News: Cannes, Asa Butterfield & Pennywise

Ender’s Game star, 18-year-old British actor Asa Butterfield, is reportedly the favourite to become Marvel/Sony’s new Spider-man. An announcement is expected sooner rather than later as the incoming Spidey is expected to make his debut in Captain America: Civil War, which has already begun shooting. (Source: Deadline)

Todd Haynes’s Carol, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, is getting plenty of love from critics at Cannes, while Gus van Sant’s The Sea of Trees was the first flick of the festival to get the boo treatment. (Source: Guardian)

We’re the Millers actor Will Poulter will play the iconic Pennywise in Cary Fukunaga’s big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s It. (Source: Variety)

And finally…

Pitch Perfect star Anna Kendrick challenges James Corden to a ‘riff-off’ on The Late Late Show. Check it out: