Stuff.
Joseph Fiennes (FlashFoward, Shakespeare in Love), Eva Green (Casino Royale), Jamie Campbell Bower (Sweeney Todd, The Prisoner) and Tamsin Egerton (St. Trinian's) have been cast in Starz's upcoming series Camelot. The show will take a fresh approach to telling the Arthur story, with Fiennes as the wizard Merlin and Green as the powerful sorceress Morgana. Arthur and Guinevere will be played by Campbell Bower and Egerton, respectively. Production is slated to begin later in June with the 10-episode series premiering in the first part of 2011. (The Futon Critic)
The US trailer for Sam Taylor-Wood's John Lennon biopic, Nowhere Boy, starring Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne-Marie Duff and Thomas Sangster. [imdb]
Amy Ryan will star in the third season of HBO's In Treatment. (Deadline.com)
Ben Kingsley auditions for Michael Bay's Transformers 3 - loses out the role to model/actress Rosie Huntington-Whitely. (Funny or Die)
Sam Mendes' next film will be an adaptation of Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach, about a young couple who are on their honeymoon in 1962. Carey Mulligan (An Education) is to play the female lead. (Deadline.com)
Roland Emmerich (2012) is making a period political thriller, Anonymous, which centres around Edward de Vere, whom some believe was the true author of William Shakespeare's plays. It stars Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Elizabeth I, Rhys Ifans as De Vere, David Thewlis as William Cecil, Rafe Spall as William Shakespeare, and Xavier Samuel as the Earl of Southhampton. [imdb]