Halle Berry will play a schizophrenic at the mercy of a racist Caucasian alter-ego in the psychological thriller Frankie And Alice. Berry, whose previous forays into the darkness include Perfect Stranger, Gothika and her Oscar-winning role in Monster's Ball, will produce. She is reportedly also lining up a biopic about an international jewel thief to be called Who is Doris Payne?

Rush Hour director Brett Ratner is in talks with Universal Pictures to remake sci-fi tale The Incredible Shrinking Man with Eddie Murphy in the lead. The tongue-in-cheek story tells of a Las Vegas entertainer who has to regain his normal size after he is put under a spell. Before that the director will shoot a part of the New York anthology New York, I Love You.

Val Kilmer, Sharon Stone and rapper 50 Cent will star together in the police drama Streets of Blood, about the friendship between two officers in post-Katrina Louisiana. According to unconfirmed rumours Kilmer has also been cast as the former Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth in the upcoming biopic of heavy metal band Motley Crue.