Anne HathawayDirector David O. Russell's follow-up to "The Fighter" (in theaters tomorrow) has long been expected to be his adaptation of the video game, "Uncharted: Drake's Fortune."

But a source tells Showbiz 411's Roger Friedman that Russell's next project will likely be "The Silver Linings Playbook," a film which the director was first attached to back in 2008. More importantly, Anne Hathaway has reportedly already signed on to play the female lead, while Bradley Cooper is being courted for the male lead.

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A few weeks back, MTV's Josh Horowitz coaxed Dan Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Tom Felton -- the very British stars of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1" -- into employing their best American accents. The result was the viral sensation "American Talk," one of MTV News' most-viewed videos ever.

While at the Paris press junket for "The Tourist," Josh did something similar with Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, engaging the stars in a humorous game of "Parisian Password." For the uninitiated, Password is a game where one player tries to guess a word or phrase based on one-word clues given by another player. Parisian Password is Password where only French terms are in play. You get it. And trust us, you don't need to parlez vous French to enjoy this.

What do you think of "Parisian Password"? Tell us in the comments!

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Howard SternSo who in Twitter-Wood is thankful for Howard Stern sticking it out for another five years with Sirius Radio? Well, John Stamos, Neil Patrick Harris and Brent Spiner for starters. Much of our feed breathed a collective sigh of relief this morning when news of Stern's renewed deal broke.

As for Seth Meyers, I don't know how he felt about the Stern announcement, but he was appreciative of Mindy Kaling's congratulatory tweet today after he made headlines as the next White House Correspondents' Association Dinner host. His reaction, along with Greg Mottola on "Superbad 2," Jon Favreau on doing the Soulja Boy dance and David Slade on "Eclipse" await you after the jump

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Jessica BielIt looks like Ashton Kutcher isn't the only Valentine's Day sucker who also loves to ring in the New Year. The Hollywood Reporter has the word that Jessica Biel is also going to be returning for the "Valentine's Day" follow-up, "New Year's Eve."

As with Kutcher, it's unclear whether Biel is going to reprising her character from the previous film. In "New Year's Eve," she's playing a married pregnant woman who is trying to be the first to give birth on New Year's Day in order to win a cash prize from the hospital. This doesn't seem to gibe with her career woman in "Valentine's Day" -- but who knows, maybe she did marry Jamie Fox's character and get pregnant during the 10-month break. If so, they sure moved quickly. Read More...

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Russell BrandRussell Brand is already bringing back the '80s in his remake of the 1981 comedy "Arthur," but he isn't stopping there. Deadline has the news that he's signed on to a film remake of the British television comedy "RentaGhost," which ran from 1976 to 1984. The feature comedy is already being described as being in the vein of Tim Burton's 1988 comedy "Beetlejuice."

Brand will star as Fred Mumford, a recently deceased man who's determined to be more productive in the afterlife than he was during his mortal one. He meets up with some other ghosts and attempts to start a temp agency for the dead where they can rent themselves out for the living. Unsurprisingly, things go a bit awry. Read More...

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The new "Transformers: Dark Of The Moon" trailer has hit the Internet, giving viewers a first look at the third installment in Michael Bay's robot-vs.-robot franchise. The trailer is surprisingly light on the AWESOME explosions and robotic violence that will no doubt comprise 90 percent of the film, instead subtly setting up the movie's premise: that 41 years ago Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were sent to the moon not to collect space rocks, take soil samples and come up with clever one liners ("One small step..."), but to investigate a mysterious crash landing on the orb's dark side. What they found there was a ginormous wrecked spacecraft that was piloted by a mammoth, as-yet-unidentified robot (we're thinking Alpha Trion, one of the 13 original Transformers).

Transformers throughout history

The trailer got us to thinking. Our planet's history over the past 50-60 years has been quite an interesting one, filled with devastating wars and world-famous weddings, free-spirited concerts and sad farewell performances, inspirational speeches and the equally inspirational tearing down of walls. Sadly, all of our world's watershed events share one thing in common: a distinct lack of giant robots. Read More...

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Johnny DeppFor almost as long as Johnny Depp and his collaborators have been developing an adaptation of the deeply strange '60s soap opera, "Dark Shadows," they've been talking publicly about what a truly complex task it is.

"It's one thing to adapt a weekly television series into a movie — it's another thing to take a soap opera that's been serialized daily and try to boil it down to two hours," Sam Sarkar, Depp's producing partner, told MTV News in March '09. Read More...

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By Gaby Izarra, winner of MTV's Ultimate "Tourist" Guest Correspondent contest

His shirt was tattered in a fashion-statement kind of way, and his tan was very Jack Sparrow. My encounter with him seemed way too casual for it to be a real live interview with one of the most prominent actors of our era, Johnny Depp. Yet there I was, sitting across from the erstwhile Edward Scissorhands and Mad Hatter, chatting with him at the Paris press junket for his new movie, "The Tourist."

When I mentioned I was from Miami, Johnny told me that he used to live in Miramar, Florida -- a mere 20 miles from my home. And when he smiled, I caught a glimpse of Jack Sparrow's gold teeth. A moment later, the chatting ceased so we could begin the four-minute interview. Read More...

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As "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" continues to chart its course toward a theater near you (it will drop anchor there on May 21, 2011), more and more images and information about Jack Sparrow's fourth adventure have started rolling our way.

Depp and Cruz in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Today we've got the first official "Pirates 4" photographs from Warner Bros. -- one featuring Sparrow alongside his former fling Angelica (Penelope Cruz) and another in which Jack and Angelica come face-to-face with the evil Blackbeard (Ian McShane). Click on the photo above to see all six pics. Read More...

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The first trailer for Michael Bay's third Autobots-vs.-Decepticons flick, "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," has arrived and, unsurprisingly, it has zero Megan Fox in it (a side effect of, you know, her not being in the movie). Somewhat surprisingly, however, the trailer also fails to feature star Shia LaBeouf, new leading lady Rosie Huntington-Whiteley... and any robot-induced mayhem. It does boast a whole lot of astronaut Neil Armstrong (or, rather, a guy playing him) and even a little Walter Cronkite (portraying himself in archival footage).

That's because the trailer is a teaser in the truest sense of the word, delving back some 40 years into history to show humankind's first encounter with the giant robots that, in the modern day, use Earth as their playground/battleground. Interspersing real archival footage of Cronkite and NASA with a reenactment of Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's historic moon landing, the trailer reveals what the astronauts found on the dark side of the moon (so that's where the title comes from!). Read More...

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