Fans of Mad Men’s Don Draper may see some irony in the fact that the actor who portrays the beatnik-scorning ad exec has taken a role in Howl, the upcoming movie centering on Alan Ginsberg’s obscenity trial. “Hamm will star as defense attorney Jake Ehrlich, whose life was the inspiration for the TV series Perry Mason,” Variety reports. The cast also includes James Franco, Mary-Louise Parker and Jeff Daniels.

Another alien invasion is on the way. Aaron Eckhart will star in Battle: Los Angeles for director Jonathan Liebesman (The Killing Room). Scott Silver (8 Mile) will rewrite “Chris Bertolini's original screenplay, about an alien invasion pulverizing its way across L.A.” per The Hollywood Reporter.

Anyone heartbroken over the news that Zac Efron has dropped out of the Footloose remake – all is not lost. Efron is negotiating to star in The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud, “about a caretaker at a cemetery who manages to have weekly meetings with a younger brother whose accidental death he feels was his fault.”

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