Jesse has already made her way to Toronto to film the remake of “Total Recall,” where she was just announced to play the role of Melina! Can’t wait to see some on set photos (let’s hope there are some) from this film! This marks Jesse’s 3rd remake film, the other two being “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “The A-Team!” Both box office successes with a great performance from Jess, can’t wait to see this one!

Enjoy!

• On the set of “Total Recall” in Toronto, Canada – July 13th, 2011
• Jessica Biel Leaving the “Total Recall” Set in Toronto, Canada – July 12th
• Jessica Biel Taking a Break on “Total Recall” Set in Toronto, Canada
• Jessica Biel Leaving the “Total Recall” Set – June 20th, 2011
• Jessica Biel Arriving in Toronto, Canada – June 12th, 2011

Last month we heard that Sony Pictures had offered Kate Beckinsale the role of Lori opposite Colin Farrell in their Total Recall remake. With her husband, Len Wiseman, directing the project and given that they previously collaborated on the Underworld movies, it wasn’t really much of a surprise. However, sources have now told us that she’s officially signed on and Jessica Biel is going to play the other female lead (Melina). In addition to the casting news, we’ve been told filming starts Monday in Toronto.

For those playing catch up on the remake, Colin Farrell is set to star, Ethan Hawke has a cameo, and Bryan Cranston is poised to play the villain. The remake will apparently be closer to Phillip K. Dick’s source material than the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger flick. Farrell plays a factory worker who begins to believe he’s a spy for either the nation stat Euromerica or New Shanghai, but he doesn’t know which. Hit the jump for a recap of what we know about the film so far.

Heat Vision reports that Bill Nighy has joined the cast as the enigmatic Quatto, the leader of the resistance.

Wiseman’s adaptation will definitely be different than the previous incarnation, as it also forgoes the trip to Mars that plays a major role in the 1990 film. Cranston plays Vilos Cohaagen, the leader of Euromerica who, under the cover of protecting his people, is secretly readying an invasion of New Shanghai.

When I spoke to producer Neal Moritz earlier this year, he talked about the world they’re creating for the remake:

“I think the world that Len Wiseman is creating is incredible. It’s a real world, a real future world, where the cities have just gotten so overcrowded that the cities are just built up, up, up, up. It’s just everything I see on the movie, every pre-vis I see on the movie, every conceptual drawing on this movie that I see just makes me more and more excited. We’re playing it like a real world, but there’s all these technological advancements to the real world, and it’s just really cool. It’s an awesome movie. I’m dying—as a fan of movies, more than anything, it’s a movie that I’m just dying to see.”

While I was a bit nervous about the remake as the original is one of my favorite Schwarzenegger movies, with the cast they’ve assembled, I’m starting to get excited.

Total Recall is scheduled for released on August 3rd, 2012.

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Lionsgate UK has been on the acquisitions trail picking up deals on a number of titles including rom com Playing The Field with Gerard Butler and Simon West’s action thriller Medallion, starring Nicholas Cage, from Nu Image.

Playing the Field (which also stars Jessica Biel, Uma Thurman and Catherine Zeta Jones) and Medallion continue Lionsgate UK’s relationship with Nu Image/Millennium Films after acquiring last year’s Summer blockbuster The Expendables and previously releasing The Mechanic and Bad Lieutenant.

“These are big commercial cast-led movies,” Lionsgate UK Ceo Zygi Kamasa said of the pick-ups of the Nu Image titles. “Simon West did Con Air, Tomb Raider and The Mechanic. It’s a great action heist script. And Playing The Field has a great cast. They’re very big, glossy commercial films. That really fits into the kind of movies we’re trying to do.”

Lionsgate UK has also pre-bought the Iain Softley thriller Trap For Cinderella from Ealing Metro International. An adaptation of Sebastien Japrisot’s novel, it explores the mystery surrounding two women who are trapped inside a beach house at a French resort which is unexpectedly gutted by a suspicious fire.

Meanwhile, Lionsgate UK is to handle the UK release of Irvine Welsh adaptation Filth (sold by Sierra/Affinity in the market.) The film is being written and directed by Jon S. Baird. It is being produced by Ken Marshall through Steel Mill Pictures and executive produced by Will Clarke. (Icon will be distributing the film in Australia).

Congrats on “Playing the Field” getting picked up for US and UK distribution!

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EXCLUSIVE: Riding high on the success of its inaugural releases, FilmDistrict has picked up US rights from Nu Image/Millennium Films to Gabriele Muccino’s rom-com Playing The Field, starring Gerard Butler and Jessica Biel.

Shooting is underway in Louisiana now for an expected spring 2012 release. Butler plays a broke former footballer and playboy who moves back to Virginia to reconnect with his estranged wife and neglected son. He ends up coaching his son’s football team as a host of adoring soccer mums and desperate housewives look on. Uma Thurman, Judy Greer, Dennis Quaid and Catherine Zeta-Jones round out the cast.

Butler and Alan Siegel’s Evil Twin Productions is producing in association with Kevin Misher, Jonathan Mostow, Heidi Jo Markel and John Thompson from a screenplay by Robbie Fox. Nu Image/Millennium Films’ Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short and Avi Lerner serve as executive producers.

“This is as good an independent movie as you can find,” CEO Peter Schlessel said. “It was an easy yes and I don’t say yes to a lot of things. This movie is the perfect example of how we will continue to evolve from an acquisitions point of view as we scour the market for widely appealing commercial product.”

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• Jessica Biel on set of “Playing the Field” – April 21st, 2011
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Kate Beckinsale is reportedly fighting Jessica Biel for the leading lady role in her husband Len Wiseman’s Total Recall remake.

Website CinemaBlend.com reports the two all-action actresses are in talks to join Colin Farrell, Bryan Cranston and Ethan Hawke in the futuristic film.

Irishman Farrell will star in the film, taking over the Douglas Quaid role Arnold Schwarzenegger played in the 1990 film.

If Beckinsale lands a lead in the remake, it won’t be the first time she has been directed by her husband – she teamed up with Wiseman for the first two Underworld movies.

I was under the impression there are two main female roles, not sure if their fighting for the same or just both in negotiations for different roles.

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