Buzz News Roundup, 8/1

BuzzSugar — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:29:57 -0700

Lisa Bonet has joined the cast of Life on Mars as the main character's girlfriend, Entertainment Weekly reports.
The Hollywood Reporter writes that Colin Firth is joining the next film version of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
ComingSoon reports that Mike Myers is writing the fourth Austin Powers movie.
Billboard has details about the first album from The Verve in more than a decade.
Law & Order creator Dick Wolf is working on another project about lawyers for NBC, Zap2it reports.
The action-fantasy film Prince of Persia, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, has been pushed back a year and will now open Memorial Day weekend 2010, Variety writes.
The Hollywood Reporter has the news that Nicolas Cage and director John Carpenter will team up for prison thriller Scared Straight.
According to ComingSoon, the script for the dramedy Ivy Chronicles, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, is being written by Aline Brosh McKenna, who wrote the screenplay for The Devil Wears Prada.