Early last month Sony received word that Tom Cruise was dropping out of "Edwin A. Salt" due to similarities to Cruise's "Mission Impossible" franchise.

Samuel L. Jackson is in talks to reprise his role as private investigator Mitch Hennessy in a long-awaited sequel to The Long Kiss Goodnight. Jackson starred alongside Geena Davis in the 1996 action thriller about Samantha, an amnesiac former CIA assassin on a quest to find out who she really is.