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Kirsten Dunst has expressed regret that director Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy will never receive a “proper ending”.

The actress told Reuters that she supports the upcoming big screen Spider-Man reboot, but she would have relished the chance to return to the film franchise.

“I really like [the reboot’s stars] Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield a lot. I think they’ll be great,” she said. “It’s just sad that there wasn’t a proper ending [for the trilogy].”

She continued: “We didn’t know when we shot the third one that it would be the last. I wish we would have known. Maybe we would have cherished that time a bit more, knowing it would be the last one for all of us.”

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Hans Zimmer will provide the soundtrack to Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot.

According to Thompson on Hollywood, the composer will score the DC Comics adaptation, but will not reproduce the iconic John Williams theme for the film.

Zimmer added that his work on the project will commence once the scores for Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Sherlock Holmes 2 and Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom Of Doom are completed.

Based on a screenplay by David S. Goyer, Snyder’s Superman is scheduled to arrive in 2012.

Christopher Nolan has dismissed recent rumours that unseen footage of Heath Ledger is to feature in The Dark Knight Rises.

A New Zealand website had alleged that the director was considering whether to include unused scenes from Ledger’s turn as The Joker from The Dark Knight in the new Batman film.

However, Nolan and producer wife Emma Thomas shot down the reports at an awards season party for their Oscar contender Inception

Thomas told The Hollywood Reporter: “I heard the rumour. We’re not doing that.”

The couple again denied that Ledger would appear in the film at all and expressed a desire for his performance as the manic villain to remain confined to the 2008 film.

Nolan recently reiterated that The Dark Knight Rises will be his last Batman picture.

Robert Duvall is to be honoured at the upcoming 22nd annual Palm Springs International Film Festival’s Awards Gala.

The veteran actor will receive the ‘Career Achievement’ award at the January event, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Oscar winner Duvall has starred in a number of classic films, including The Godfather, The Conversation and Network.

The Get Low star has also directed four films, including The Apostle and Assassination Tango.

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Jeremy Renner has denied rumours claiming that he is in talks to star in the Escape From New York remake.

Several outlets reported earlier this month that the Hurt Locker star was close to landing the lead role of Snake Plissken in the project.

However, speaking to MTV, Renner said that there is “no truth” to the rumours.

“Someone told me about it and then I saw it online. I was like, ‘That’s news to me as well.’ I didn’t know anything about it,” the Oscar nominee explained.

Renner is starring with Tom Cruise in the upcoming Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.

Johnny Depp has admitted that Disney executives were initially unhappy with his portrayal of Pirates of the Caribbean antihero Captain Jack Sparrow.

During an interview for Vanity Fair Depp apparently joked that one Disney executive even had to ask whether the character was intended to be gay.

“All my characters are gay,” the actor reportedly told her. “[That] really made her nervous.”

Depp went on to receive an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the series’ flagship character in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Depp will next appear alongside Angelina Jolie in The Tourist, which will be released in cinemas December 10.

Eliza Dushku has been announced as the star of a new TNT pilot.

Dushku, who appeared in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dollhouse, has joined TNT’s new series titled Bird Dog, reports Entertainment Weekly.

Bird Dog tells the story of a cop duo made up of a father and daughter. Dushku will play the daughter, while the father role is yet to be cast.

According to Deadline, Dushku’s character is estranged from her father, a New York City cop, until he turns up as her new partner. Together, they solve crimes in a sleepy Pacific Northwestern town while building their own relationship.

Dushku most recently featured in The Big Bang Theory as an FBI agent.

James Franco and Anne Hathaway have been confirmed as the hosts for the 2011 Academy Awards ceremony.

Earlier today, it was suggested that the pair would be named by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as the stars who will present the 83rd Oscars event.

This evening, show producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer announced that Franco and Hathaway have agreed to front the awards.

Cohen and Mischer said that the actor and actress “personify the next generation of Hollywood icons”, and that they hoped the ceremony would allow the pair to “showcase their incredible talents and entertain the world”.

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A selection of photographs published by a British magazine suggest that production of Peter Jackson’s long-awaited adaptation of The Hobbit is now underway.

According to Coming Soon, photos have begun circling the internet from a film preview in Total Film magazine, depicting a construction of protagonist Bilbo Baggins’s home Bag End.

The images indicate that work has now begun on reconstructing and redesigning a number of the film sets used for Jackson’s epic Lord Of The Rings trilogy, in order to ensure that there is continuity between the films.

The Hobbit films are scheduled to begin filming in early 2011, with the first film expected to be released in December 2012.