A lot of projects fell through on Little Miss Sunshine filmmakers Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris in the five years since their film exploded at the Sundance Film Festival but their streak finally came to an end with their next movie, He Loves Me, starting production shortly.

Prep work continued on David O. Russell’s adaptation of Matthew Quick’s novel The Silver Linings Playbook with Winter’s Bone and X-Men: First Class actress Jennifer Lawrence in talks for the role of an eccentric neighbor who befriends a former high school teacher trying to restart his life after being institutionalized for depression.

We went ape for a chance to have a chat with the extremely talented Andy Serkis, frequent collaborator with Peter Jackson as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and now starring as the ape Caesar alongside James Franco.

FilmNation Entertainment announced today that V for Vendetta and Ninja Assassin director James McTeigue signed on to helm their upcoming thriller Message from the King, the story of Jacob King, a stranger to Los Angeles who scours the city in order to find out what happened to his missing sister.

McTeigue previously worked with FilmNation Entertainment on the period drama The Raven starring John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe.

In Treatment and True Blood cast member Dane Dehaan joined director Derek Cianfrance’s follow-up to his critical hit Blue Valentine.

Variety reported that DeHaan landed one of the major roles in The Place Beyond the Pines, set to begin filming in late July around Schenectady, New York.

Tyler Posey’s break out summer continued with full gusto. MTV quickly renewed his fantasy drama Teen Wolf due to the show becoming the cable outlet’s highest-rated new series in two years in the 12-34 demographic in its first seven episodes.

Posey’s career ascent continued with Variety reporting on his landing a lead role in the upcoming indie film White Frog.

Arnold Schwarzenegger remained committed to jump-starting his acting career post-governor's office and his infidelity scandal and divorce with wife Maria Shriver via his commitment to the Lionsgate western The Last Stand. Schwarzenegger agreed to play what a Lionsgate exec described as a border town sheriff facing a drug cartel leader trying to escape across the Mexican border.

Enchanted director Kevin Lima signed on to helm the DreamWorks Animation musical Monkeys of Mumbai; joining an impressive pool of talent.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lima joined producers Lisa Stewart and Chris Chase as well as writers Gurinder Chadha and Paul Berges (Bride & Prejudice and Bend It Like Beckham), lyricist Stephen Schwartz (Wicked) and composer A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire) on the tale based on the Indian epic Ramayana, about a man battling a demon who’s kidnapped his wife.

Transformers producers Don Murphy and Susan Montford made a lot of fans happy today with their news of acquiring popular 1990’s cartoon Captain Planet, featuring a hero who promotes environmental themes in addition to battling super villains, for a live-action movie.

The Red Star, Christian Gossett’s comic book series set in a futuristic, Soviet Russia-inspired fantasy world, was originally set to become a movie at Universal Pictures.