Ali Larter

Film

• John Cusack’s Stopping Power is back on track
• Brett Ratner and Christ Tucker take on Frank Sinatra – and his valet
• Katherine Heigl picks up the rights to Lost & Found, so she can make it with her mum
• Isla Fisher to star in Confessions of a Shopaholic adaptation
• Ryan Phillippe and Eva Green join futuristic London-set thriller Franklyn
• Brad Pitt to star opposite Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter
• Wild Geese to be remade
• Resident Evil 4 to focus on Ali Larter?
• Warner not best pleased with JJ Abrams

Australian TV

• First look at Matt Lucas in Kath & Kim

British TV

• It sounds like a joke, but UKTV G2 is taking over UKTV Bright Ideas’ slot on Freeview and renaming itself – as Dave. Yes, Dave
• Win a walk-on part in Shameless
• Five to get a Spring refresh?
• Living unveils its 2008 line-up, including Army Wives, Lipstick Jungle and Viva Laughlin
• Blue Peter‘s cat-naming poll was fixed

US TV

• Brit actors Gina McKee and Sienna Guillory join the cast of The Oaks
• FX making a modern day Parallax View called Paranoid, from the screenwriter of Fight Club
• The Wire‘s writers come up with a spoof final scene
• Fall series might have to drop their budgets
• A Lost character rises from the dead (spoiler)