According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tom Cruise is in talks to star in the comic book adaptation of Sleeper. Director Sam Raimi (Spider-Man) will be behind the camera for it.

The comic book series centers on an operative whose fusion with an alien artifact makes him impervious to pain and allows him to pass it on to others through skin contact. He's placed undercover in a villainous organization by an intelligence agency and falls for a member of the group, named Miss Misery.

It's been a good summer for Cruise.

His cameo in Tropic Thunder is being lauded as a possible first step into the world of comedic acting, while his next film, Valkyrie, has seen its release date pushed up to December 2008.

The summer movie season is coming to a close. Unless you consider Hamlet 2 or The House Bunny to be blockbusters at the box office, the major popcorn flicks have come and gone.

With that in mind, it's time to turn our attention to the fall, the season in which Oscar contenders typically emerge. Here's a look at some of the movies we're most looking forward to over the next few months...

Brad Pitt is a gym employee in Burn After Reading.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe tell a Body of Lies.

The Oscars might be calling Angelina Jolie for Changeling.

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Kids and families will get a new history lesson on May 22, 2009 when Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian comes out.

Ben Stiller reprises his role as Larry Daley in the sequel, while Amy Adams comes aboard as Amelia Earhart. Based on the following set photos, it looks like these two characters get along rather well in the film...

Typically a supporting player, Don Cheadle takes the lead in Traitor. The movie also stars Jeff Daniels and is centered around a special operative, working with a terrorist group, who becomes the target of the CIA.

Here's a trailer for the film, which opens August 27:

With the summer of 2008 winding down, it's time to focus on 2009's potential blockbusters.

Needless to say, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is atop anyone's list. Here's a look at two new posters for the film:

The release date for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been pushed back eight months.

But you can still get a sneak peek of the movie now. Here are three new screen shots from the film:

Oscar buzz is already circulating around Australia.

The epic, directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, the movie focuses on an English aristocrat who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she joins forces with a cattle driver to drive two thousand head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country.

Over the last couple months, director McG has compared his vision of Terminator Salvation to Batman Begins and Aliens.

In a recent conversation with MTV News, McG gave the network another dark, serious tale with which he'd compare the next Terminator movie.

“I gave all the actors The Road to read to get their heads right bout this sort of existential detachment that living in a post apocalyptic world would bring,” McG said. “We’re in a very large post apocalyptic environment. The bombs have gone off and there’s very little left. People are wandering through lonely landscapes."

Cormac McCarthy’s book won the Pulitzer Prize and is being made into a movie itself this fall.

The Road follows a father and son journeying together through an ash covered landscape, years after a worldwide disaster that killed almost everyone else on earth. It’s brilliant, depressing and morbid.

McG thinks John Connor can relate to all those emotions.

“I think the first two pictures took those ideas so seriously,” McG said of the themes of inescapable destiny and dread. “We wanted to make sure we did that [as well].”

Despite the wild success of The Dark Knight, along with rumors of who might portray the next Batman villain, there hasn't been anything official yet about a Batman sequel actually coming together.

Until now.

According to Variety, "There's a deal for [director Christopher Nolan] to helm a third pic, but he has yet to decide on whether to tackle it yet."

Warner Bros. studio boss Alan Horn told the publication: "We have no idea where Chris is going with this. ... We haven't had any conversations with him about it."

Don't worry, Batman fans. We'd be shocked if Nolan doesn't sign a deal to direct the follow-up to The Dark Knight before the year is over.

Rainn Wilson portrays a creepy weirdo on The Office. But don't expect this trend to continue, as the actor told USA Today in a recent interview about his upcoming movie, The Rocker.

"No more creepy, nerdy weirdos," Wilson said. "I play one on a TV show and have played them before, and people have seen me as that. Frankly, I can do a lot more and different stuff. I don't want to limit myself."

Wilson plays Robert "Fish" Fishman, a Cleveland loser whose dreams - as well as his clothes and mullet hairstyle - are two decades out of fashion. As Vesuvius, the group that unceremoniously dumped him, prepares for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Fishman joins his teenage nephew's garage band and hijacks its early success.

"There is always this fear in Hollywood that, 'Oh, characters need to be likable and relatable.' And I don't know if that's necessarily the case," Wilson said of his character in The Rocker.

"I think that characters need to be human and they need to be recognizable, but they don't have to necessarily be likable," he says. "That opens a whole world of comic possibilities. I enjoy playing essentially unlikable characters and really committing to it and digging in."