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Robert Downey Jr. to be a Cowboy, Alien

As one of the most sought after actors in Hollywood, Robert Downey Jr. can pretty much choose any project he wants at the moment.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the star has chosen to to star in Cowboys & Aliens, an unusual mix of the sci-fi and Western genres that is scheduled to be released in 2010.

Second Shot at Stardom

Robert Downer Jr.: From Iron Man to cowboy.

The movie is based on a graphic novel written by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley. I centers on an Old West battle between the Apache and Western settlers, including a former Union Army gunslinger named Zeke Jackson (Downey), that is interrupted by a spaceship crashing into the prairie near Silver City, Arizona.

Downey will be seen in the Ben Stiller-directed comedy Tropic Thunder in August.

Box Office Results Go Green

You may not wanna make Bruce Banner angry, but evidently movie viewers do wanna see what happens when he gets that way.

The Incredible Hulk topped the box office this weekend, pulling in an impressive $54 million. It's safe to assume a sequel is already being discussed.

Here's a look at top five:

  1. The Incredible Hulk: $54 million
  2. Kung Fu Panda: $34 million
  3. The Happening: $31 million
  4. You Don't Mess With the Zohan: $16 million
  5. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: $13 million

Opening This Week: The Incredible Hulk, The Happening

The two big movies opening this weekend aren't exactly comedies. One features a green monster you really don't wanna make angry; the other focuses on something scary that's... happening.

Here's a closer look at each new film…

The Incredible Hulk
Stars: Ed Norton, Liv Tyler
Quick synopsis: Bruce Banner is a scientist - and making him mad could be a serious problem.
Prediction: First place at the box office. Despite the hesitance of Norton to promote the film - he and the studio argued over final edits - it's getting solid reviews.

An Incredible Hulk Emil Blonsky The Incredible Hulk Movie

The Happening
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel
Quick synopsis: Something scary is happening to people. You don't wanna be close to what's happening, we hear.
Prediction: Third place at the box office... at best. Horrid reviews don't bode well for this M. Night Shyamalan project.

The Happening Picture What This is Happening

Jack Black Looks Forward to School of Rock 2 Script

While Jack Black is excited about the possibility of a School of Rock sequel, he wants to make it clear that there's no script yet.

But the actor is excited to reading one.

"I look forward to reading it. I hope it happens because I had such a great experience the first time, it would be fun to do it again," the Kung Fu Panda star said. "I love to rock. I love making movies. So it is kind of like Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, you put the acting and the rock together in a delicious sweet chocolately smash."

Will there be a School of Rock 2? It seems likely.

Warwick Davis Speaks on Willow 2 Possibility

Hey, John McClane did it after 12 years.

Indiana Jones took 19.

So what's to stop Willow from making a long-delayed sequel?

If this follow-up never happens, it won't be for lack of desire on the part of Warwick Davis; the actor told MTV News he'd love to come back for another Willow.

"I would definitely greenlight a Willow sequel. So many people ask me about that. Every day people want to see another movie," he said. "I'd be very excited for it, because I was 17 when I did that movie and to go back and have another chance at the character now. I've learned so much more, it'd be great."

How excited would we be for Willow 2? Answer: very!

Davis added that he already has an idea about where he'd like to see the sequel go.

"I would like, perhaps, [to see] my kids grown up. I'd like to meet up again with Madmartigan [Val Kilmer], see how he's getting on. See how everything might have gone wrong with the princess who's grown up, see how her life turned out," Davis said.

"But I think [most of all] plenty more action! Now they have CG. Imagine what we could do with special effects now compared to 20 years ago!"

In other, possible sequel news: how awesome would Anchorman 2 be?!?

Cast Learns How to Make Love to a Woman

A trio of actors have signed up for How to Make Love to a Woman, the romantic comedy starring porn legend Jenna Jameson.

Josh Meyers, Krysten Ritter and Ian Somerhalder will all play roles in the intriguingly named flick

Look for Meyers to playa a music executive with no idea how to satisfy his girlfriend (Ritter). He turns to advice from his musician pals, as well as Jameson (who plays herself), but finds that time is running out when her handsome childhood friend (Somerhalder) appears.

Aside from her hiding place under the mattresses of teenage boys around the world, Jameson can always be seen in Zombie Strippers.

Jenna Jameson Photo

A (mostly) clothed Jenna Jameson will star in How to Make Love to a Woman.

Actors Looking Forward to The Incredible Hulk Sequel

According to a pair of stars in The Incredible Hulk, Marvel told each of the actors that they'd be part of a trilogy.

That's what Tim Blake Nelson told MTV News at least.

"When I signed on to do the movie, when I went and had my meeting with [director] Louis Leterrier and Gale Anne Hurd, the producer, they said, 'We want you for all three movies,'" said Nelson, who plays Samuel Sterns.

The Incredible Hulk Picture

The Incredible Hulk comes out today. But its stars are already talking about a sequel.

Ty Burrell, who portrays Dr. Leonard Samson, also expects at least one follow-up to The Incredible Hulk. Though Samson is a minor character (as Bruce Banner's psychiatrist and friend), he has ideas for the sequel.

"My pitch would be that he's trying to cure Bruce â€" that he's actually trying to help him, and he makes it worse. And it's his ego that kind of causes the trouble," Burrell said. "If we see the radiation, then I'll definitely have the longer hair. Maybe we'll have to go with a wig. I don't know. [But I'm] voting for green, for sure!"

George Clooney Ready to be a Tourist

George Clooney, last seen on the big screen in the disappointing comedy Leatherheads, will likely next star in The Tourist.

According to Variety, Clooney is producing the movie and will likely star in it; the flick is based on the OlenStein hauer novel of the same name.

George Clooney Image

The Tourist is described as a contemporary international thriller about a spy who risks his life to uncover a conspiracy when he's wrongly accused of murder.

Clooney next stars alongside Brad Pitt in the Coen brothers' Burn After Reading.

WALL-E Director Speaks on Origin of Character

Andrew Stanton earned an Academy Award for his work on Finding Nemo.

Now, the writer/director is back with this summer's next Pixar hit, WALL-E. He recently spoke with ComingSoon.net about the animated feature, commenting on the origins of the main character:

Yeah, it was, well to get really picky, it was an original character that we came up with at that lunch. The story I didn't start on until the "Nemo" years, but out of that lunch came just a quick little concept of like, sci-fi and robots and what if everyone left the planet and what if there was this one little robot left collecting all the garbage that just didn't know it could stop doing its job.

WALL*E

Get to know WALL-E. on June 27.

And I thought that is such an exercise in futility, I could even buy a character that's a machine, after seven hundred years of doing the same thing, finally asking the question "there's got to be more to life than what I'm doing." I just thought that that was great.

But it was such an abstract concept even then, before we'd even proven that we could do "Toy Story," we were like, well no one would ever give us the money or the opportunity to do something like that, that was so out there.

So it got put on a shelf and we became much more experienced, much more involved in other pictures, much better filmmakers and so by the time "Nemo" came out I felt we were at a place where maybe I would internally get the okay to make a movie like that but maybe the outside world would be open to coming to a movie like that. So maybe in a weird way it was better, letting it simmer for so long.

An Entourage Movie in the Works?

If the women can do it, so can the men.

Executive Producer Mark Wahlberg was recently asked about the future of Entourage and said:

"We're doing Season 5 right now. We're hoping for maybe three [or] four more seasons, and then maybe a film or two. Obviously the [Sex and the City movie] success has opened up a window of opportunity there."

Would you go see an Entourage movie?

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