‘Suicide Squad’ Cast Made Official, ‘Secret In Their Eyes’ Remake Lands At STX, Dolby Plans IMAX Challenge, ‘Ben-Hur’ Female Lead Announced

The ‘Suicide Squad’ Cast Is Now Official, and Both Will Smith and Jared Leto Are Part Of It

Smith will play Deadshot, Leto is The Joker, Jesse Eisenberg will reprise Lex Luthor, Tom Hardy is Rick Flagg, Margot Robbie is Harley Quinn, Jai Courtney is Boomerang and Cara Delevinge is The Enchantress, while David Ayer is directing the film, which will start shooting in Toronto in April. (SF)

Billy Ray’s Remake Of Foreign Film Oscar Winner ‘The Secret In Their Eyes’ Goes To STX

The movie, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman, will get American distribution from Robert Simonds’ new shingle. Film starts shooting next month in Los Angeles. (VAR)

Dolby Is Coming After IMAX, Plans a New Theater Experience

The company known for its sound system is set to launch Dolby Cinema, a premium, large-format theater experience that could challenge large-format leader IMAX. (THR)

And, After a Heated Competition, Your ‘Ben-Hur’ Remake Female Lead Is …

Nazanin Boniandi, of Homeland and How I Met Your Mother, has landed the role of Esther opposite Jack Huston in the Timur Bekmambetov-directed film for MGM and Paramount. (DH)

Tom Hooper Wants Amber Heard To Join Him For ‘The Danish Girl’

The Oscar-winner for The King’s Speech is working with one of his Les Miz stars, Eddie Redmayne, in the story of Danish painter Einar Wegener's life as he became the first man to undergo a sex change operation in the early 1930s, becoming Lili Elbe. (EMP)

Right Now, With Pre-Sales Of His Next Film Through the Roof, It’s Pretty Good To Be Jean-Marc Vallée.

Fox Searchlight, the studio behind his latest, Wild, announced that his next project, Demolition, which stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts has already sold to over 25 territories worldwide. (TOH)

It Looks Like ‘Source Code’ Is Getting a Sequel, But Neither Duncan Jones Nor Jake Gyllenhaal Are Returning

Ben Ripley, who wrote the original film, will write the new script, and Anna Foerster, of the Starz network’s Outlander series, is on board to direct. No distributor is yet attached. (COL)

‘Effie Gray,’ Emma Thompson’s Latest Flick, Finds a Buyer In, Appropriately, Adopt Films

Thompson wrote the film and stars in it, along with Dakota Fanning. Richard Laxton directed the tale, about the eponymous former teenage bride of art critic and author John Ruskin. Film will hit theaters in the spring. (IW)

With the Recent News That Netflix Saved ‘Longmire,’ Four Reasons To Love the Show

After being cancelled by A&E despite great ratings, the online streaming service picked up the show for a fourth season. No word yet on a premiere date, but it appears to be second half of 2015. (WF)

Screenwriters: ‘Collateral’

The 113-page shooting draft, dated August 24, 2003. Screenplay by Stuart Beattie, revisions by Frank Darabont, further revisions by Michael Mann. (DS)