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Paramount Pictures has signed Gore Verbinski to direct his first animated feature film "Rango", starring Oscar nominee Johnny Depp, who will voice the title character. Release is set for March 2011.

Mark Wahlberg, who was great in last year's The Departed, is in negotiations to star in Max Payne, which an adaptation of the hit video game of the same name, for 20th Century Fox, according to The Hollywood Reporter. John Moore (Flight of the Phoenix) is attached to direct.

Angela Bassett (Akeelah and the Bee) and Noah Wyle (Donnie Darko: Director's Cut) have joined the cast of Nothing but the Truth for the Yari Film Group. Although not related, the project closely resembles the true—life tales of former CIA operative Valerie Plume, who—you probably know—was outed by a handful of journalists.

Alec Baldwin, who recently received an Emmy nomination for his role as a TV network boss on NBC's "30 Rock" (must be good?), has signed on to join Dane Cook and Kate Hudson in the upcoming comedy Bachelor No. 2. Howard Deutch ("The Replacements", The Whole Ten Yards) will direct the Lionsgate film, which starts shooting next week in Boston.

Martin Scorsese is planning on making passion project Silence his next film.

Leonardo DiCaprio is set to star as the 26th U.S. president, Theodore Roosevelt.

Vera Farmiga is set to play the female lead in Martin Scorsese's The Departed.

Anthony Anderson is in final talks to join The Departed.

Mark Wahlberg is in negotiations to join Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon in The Departed.

Universal has entered into a multi-year agreement with independent production company Vertigo Entertainment.

Matt Damon is in talks to star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in The Departed for Martin Scorsese.

Jim Carrey has a first-look option to star in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a film originally produced in 1947.

Samuel L. Jackson has been set to reprise his role in "XXX2" for Revolution Studios.