There’s been a lot going on this week in the QH&SB realm of news! A few current projects undergo some changes, and a host of new projects get underway.

First up is James Mangold’s Wichita, starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. The film has changed it’s rather ambiguous title to the still pretty ho-hum Knight & Day. Peter Sarsgaard, Viola Davis, Olivier Martinez, Paul Dano, Maggie Grace and Mark Blucas also co-star. [via Variety]

The Tourist, which was set to star Cruise at one point, has shuffled its female lead. Charlize Theron has vacated the role and Angelina Jolie has stepped in. Sam Worthington has already been announced as the male lead. [via THR's Risky Biz Blog]

If you’ve ever wondered why we haven’t seen a sequel for Independence Day yet, Latino Review got a chance to speak with director Roland Emmerich about it. Hit the jump to find out what he had to say, and what Will Smith has to do with all of it.

Turns out they already have a story for it and everything, but Fox hasn’t been able to figure out the money situation between Emmerich, ID4 co-writer Dean Devlin, and Smith. Fox even had the nerve at some point to suggest that they try it without Smith, a notion which Emmerich, very thankfully, firmly declined. Latino Review has the full details.

Paramount is in negotiations with Chris Pine and D.J. Caruso to star in and direct, respectively, The Art of Making Money. Based on a “Rolling Stones” article that spawned a book, the film centers around Art Williams, a Chicago man who rose from being a petty thief to a master counterfeiter. [via Variety]

Robert Redford’s Lincoln-assasination drama The Conspirator has found a few new cast members, including Justin Long, Evan Rachel Wood, and Toby Kebbel. Long plays a one-armed Civil War vet and McAvoy’s best friend, Wood plays the daughter of Robin Wright Penn’s character, and Kebbel will be John Wilkes Booth himself. The Playlist even managed to snag a few pics of star James McAvoy and Wood in costume. Check them out below. [via THR and The Playlist]

In other Lincoln-related news, Tommy Lee Jones is in negotiations to direct and co-star in The Lincoln Lawyer. As opposed to the 16th president, this film is about a free-wheeling lawyer operating out of the back of his Lincoln automobile before he lands the case of a lifetime when he’s hired to defend a Beverly Hills playboy accused of murder. Matthew McConaughey is set to star. [via THR]

Legion and Priest director Scott Stewart has already lined up his third film before his first one has even hit theaters. He will next direct Psy-Ops, based on an original idea he and The Killing Room writer Gus Krieger came up with. Inspired by films like Aliens and Predator, the project will be about “a covert U.S. military unit of psychological operatives who specialize in exploiting their target’s deepest fears. When on a routine mission to the Amazon Basin, they discover something more terrifying than they could have imagined.” [via THR]

Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus has debuted a gorgeous U.K. poster. I’m a little jealous. [from IDP Support Site via /film]

David Schwimmer will direct Clive Owen and Catherine Keener in dark drama Trust, about the damaging effects an online predator has on a family. [via Variety]

As if Ridley Scott wasn’t busy enough already, Columbia Pictures is negotiating to have him direct a film adaptation of U.K. miniseries Red Riding. His American Gangster and Hannibal writer Steve Zaillian is also in negotiations to pen the script, a story of police corruption set against an investigation of the abduction of several young girls. [via Variety]

Surprise, surprise — Terrence Malick’s long-awaited (though about par for the course when compared to his previous efforts) family drama The Tree of Life will NOT make it to theaters by 2009, as originally was hoped. Instead, earliest estimates have it being completed in time for Cannes in 2010. [via indieWIRE]

Working Title just won a bidding war for an untitled romantic comedy pitch that Allan Loeb will write for Ryan Reynolds to star. The concept doesn’t sound like much — guy has to dress up as a girl to befriend and then win back his ex — but Loeb’s a talented writer and Reynolds is always fun to watch. [via Variety]

Peter Weir’s Russian-gulag-escape film The Way Back had its first images pop up online this week. Check out a tatted up Colin Farrell and a grizzly Ed Harris. [AlloCine via CHUD]

Will Ferrell has signed on to indie flick Everything Must Go. Commercials director Dan Rush will make his feature directing debut from his own script, based on a Raymond Carver short story. Ferrell will play a man whose wife locks him out of the house and deposits all his belongings on the front lawn after he loses his job. He spends the next four days trying to sell all of his stuff in an impromptu yard sale. [via Variety]

Lastly, Chris Messina (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Julie and Julia) will star as a sobered-up homicide detective in Devil, a horror-thriller to be helmed by Quarantine directors/screenwriters Drew and John Erick Dowdle from a story by M. Night Shyamalan. [via Variety]

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