When you think Woody Allen, actors like Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts and Mia Farrow are the names that most immediately come to mind. But these days, the king of all New York filmmakers has been busy injecting his usual recipe with some spicy Spanish flavoring.

"'Vicky Cristina Barcelona,'" star Javier Bardem told us of the film's title. "That's the name of the American characters, which are Rebecca Hall ('The Prestige') and Scarlett Johansson. [They're] the two girls that go to our salon; but I don't know if that is going to be the final title or not."

As any fan of the 71-year-old filmmaker knows, not only is Allen still doing his best to crank out a movie a year (he's only missed 1991 since the early Eighties), but he has also maintained a Spielberg-esque routine of keeping his modestly-budgeted films as secret as possible.

"[Johansson and Hall play tourists] who are coming to Barcelona, and it's about relationships," Bardem said of the film, due in theaters next year. "Penelope Cruz plays [my] ex-wife, and there is a triangle there - but it is much more than that." Read more...

In movies like "Flightplan," "Skeleton Key" and "Jarhead," Peter Sarsgaard has gravitated towards characters straddling the conventional lines of morality - soon, in "Rendition", he'll do it again as a Senate aide torn between defense and decency.

Next up for Sarsgaard? Two more morally ambiguous movies, both based on novels.

"I did this movie with Tommy Lee Jones called 'In the Electric Mist,' directed by this French cat Bertrand Tavernier," Sarsgaard said of the veteran French filmmaker, who'll make his American debut with the drama about an actor embroiled in a murder mystery. "It's based off a James Lee Burke novel called 'In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead.'" Read more...

Earlier this year, "Easy Rider" icon Peter Fonda paid tribute to his motorcycle movie lineage with an enjoyably evil role in "Ghost Rider." Now, his legendary partner-in-crime is eager to do the same...with some help from Quentin Tarantino. "I am doing a motorcycle movie this year that Quentin Tarantino is producing," Dennis Hopper told us this week, confirming rumors that he'd been cast in the currently-filming action film "Hell Ride," which co-stars the pic's writer and director, Larry Bishop.

The old-school flick, which tells the story of three tough guys (veteran "Kill Bill 2” actor Bishop, Michael Madsen and "24” heartthrob Eric Balfour) settling a score between them, is described as a modern day "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly," and is currently filming in the Los Angeles area. "I am playing Eddie 'Scratch' Zero," laughed Hopper, a "Blue Velvet"-like wickedness growing across his face. "And I couldn't possibly begin telling you who that is, but he is weird enough."

Adding that "I know Quentin and I love all of his work," the actor who so memorably delivered Tarantino's dialogue in "True Romance" added that when Tarantino and Bishop asked him to hop back on a hog one more time, he couldn't say no.

In other news, Hopper revealed to MTV that he hopes to step behind the camera again soon. "I am going to direct another movie this next year," said the tireless counter-culture icon, who recently turned 71. Hopper also will be seen in two more films coming out later this year. "I just did a thing with Charlize Theron, who produced her first movie," he said of the drama. "I play her father in it, and it's a terrific thing called 'Ferris Wheel.' [Another is] a wonderful thing with Penelope Cruz and Sir Ben Kingsley called 'Elegy,' based on the Philip Roth novel 'The Dying Animal,'" Hopper said of the impressively-cast sexual drama, which also includes Patricia Clarkson, Deborah Harry and Peter Sarsgaard. "I play Ben Kingsley's best friend. We are both womanizers and college professors, and I am giving him advice on how to have an affair with a younger woman."