The team behind Juno is teaming up again to make a new film named Young Adult. Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman, the screenwriter and director of Juno, have teamed up with John Malkovich’s Mr Mudd production company for the film.

Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron will be part of the cast, reports Deadline.

Young Adult’s storyline concerns a 30-something, divorced, young-adult fiction writer (Theron), who returns to her home city of Minneapolis to get in touch with an ex-boyfriend, who’s married with a child when she returns.

Filming will begin in New York in November.

Source: NME

Heavy rains have delayed shooting for “Mad Max 4″ after turning the Australian Outback action film set from a dust bowl into lush green pastures, a report said on Thursday.

Broken Hill, the desolate setting for the film and usually bone-dry, has been transformed into a verdant oasis by the downpours, which have broken a decade-long drought in parts of the country.

About 200 crew are in the isolated New South Wales town for pre-production, but filming has now been postponed until January, the Sydney Morning Herald said.

“You can’t kick up any dust, it’s too green and moist and they need dry and dusty,” said Hugh Gough, of the town’s Caledonian Bed and Breakfast.

Local residents are now hoping that shooting of the post-apocalyptic drama, which launched Mel Gibson’s career, will not move elsewhere.

“Weather-wise it’s stunning, it’s been very wet and there is a lot of growth around which is not something we’re renowned for,” said Broken Hill mayor Wincen Cuy.

“It’s pretty abnormal and we hadn’t planned on it but we’re led to believe (the filming) won’t go anywhere else.”

Broken Hill had nearly five times its average rainfall in February and 96 millimetres (3.8 inches) in just one day in March, the report said, soaking soils which sent plant life blooming.

Gibson will not be reprising his old role in “Mad Max 4: Fury Road” which will star British actor Tom Hardy alongside South African siren Charlize Theron.

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I’ve added 100+ screencaps of Charlize from The Road. This movie is so sad and depressing. It will definitely make you appreciate of what we have now once you watch the movie. Remember it’s already out in DVD!

Charlize Theron would love to share a few details about her much-hyped role in the upcoming Mad Max film, “Fury Road,” but she’s terrified the filmmakers would punish her for giving up any details.

“They would kill me,” she told MTV News, just after receiving the Decade of Hotness honors at Spike’s Guys Choice Awards. “They’re listening to everything I’m saying right now,” she said conspiratorially. “It’s so top-secret they would destroy me.”

Theron did, however, express enthusiasm for leading man Tom Hardy and director George Miller. “[Tom's] amazing,” she said. “I think his work in [2009's] ‘Bronson’ was incredible.”

Theron went on to explain that veteran writer/director Miller being attached to the film was her main reason for signing on to this fourth installment in the “Mad Max” franchise. “I wanted to go and do this because I felt that George Miller — well, he’s a genius — and the idea of doing something that has this mass audience appeal with great actors — that is a dream come true. So I’m super excited about that.”

The Academy Award-winning actress likened the production to embarking on an adventure. “It’s obnoxious for actors to say this, but I feel like we’re going to go to set out on a journey and do something original.”

Also joining Theron and Hardy are castmembers Nicholas Hoult (“Clash of the Titans”), Teresa Palmer (“Bedtime Stories”) and Adelaide Clemens (“X-Men Origins: Wolverine”). Production is reportedly scheduled to begin in Australia sometime this August. Mel Gibson, who famously brought the original “Mad” Max Rockatansky to life more than 30 years ago, told MTV News earlier this year that he “can’t wait to see” the new film.

“Look, whatever George does, I think George is a genius, and whatever he is going to do with that franchise, he’s got good reason for doing it,” Gibson said. The action star, now in his 50s, said he was glad to have passed on the torch to Hardy: “I can’t take the punishment for that sort of thing.”

Source:MTV News

Charlize Theron will star in and produce an untitled comedy based on a pitch by David Caspe, with David Ellison’s Skydance Prods. financing and producing.

Theron’s production partners, J.J. Harris and Beth Kono, are also producing through her production banner Denver and Delilah Films.

Caspe’s credits include “Karate Kids” (aka “Sensei”), sold to Summit with Benderspink producing, and “I Hate You Dad,” sold as a pitch to Columbia with Happy Madison producing. He’s also the creator and executive producer of the Jamie Tarses-produced “Happy Endings”; shooting on the latter’s pilot was recently completed for ABC.

Denver and Delilah produced “Monster,” for which Theron won an Oscar, and is producing “Mind Hunter” for HBO and Fox 21 with David Fincher, based on the book “Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit,” by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. Banner also produced “The Burning Plain” and “Sleepwalking.”

Skydance’s credits include the upcoming Paramount films “Mission: Impossible 4″ and “True Grit.” Company recently entered into a strategic partnership with Paramount, which allows it to co-finance and produce four to six films per year with the studio.

Source: Variety