can’t trust the police, led by the dangerous Frederico (SELTON MELLO). But a pair of American missionaries working in their favela – the disillusioned Father Julliard (MARTIN SHEEN) and his young assistant Olivia (ROONEY MARA) – might just have the power to knock on the right doors. Trash is directed by STEPHEN DALDRY and written by RICHARD CURTIS based on the book by ANDY MULLIGAN.’

While there might be no plans for any more Hangover movies, it appears Bradley Cooper is hoping to reteam with that trilogy’s helmer, Todd Phillips, for an adaptation of Don Pendleton’s Mack Bolan novel series, according to Deadline.

Bolan is an expert sniper with over 90 kills to his record, which earned him the nickname ‘The Executioner’. He appeared in 37 novel, starting with 1969’s War Against the Mafia, which followed Bolan’s battle with the mob after he returns from war to discover they have destroyed his family. The character has been described as a bit of a military-based, American James Bond, who can get out of any situation no matter how dangerous.

It’s not clear whether the film will be based on War Against The Mafia or another one of the books, although it’s likely the setting for the movie will be moved to the present day rather than the Vietnam era. Avatar 4 co-writer Shane Salerno is on scripting duty.

Josh Boone made his name with the character-based films Stuck In Love and the recent hit Fault In Our Stars, but he’s already shown he’s keen to get stuck into genre fare by signing on to direct a movie version of Stephen King’s The Stand.

Now he’s taking on another high profile property, as just a few weeks after it was revealed Universal had snapped up the rights to all 13 of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles novels, TheWrap reports Boone is being lined up to helm the first of the films, in what the studio hopes will become a franchise.

While earlier reports suggested the movie would be based around Christopher Rice’s (Anne’s son) screenplay adapted from The Tale Of The Body Thief, it now seems Boone will write the script itself and it will based on Queen Of The Damned and The Vampire Lestat. While those are the second and third book in the series, it seems Universal is avoiding Interview With The Vampire, due to the fact the Neil Jordan film version is still well respected and if their film pales in comparison it could ruin any franchise hopes. It also means they can set the new film largely in the present day.

While the was a movie version of Queen Of The Damned that worked in parts of The Vampire Lestat, few people saw the film so the studio doesn’t seem to mind having another go at it.

It’s believed Boone will take of his Vampire Chronicles movie after he’s completed The Stand, as casting on the Stephen King adaptation is due to kick off soon for a presumed 2016 release.

Back in May it was revealed that Liam Neeson was going a bit Groot, as he’d signed on to play a talking tree in A Monster Calls, with Felicity Jones also set to star.

Now they have some company as THR reports that Sigourney Weaver has signed up for the adaptation of Patrick Ness’ award-winning children’s fantasy novel.

Ness has also written the script, which follows thirteen-year-old Conor O’Malley. He has to deal with his mother’s sickness, school bullies and a yew tree in his backyard that turns into a monster and tells him strange stories. However the monster/trees’ stories give him the tools to come to terms with the truths of life.

Jones is set to play the mother, with Weaver signing up to be Conor’s grandmother.

Juan Antonio Bayona (The Impossible) is set to direct, with an October 2016 release date already set.