Helena Bonham Carter joins the Terminator cast

Val Kilmer, Xzibit recruited for Bad Lieutenant
Actors Val Kilmer and Xzibit are set to join Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendez in Werner Herzog’s cop drama Bad Lieutenant,an update of Abel Ferrara’s 1992 cult classic. The original followed the depraved adventures of a corrupt policeman (Harvey Keitel) investigating the rape of a nun. The new film will feature Kilmer as the partner of Cage’s crooked cop and Xzibit as a villain. Lieutenant will likely capture the spirit of the original, with the protagonist’s drug intake, his accepting sexual favours as bribes and other elements that endeared so many to Ferrara’s version. Filming is set to begin later in the summer.

Shakespeare director on trail of Nazi
Shakespeare in Love director John Madden is in negotiations to take the helm of the Nazi hunting thriller The Debt. The Miramax Films project is based on the 2007 Israeli feature HaHov, which follows a trio of 1960s Israeli intelligence agents who pursue an elusive Nazi war criminal. More than 30 years later, their target re-emerges. As with the original, the remake is expected to feature two actresses playing the female protagonist in the ‘60s and ‘90s. Madden’s most recent film was the Weinstein Co./MGM thriller Killshot, filmed in 2005 and still awaiting release. He received an Oscar nomination for 1998’s Shakespeare In Love, and went on to direct such films as Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and Proof.