Deadline.com have posted a number of updates on the casting of Spring Breakers:

This high profile indie written and directed by Harmony Korine now sounds even more like the ultimate dream project targeted to tween/teen gals and guys. Already cast are Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens and now Deadline has learned Pretty Little Liars co-star Ashley Benson just booked a role. But two weeks ago Emma Roberts fell out of the movie. So with a February 12 starting date in Florida, Spring Breakers is still looking for its fourth girl. Starring James Franco, the logline describes the pic as four gorgeous college-age girls rob a fast food restaurant in order to afford a spring break trip to Florida. When they’re arrested, they meet up with a drug and arms dealer (Franco) who entices them to kill his arch rival.

So, as soon as Journey 2 promotion is over, Vanessa will be back on set working on her new project! We are so excited to see Vanessa working alongside Selena and Ashley (and of course James Franco too!) and can’t wait to hear more about this movie.

Check out three new stills featuring Vanessa from Journey 2: The Mysterious Island in the ZacE Gallery (Thanks to JoshHutchersonNews)! The Official Journey 2 Website is also now online which features the trailer, movie poster, info about the movie and the above stills.

Check out the first look poster for Journey 2: The Mysterious Island starring Vanessa alongside Josh Hutcherson, Michael Caine and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. The HQ large version of the poster is available to view in the VanessaH Gallery!

Make sure you visit the official website TheMysteriousIsland.com, where you can find out about the story and more. There is also a new Journey 2 Facebook Page set up so be sure to “Like” the page for more on the movie!  The film hits theaters in 3D on February 10th 2012.

Source: TheMysteriousIsland.com

Check our the first look trailer for ‘Journey 2: The Mysterious Island‘ above starring Vanessa alongside Josh Hutcherson, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Michael Caine and Luis Guzman. The movie opens in theaters on February 10th 2012.

According to Variety, Vanessa is in talks for a new project:

Harmony Korine has set his next project with “Spring Breakers,” the story of four college girls who rob a restaurant to pay for their trip to the beach, with James Franco attached and Emma Roberts, Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez in talks to star.

Roberts would play a Southerner who feeds off danger, while Gomez would play a religious girl. The rest of the group would include Hudgens. Franco will co-star as a drug and arms dealer who bails them out of jail.

Should Hudgens and Gomez’s deals close, the risque, avant garde material for which Korine is known would be a change of pace from the safe Disney Channel fare that launched them to stardom.

What do you think of this new development? Let us know in the comments below!

Production of ‘Frozen Ground‘ commenced in Anchorage, Alaska on October 17th with Vanessa flying out a few days earlier. Check out some more info about the project below.

Deadline reports that:

Walker is making his directorial debut on his scripted drama about the hunt for Alaska’s most notorious serial predator, Robert Hansen. John Cusack is playing Hansen, regarded in the community as a respected family man but who, in the span of 12 years, abducted more than 24 women, flew them into the Alaskan wilderness and hunted and murdered them. Vanessa Hudgens plays the lone victim who escapes and Nicholas Cage plays the Alaskan State Trooper who finds her on the street. Together they work to bring Hansen to justice.

Other cast members include 50 Cent (who will play Vanessa’s character’s pimp) and Katherine LeNasa. Anchorage Daily News reports that:

“Frozen Ground” is shaping up to be a smaller-scale, faster-paced production – producer Randall Emmett said his film will cost in the mid-$20 million range.

‘Frozen Ground’ will be filmed in just a 26 day schedule, so expect to see Vanessa back in Los Angeles very soon!