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Emma Watson and her "Harry Potter" director David Yates could be reuniting for the big screen, just don't expect the boy wizard to be involved. In other news, Ed Harris and Michael Bay could also be reuniting, Colin Firth ties the "Devil's Knot" and Alan Arkin, Al Pacino and Christopher Walken turned out to be "Stand Up Guys."

It's February 2, and you're tuning in to today's casting call.

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We don't know whether to thank or send hate mail to Adam Sandler and the rest of the crew of "Jack and Jill" for now making us wonder what our favorite actors would look like, to put it bluntly, as ladies. With "Jack and Jill" making its theatrical debut today, MTV's brilliant in-house Photoshop expert Sohyung Kang put the heads of four of our favorite actors on the bodies of some sexy women just to see what the result would be. And, to be honest, we're a bit turned on and put off by how pretty Robert Pattinson ended up being.

It's okay to dislike some of their make-up decisions -- that lipstick is not your shade, Alice Pacino -- but we definitely think this opens up some creative options for Pattinson, Pacino, Ryan Gosling and Daniel Radcliffe in the future. If Glenn Close can so convincingly switch genders in "Albert Nobbs" and Sandler can not-quite-as-convincingly switch them in "Jack and Jill," we think these guys could have something going for them as well.

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FROM MTV MOVIES: Hard to believe, but when Brian De Palma's "Scarface" was released in 1983, it wasn't the beloved cult classic it is now. Critics panned the underworld drama in which actor Al Pacino played Tony Montana, a Cuban refugee who went from dishwasher to cocaine drug lord.

Today, the film lives in infamy with its ultra-violent-yet-indelible scenes and quotable one-liners like "Say hello to my little friend." Most of the appreciation and film's support has come from rappers, a fact not lost on Pacino.

"The hip-hop people and the rappers got together and they made a video and they talked about the movie. I don't think anybody's ever talked about it as articulately and clearly. I understood it better having heard them talk about it," Pacino told MTV News on the red carpet for a party celebrating the Blu-ray release for "Scarface" on Tuesday night. "I mean, they really get it and they understand it, and that's a great thing. They've been very supportive all these years. I think they've helped us tremendously."

Read the full story at MTV Movies!

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The "G.I. Joe" sequel has already gotten rocked, and now it's about to get jinxed.

Despite the fact that most of the original "Rise of Cobra" actors are not returning for the developing "G.I. Joe 2," it looks like the ranks are filling out quite nicely all the same: on the heels of Dwayne Johnson's casting as Roadblock comes news from Heat Vision that Elodie Yung is playing the ninja Jinx. She'll next be seen as Rooney Mara's lesbian lover in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."

Get the rest of today's biggest casting news past the jump!

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Once a gangster, always a gangster.

Al Pacino, famous for his crime-ridden roles in "The Godfather" and "Donnie Brasco," is returning to the genre once again for "Gotti: Three Generations," reports The Hollywood Reporter. He'll appear opposite John Travolta and Kelly Preston as Gambino crime family underboss Neil Dellacroce, an associate and mentor of John Gotti Sr.

Click past the jump for more of today's biggest casting news, including Chris Hemsworth's new role and Charlie Hunnam's date with a monster.

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The 2011 Sundance Film Festival kicked off today in Park City, Utah, and you've probably noticed that MTV has already been featuring clips and set visits from many of the fest's most anticipated flicks. Well, we've got another one for you, and it's a doozy: the trailer premiere for Sundance's big closing-night film "Son Of No One," featuring a stellar ensemble cast that includes Channing Tatum, Katie Holmes, Al Pacino, Ray Liotta, Juliette Binoche and -- in his first true dramatic role -- "30 Rock" funnyman Tracy Morgan. Check out the trailer below.

Directed by Sundance vet Dito Montiel ("A Guide to Recognizing Our Saints," "Fighting"), "Son of No One" follows two friends (Tatum and Morgan) forced to face the consequences of a murder they committed -- and got away with -- 16 years earlier. Tatum's character Jonathan "Milk" White has gone on to a successful career with the police force and has a happy home life with his wife (Holmes) and Child. Morgan's character Vinnie has kind of gone the other way. When Milk is assigned to the precinct where he grew up, his decade-and-a-half-old secret threatens to tear apart his life and his family. Read more...

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As MTV Movies managing editor Josh Horowitz put it when I shared this news, "bazonkers." Martin Scorsese has long had a Frank Sinatra biopic on his docket. True, it's just one of a torrent of other in-development Scorsese project. But it's also something that people want to see, so perhaps he'll be able to squeeze it in between "Hugo Cabret" and "The Irishman." Hopefully, because he's now on record as saying that he'd like Al Pacino for the Sinatra role and Robert De Niro for the crooner's longtime collaborator, Dean Martin. He also said that the plan involves going through "three or four different Sinatras" in order to best capture the singer's colorful career. This is all hoped-for casting of course, but Scorsese is generally the kind of director who gets what he wants. Check out the full report on The Playlist (via Indian newspaper The Hindu).

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It seems that Al Pacino has long had a Napoleon complex. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he's cherished the idea of playing the famous French emperor for years, and is now getting his chance by signing on to play Bonaparte in "Betsy and the Emperor."

Directed by John Curran ("The Painted Veil") from a screenplay by Brian Edgar, the independent film will be based on the children's book by Staton Rabin. It's based on the true story of Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe, whose father was Napoleon's jailer during his exile on St. Helena. The two struck up a friendship and rumors flew that the exiled Emperor was romancing the teenager, though they have never been proven. Read more...

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"King Lear" is one of those starring roles that actors are supposed to dread -- at least according to my Shakespeare professor. Apparently, once you're old enough to play Lear, you're done and there are no more great roles left for you.

Either Al Pacino is comfortable with that, or he doesn't bother with such silly fears, because Variety reports that he's taking on the role of the aged king for Michael Radford. "Al has been offered this role many times over the years, but didn't feel ready," says the film's producer Barry Navidi said. "He's ready now."

Working with Radford probably helps -- the director and actor previously tackled Shakespeare together for "The Merchant of Venice" in 2004.

You know the story -- "King Lear" is one of Shakespeare's darkest plays, where an aged king decides to divide his kingdom up among his three daughters, offering the largest share to the one who loves him best. Two of his daughters connive and flatter him, while his youngest, Cordelia, refuses to put her affection to such a test. The story is a descent into atrocity and horror, and may just have the bleakest ending in all of literature.

We might treated to some off-camera drama as well -- Pacino's "Lear" is now the second in production, and will be a rival to Anthony Hopkins' performance, who will play Lear for director Joshua Michael Stern, and be father to Keira Knightley, Naomi Watts, and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Both productions are taking the traditional approach, and will be set in England's Dark Ages. I sense a publicity race around the corner.

MTV readers, who is your preferred King Lear -- Hopkins or Pacino? Which adaptation do you want to see more?

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FROM MTV.COM: Meet Tom "Turk" Cowan (Robert De Niro). Turk loves his job. He loves the way it allows him to combine his fiercest passion with his favorite activity. "I hate scumbags," he says. "And I like killing people."

Turk is a cop, and a hothead, and over the course of his 30 years as a detective with the NYPD, he and his genial, wisecracking partner, David "Rooster" Fisk (Al Pacino), have put away a lot of scumbags. Lately, though, it appears that Turk has been freelancing, too. We know this from the very beginning of "Righteous Kill," because the movie opens with a videotaped interrogation (which also serves as narration for the rest of the picture) in which Turk, looking straight into the camera, confesses to doing a number of very bad things. Read More On MTV.com

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