— “Avatar” has its world premiere in London tonight, and it’s just started screening for critics in the last couple of days, but James Cameron’s already plotting his follow up. Production Weekly has suggested that he’s developing an sci-fi actioner from writer Shane Salerno (“Armageddon”), an “event” film set in the future. The Hollywood Reporter reported last year that Salerno had sold a script called “Doomsday Protocol,” about an unlikely mix of humans and aliens who team up to save the Earth, but our guess would be that this’ll be something new – Cameron tends to originate his own projects more often than not.
— Broadway actress Donna Murphy, best known on film for playing Alfred Molina’s doomed wife in “Spider-Man 2,” will voice the villain in Disney’s 3-D fairy tale animation “Rapunzel.” Murphy will play Mother Gothel, the witch who imprisons the heroine (Mandy Moore), until she escapes and joins up with a bandit (Zachary Levi).
— Almost-Wolverine,and Vice President of the Stuart Townsend Foundation for Career Disappointment, Dougray Scott will star in the British indie drama “The Veil of Maya,” about a woman who travels back in time to stop a relationship from taking place. It’ll be directed by Dana Lustig (“Kill Me Later”)