Nicolas Cage, Colin Firth, Stanley Tucci, Morgan Freeman, Peter Sarsgaard and Christoph Waltz discuss acting

This is fantastic stuff. Great to see all these actors together.

Is acting art? Nicolas Cage, Colin Firth, Stanley Tucci, Morgan Freeman, Peter Sarsgaard and Christoph Waltz hash it out at our awards season roundtable.

Stanley Tucci, Nicolas Cage and Morgan Freeman tell us how they handle disagreements on set.

Burlesque – First look at Christina Aguilera

Aguilera will play “an ambitious small-town girl with a big voice” who tries to escape a hollow past by performing in a neo-burlesque club in Los Angeles. The film hopes to be Moulin Rouge meets Cabaret, with established songs that will be updated and worked into dance numbers.

Burlesque stars Christina Aguilera, Cher, Stanley Tucci, Cam Gigandet, Kristen Bell, Julianne Hough, Alan Cumming, Eric Dane and will be released on 24th November 2010. Steven Antin directs.

Pacific Coast News had the pics.

Kristen Bell has a face off with Christina Aguilera in Burlesque

Kristen Bell will star as Christina Aguilera’s rival in Burlesque, Screen Gems’ musical drama being directed by Steve Antin according to THR.

“Burlesque” centers on the journey of an ambitious small-town girl (Aguilera) with a big-town voice who finds love and success in a Los Angeles neo-burlesque club, reminiscent of the nightclub in Bob Fosse’s “Cabaret.” (Aguilera has guested in cabarets for the Pussycat Dolls.)

Bell will play Nikki, the loose-cannon lead dancer and main attraction at the club who spirals out of control when Aguilera’s character suddenly gets the spotlight.

Already cast are Cher as the nightclub owner and Stanley Tucci as the man who helps turn Aguilera from bumpkin to bombshell.

The film is due out late next year and I can honestly say that it does not interest me in the slightest, but I do like Bell and Tucci.

The Lovely Bones – First full trailer for Peter Jackson’s new film

Starring Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, Saoirse Ronan, The Lovely Bones is based on the critically acclaimed best-selling novel by Alice Sebold, and centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family – and her killer – from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.

The Lovely Bones – Preview of the trailer for Peter Jackson’s new film

Here is one of those sneak peaks of a trailer from Entertainment Tonight. The first trailer for Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Lovely Bones will be out late today.

Based on the critically acclaimed best-selling novel by Alice Sebold, and directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Jackson & Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens, “The Lovely Bones” centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family – and her killer – from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal. Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon star along with Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli and Saoirse Ronan. The Lovely Bones hits theaters on 11th December 2009.