Apparently Star Magazine set tongues wagging earlier with the surprising news that Jennifer Aniston would be appearing in Scream 4 in blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo as a favour to former Friends co-star Courtney Cox Arquette. Yeah, and Joey, Chandler and Ross all appear in a dream sequence too!

Dimension Films immediately quashed this rumour and that Aniston is one hundred per cent not appearing in any way, shape or form.

So that’s one spurious news item obliterated into the grand void of movie nothingness! Sure the original Scream took 1980s icon Drew Barrymore and gutted her in the opening sequence, but such post-modernist flourishes are so 1990s. We’re in alter-modernist times now people. Or a post-post-post-post-modernist era (for extra irony).

Star Magazine heard news of the cameo allegedly from Aniston herself. But what Aniston was asked, heard and answered could have been a whole variety of things and not necessarily what Star Magazine wanted to hear. Anyway, proper casting has continued with Lake Bell, Rory Culkin, Hayden Panettiere and Emma Roberts recently announced as the next generation of Scream kids battling a malicious bastard with a knife.

Scream 4 will be released on 15th April next year. Can’t wait. Although will expectations kill it? Kevin Williamson better had written an amazing script!

News just in: Matthew Perry has been cast as Iron Man/Tony Stark after Robert Downey Jnr walks from the franchise.