Amber Heard to star opposite Johnny Depp in ‘The Rum Diary’

Hollywood naughty Amber Heard is in is in talks to star opposite Johnny Depp in ‘The Rum Diary’ to be directed by Bruce Robinson. The film is an adaptation of the Hunter S. Thompson novel.

The movie is about a washed-up, hard-drinking journalist named Paul Kemp (Depp) in 1950s Puerto Rico at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean.

Amber Heard will play the role of Chenault, the free-spirited girlfriend of a fellow journalist Sanderson, who cheats on him with Kemp, trying to convince him to run away with her. Heard's films include ‘All the Boys Love Mandy Lane’ and ‘Pineapple Express’. She is also going to star in John Carpenter’s “The Ward,” and also has a cameo in Woody Harrelson’s “Zombieland”

The shooting of the flick is going to start on 30th March, 09 in Puerto Rico. Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil, Christi Dembrowski and Graham King's GK Films are producing this film.

New official posters of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’ is an upcoming fantasy-adventure film starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson in the lead roles is directed by British filmmaker David Yates, of ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’. The movie is based on the novel by J. K. Rowling and is the sixth book in J.K. Rowling's enormously popular Harry Potter films series. David Heyman and David Barron are producing the film. The script was written by Steve Kloves of Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, and Goblet of Fire.

The flick also stars Michael Gambon, Jim Broadbent, Alan Rickman, Tom Felton and Helen McCrory. Warner Brothers's is distributing the film and is set to release in U.K. and U.S. simultaneously on July 17th, 2009.

The movie "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" will follow Harry Potter in his sixth year at Hogwarts during which the ever growing threat to the wizarding world by the evil dark wizard Lord Voldemort grows even stronger by day. Being the only one who has survived his attack, Harry accompanied by his two loyal friends, Ron and Hermione, prepares for the ultimate battle while the walls that used to keep him and his friends away from danger may not be a safe haven anymore.

Orlando Bloom in Andrew Niccol's Sci-Fi film ‘The Cross’

Orlando Bloom is set to star in a sci-fi escape movie titled ‘The Cross’ to be directed by Andrew Niccol of ‘Gattaca’, ‘S1m0ne’, and ‘Lord of War’ fame. The movie also stars Vincent Cassel and Bond girl Olga Kurylenko.

The film is set in a border town and is about a man seeking to cross a mysterious border, something which no one else has achieved. Bloom will play the one trying to cross that border, while Cassel will play the guard who will go to any lengths to prevent him. The shooting will start in July in Australia.