the Hollywood Reporter.

The film, which tells the story of a young boy who is drawn into the world of vampires, is in pre-production, with shooting scheduled from Feb. 19 to June 1.

Hayek will play the bearded Madame Truska in a freak show run by a vampiric Reilly, who enlists Josh Hutcherson ("Bridge to Terabithia") to become his assistant in a war against the rival Vampaneze.

Ken Watanabe ("Letters From Iwo Jima") is also slated to star. Paul Weitz will direct.

The big-screen role is Hayek's first since giving birth last fall.

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Also this month, production is scheduled to start in Hammond, among other locations, on the indie drama "The Open Road, " in which singer/heartthrob Timberlake will star alongside Jeff Bridges and Mary Steenburgen.

The film,which has set up a production office in Baton Rouge, will tell the story of a young man trying to reconnect with his father, a legendary athlete, as he hits the open road to get to his ailing mother's bedside.

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Bob Newhart.

Comedy icon Newhart will come to town next month to join former "ER" doc Noah Wyle as Wyle reprises his title role in the made-for-cable-TV adventure "The Librarian 3: The Curse of the Jade Chalice, " to be shot in the New Orleans area from March 1 to 31.

This outing will see Wyle's character, the Indiana-Jones-like adventurer-scholar Flynn Carsen, head to the Bayou State to recover the titular cup, said to possess the power to resurrect Prince Vlad Dracula of Romania.

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