Tony award-winner Amanda Plummer, the daughter of this year’s Oscar winning thesp Christopher Plummer, has been cast in Lionsgate‘s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Plummer will be starring alongside Jennifer Lawrence as Wiress, a character whose unconventional approach leads the fellow tributes to give her the nickname “Nuts.” Read more at TheWrap.

“Chuck” co-creator Chris Fedak has been tapped to rewrite Walden Media‘s Houdini, an upcoming adventure family film about a boy who discovers that he is a descendant of the great illusionist Harry Houdini. Mark Waters, who directed Mean Girls and Just Like Heaven, will be helming the project.

Johnny Depp has signed on to star in Wes Anderson‘s latest project, The Grand Budapest Hotel, a somewhat unconventional move for Depp after starring in blockbuster after blockbuster since 2003′s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Anderson’s last film, Moonrise Kingdom, was a competing film at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and gained enough of an audience to cash in an impressive $40 million at the domestic box office. Anderson will be producing the pic alongside Scott Rudin and Indian Paintbrush‘s Steven Rales.

Emily Alyn Lind has joined the cast of Warner Bros.‘s Hidden, a horror thriller about a family hiding in a bomb shelter after escaping a mysterious outbreak. Lind, who is perhaps best known for playing Young Amanda Clarke in the ABC hit show “Revenge,” will be starring alongside Alexander Skarsgard and Andrea Riseborough.

Producer Neal Moritz is moving forward with a comedic retelling of Sleeping Beauty by changing the story’s heroine into a pesty stalker in a currently untitled project. In this modern day take of the classic tale, the male protagonist accidently awakens Sleeping Beauty and horrifyingly discovers that he can’t get rid of her. Moritz’s previous credits include 21 Jump Street and Made of Honor.

Columbia Pictures and Adam Sandler‘s Happy Madison production banner have tapped Tim Dowling, the scribe behind Just Go With It, to rewrite Pixels. The film, which is an adaptation of writer-director Patrick Jean’s buzzed-about short film, is about popular 1980s video game characters attacking New York City. No word yet on whether Sandler will be starring in the film, but Variety says it has not been ruled out as a possibility.

Anthony Mackie is in talks to star alongside Chris Evans in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the sequel to Paramount Pictures‘s adaptation of the iconic comic book series which went on to gross over $350 million at the worldwide box office. While the film’s plot is being kept under wraps, it is believed that Mackie will play the role of the Falcon, a Harlem-based hero who derives his powers from a suit that allows him to fly and enhances his strength.

Bill Burr is the latest addition to the cast of 20th Century Fox‘s upcoming female buddy cop action comedy which will feature Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock in the lead roles. Filming has already begun on the highly anticipated pic that reunites McCarthy with director Paul Feig after they collaborated on Universal‘s box-office smash, Bridesmaids.