By Tim Kenneally LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Disney has cast "Game of Thrones" actor Richard Madden in the role of the Prince in its upcoming live-action movie "Cinderella," the company said Wednesday. Madden, who plays Robb Stark in HBO's hit dragons-and-swords fantasy series, joins a cast that includes Cate Blanchett as the wicked stepmother. "Wrath of the Titans" and "Downton Abbey" actress Lily James is playing the title role. Kenneth Branagh is directing the film. Producing duties are being handled by Alli Shearmur and Simon Kinberg. ...

(Strong language in paragraph 7) By Greg Gilman LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Warner Bros. has decided to release "The Hangover Part III" a day earlier, bumping its theatrical bow up from May 24 to May 23, the studio told TheWrap on Wednesday. Warner Bros. declined to comment on the reasoning, but with Universal's "Fast & Furious 6" hitting theaters the same holiday weekend, it's not hard to see why it wants the jump on the competition. Both billion-dollar franchises are aimed at the same male audience and both dream of topping the previous films' wild success. ...

LONDON (AP) — British film director Bryan Forbes, whose work includes the original 1970s horror classic "The Stepford Wives," has died at age 86 after a long illness, a family spokesman said Wednesday.

By Steve Pond LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The Los Angeles Film Festival has added screenings of Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel" and Pixar's "Monsters University" to its 2013 lineup, supplementing the previously-announced lineup of indie films with a couple of likely Hollywood blockbusters. "Monsters University," the sequel to the 2001 film "Monsters Inc.," will screen on June 18 as part of the official festival lineup. "Man of Steel," Snyder's reboot of the "Superman" franchise, will take place on June 12 and is being billed as a pre-Festival screening. ...

By Brent Lang LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Mia Wasikowska, Olivia Williams and Evan Bird have joined the cast of David Cronenberg's upcoming thriller, "Maps to the Stars." Already signed to the project are Julianne Moore, John Cusack and Robert Pattinson. Wasikowska is best known for starring roles in "Jane Eyre" and "Alice in Wonderland," Williams has had key supporting roles in "Rushmore" and "The Ghost Writer," and Bird appeared on AMC's "The Killing." Cronenberg's latest cerebral genre film is a ghost story that also skewers L.A.'s celebrity-obsessed culture. ...

By Lucas Shaw NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Producers Constantin Film and Unique Features must be confident in their "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones," due August 23. They have just signed the two stars, Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower, in the sequel: "The Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes." The films are based on a successful series of young-adult books, five of which are in print with another set to hit shelves next March. More than 16 million copies of the series have been sold worldwide. ...

By Steve Pond LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Cannes Film Festival president Gilles Jacob, who has presided over the fest for 36 years, will be leaving his position as president when his term expires in 2015, Cannes told TheWrap on Wednesday. Jacob revealed his intention to leave the job in an interview with the French newspaper Nice Matin, saying that he promised his wife "several times" that he would retire. His remarks (in French) appeared in a one-paragraph note on the paper's website on Wednesday. "Mr. ...

By Todd Cunningham LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Ditch Spock's ears. Lose the wacky costumes. Don't have characters spend so much time yakking on the bridge of the Enterprise. That's the sort of advice Paramount is heeding as it prepares to open its sci-fi epic "Star Trek Into Darkness" on Thursday in the U.K., Australia and five other countries. Determined to make its sci-fi epic sequel a global hit -- unlike any of the preceding "Star Trek" movies -- the studio has gone to great lengths to make it more appealing to foreign audiences. ...

By Jeff Sneider LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Maybe good karma exists in Hollywood after all: "Jane Got a Gun" screenwriter Brian Duffield has been hired to write "Insurgent," the inevitable sequel to Summit Entertainment's "Divergent," TheWrap has learned. Duffield has endured a career's worth of headaches and heartaches the past couple months as "Jane Got a Gun" has suffered a series of setbacks stemming from director Lynne Ramsey's last-minute "departure" from the project. ...

By Lucas Shaw NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Octavia Spencer will star alongside Kevin Costner in "Black and White," IM Global announced on Tuesday. IM Global has come aboard to sell the film to international buyers starting at the Cannes Film Festival next week. Cassian Elwes, an executive producer on the project, is handling domestic rights. The film reunites Costner with "The Upside of Anger" director Mike Binder, who wrote and will directed "Black and White." It will begin shooting this summer in New Orleans. ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The anticipated June 2014 release of the fourth installment of "Jurassic Park," one of the highest-grossing film franchises, has been put on hold, Universal Pictures said on Wednesday. The decision was made to give "the studio and filmmakers adequate time to bring audiences the best possible version" of Jurassic Park 4, the studio said in a statement. The film was slated to be released in theaters on June 13, 2014. Universal has yet to announce a new date for the release. The three "Jurassic Park" films generated $1. ...

By Zorianna Kit LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann brings to life F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic American novel, "The Great Gatsby" which opens in U.S. theaters Friday before unspooling at the Cannes Film Festival on May 15. The film reunites Luhrmann with actor Leonardo DiCaprio, with whom he last worked on the big screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Romeo + Juliet" in 1996. DiCaprio stars as Jay Gatsby, a millionaire pining for a lost love, played by Carey Mulligan, during the height of the hedonistic 1920's. Tobey Maguire and Joel Edgerton also star. ...

By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) - The cast of "Fast & Furious" sped into London for the world premiere of their sixth film that is set in the British capital, vowing to keep racing despite the exit of director Justin Lin. Surrounded by souped-up cars and dancers in mini-shorts, the "Fast & Furious 6" stars packed a blue carpet in Leicester Square on Tuesday to promote the latest film in the street-racing franchise that has grossed $1.6 billion since 2001. ...

If any piece of classic American literature should be depicted on film with wildly decadent and boldly inventive style, it's "The Great Gatsby." After all, who was the character of Jay Gatsby himself if not a spinner of grandiose tales and a peddler of lavish dreams?

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Accused Colorado theater gunman James Holmes, who could face the death penalty if convicted of murdering 12 moviegoers in a rampage last year, intends to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, according to court records released on Tuesday. Holmes, 25, is charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder in connection with the July 2012 shooting spree in a suburban Denver cinema during a midnight screening of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises. ...

By Jeff Sneider LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - In what will be his very first feature comedy, "The Wire" and "Fringe" star Lance Reddick has been cast as one of the leads in Universal and Gold Circle's "Search Party," The Wrap has learned. Scot Armstrong is making his directorial debut with the film, which Gold Circle is producing and co-financing with distributor Universal. TJ Miller, Adam Pally and Thomas Middleditch star alongside Shannon Woodward and Alison Brie. Story follows two roommates who go to dangerous lengths to save their friend who is stranded in Mexico without clothes. ...

By Lucas Shaw NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Iron Man, Nemo and Yoda might be enough for Disney, as CEO Bob Iger told analysts on Tuesday that the company was not looking to purchase another major media company in the near future. "If you're asking me today as we look ahead at whether there's a Pixar, Lucasfilm, Marvel on the horizon, I'd say not likely," Iger said during the company's earnings call. Splashy acquisitions have been a defining trait of Iger's tenure sitting on the Disney throne. ...

By Greg Gilman LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Actor and activist Ian Somerhalder has joined the advisory board of interactive news website, RYOT, the actor's charity announced Tuesday. RYOT, a media outlet encouraging readers to "become the news," bridges the gap between learning about things happening in the world and actually making a difference in it. Each news story on the site is paired with a "RYOT note" explaining the social value of the story, while suggesting a charity or organization dedicated to a related cause. ...

By Greg Gilman LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Fast & Furious 6" director Justin Lin doesn't understand why James Franco would ever bad mouth their 2006 collaboration, "Annapolis." "He's going on publicly about stuff and I honestly don't understand it," Lin told the Huffington Post in an interview published Tuesday. "I think James is a good guy, but I don't know. I wish he would just not say anything." While promoting "Spring Breakers" in March, Franco referred to Lin's naval academy boxing drama as "a really bad movie. ...

By Jeff Sneider LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Sony Pictures Entertainment has closed its deal with "Iron Man 3" director Shane Black to co-write and direct "Doc Savage," which Black is eyeing as his next film. One of the most popular characters of the pulps of the 1930s and 40s, Doc Savage was also popularized on radio, film and television. He is a scientist, physician, adventurer, inventor, explorer and researcher. He has been trained since birth to be nearly superhuman in every way, with outstanding strength, a photographic memory, and vast knowledge and intelligence. ...