Casting alerts: Haley Joel Osment, Zac Efron...

Care for casting? Here is the latest in casting news from Hollywood and elsewhere:

• Haley Joel Osment ("The Sixth Sense," "Home of the Giants") is returning to the big screen in "Sex Ed," a comedy following a college graduate who ends up teaching sexual education. Only problem: he's still a virgin. He then meets a crazy mentor and hot Polish chick. Isaac Feder is helming Billy Kennedy's script.

• Zac Efron has joined an untitled workplace comedy developed by Jason Filardi, the guy who also wrote "17 Again." Efron is also producing the flick. No specific details about the film are available at this point. The "High School Musical" actor will next be seen in "Charlie St. Cloud," due in theaters July 30, 2010.

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Latest casting details: Jeff Bridges to reunite with Coens; Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page join 'Super'

• Jeff Bridges (in the pic on the left) is in talks to reunite with Joel and Ethan Coen on their new version of "True Grit," based on the book by Charles Portis. The story will follow a girl joining a U.S. marshal and one of his colleagues on the mission to find the killer of her father. Bridges, of course, starred in the Coens' "The Big Lebowski." (via Variety)

• Rainn Wilson ("The Rocker"), Ellen Page ("Whip It") and Liv Tyler have boarded James Gunn's comedy "Super," about an average guy (Wilson) who develops a pseudo-superhero alter ego after his wife (Tyler) falls victim to the charm of a drug dealer. Gunn also wrote the "Dawn of the Dead" remake. (via Variety)

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