Mark Wahlberg

Mark Wahlberg

Ok so this week at the cinema Love Happens, Pixar's Up and Zombieland are the big releases that look set to dominate the box office at the end of the weekend.

But it's time to look past the new releases and take a peak at what movies and performances are on the horizon.

- Mark Wahlberg has signed to star in Reykavick-Rotterdam, a remake of the Icelandic thriller.

According to the Hollywood Reporter the script will be written by Aaron Guzikowski and Baltasar Kormakur is set to direct.

The movie follows and ex-alcohol smuggler, now a security guard, who is tempted back into a life of crime when money becomes an issue.

- It was revealed this week that Beyonce is in talks to star in the big screen adaptation of Wonder Woman.

But that's not all the singer turned actress has in the pipeline oh no as she wants to make a movie about her father.

Matthew Knowles manages his daughter's solo career and was a driving force behind girl band Destiny's Child.

Speaking to Billboard she said: "I'd like to do a film loosely based on my father's childhood and school years.

"He's had an interesting life. But that will probably be in a couple of years."

- Since her performances in Wedding Crashers and Confessions of a Shopaholic actress Isla Fisher's star has been on the rise.

And Universal Pictures are so confident with this young actress that they are developing not one but two projects for her to star in.

She is linked with movie Life Coach as a young woman who visits a life coach only to discover that she is even more worse off.

She is also attached to an unnamed romantic comedy.

- Work is rumoured to have begun on a 3D stop motion animation Postman Pat movie.

The film is set to be produced by John Cinliffe, according to The Mirror, and will follow the regular story of a postman delivering letters with his cat Jess.

The film is tentatively penciled in for a 2011 release.

- Matt Groening has revealed that there are no current plans for a Simpsons movie sequel.

Speaking in Cannes, at a TV industry event  Matt Groening said: "I suppose someday there might be a sequel, but not yet."

The Simpsons came to the big screen back in 2007 and was a huge box office success as it went on to gross $527 million at the global box office.

FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw


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