Two movies come out on DVD today. One was an unexpected addition to a classic franchise, while the other was a disappointing film from Woody Allen. Here's a rundown of each...

Rambo
Stars: Sylvester Stallone
Why you should rent it: Because if we don't support Stallone's revisiting of ancient heroes, what will become of his career?

Cassandra's Dream
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell
Why you should rent it: To make other Woody Allen movies even better by comparison.

Fans recently had a chance to ask Guillermo del Toro - director of The Hobbit and its untitled sequel - and executive producer Peter Jackson about the upcoming movies. Here's a look at what the vital players had to say in this live Web chat.

"At this point in time the plan is to write [the screenplays] for the rest of this year and start early conceptual designs. 2009 will be dedicated to pre-production on both movies and 2010 will be the year we shoot both films back to back," Jackson said, adding:

"Post production follows one film at a time with The Hobbit being released December 2011, and (Film Two) release Dec 2012. That is the schedule in about as much detail as we have ourselves at the moment."

Casting rumors have claimed that claims that Lords of the Rings veterans Ian McKellen (Gandalf), Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn), and Andy Serkis (Gollum) have all been approached to reprise their respective roles for the films.

But Del Toro clarified the matter by warning Web surfers: not so fast, fans.

"No casting has started yet, but some people have thrown their helmet into the ring," he said, while Jackson added: "We anticipate we won't be in serious casting mode for these movies until well into next year."

Following our previous clip of The Incredible Hulk in a street fight, here's a look at everyone's favorite green hero doing battle with nemesis Blonsky.

The Incredible Hulk comes out on June 13.

Chris Noth (Sex and the City: The Movie) has agreed to star opposite Renee Zellweger in My One and Only, a comedy based on a childhood adventure of actor George Hamilton, says Variety.

Shooting begins next month.

Zellweger portrays Anne Deveraux, a glamorous dreamer who travels from city to city looking for a wealthy man to fund a new life for her and her sons. Noth plays a retired military doctor who might just fit that description.

Still, it's hard to imagine Noth as anyone but Mr. Big, isn't it?

In the June 2008 issue of Details, Christian Bale comments - and celebrates, really - the work Heath Ledger. These two actors, of course, star together in the upcoming Batman film, The Dark Knight.

"He was incredibly intense in his performance but incredibly mellow and laid-back," Bale said. "Certainly there was this great anarchistic streak to it,  just getting dirtier than anybody's envisioned the Joker before...

Naturally, (the movie) was something I wanted to share with him  and expected to do so. And I can't do anything else but hope that it will be an absolutely appropriate celebration of his work."

It was also recently announced that Bale will play the role of John Connor in three sequels to the Terminator franchise. We look forward to them.

Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack died of cancer Monday. He was 73.

Pollack, who was also an actor that recently starred in Michael Clayton, was surrounded by family at his home in Pacific Palisades when the time came.

Pollack was credited with directing 20 films, including seven with Robert Redford â€" most notably The Way We Were and Out of Africa, which won him two Oscars as director and as producer of the film, which won the best picture Oscar.

Pollack also received a best director Oscar nomination for the 1982 comedy starring Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie.

The movie legend is survived by his wife, Claire, daughters Rebecca and Rachel, his brother Bernie, and six grandchildren.

Cassandra's Dream certainly wasn't one of Woody Allen's highest grossing movies of all-time. But is it worth a rental?

With the movie coming out on DVD tomorrow, we posed that question to a number of film critics. Their answers are below...

- Cassandra's Dream lacks energy and spark. Monotonous and simplistic, it is definitely not worthy of Woody Allen... -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

- Allen, who stays behind the camera, brings too little wit and too much contrivance to material that quickly dissolves into warmed-over Dostoevski... -- Rolling Stone

- Cassandra's Dream is second-rate Allen, but it's still compelling thanks to its magnetic co-stars... -- The Washington Times

- Farrell and McGregor deliver remarkably nuanced performances in and through their mundane one-dimensionality, taking average Joes and give them average strengths and weaknesses... -- Christianity Today

If you think Sienna Miller went through a lot during her relationship with Jude Law, take a look at her on the set of the G.I. Joe movie.

The actress looks nice and bloodied in the photo below, a shot taken on set of the film that stars Miller as The Baroness.

Robert Downey Jr. is seeing his career take off thanks to Iron Man. And, according to the Chicago Sun Times, though, his next film project might be centered around an iron man of a different kind.

Rumors are circulating that the actor may sign on to play Hugh Hefner the Playboy founder's big-screen biopic.

It's not a done deal yet, but sources say Hefner has approved of Downey to play him in the movie, which has the apt working title of Playboy.

There's no word on when the cameras might actually begin rolling on the movie, but it could happen as soon as next summer, depending on Downey's Iron Man 2 filming and the finalization of the Hefner script.

Here are a few recent casting news and notes from across Hollywood...

• Canadian actress Laura Vandervoort has scored a lead role in Into the Blue 2, a film headed straight to DVD that would receive no publicity whatsoever, except for this fact: Audrina Patridge, from MTV's The Hills, will also appear in the film.

• The Scott Caan-written story Mercy has itself a leading lady. Wendy Glenn, who recently played Isabella in The L Word will take on the title role. The movie is about a cynical writer who writes about love, but doesn't believe it until he meets Glenn's character.

• Kerry Washington - who played Della Bea Robinson in Ray and Jasmine in Mr. & Mrs. Smith - will portray play Eddie Murphy's wife in the comedy A Thousand Words.