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Rob Marshall could be set to direct Disney's 'Mary Poppins' reboot. The 'Into the Woods' filmmaker has agreed to team up with the studio once again to work on its planned remake of the classic 1964 musical, Variety reports. The new film will take pla...

Rachel McAdams is to star in Marvel's 'Doctor Strange'.
The 36-year-old actress - whose previous film credits include 'The Notebook' and 'Southpaw' - had been widely tipped to appear opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in the movie studio's latest creation.
She said: "I am going to go and do 'Doctor Strange'. A Marvel ... a kind of psychedelic Marvel comic with Benedict Cumberbatch. So yeah, I'm really looking forward to that."
However, at Marvel's insistence, Rachel remained tight-lipped about the specifics of her role.
Asked what she could reveal about her character, she told TheWrap: "I don't know if I can."
Despite being among the most in-demand actresses in Hollywood, Rachel recently confessed she never wanted to become a movie star as a child.
Musing on whether she ever dreamed of being a big screen starlet, she said: "I think it was sort of a vague idea in my mind when I was a kid, when you think, 'What would that be like?' But it wasn't something I really meditated on or planned for in any way.
"I really thought I'd be doing theatre in Canada. I'd grown up doing children's theatre there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theatre company."

Ben Foster took drugs to help him get into character for his role as Lance Armstrong in 'The Program.'
The 34-year-old actor took performance-enhancing drugs, under the supervision of his doctor, to give him a better understanding of the disgraced Tour de France winner.
He told the Guardian newspaper: "For my investigation it was important for me privately to understand it. And they work. Even discussing it feels tricky because it isn't something I'd recommend to fellow actors."
He added: "There's a lot of fallout. Doping affects your mind. It doesn't make you feel high ... I don't know how to separate the chemical influence from the psychological attachment I had to the character. If it's working, it keeps you up at night."
Ben's co-star Chris O'Dowd has defended his decision to take drugs to better his performance, branding it "smart."
He told the BBC: "I think that's a really smart thing and makes sense ...
"I'm not advocating that you [should take drugs for a role], but I'm sure it probably wouldn't hurt your performance."
Armstrong won the Tour de France seven consecutive times between 1999 and 2005, but was wiped of the titles in 2012 after he admitted, following a doping scandal, that he'd used performance-enhancing drugs to better his performance.
'The Program', which follows the rise and fall of the former sportsman's career, will hit UK cinemas on October 16.
A US date for the screening is yet to be released.

Naomi Watts thinks the female voice is "more powerful" than ever in Hollywood.
The 46-year-old British actress has claimed that although there remains a gender inequality between the sexes, things are moving in the right direction.
She reflected: "It feels like the woman's voice, overall, is more powerful [these days].
"And as I get older ... you have a stronger sense of yourself about what you need and what you want. And so you're able to be more proactive about going out there and making it happen.
"And there are a lot more female directors around and a lot more successful female writers, it feels like it's opening up."
Despite this, Naomi acknowledged that inequality remains rife within the movie business, saying she has witnessed it at first hand.
She told Vogue Australia magazine: "[But] it's still not anywhere near equal! I know first-hand, and it's absolutely 100 per cent true."
Earlier this year, Naomi credited her friend Nicole Kidman with helping to build her self-belief and establish herself in Hollywood.
She said: "I was lucky that Nicole Kidman was always there to support me, console me, keep my spirits up and help me believe in myself. She's been such a good friend over the years."

Reg Traviss has been pleasantly "shocked" by the public's reaction to his new movie 'Anti-Social'.
The 38-year-old director of the urban crime thriller has revealed he's been surprised by the response to his film, saying it's unusual for such movies to remain in the cinema for so many weeks.
Asked what he thought about the public's reaction, Reg exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "I was pretty shocked actually, because for the kind of genre it is, no-one really expects films of this sort of genre to last more than about two weeks in the cinema. But it lasted six weeks so we were really happy.
"I think it's always difficult to get people mobilized to go out to the cinema especially when there's so many big, American, corporate, franchise movies which are a lot more appealing to people when they're going out for a night.
"But our audience kept going, and they kept going for six weeks, so we were really happy. We have been really pleased with the reception so far."
Reg's new movie 'Anti-Social' - which features popular British music acts Devlin and Skepta - is available on Blu-ray and DVD now.

Naomi Watts wrote a series of love letters to Matthew McConaughey to prepare for 'The Sea of Trees'.
The 46-year-old actress - who appears alongside the Hollywood hunk in the drama movie - has revealed she sent Matthew some intimate letters as she prepared to play his wife in the upcoming film.
She shared: "We didn't have any time to prep [for the movie] so when Matthew reached out to me via email, I said: 'Do you mind if we write to each other in character?' And he wrote back and said: 'Write at will, Joan.'
"So we proceeded to create this relationship through letters. Some would be just a few lines or something fairly benign, and then other times it would be a long letter about how we failed and how we need to change and accusations of giving up; the same old story, your classic marriage problems."
Naomi said the unusual form of preparation was "great" and it helped her to get into character.
She told Vogue Australia magazine: "Sometimes we would write poetry, sometimes love letters, sometimes stormy letters, sometimes I would leave a voice recording [as Joan] knowing he was going to be shooting in the forest that day. It was great."

Elizabeth Olsen thinks criticism of Marvel's female characters is "ridiculous".
The 26-year-old actress - who appeared in the star-studded 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' earlier this year - has hit back at critics of the franchise, who've argued actresses are being handed weak storylines by movie bosses.
Reflecting on the discussion, Elizabeth said: "I actually think they write amazing women. I think the women exist on their own.
"I think if there ends up being a love interest for any of them, it's not making them a love interest in a story. It's just part of humanity. Everyone is trying to find a mate. That's kind of just how the world has been created.
"So for a superhero to not want that is kind of strange. Like, why are you cutting off the fact that there's another part to them? It's like, okay, so what? Female CEOs and CFOs aren't allowed to, like, have a husband and get married and have a baby?"
And Elizabeth - who plays Scarlet Witch in the Marvel universe - said she has no qualms with the storylines she's been given.
She told Refinery29.com: "I don't understand. So, for me, I love the way they write my character. I love what happens."

Tom Hiddleston found portraying country singer Hank Williams in 'I Saw the Light' a "joy".
The 34-year-old star has never sung in a movie before but revealed he thoroughly enjoyed the experience of playing the music legend.
He said: "I certainly connected to his joy of performing. There's no question that he felt, he took huge pleasure in the connection between himself and his audience."
The 'Avengers' star - who appears alongside Elizabeth Olsen in the movie - knew how to play the guitar and enjoys singing off-screen, but he still had to challenge himself to sound and act exactly like Williams.
He told ET Canada: "It was certainly a journey, like it was a journey to get there. Because I had sang before, I had played the guitar as a student you know, just like everyone else. You know, pick it up and noodle around and play whatever takes your fancy.
"But you know, I knew I had to play and sing like him. But you know it was joy. You couldn't help but feel joy when singing some of the songs."
Meanwhile, Tom revealed the movie was among the quickest he's ever made, saying it took less than two months to complete the filming process.
He explained: "We shot it very fast, we shot the film in 38 days, it's long yeah and it was longer. I was in everyday and in every scene and so I just, I didn't really have time to be myself."

Matt Damon thinks Jason Bourne could "kick the s**t out of Batman".
The Oscar-winning star - who's set to reprise the character in the latest installment in the action movie franchise - has argued Bourne could easily defeat the iconic comic book character, played by his long-time friend Ben Affleck.
Asked who'd win in a fight between the two, Matt said: "Jason Bourne would kick the s**t out of Batman - absolutely!"
The 44-year-old actor also pointed out that Batman's immediate concern ought to be to overcome Superman in the much-anticipated 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice'.
He told E! Online: "Batman's gotta take on Superman first. If he could beat him then maybe he could take on Jason Bourne."
Last month, meanwhile, Matt revealed he waited for "the world to change" before he decided to return to the 'Bourne' franchise.
He shared: "We always looked at those movies as really about the Bush presidency, and so we kind of had to wait for the world to change."
Matt also admitted he and director Paul Greengrass were struggling to think of a new storyline until former US National Security Agency worker Edward Snowden leaked classified information in 2013.
Matt said: "Without giving too much of it away, it's Bourne through an austerity-riddled Europe and in a post-Snowden world."