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Tuesday
Jun022009

Daily news dose: Disney readies new 'Pooh' film; Javier Bardem to join 'Wall Street 2'?

Here's your dose of film news for June 2, 2009:

• Walt Disney is gearing up to develop another big-screen Winnie the Pooh adventure. It will be a hand-drawn animated flock in the tradition of 2005's "Pooh's Heffalump Movie," which only grossed $18 million domestically. The Hollywood Reporter says Disney plans to release the film in 2011.

• According to Deadline Hollywood Daily, Oscar winner Javier Bardem may play the villain in Oliver Stone's "Wall Street 2." Michael Douglas and Shia LaBeouf are also on-board. Douglas is back as Gekko, and DHD says LaBeouf will play a "Wall Street trader who's engaged to be married to Gekko's estranged daughter."

• Playboy model Angelina Leigh has joined the cast of Greg Lamberson's upcoming sequel "Slime City Massacre," which will head into principal photography next month. Leigh is set to play Honey, a prostitute trying to survive SCM's post apocalyptic environment. Debbie Rochon. Lee Perkins, Brooke Lewis and Kealan Patrick Burke co-star.

• Alyssa Milano ("Charmed") will star in (and produce) Daryn Tufts's romantic comedy "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend," about a woman who must decide between a failing novelist (Christopher Gorham) and a successful ad executive (Michael Landes). Beau Bridges and Carol Kane co-star. (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Lionsgate will be working with Paul Haggis on his next film, "The Next Three Days," a remake of the French film "Pour Elle." Haggis will also write the script, which follows a couple forced to make major decisions in a situation that could change their love and lives forever. Haggis also directed "Crash" and "In the Valley of Elah." (Variety)