Deadline reported that Olsen's deal to play the Scarlet Witch was "just a matter of formality before it's done".
Deadline reported in July that Affleck would co-write the screenplay with DC Comics chief creative officer Geoff Johns.
Spencer won an Oscar for her role in the 2011 film The Help. Deadline reported that Lansbury, 88, has "been approached to be a part of the reboot".
Meanwhile, Deadline reported that the maverick producer may have broken some sort of record for attending premieres on Monday night, 24 hours prior to the Butter screening.
Deadline reported in November that the biopic was being reconfigured with a new script from The Theory of Everything's Anthony McCarten.
Deadline reported on Friday afternoon that Portman had signed on to play supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a biopic about the life of the octogenarian jurist.
Deadline reported last week that Wright's next film will be Baby Driver, a "collision of crime, action, music and sound", which the film-maker originally intended to follow his 2010 comic-book movie Scott Pilgrim Vs the World into production.
In February, film industry website Deadline reported that James would appear in a remake of Space Jam, the 1996 film starring Michael Jordan alongside Bugs Bunny and other Looney Tunes characters, but the news was dismissed by James's management.
The film industry blog Deadline reported on Wednesday that the settlement would have been delayed even further had Cedillo's lawyers not attempted to pull Transformers' high-profile director Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes company into the suit.
Hollywood press site Deadline reported last month that Tom Hiddleston was being considered for Ben-Hur, but the actor has instead been announced as appearing in King Kong film Skull Island.
It also has a low seven-figure equity stake in the John Travolta "Gotti" film, Deadline reported last month – which is part of the EFO slate.
