HOT NEWS AND GOSSIP

HOT NEWS AND GOSSIP

Will Smith Still Is Legend

Warner Bros is ramping up development on a prequel to the 2007 smash I Am Legend , which will see Will Smith reprising his role as one of the lone survivors on a zombified Earth. Director Francis Lawrence is expected to take the reins again in the story of how New Yorkers came to be stricken by a deadly plague that turned them into nocturnal, blood-sucking creatures.

I Am Legend raked in $256 million domestically but [spoiler alert!] didn't really set up a Smith-starring sequel, prompting studio executives to start brainstorming other ways to keep the lucre flowing.

Meanwhile, in other Hollywood wheeling and dealing:

Opposite Attracts Hathaway

Anne Hathaway is set to topline 20th Century Fox 's The Opposite of Love as a commitment-shy attorney whose life falls apart when she turns down a marriage propopsal from her boyfriend.

McAdams Sleuths Up Sherlock

Rachel McAdams will be testing her wits opposite Robert Downey Jr . in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes reboot for Warner. Bros. She plays Irene Adler , Holmes' enigmatic love interest. Jude Law plays Holmes' wingman, Watson.

John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Myers are set to costar in From Paris With Love, about a young Paris-based embassy employee who encounters an American spy on a risky mission. Luc Besson ( The Fifth Element ) cowrote the script. Cameras are already rolling in France .

Per the Hollywood Reporter, DreamWorks has snagged the film rights to the late John Wyndham 's sci-fi tome Chocky, as a potential directing vehicle for Steven Spielberg. The novel explores the darker side of childhood, telling the tale of a father who becomes distressed when his son constantly argues with an imaginary friend. He soon suspects that an alien consciousness has taken over the boy's mind.

Fresh off his 18th B-day last month, budding comic Bo Burnham is in talks with Universal to not only star in but also write and create the music for a comedy to be produced by Judd Apatow poking fun at the High School Musical fad. Burnham made a name for himself online via MySpace , YouTube and CollegeHumor.com and caught Apatow's attention as Montreal's Just for Laughs comedyfest.

It's a Muppets all-star lineup! Uma Thurman , Jane Krakowski , Nathan Lane , Jesse L. Martin, Paul Williams, supermodel Petra Nemcova, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signing on to the cast of NBC's A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa. They'll join previously announced stars Whoopi Goldberg , Richard Griffiths , Tony Sirico , Steve Schirripa and Madison Pettis in the one-hour song and dance special, which follows Kermit and crew as they make their way to Santa in the North Pole to save Christmas . It airs Dec. 17.

Ralph Macchio set to guest star on the Oct. 30 episode of ABC's Ugly Betty playing a city official named Archie Rodriguez.

Reveille, the production house behind NBC's The Office, is partnering with Geffen Records to develop a modern-day take on The Partridge Family . The show is being envisioned as a tongue-in-cheek update of the musical family act. C'mon, everyone get happy

Taken From : Yahoo!Movies