The Random - Percy Jackson, Family Guy, Iron Man 2, Faster, Mama, Piranha 3D, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, The Irishman, The Details

- Rosario Dawson and Steve Coogan have joined the Greek mythology-infused adventure Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief for Fox 2000 says The Hollywood Reporter. The story is adaptation of Rick Riordan's best-selling fantasy-adventure book series that includes the world-saving quest of Poseidon's half-human son, Percy, in modern America.

- Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane tells Wired Magazine that a film version of the hit Fox cartoon is very much in the works according to Empire Online. "We want to do it. Fox wants it. We know what we want to do with it. It’s just a question of finding the time. That’s why The Simpsons took so many years to do theirs. They just couldn’t fit it into the schedule" says MacFarlane.

- Sam Rockwell is currently at work on the Iron Man sequel and tells MTV News that they've made some changes to his character from the comic. Rockwell plays Justin Hammer a rival billionaire industrialist to Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark. In the comic though, he's a white-haired elderly gent. "They wanted to go with a rival for Tony Stark who is closer to his age, and make him American" said Rockwell.

- Dwayne Johnson is in final negotiations to star in the action drama Faster for CBS Films reports Variety. Johnson will play an ex-con bent on avenging the death of his brother, murdered 10 years earlier when the two were double-crossed during a heist.

- Guillermo del Toro is in negotiations to produce the horror feature Mama for Universal Pictures says Risky Biz Blog. Andy and Barbara Muschietti are writing the English-language script based on their acclaimed Spanish-language short with Andy directing and Barbara producing. The Muschiettis are currently working on the script. The plotline for the full feature is being kept under wraps, but the short centers on two girls, Victoria and Lily, who are on the run from a ghostly woman who appears to be their mother in a Gothic home.

- Jerry O'Connell has joined the cast of Piranha 3-D for The Weinstein Company says Entertainment Weekly. Alexandre Aja helms the action-thriller which co-stars the likes of Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott, Ving Rhames, Richard Dreyfuss and Jessica Szohr.

- Katie Holmes will star in the thriller Don't Be Afraid of the Dark for Miramax Films reports Variety. Based on a 1973 ABC telepic, the story follows a young girl who moves in with her father and his girlfriend and discovers they are sharing the house with devilish creatures. Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins pen the script with Troy Nixey directing.

- Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken and Val Kilmer have joined the mob drama The Irishman for Code Entertainment reports the trades. The story is based on the life of mobster Danny Greene (Stevenson), a violent Irish-American gangster who competed with the Italian mob in 1970s Cleveland and ended up provoking a countrywide turf war that crippled the entire criminal underworld. Walken will play infamous loan-sharking nightclub owner Shondor Birns, and Kilmer will portray a Cleveland cop who befriends Greene. Jonathan Hensleigh ("The Punisher") will direct from a screenplay he wrote.

- James McAvoy, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney and Anna Friel have joined the black comedy The Details says Variety. The story concerns a couple, to be played by McAvoy and Banks, who discover an infestation of raccoons in their back yard. Disagreements over how to deal with the animals lead to an escalating series of events.

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