Big casting update: Katherine Heigl, Rachel Weisz, Sam Worthington, Marion Cotillard, Lucy Punch
Lots of casting news to cover this week, and here is a list of some of the more important ones from across the Web:
- Katherine Heigl is in talks to star in "One for the Money," in which she will play Stephanie Plum, an unemployed lingerie buyer who becomes a bounty hunter. The film is based on the novel by Janet Evanovich. Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith wrote the script (Variety).
- Rachel Weisz will join Daniel Craig in "Dream House," Jim Sheridan's upcoming thriller for Morgan Creek. The story follows a man and his family as they move to a peaceful town and discover their new home is haunted by its former inhabitants (Variety).
- Tom Felton, who plays Draco Malfoy in the "Harry Potter" flicks, will star in "The Apparition," which also features "Twilight" actress Ashley Greene. The flick follows a young couple haunted by some kind of supernatural presence generated during a college experiment (Variety).
- Sam Worthington, star of "Avatar" and upcoming "Clash of the Titans," will star in Ami Canaan Mann's "The Fields," in which he plays a homicide detective investigating murders in the Texas bayous. Michael Mann, father of the director, will produce. Don Ferrarone wrote the script (via THR).
- Lucy Punch will join Cameron Diaz in "Bad Teacher," Jake Kasdan's comedy about a foulmouthed middle school teacher who gets dumped by her boyfriend and launches into a battle with a colleague (Punch) for the affections of the school's top teacher (THR).
- Marion Cotillard and Kate Winslet may join Matt Damon and Jude Law in Steven Soderbergh's action thriller "Contagion," which follows people as they deal with the threat of a potential disease. Scott Z. Burns wrote the script. Soderbergh's next film is titled "Knockout" (Variety).

Franck Tabouring
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