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Robert Pattinson is filling his 2010 film schedule pretty tightly. The actor has signed on for Bel Ami and Unbound Captives and could soon add Water From Elephants to his list. In negotiations for the Depression era circus tale, he could rejoin his Vanity Fair costar Reese Witherspoon (confirmed) and possibly Sean Penn who is still mulling the offer.

Based on Sara Gruen’s best-selling historical tome of the same name, story centers on a Cornell U. veterinary student who leaves his studies after his parents are killed and joins up with the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, working as a vet for the circus. Witherspoon will play Marlena, the beautiful equestrian star married to August (Penn), the charismatic but twisted animal trainer.

Still no word on Breaking Dawn, the final film (or two) in The Twilight Saga franchise, Pattinson is wise to ink everything he can.

No longer a part of the Footloose remake floating around Hollywood, Zac Efron is negotiating for a role in a different movie altogether. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud is a novel being adapted for the big screen with the hopes of Efron in the lead role of the cemetary caretaker. In the Ben Sherwood story, the title character loses his younger brother in a car accident and Charlie develops the ability to see and talk to his sibling’s ghost. After meeting a young woman who almost dies, Charlie St. Cloud starts to live again and the image of his brother begins to fade and frighten him. Sounds like a great change from the Disney High School Musical genre for Efron.