Andy Serkis puts his monkey suit back on, Ashley Greene takes a LOL break from Twilight, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
· After playing the outsized title ape in Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong, Andy Serkis is downgrading to a megalomaniac chimp in Rise of the Apes. Serkis's Caesar is the primate who acquires new levels of human intelligence after experiments by James Franco and others go awry. Should be a hoot! [Variety]
· Twilight regular Ashley Greene and Hung star Thomas Jane are committed to LOL, the Miley Cyrus comedy about a teenager who... I don't even know. Something about break-ups, bad girls, Demi Moore as a divorced mom, Jane as her ex, remake of a French farce, Miley Miley Miley, controversy, bad reviews, etc. [THR]
· Angela Bassett will play Paula Patton's mother in Jumping the Broom, the wedding-related comedy of manners shooting this fall in Nova Scotia. [THR]
· "Can Gore Verbinski Crack Walter Mitty After So Many Others Tried?" asks our sister blog Deadline. Short answer? No. [Deadline]