We’ve got a few casting stories to share this afternoon.  Briefly:

• Jon Hamm will be lending his voice to one of the lead roles opposite Sandra Bullock in Illumination Entertainment’s spinoff Minions.
• Fresh off her turn in Oblivion, actress Olga Kurylenko has joined the cast of director Mark Waters’ (Mean Girls) YA adaptation Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters.
• Andy Garcia and Ray Romano are joining the cast of the crime drama Rob the Mob.

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Check out the latest release date shuffle for the following films:

• Director Zal Batmanglij’s The East, starring Brit Marling, Ellen Page, Alexander Skarsgard, Toby Kebbell, Shiloh Fernandez and Patricia Clarkson, will open in limited release starting May 31, 2013.
• The Mark Waters-directed adaptation, Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters, starring Zoey Deutch (Beautiful Creatures) and Lucy Fry (Lightning Point) will open February 14, 2014.
• Universal’s Untitled Illumination Entertainment 2015 Project will open in 3D on July 3, 2015.  

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When last we reported on the development of the Vampire Academy adaptations, we were only half-way through the Twilight Saga.  Now, it looks like the first of six possible films is set up with stars Zoey Deutch (Beautiful Creatures) and Lucy Fry (Lightning Point) playing the leads of Rose and Lissa with Mark Waters (Mean Girls) directing from a Daniel Waters (Heathers) script.  Based on the best-selling young adult book series by Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy centers on half-human Dhampir bodyguards and their vampire charges who both train at St. Vladimir’s Academy.  The film treatment will also get the catchy new title of Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters in preparation for an ongoing franchise of adaptations.  Hit the jump for more.