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Welcome back to another edition of “This Week in Casting,” the column that gives you the rundown of who’s attached to the hottest upcoming projects in Hollywood. From big time players to fresh-faced rookies, we’ve got the week in review for you right here. This week, we’ve got casting news about Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bradley Cooper, Rob Schneider, and many more. Get all the details below!

BIG NAMES
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Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett in talks for Woody Allen’s latest film

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The movie: There’s no real word about it yet, other than that Allen is hoping to film in Copenhagen after the success of Midnight in Paris and his new film, To Rome With Love.
Other projects: Cooper will star in a fun action comedy called Outrun with Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard in theaters this August, while Blanchett can next be seen in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, out this December.
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Omar Epps starring in and producing Between Us

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The show: Two best friends look for love in the wrong places with a contemporary twist.
Other projects: He’s not doing much in the feature film world these days, but you can still see him as Dr. Eric Foreman on House M.D.
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Rob Schneider as the lead on Teach Me How To Dance

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The movie: Schneider plays a man who must learn how to dance in order to win back his ex-girlfriend. Good luck with that, dude.
Other projects: He’ll star alongside Michelle Rodriguez, Adrien Brody, and Lindsay Lohan in a film called InAPPropriate Comedy later this year.
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Jake Johnson and Zoe Kazan as the leads in The Pretty One

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The movie: Described as an offbeat comedy about an awkward young woman mistaken for her dead “perfect” identical twin, and how she takes the opportunity to live as her sister. She falls in love with her next door neighbor and regrets her decision to live a lie.
Other projects: Johnson stars in the fantastic time travel comedy Saftey Not Guaranteed, and Kazan will appear in an interesting film she wrote called Ruby Sparks, which is about a writer who creates a female character he think will love him and then wishes her into existence.
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Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Evan in CBS’s comedy pilot Friend Me

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The show: Evan (Mintz-Plasse) and Rob (Nicholas Braun) are best friends who move from Indiana to Los Angeles to work at Groupon.
Other projects: He’ll star in the animated films ParaNorman and How to Train Your Dragon 2 in the near future.
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LESSER KNOWNS
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Taylour Paige as Ahsha in VH1’s first hourlong pilot Bounce

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The show: It follows the lives and loves of professional basketball dancers, led by Paige, and featuring former Superman Dean Cain as the coach of the basketball team.
Where you might have seen her: As a dancer in High School Musical 3: Senior Year.
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Paloma Kwiatkowski as Thalia in Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Sea of Monsters

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The movie: The sequel to Percy Jackson will see the son of Poseidon (Logan Lerman) and his friends searching for the mythical Golden Fleece.
Where you might have seen her: Nowhere! This was the first ever audition for the Vancouver high school student, and she nailed it. What a cool story.
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Jacob Latimore as the lead in BET’s new show Young Men on Campus

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The show: A 15-year-old college prodigy (Latimore) shares a dorm at Mt. Pleasant University with his basketball star cousin Marco. This show is a spin-off of Reed Between the Lines.
Where you might have seen him: He appeared in the horror thriller Vanishing on 7th Street.
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Zachary Abel as the lead in CW’s pilot Shelter

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The show: J.J. Abrams has a hand in this show, which is set at a New England summer resort where the new and returning staff deal with the crazy needs of guests while handling their own friendships, rivalries, and romances.
Where you might have seen him: He’s best known for his role as Carter Anderson on the ABC Family show Make It or Break It.
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Martha MacIsaac to star in NBC’s 1600 Penn

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The show: It’s a dysfunctional family comedy set at the White House, where Independence Day President Bill Pullman plays the President here and MacIsaac plays his oldest daughter.
Where you might have seen her: She starred in the 2007 comedy Superbad as Becca, which is also her character’s name in 1600 Penn.
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