Mary Elizabeth Winstead Movie Updates

Mary Elizabeth Winstead has been added to a cast with the previously announced Adam Scott, Richard Jenkins and Jane Lynch in the comedy directed by Stuart Zicherman and based on a script from Zicherman and Ben Karlin.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead will play Mary Todd in 20th Century Fox’s period vampire adventure Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

I'm hearing that How I Met Your Mother star Cobie Smulders has emerged as the front runner for the role of SHIELD Agent Maria Hill in the Joss Whedon-directed The Avengers and that a deal could be done before the weekend is out.

Patrick Fugit is reuniting with his Almost Famous director Cameron Crowe for the Fox drama We Bought a Zoo. Matt Damon toplines the movie, to which Scarlett Johansson is in final negotiations to join. Colin Ford will play Damon's son while Thomas Haden Church is Damon's brother.

Baz Luhrmann isn't the only director meeting with top young actresses for a project. Much the way that Luhrmann has a top group of thesps he'll read with to find Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, Crowe has a short list to play the female lead opposite Matt Damon in We Bought A Zoo.

Columbia just sent out a press release announcing Emma Stone joining the "Spider-Man" movie. The move was expected since the Internet was abuzz with Stone on the list of female finalists, then about to get an offer, then receiving an actual offer.

The narrowing down for the female lead in the upcoming Marc Webb-directed "Spider-Man" movie has begun.