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Mar302009

Daily news dose: Campbell-Bower joins 'New Moon;' Drew Barrymore is 'Going the Distance'

Here's your dose of film news for March 30, 2009:

• Jamie Campbell-Bower is the latest to join Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Dakota Fanning in Chris Weitz's upcoming "The Twilight Saga: New Moon." Variety reports he plays leader of the Volturi, a group of vampires based in Italy. Campbell-Bower also starred in "RockNRolla."

• Drew Barrymore joins Justin Long in Nanette Burstein's upcoming romantic comedy “Going the Distance" for New Line Cinema. Written by Geoff LaTulippe, the film focuses on a couple’s attempt to maintain a long-distance relationship. One lives in Chicago while the other is located in Los Angeles. (Variety)

• Emily Browning, who recently starred in "The Uninvited," will star in Zack Snyder's "Sucker Punch." The fantasy action flick is set in the 1950s and centers on a girl locked inside a mental institution. Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish, Evan Rachel Wood and Emma Stone are also on board. (Variety)

• Oscar winner Maurice Jarre, a French composer whose credits include "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago," has died. He was 84. Jarre won a total of three Oscars for "A Passage to India," "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago."

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