EW has confirmed that actress Rooney Mara (Urban Legends: Bloody Mary) is in final talks to join the cast of the new A Nightmare on Elm Street as the heroine Nancy. She would join Watchmen star Jackie Earle Haley as villain Freddy Krueger, as well as Thomas Dekker (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) and Kyle Gallner (The Haunting in Connecticut) as fellow victims of Freddy’s dream-invading murderous rampage. The news of Mara’s involvement was first reported by horror fansite Bloody Disgusting.

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Jackie Earle Haley to play Freddy Krueger
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According to the Hollywood Reporter James Marsden will star in a remake of Sam Peckinpah’s controversial 1971 film Straw Dogs in which Dustin Hoffman battled a group of violent British villagers. Contender auteur Rod Lurie will direct the new version.

New Adventures of Old Christine actor Clark Gregg will reprise his role of S.H.I.E.L.D agent Phil Coulson in Iron Man 2 according to the Hollywood Reporter. Actress Kate Mara has also signed on to appear in the sequel.

QuentinTarantino’s Inglorious Basterds, Ang Lee’s Woodstock, Jane Campion’s John Keats biopic Bright Star, and TerryGilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus are among the films premiering at this year’s Festival de Cannes, which runs May 13-24. In total, more than 50 feature films from 32 countries will screen, with 46 getting world premieres. The lineup for the 62nd annual Cannes Festival, after the jump.

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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will return for their fifth big-screen outing in 2011. The live-action film will focus on the origins of sewer-dwelling heroes Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael (and Splinter too!) and will remain true to the original 1980s comics. According to Variety, Peter Laird, co-creator of the TMNT comics, said the pic may employ face replacement technology, which would allow the turtles to be much more expressive.

According to Variety, Sideways and Duplicity actor Paul Giamatti will star in indie drama Barney’s Vision. The film is an adaptation of the book by author Mordecai Richler whose tome The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz was turned into the 1974 movie starring Richard Dreyfuss.