British actor Daniel Craig has landed the male lead opposite Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider, the Simon West-directed Paramount film based on the videogame phenomenon. Craig is most renowned for his work in homegrown films such as Elizabeth and Love is the Devil, and for TV work including Our Friends In The North. Oscar-winning Jolie, meanwhile, has offered the world's press another reason why she took on the Lara Croft gig: her ex-husband, Trainspotting star Jonny Lee Miller, was "obsessed" with playing the game. "Jonny used to play Tomb Raider all the time, and I used to compete with this woman. Taking on this part is a woman's revenge, isn't it?" said Jolie.
Liz Hurley will team up for the second time with Brendan Fraser - with whom she stars in Bedazzled - in the forthcoming film version of The Incredible Hulk. Lou Ferrigno, who played the Hulk in the 1970s TV series, is also set to star. "I'm not supposed to talk about it," he told Planet Hollywood.com, "but I am going to be involved in a Hulk movie project with Liz Hurley."
Tom Cruise is in advanced talks with Jerry Maguire director Cameron Crowe about an untitled love story. Cruise is eyeing a late autumn start; he's due to start work on Steven Spielberg's long-delayed Minority Report next spring.
Kevin Spacey may star in K-Pax, a hospital drama about a patient who claims to be from the Utopian planet K-Pax. Iain Softley (The Wings Of The Dove) is attached to direct.
Gary Oldman could be joining X-Men star James Marsden in Interstate 60, a coming-of-age story taking place on a road that does not appear on any map. Michael J Fox and Kurt Russell may make cameo appearances for writer-director Bob Gale.
Charlize Theron will star in an upcoming adaptation of a novella by philosopher-writer Ayn Rand, The Husband I Bought. The pic, which would be the first Rand novel to come to the silver screen since 1949's The Fountainhead, tells of a wealthy woman married to a successful architect, whose life unravels when one of his buildings collapses.
