I hadn’t paid much attention to Friends With Benefits, mostly because any news about it comes out on days I dust the Breadline broom cupboard. But after looking at the existing cast and the latest additons, I’m on board.

Though the official title is actually ‘Untitled Ivan Reitman Comedy’, as he is the director, everyone knows the project by it’s former name Friends With Benefits, so that’s what I’m going with. The title problem is down to the fact that there’s another project with the same name in production at the moment starring Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake which is helmed by Will Gluck.

Anywho, Reitman’s version is shaping up to be the more interesting movie just by the casting alone. Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Olivia Thirlby are already on board but now What Happens In Vegas star Lake Bell and comedian Guy Branum have signed up, according to Variety.

You might remember Lake from stealing pretty much every Vegas scene she was in along with Hot Tub Time Machine star Rob Corddry. Benefits will also be Chelsea Lately regular Guy Branum’s first movie role and hopefully it’ll be the start of big things for the funnyman.

The remake of the classic camp horror Fright Night is gearing up for production as Colin Farrell joins the cast.

According to Deadline Hollywood, the Ondine star has signed up to play the smooth talking vampire-next-door that was played by Chris Sarandon in the 1985 original.

In the role of the heroic teen who spots the vampire for what he really is will be Star Trek’s Anton Yelchin and Toni Collette will play his mother.

Farrell’s also attached to David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis with Marion Cotillard and has joined the cast of Horrible Bosses with Jennifer Aniston.

After two previous failed attempts at working together, it looks like Brad Pitt and Darren Aronofsky have agreed on a project they can stick to.

The first time these two tried to get something made was The Fountain when Pitt was supposed to play the lead in the fantastical epic romance but walked instead. The second time was The Fighter but both of them backed out.

Variety are reporting that The Tiger is the project that will bring the pair together again and hopefully everything will work out because it sounds like an interesting project.

It’s based on the upcoming non-fiction novel by John Vaillant and variety describes the film as taking place, ‘on the Siberian plain where human development is encroaching on the tigers habitat – and one tiger turns on the intruders. As townspeople are tracked and hunted with an almost supernatural power, a conservation-minded game warden must face down the tiger.’

Babel scribe Guillermo Arriaga is set to pen the script even though the novel won’t be released until August. Counting your chickens, Pitt?

It looks like all the classic movies are making their comebacks in the next few years as we’ve already heard about two Dracula reboots, two Frankenstein re-tellings and a Wolfman, I guess it was just a matter of time before the Mummy popped again.

It’s not like we haven’t seen one in a while – we last saw one in 2008 in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Needless to say, I’m in the mood for a revamp of the classic Egyptian horror icon.

Which is just as well because Bob Weinstein’s Dimension Films are in the early stages of putting a mummy’s curse project together. But instead of the usual horror set up where a couple of bright young things are tormented by an unstoppable villain, it’s apparently going to be in the style of last year’s low-budget horror Paranormal Activity.

According to the LA Times, Weinstein has Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego in final negotiations to write and direct the movie. In these financially strained times, the project is going the Paranormal route in an effort to save money. Not only will they be able to jump on the unseen horror bandwagon but also because special effects like the ones seen in the Brendan Fraser franchise are costly.

The movie is currently called The Mummy Archives but I wouldn’t hold my breath on that title remaining. The only big question is that if Weinstein wants to cash in on the low-budget horror, does this mean he’s opting out of 3D?