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Kristin Chenoweth is joining Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick to star in the upcoming comedy flick, "Deck the Halls".

The John Whitesell direction will start shooting May 29 in Vancouver and is slated for a November 22nd release date.

Oscar-winning actors Benicio Del Toro and Halle Berry are set to star in the upcoming drama "Things We Lost in the Fire".

The DreamWorks/Paramount project will be directed by Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier, with a June start date being eyed.

Paramount Pictures' "Mission: Impossible 3" scores great in box office. The newly wide release collecting an estimated of $48 million in ticket sales, such amount enough to bring the highly anticipated flick right to the top spot. That really is a solid opening though well below industry expectations and almost $10 million lower than the franchise's previous installment.

At 2nd position is "R.V." which taking in $11.1 million, ahead of "An American Haunting" at No. 3 with $6.4 million. Meanwhile, comedy "Stick It" secures the 4th position garnering $5.5 million, while drama "United 93" clings at No. 5 collecting an amount of $5.2 million. At No. 6 is "Ice Age: The Meltdown" taking in $4 million, followed then by "Silent Hill" at No. 7 with $3.9 million.

Jennifer Garner will probably join Jamie Foxx and Chris Cooper to enter "The Kingdom". The actress reportedly is in talks to star in the drama thriller film.

The story of the flick centers on Foxx's character, who is leading an elite team of counter-terrorism investigators trying to find those responsible for a deadly bombing attack on American workers the Middle East. Once inside the previously off-limits desert kingdom, the Americans engage a local police officer to help in their investigation but end up frustrated by bureaucracy and tradition, and find their lives threatened.

After some "controversies", New Line Cinema finally okays the production of the highly anticipated "Rush Hour 3". New Line Production President Toby Emmerich announced May 4th, 2006 that the film would start production this fall with a 2007 release date being eyed.

In the meantime, fellow actors Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan will both star in, reprising their role as LAPD detective James Carter and Chinese Chief Inspector Lee which will feature the action comedy duo traveling to Paris to battle a wing of the Chinese organized crime family, the Triads.

Academy Award winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones is in talks to star opposite Guy Pearce in "Death Defying Acts."

Of drama genre "Death Defying Acts" actually is a movie about Harry Houdini which story centers on the height of his career in 1926, when he toured the world, amassing large crowds with his elaborate and daring escape performances.

While writer-director Zoe Cassavetes is about to make his feature debut in the forthcoming "Broken English", the likes of Parker Posey, Drea DeMatteo, Josh Hamilton, Justin Theroux, Gena Rowlands and Jeanne Moreau, are all set to star in.

As of Posey, the actress is slated to portray Nora, a successful New Yorker with little success at romance. All that changes when she meets a Frenchman, Melvil Poupaud's role, who sweeps her off her feet and off to Paris, inspiring her to travel as a courier with her best friend Audrey (DeMatteo).

Several notable actors, like Benicio Del Toro, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker and Michelle Williams, are all joining the cast of the upcoming "Where the Wild Things Are".

All of them will voice characters in the writer-director Spike Jonze's adaptation of Maurice Sendak's children's book of the same title.

Do you know what's new on the film industry? It's Mark Steilen capability to direct the forthcoming "Weiners."

Of comedy adventure genre, "Weiners" revolves around best friends who travel across the country in a homemade weinermobile to face their inner demons and battle a nefarious talk show host.

The cast of the upcoming "Wild Hogs" increases in number as Jill Hennessy and Tichina Arnold have committed to star in. Both of them are joining the already on-board cast, including John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy.

While Hennessy is slated to play Allen's wife and Arnold about to play Lawrence's wife, the rest mentioned cast will all star as the bikers, who get more than they bargained for when they encounter a New Mexico gang called the Del Fuegos.

Talking about "Batman Begins" and "King Kong", both besides scoring great in box office, also are making sensation at the 32nd annual Saturn Awards held May 2nd, 2006 in Universal City, Calif.

Bringing home three awards each, as for "Batman Begins" the flick nabs honor for the categories of Best Fantasy Film, Best Actor for Christian Bale, and Best Writing. Meanwhile, "King Kong" wins the categories of Best Actress for Naomi Watts, Best Director for Peter Jackson, and Best Special Effects.

Tom Arnold has at last decided to take the hot job, joining the cast of "P.D.R.". The actor thus will star in the drama flick alongside the likes of Terrence Howard and Bernie Mac.

In the Lionsgate film project, Howard is set to play the role of Jim Ellis, who in the 1970s started a black swim team in one of the roughest neighborhoods in Philadelphia. As for Arnold, he will play the racist swim coach of the rival team.

The next character that Jack Black about to display is a kind of eccentric. The actor reportedly has signed on to star in the upcoming drama comedy "Be Kind Rewind".

Jack is slated to portray a man who becomes accidentally magnetized while trying to sabotage a power plant. His magnetic field erases all the tapes in the video store where his best friend works. To save the store, the duo re-enact and re-film every movie that its single loyal customer, an elderly woman, rents.

Signed on to star in "Tonight, He comes" has made it possible for Will Smith to reunite with director Gabriele Muccino.

Of action drama genre, "Tonight, He Comes" centers on a tortured superhero who crash-lands in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and tries to transform himself by romancing an alluring housewife, causing chaos in the city.

"Walk the Line", the Johnny Cash biopic, nabs the top honor at the 10th annual Prism Awards held Thursday April 29th, 2006 at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The drama movie wins an award for the category of Feature Film Wide Release, thanks to its accurate portrayals of drug, alcohol and tobacco use and addiction within entertainment programming.

Some other winners include Kelly Rowan from "The O.C." who brings home the honor for Performance in a Drama Series Episode for Television category and Lori Loughlin who gets the Performance in a Drama Multi-Episode Storyline for Television honor for her portrayal in "Summerland".