Five photos from the set of Walt Disney’s National Treasure: Book of Secrets have surfaced over at Just Jared. They show stars Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha and Jon Voight during the filming in front of the White House in Washington D.C. last Thursday. Click here to view the pictures.

The sequel to the 2004 hit National Treasure is again directed by John Turtletaub and also stars Helen Mirren, Ed Harris and Harvey Keitel. The film is scheduled to open in theaters December 21, 2007.

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has hinted that the plot of the film will involve Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth and 18 pages which are actually missing from Booth’s library.

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Jodie Foster (Flightplan, Inside Man) and Abigail Breslin (the infant Oscar-nominee from Little Miss Sunshine) are near deals to star in the Walden Media financed fantasy Nim’s Island, reports Variety.

The film will start shooting this summer under the helm of directors Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin (the writers of films like Madeline, Wimbledon and the upcoming Journey 3-D). Joseph Kwong and Paula Mazur wrote the script, based on the book by Wendy Orr and Kerry Millard.

Nim’s Island concerns a young girl who accompanies her scientist father to an isolated island in the South Pacific. When he is lost at sea, she communicates electronically with a person she imagines to be a character from a book but is in fact a reclusive author.

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Quentin Tarantino’s and Robert Rodriguez’s joint slasher thriller Grindhouse opens in US cinemas this week, with a set of faux trailers set to screen during the intermission inbetween to two segments Planet Terror and Death Proof.

We’ve already been privy to stills from some of these faux trailers, directed by various guest director buddies of Tarantino and Rodriguez, but now IGN.com has the full version of Eli Roth’s faux contribution, titled Thanksgiving, online at this link. The site also has a few other Grindhouse clips online, including looks at the faux trailers from Rob Zombie and Edgar Wright.

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Susan Sarandon and John Goodman are set to star in the Wachowski bros. Speed Racer film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The acting duo are in talks to play the parents of Emile Hirsch’s title character. Goodman would play Pops, a race car owner and builder, while Sarandon’s character is the backbone of the family and of the Mach 5 Go Racing team.

Casting for Speed’s girlfriend Trixie and his nemesis Racer X is still underway. The Wachowskis will start filming the picture in Germany this summer, for a May 9, 2008 release.

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