Casting Call: Jennifer Hudson Joins ‘Sex And The City’

Jennifer Hudson is moving to the “City.” Don Cheadle checks in with the “Dogs.” Plus, Kate Bosworth is ready to “Die” for new film! It’s all in today’s Access Hollywood Casting Call…

Former “American Idol” hopeful-turned-“Dreamgirls” Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson will join the cast of the “Sex and the City: The Movie,” reports Variety.

Hudson will play the assistant to Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker).

The film will pick up the lives of the show’s four main characters – Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda – four years later from where the HBO series wrapped up.

Filming is scheduled to begin in New York on September 19.

Hudson, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Effie White in the 2006 musical “Dreamgirls,” also just finished shooting the drama “Winged Creatures,” alongside Kate Beckinsale, Dakota Fanning, Forest Whitaker and Guy Pearce.

Don Cheadle has signed on to star opposite Emma Roberts in the live-action feature “Hotel For Dogs,” reports Variety.

Based on Lois Duncan’s 1971 children’s book of the same name, the film follows two orphaned teens who hide dozens of stray dogs in an abandoned hotel.

Cheadle will step into the role of a struggling social worker who helps keep the kids out of trouble.

Most recently seen on the big screen reprising his role as Basher Tarr in “Ocean’s Thirteen,” Cheadle is currently filming the historical biopic “Toussaint,” opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Angela Bassett.

Former “O.C.” beauty Mischa Barton will star in the psychological thriller “Walled In,” reports Variety.

Based on “Les Emmeures,” the best-selling French novel by Serge Broselot, the film features Barton as a demolition company rep who oversees the razing of a mysterious building and discovers horrifying secrets and past inhabitants entombed within its walls by a vicious murderer.

Barton is currently co-starring in “Assassination of a High School President” opposite Bruce Willis and most recently wrapped the Roland Joffe-directed “Finding t.A.T.u.”

Kate Bosworth has signed on for the title role in “Veronika Decides To Die,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

In the adaptation of Paulo Coelho’s bestseller, Bosworth plays a woman who wakes up in a mental institution after a failed suicide attempt. When she discovers that she has a weakened heart and only days to live, she winds up finding true love and a newfound will to survive.

Bosworth hit the Toronto Film Festival earlier this week to premiere her new drama “The Girl In The Park,” where she stars opposite Sigourney Weaver.

Brazilian author Coelho’s novel “Veronika” has sold more than 9 million copies. He is best known for his book “The Alchemist.”

Former “Desperate Housewives” boy toy Jesse Metcalfe will star in the indie horror thriller “Insanitarium,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Metcalfe, who played Eva Longoria’s gardener John on Wisteria Lane, will play a man who pretends to be crazy in order to save his sister from being involuntarily hospitalized.

However, once inside the institute, the siblings discover that a doctor is using his patients like lab rats, forcing them to take a drug that turns them into flesh-eating psychopaths.

Metcalfe will reprise his “Desperate Housewives” role for an upcoming episode of the hit ABC drama.

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