Tommy Lee Jones in Captain America

Hayley Atwell revealed in an interview on Comicbookmovie.com that Tommy Lee Jones will appear in the Captain America movie. Jones’ role was not revealed.

The title role is being played by Chris Evans; Hugo Weaving will play the Red Skull.

Professor X Cast

Casting has begun for the upcoming X-Men film directed by Matthew Vaughn. James McAvoy has been cast as the young Charles Xavier, according to Variety.

Production is expected to begin this summer for the film, which will premiere in 2011.

NBC Picks Up New J.J. Abrams' Series

NBC has made its first pick-up for the 2010-2011 TV season by acquiring Undercovers, a new spy series created by J.J. Abrams and Josh Reims. The series stars Boris Kodjoe and Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a married couple who thought their careers in the CIA were over, until they are recalled to duty. According to Variety, Undercovers is being produced at Warner Bros. Television.

Abrams has created or co-created a number of TV series including Felicity, Lost, and Fringe, and has directed Mission Impossible III and the 2009 Star Trek. Abrams also created a previous “spy” series, Alias, which debuted on ABC in 2001 and spawned comic books, trading cards and other merchandise.

"The Phantom" Gets Short Shrift From SyFy

The SyFy Network has announced that it will air all four hours of The Phantom mini-series, which is based on Lee Falk’s classic adventure comic strip, on Sunday night June 20th, starting at 7pm (ET, PT). The fact that all four hours of the new Phantom, which was originally conceived of as a 2-part pilot movie for a new on-going series, will air on just one night certainly does not bode well for the prospects of the new Phantom getting a continuing series unless the ratings are extremely high.

The new 4-hour Phantom saga, which was produced by RHI and Muse Entertainment, features a bulkier costume that is impervious to bullets and doubles the masked hero’s strength and speed

Hugo Weaving to Portray The Red Skull

Marvel Studios has announced that veteran character actor Hugo Weaving will play the key role of The Red Skull in The First Avenger: Captain America, which begins production next month in London. Introduced in Captain America #1 in 1941, the original Red Skull was George John Maxon, an American industrialist turned Nazi saboteur, but the character in the movie has been identified by Marvel Studios as Johann Schmidt, who was actually the second Red Skull in the comic continuity. Schmidt, a German orphan who survived a harsh upbringing, was working as a bellhop in a Berlin hotel when he was chosen by Hitler for special training that the Fuhrer supervised himself.

Weaving joins a cast that so far includes Chris Evans and Hayley Atwell. Weaving is perhaps best known for his work in the Matrix Trilogy (Agent Smith), V for Vendetta (V), and Lord of the Rings (Elrond). Weaving has also provided the voice of Decepticon leader Megatron in Michael Bay’s two live-action Transformers movies.

"Dark Crystal" Sequel Set

Omnilab Media and The Jim Henson Company will produce Power of the Dark Crystal, the sequel to the original, in 3D. The feature will be a combination of live action, puppetry, and visual and special effects. Fantasy artist Brian Fround will be the conceptual designer of the film.

Brothers Peter and Michael Spierig (Undead, Daybreakers) have been hired to direct from a screenplay by Craig Pearce (Moulin Rouge) based on a script by Annette Duffy and David Odell.

Archaia has announced a Dark Crystal comic for later this year.

Dempsey in "Transformers 3"

Patrick Dempsey (Grey’s Anatomy) has joined the cast of Transformers 3 as Megan Fox’s boss, according to Variety. Fox and LaBeouf return to their roles from the first two films in the series.

Director Michael Bay will begin shooting the film this month, according to the report, to be ready for a July 1, 2011 release.