Holy corn nuts, Julie Delpy is actually making a sequel to her 2 Days in Paris, and Chris Rock is in the mix? This is much better and more interesting casting news than Jessica Alba in Spy Kids 4.

Confirming its IMDb listing, Kyle Gallner (A Nightmare on Elm Street), Allison Scagliotti and Tania Raymonde have been cast in Losers Takes All, a film, set in the world of mid-1980s American independent rock music, that
follows a fictional punk/pop band as they stumble and stagger in what
everyone thinks is the opposite direction of success — commercial or
otherwise.

Written by Andrew Pope and Winn Coslick, the film began principal photography earlier this week in and around Memphis, Tennessee, with Alex Steyermark (Prey for Rock & Roll, One Last Thing) at the helm. Perhaps most intriguing and promising is that the criminally under-appreciated Marshall Crenshaw will pen songs for the movie, and work with the actors to put together a band whose sound recalls the emergent indie/punk sound of ’80s college radio.

Adult film starlet turned The Girlfriend Experience topliner Sasha Grey has found another legit film role in the form of I Melt With You, according to the Hollywood Reporter. A low-budget drama set to be directed by Mark Pellington, who most recently helmed Henry Poole Is Here, the film follows a group of college buddies (Thomas Jane, Rob Lowe and Jeremy Piven) who, as adults, have their annual summer reunion, look within themselves and find nothing but emptiness. So naturally, they do that thing disaffected adults do, namely resurrect a drunken college pact to “live free,” or something. Grey will play a character named Raven, described as “a free spirit who helps one of the men realize that nirvana can only be achieved by death.” Members of Modern English will be stoked to hear the news, no doubt.

UPDATE, December 5, 2011: For a chat with Piven about the movie, meanwhile, click here.

It’s been a long time delayed since its first announcement in 2008, but Universal has moved the boulder of another Jason Bourne flick further up the hill, signing screenwriter Tony Gilroy to pen a treatment and bible for the proposed fourth film, The Bourne Legacy. Gilroy, of course, had at least a hand in writing all of the first three Bourne flicks, before jumping behind the camera and directing his own scripts for Michael Clayton and Duplicity. Universal wants to stay in business with Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass, but they won’t yet commit, so different options are on the table. Regardless of what Greengrass ultimately decides (and after three films together, there has to be some fatigue), it’s hard to see Damon walking away from a franchise like this, especially with Gilroy on board.

Woody Allen has released the title, cast and plot details of his next film, set to shoot this summer in Paris. The title is Midnight in Paris and the genre bent is romantic comedy. The film follows a family traveling
to the city for business. The party includes a young engaged couple who find their lives transformed by the journey. The film celebrates
a young man’s great love for Paris, and simultaneously explores the
ever-present human illusion people have that a life different from their own is always somehow better. Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates and Carla Bruni will star. Also in the cast are Michael Sheen, Nina Arianda, Tom Hiddleston, Corey Stoll, Mimi Kennedy and Kurt Fuller.

From The Hollywood Reporter‘s Heat Vision blog, word that Olivia Wilde is deep in negotiations to join Daniel Craig in the sci-fi western Cowboys and Aliens, which Jon Favreau is directing for DreamWorks. Wilde would play a character named Ella, who joins up with mysterious gunslinger in an unlikely uprising against an alien invasion; Craig is playing the gunslinger, taking over the role from Robert Downey, Jr., who dropped out in January to jump into a fast-tracked Sherlock Holmes sequel. This would be good news for fans of alluring eyebrows, no doubt.

Interesting news from India, where Helen Mirren is in talks to reprise her role as Queen Elizabeth II from The Queen, and Tom Hanks and Tommy Lee Jones might be cast as Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon, respectively, in director Krishna Shah’s sprawling, two-part biopic of assassinated Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi. The starring role in the $60-million-plus production will be played by Madhuri Dixit.

Oscar-winning Man on Wire director James Marsh has inked for his next gig, according to The Hollywood Reporter: The Vatican Tapes, a supernatural thriller about leaked video evidence of an exorcism gone wrong. Gary Lucceshi, Tom Rosenberg, Chris Cowles and co-screenwriter Chris Morgan will produce; Lionsgate will distribute domestically. The script’s the thing, but on the surface this is certainly a good matching of man and material.

Old-ish news, but Steve Carell is out and Mel Gibson is in for Kyle Killen’s dark comedy The Beaver, according to Variety. In addition to directing, Jodie Foster will also play the wife of Gibson’s screwy depressive, who finds solace in sporting a beaver hand puppet. Slightly weird pairing on the surface, but makes some sense given the Maverick history, I guess. Will Gibson fans — to the extent that they still constitute a mass worth considering, financially — really indulge an arty, non-vengeful side project, though?

After a couple weeks of swirling rumors, Variety is reporting that Oliver Stone is set to return to the Wall Street sequel that may or may not still be called Money Never Sleeps. There were early attempts to pooh-pooh the certainty of Stone’s re-upping, but this is a no-brainer, of course, since Stone yearns for big-league relevance, as both World Trade Center and the play-nice, concessionary inclinations of his Dubya biopic indicate. Not doing this movie would go against the grain of what’s in his blood, especially given the current economic climate. So Stone is in, Michael Douglas is back, and Edward Pressman is again on board as producer. Naturally, perhaps because Chris Pine is somehow deemed too old (or maybe because the ridiculous wig he’s forced to sport in Bottle Shock is still secretly being held against him by Hollywood), none other than Shia LaBeouf is in talks to join Douglas, who talked on a comically large cell phone and won an Oscar as Gordon Gekko in the original 1987 film.

His first film, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, still hasn’t hit theaters, but Jonathan Levine, writer-director of The Wackness, has found another project, according to The Hollywood Reporter: Fox Atomic’s The Sitter, billed as “an irreverent comedy that will harken back to 1987’s Adventures in Babysitting,” following a (male?) college student who, after getting suspended for a semester, returns home and gets talked into babysitting the eccentric kids next door. OK, fine, but where’s the babe factor? Because guys will not want to pay to see a guy babysitting kids, period. Even if it’s Justin Long or Jonah Hill.

After 10 years and three studios, Peter and Bobby Farrelly have finally hammered out the above-line casting for their long-in-gestation Three Stooges flick, according to Variety. Sean Penn has signed to play Larry, and talks are proceeding with Benicio Del Toro to play Moe, and a beefed-up Jim Carrey to play Curly. This all seems about right. I’ve always thought that the Russell Crowe rumors were a bad idea.

From the future Oscar nomination files, per studio email blast yesterday, Anne Hathaway has been attached to star as iconic performer Judy Garland in film and stage adaptations of Gerald Clarke’s 2001 biography Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland, both for The Weinstein Company. Based on hundreds of interviews plus Garland’s own unfinished and unpublished autobiography, Get Happy delves into the dramatic highs and lows of the cultural icon’s life — from her tumultuous early years as a child performer to her tragic last days. “We’re thrilled to have the brilliantly talented Anne Hathaway portray stage and screen legend Judy Garland,” said Harvey Weinstein. “I’ve worked with Anne on projects in the past and have known her for many years, and she will be a true class act in this challenging role. Gerald Clarke’s biography is a fascinating and comprehensive look at Garland’s life, and is particularly outstanding because of its exclusive details from her own writings. Her story is incredible subject matter for both theater and film, and we look forward to bringing it to audiences.” Unstated but understood is that Weinstein also looks forward to the awards campaign for the film, culminating in a Best Actress nomination for Hathaway.

Keira Knightley has been cast in the sci-fi thriller Never Let Me Go for Fox Searchlight, Variety is reporting. Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo) will direct the cloning-themed pic, which will also star Andrew Garfield and Carey Mulligan. The plot centers around a trio who grow up at a boarding school with no contact or knowledge of the outside world until they discover they’re clones grown for the sole purpose of organ donation. Sounds like a cross between The Island, 1992’s The Harvest and The Village. So, err… Island Village Harvest, anyone?

Michel Gondry is in final negotiations to jump into the director’s chair for The Green Hornet, according to a Sony Pictures Twitter update from several hours ago. Good times… I’ll have to ask him about it when I interview him later this week. It’d certainly be his most outwardly commercial cinematic leap to date, and if they give him carte blanche on the visuals it could prove interesting.

Missed it from a couple days ago, but, per Variety, Liev Schreiber — whose name is an affront to automatic spell-checks everywhere — is in talks to join Angelina Jolie in Phillip Noyce’s spy thriller Salt, as Jolie’s boss and friend on the Russian desk at the CIA.

Woody Allen has cast Josh Brolin and Anthony Hopkins in his latest film, it was announced today. Another return to Europe for Allen, the new, untitled film shoots in London this summer and re-teams the director with financer Mediapro, the Spain-based company which also funded Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Additional cast members are expected to be announced shortly. Sony Pictures Classics recently acquired Allen’s next completed film, Whatever Works, which will release theatrically June 23.