Inception star Cillian Murphy is set to star with Thandie Newton in new movie The Retreat, according to US reports.

The 34-year-old Irish actor, who is starring opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Christopher Nolan’s new flick, will start filming the new feature later this year in Wales.

He will play the husband of Thandie Newton’s character in the movie, which has already seen Sony Pictures take its UK rights.

According to movie website Deadline, the pair will play a married couple who rent an isolated island cottage to try and repair their marriage.

But one day they find a man in a biohazard suit washed up on the shore near their house and he tells them that everybody on the mainland has been killed by a virus.

From Monsters and Critics

Thandie has signed on to replace Mariah Carey in the new Tyler Perry film, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf”. Actor, Omari Hardwick, confirmed that Thandie is joining the cast to Hollyscoop.

Perhaps he hasn’t gotten the “great news, we’re expecting” memo from Mimi yet, but one thing he could confirm is that Thandie Newton is going to replace Mariah in the Tyler Perry flick. “Thandie Newton is now doing it…Thandie has joined the cast,” he said.

Thandie Newton, Jason Isaacs and David Tennant are attached to star in Magnet Films’ psychological thriller Retreat.

The film, to be directed by newcomer Carl Tibbetts, follows a couple (played by Newton and Isaacs) who are seeking to rebuild their relationship by taking time out on a remote island but their peace is shattered when they find a man in military uniform (Tennant) half-dead on their doorstep who tells them there is a lethal virus killing millions on the mainland.

Tibbetts co-wrote the script with Janice Hallett and shooting is due to begin in May in Canada.

Magnet Films producer Gary Sinyor said: “It reminded me of Dead Calm when I first read it. Only better. It’s got a similar sexual tension but the battle of wits between the characters and plot twists are constantly surprising. We’re delighted to have secured three of the UK’s most powerful actors.”

It is UK based Magnet Film’s first foray into thrillers, following romantic comedy In Your Dreams, rock and roll adventure The Story Of _ and football documentary In The Hands Of The Gods.

From Screen Daily

Previously, I reported that Tyler Perry is going to take a bold new step and adapt a play that isn’t his. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf, by Ntozake Shange is a color-based series of monologues (colors like red and blue, not ethnic colors).

While doing press for Friday’s Tyler Perry release I Can Do Bad All By Myself, Perry gave some details about how he’s going to adapt the play. The characters have been placed in a Crash-like story device where their lives will intertwine even if the characters don’t know it. One character will start a clinic for colored girls, which will also provide an ample stage for the monologues and stories from the play.

Perry also teased that his version of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf would have a “dream cast” of Black and possibly Latina women. To the general press, he said that had made six phone calls thus far and all six actresses contacted were excited to be involved.

Apparently, Wilson Morales of Black Voices, got slightly more information:

Well, while promoting his latest film, ‘I Can Do Bad All By Myself,’ which opens Sept. 11, Perry talked about who he wanted to appear in the movie. Among the chosen few are Oscar winner Halle Berry, Angela Bassett, Ruby Dee, Cicely Tyson, Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Beyonce Knowles, Mariah Carey and Alicia Keys.

I can’t think of anyone on that list who would turn down a chance to talk to the middle class Black audience Perry commands, so I can’t narrow it down at all. When Perry was about to hint further, Lionsgate very kindly told us there would be another press announcement coming up.

From the Latino Review

Hayden Christensen has signed to star and Thandie Newton and John Leguizamo are in negotiations to star in the indie thriller “Vanishing on Seventh Street” for director Brad Anderson.

Written by Anderson and Anthony Jaswinski, the story is set in a once-thriving city where shadowy forms cause residents to inexplicably disappear. Five survivors fight to stay alive while grappling with the meaning of existence.

Christensen is playing a reporter. Newton would play a desperate nurse and Leguizamo a subway operator.

Shooting is set to begin mid-October in the once-thriving city of Detroit.

Producing are Celine Rattray of Plum Pictures, Tove Christensen via Forest Park and Lawrence Mattis for Circle of Confusion.

Paradigm-repped Christensen most recently appeared on the big screen in “Jumper” and next stars opposite Matt Dillon and Zoe Saldana in the thriller “Takers,” which Screen Gems releases in February.

Newton, repped by WME, next appears in the Roland Emmerich disaster movie “2012.”

Leguizamo recently was heard as Sid the sloth in “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” and next will be seen in “Gamer” opposite Gerard Butler. He’s repped by CAA and the Collective.

From The Hollywood Reporter