News: Cedric the Entertainer

Comedian Cedric hasn’t especially lived up to his self-adopted title in most of his cinematic outings to date, and this week’s Charlotte’s Web is hardly an exception – though considering the calibre of the rest of the cast this is hardly surprising.

Should it ever get a release on this side of the pond, his next outing will be the apparently dire Code Name: The Cleaner, where he plays a man with amnesia who ends up thinking he’s a spy. Then he’ll crop up in a smallish role in the decidedly more promising Talk To Me, alonside Martin Sheen, Don Cheadle and Chiwetel Ejiofor, based on the life of 1960s radio and TV personality Ralph “Petey” Greene (Cheadle), before reprising his voice role as Maurice the Lemur in Madigascar 2, before heading off for the famly musical Caught On Tape, about a boy with a video camera who starts spying on his mother’s dodgy boyfriend.

Not much chance of any real entertainment from Cedric any time soon, in other words…

News: Andy Garcia

After cropping up in this week’s crime caper Smokin’ Aces, Garcia will be continuing in his favourite genre – albeit in a somewhat more experimental manner – with his next outing, playing the wonderfully classically-named criminal character “Fingers” in the odd-sounding The Air That I Breathe (see here for more).

Then, due out in June, he’ll be returning to his sleazy role for the third Danny Ocean movie, Ocean’s Thirteen, alongside many of the A-listers of the previous two outings, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Elliott Gould and Don Cheadle, as well as newcomer to the series Al Pacino, with whom he last appeared in 1990’s frequently underrated The Godfather: Part III.

Finally, he”ll be opting for a change of pace – but an equally star-studded list of co-stars – for The Last Full Measure, based on the true story of a group of Vietnam veterans who campaigned to have their long-dead comrade’s heroism recognised by the United States Congress. Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis will make up the rest of the cast, so it should be good stuff.