Lisa’s Entertainment Report
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• Robert DeNiro has signed on to play legendary coach Vince Lombardi in an upcoming biopic. The film, titled Lombardi, will focus on the years he rebuilt the Green Bay Packers into NFL champions. Producers hope to have the film out sometime before Super Bowl 2012.
• Fox 411 reports that The Office's John Krasinski is the frontrunner to star in Captain America. "John has read 4 times and is doing screen tests. He has screen tested 2 times so far," said a source. "It's very likely that he will be the new Captain America. He is a favorite among the key decision makers and has been asked to come back for more this week.
• Liv Tyler and Patrick Wilson will join Terrence Howard and Charlie Hunnam in the suspense film The Ledge. The film centers on a man (Hunnam), perched on a high-rise ledge who claims he must jump by noon. Howard plays the policeman trying to manage the situation.
• Liam Hemsworth, who stars alongside girlfriend Miley Cyrus in the upcoming drama The Last Song, has joined the 3D adventure Arabian Nights. He'll play a young commander who, after the king is murdered, joins forces with Sinbad and Aladdin to rescue Queen Scherazade.
• Charlie Sheen's rep confirmed reports that the actor will be out of rehab and back at work on Two and a Half Men starting March 19th.
• Transformers' Kevin Dunn will star alongside Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Farina in the new HBO series Luck. Nick Nolte is also in talks to join the project, which takes a look at the worlds of horse racing and gambling through a diverse group of characters.
• Hairspray's Brittany Snow will star in the David E. Kelley pilot Kindreds, a dramedy about a former patent lawyer, played by Kathy Bates, and a group of misfit associates at a storefront law firm.
• Former 24 star Sarah Wynter has joined the cast of the ABC pilot Cutthroat, about an upscale Beverly Hills widow and soccer mom, played by Rosalyn Sanchez, who runs an international drug cartel.
• CBS has ordered a second season of Undercover Boss, which premiered after the Super Bowl. The series follows CEOs as they go undercover with a camera crew in their own operations.
