Casting on the highly anticipated follow-up to director J.J. Abrams‘ 2009 Star Trek revival, simply known as Star Trek 2 at the moment, continues to happen at a quick pace.

It’s being reported that Peter Weller, star of such titles as RoboCop, Dexter, and 24, has been added to the cast. At the moment, however, nothing is known about who he might be playing.

As production on this sucker continues to proceed, the cast for J.J. Abrams‘ upcoming sequel to Star Trek has found a new leading lady.

Variety is reporting that Alice Eve has joined the film’s cast, in a role that is rumored to be new to the Trek canon.

Nothing is known yet about her role, but she joins an impeccable cast bringing back the crew from the first film, as well as Benicio del Toro, who will play the role of villain for the new one. The movie hits on May 17, 2013.

Relativity Media has released the official first look from their upcoming film The Raven.

Check out the image above of the film’s star John Cusack as the tormented Edgar Allan Poe. The movie, directed by James McTeigue, also stars Luke Evans, Brendan Gleeson, Alice Eve, and Oliver Jackson-Cohen. Official synopsis is below.

The Raven, which is actually the movie’s working title, opens in theaters on March 9, 2012.

**UPDATED BELOW**

For a long while, She’s Out of My League star Alice Eve was expected to play Emma Frost in the movie adaptation of comic book series X-Men: First Class. As it turns out, that deal was never sealed with ink and now comes word that a new actress will be taking on the role.

Deadline reports that Mad Men beauty January Jones will instead be taking on the part of the White Queen in director Matthew Vaughn‘s movie. The two-time Golden Globe nominated actress has also appeared in movies like American Wedding, We Are Marshall, and Pirate Radio.

As we said in the recent post about Rose Byrne and Jason Flemyng joining the large cast for Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn‘s X-Men: First Class, the film is about to begin production later this month and we should expect to hear who will round out the list of talents.

To keep that ball rolling, yet another name has been announced. Deadline is reporting that expert of sarcastic delivery Oliver Platt has joined the cast of the movie, which will tell a story of earlier days in the X-Men universe those of us who don’t read the comics have become more acquainted with in movies over the past decade or so.