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Two of the hottest actresses under 25 may be making their marks on an iconic fairytale character for movie screens.

Saoirse Ronan is in talks to take on the role for the film The Brothers Grimm: Snow White, which has just signed 24 year-old Armie Hammer from The Social Network, for a part. This version is from Relativity Media.

Kristen Stewart is going to be the lead in the Universal film Snow White and The Huntsman with Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen. Viggo Mortensen, who was in negotiations for the huntsman role is no longer attached as his deal just fell through.

Each script will have a different spin on the original tale, with The Brothers Grimm staying a little closer to the original, perhaps.

Neither Ronan or Stewart would likely take on a movie where Snow is helpless (in fact, in The Huntsman version, Snow White is trained to fight by the man who should have killed her,) so expect both of these versions to have strong female characters.

Both films are due in 2012 – The Brothers Grimm in June and The Huntsman out December.

So let me ask you would you go to either film just because of Stewart or Ronan? Having two Snow White movies in one year – even if they are different – is that too much?

Since we know Hollywood will milk this trend – what’s the next fairy tale you would like adapted?

What do you think?

Liam Hemsworth is reading the script for The Hunger Games right now and the actor wants in.

The Australian actor spoke to MTV in Park City, Utah at the Sundance Film Festival and revealed he loves the “action, gritty kinda of stuff” that drives the story when asked about the Suzanne Collins series of books.

Hemsworth hasn’t met with director Gary Ross but does feel he will have a sit down with the director in the near future. “I mean it’s pretty early right now, but, yeah, I’m sure I’ll meet on it soon.”

The Last Song actor’s name is being tossed in the ring for the role of Peeta, however unless they’ve cast Katniss and are keeping it a secret, they are no where near casting the role of District 12′s male tribute.

What do you think of the possibility of Hemsworth in The Hunger Games?

Author Cassandra Clare’s book City of Bones will (finally!) be made into a movie. The first in the teen sci-fi/fantasy series The Mortal Instruments, has a script and should start casting fairly soon. Here is the official announcement:

Screen Gems has teamed with Constantin Film and Unique Features to develop the motion picture franchise MORTAL INSTRUMENTS based on The New York Times Bestselling book series The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare.  Jessica Postigo penned the script which is based on the first book in the series, City of Bones.  Constantin Film’s head of Film & TV Martin Moszkowicz will executive produce and Robert Kulzer will produce the project via the Constantin Film banner along with producing partners Michael Lynne, Robert Shaye, and executive producer Dylan Sellers via their Unique Features banner.

In City of Bones, set in contemporary New York City, a seemingly ordinary teenager Clary Fray, discovers she is the descendent of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of warriors dedicated to driving demons out of our world.  When Clary’s mother disappears, she must join a daring group of young Shadowhunters on an adventure, which leads her through a city filled with mischievous fairies, eccentric warlocks, werewolf gangs and other strange creatures.

I loved the books and hope that they get a great director who can pull it off.

Now for the fun part: Who do you want as Clary, Jace, Simon, Alec and Isabelle? Everyone wants Alex Pettyfer for Jace but I think with his parts in both Beastly and I Am Number Four he would be unlikey to take a role in another sci-fi movie. I’d like to see Bonnie Wright for Clary. Any thoughts?

AJ Michalka is joining Elle Fanning as part of J.J. Abrams new thriller Super 8. Steven Spielberg will exec produce and Noah Emmerich and Kyle Chandler are already on board. Most of the plot details are being kept under wraps but as you can see from the teaser trailer below, in 1979 something big and nasty escapes from the top secret government location Area 51.

Michalka will be in Disney’s upcoming Secretariat and Fanning’s latest, Somewhere, is due in December.

Melinda Clarke will join The Vampire Diaries and has been cast as Matt and Vicki’s absentee mother, Kelly Donovan. The actress will appear for at least 3 episodes starting in March.

Also contrary to what the imdb episode recap page said (it has been removed) regarding the upcoming January 21st ep – Elena will NOT transition to a vampire.

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Apparition is set to start filming in Germany next month and Gossip Girl’s Sebastian Stan has joined Ashley Greene as a co-star for the supernatural flick. Directed by Todd Lincoln, the story follows a couple who have been haunted after a college experiment that goes horribly wrong.

Twilight gal Greene will next be seen in Skateland, showing at the Sundance Film Festival later this month and Stan’s Hot Tub Time Machine, with John Cusack, will appear in theaters March 19, 2010.

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We have more ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ casting news to bring you: Along with Jodelle Ferland as (possibly) Bree, Bryce Dallas Howard as the new Victoria and Xavier Samuel as Riley, Royce and Maria have been announced as the filming begins at the end of August in Vancouver.

Jack Huston will play Royce King II, Rosalie’s (Nikki Reed) dastardly fiance and Catalina Sandino Morena will be Maria, the vampire who creates an army of newborns and turns Jasper (Jackson Rathbone) into a soldier for her clan’s dominance.