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This week's Ketchup includes continuing casting for Marvel's Thor, a MacGyver movie, Tom Cruise talking about Mission: Impossible IV, and new roles for Brad Pitt, Natalie Portman, Chow Yun-Fat, Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones.

There was a good bit of news this about Thor, starting with the rumor that Natalie Portman is the top choice for the female. What isn't said specifically is who that female lead, but really, there's only two major female characters in the Thor story: the Asgardian sword maiden Sif (who is hard to imagine being played by the 5' 3" Portman) and the mortal...

Paramount Pictures has attached Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman to star in a film based on the new Leanne Shapton book "Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry."

Regular readers know we’ve been eagerly following Spike Jonze’s long-in-development adaptation of the iconic children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are.” Our interest was peaked nearly two years ago when we premiered the very first image from the film, and again last summer when we unveiled a second photo.

I was under the impression that even though Michael Gondry had taken over directing duties on THE GREEN HORNET, Stephen Chow was still going to be playing Kato. Maybe not. Cinemablend caught up with Seth Rogen at SXSW and when they asked him about it, he responded that:
"We have no 100% official Kato at this point."
Of course, Chow could still end up taking the role. It just hasn't been confirmed yet....

The film is based on a futuristic young-adult novel by Suzanne Collins.

Having put her stamp on "Twilight," Catherine Hardwicke is in talks with Columbia to develop and direct a film adaptation of the young-adult series "Maximum Ride."

In the soap opera that is the development of the live-action Wonder Woman movie, it seems as though the long discussed film may finally be getting underway.

The superheroes will take just a little longer to arrive on the scene. Marvel Entertainment announced Thursday morning it was pushing back by a year a pair of key properties in its comic-book franchises, "Thor" and "Avengers." The pictures are moving from 2010 and 2011, respectively, to 2011 and 2012.

The Huffington Post now displays two new images from the Jerry Bruckheimer produced, Mike Newell directed PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME. Both pics are of Jake Gyllenhaal, and both sport significant crotch protrusion (oh, come on...like you wouldn't have noticed?!)

Rita Wilson has been cast in Universal's untitled Nancy Meyers project, which stars Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.