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Mark Ruffalo has ”all but signed a final contract” to star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in director Martin Scorsese’s drama Shutter Island, an adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s 2004 novel, for Paramount and Columbia.

Ruffalo will play a U.S. Marshal who along with his new partner (DiCaprio) travels to a Massachusetts island to investigate the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane. While there, they get hit by a hurricane and trapped in a violent inmate riot.

Writer-producer Laeta Kalogridis (Pathfinder) penned the adaptation and will executive produce with Lehane and Louis Phillips. Scorsese’s Sikelia Prods. and DiCaprio’s Appian Way will also produce along with Phoenix Pictures. Shooting is scheduled to start in March.

Ruffalo will next star opposite Julianne Moore in Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness for Miramax and alongside Adrien Brody and Rachel Weisz in Rian Johnson’s The Brothers Bloom for Summit Entertainment.

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Gonna see it…you had me at Leonardo Dicaprio. BUT Dennis Lehane movies are insanely depressing!! I have learned my lesson with Gone, Baby Gone. Bring tissue.

It was a pre-Halloween treat for Mark Ruffalo and his wife Sunrise Coigney: The couple have welcomed a daughter, his rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.

The girl was born in Los Angeles. No other details were available.

This is the third child for Ruffalo, 39, and his wife, 34. The couple also have son Keen, 6, and daughter Bella, 2.

Ruffalo and Coigney, the owner of the L.A. Boutique Kaviar and Kind, wed in 2000. The actor is currently starring in the film Reservation Road opposite Joaquin Phoenix.

Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke, and Amanda Peet will star together in the Brian Goodman-directed autobiographical crime drama Real Men Cry for Yari Film Group.

The story is about childhood friends Paulie (Hawke) and Brian (Ruffalo) who are forced to survive on the streets of South Boston through a life of petty thievery. They join a local gang of criminals, but Brian struggles to cope with his work while maintaining a relationship with Paulie, his wife (Peet), and his son.

The project marks Goodman’s feature directorial debut. He previously acted in a number of films, including Munich and The Last Castle. Ruffalo’s character is based on a friend of Goodman’s who is currently serving 100 years in prison for armed robbery. Goodman himself also served time in prison and has struggled with drug and alcohol abuse.

”I sat down with Mark and Ethan and told them, ‘You are two on a very short list of men who could’ve been in films 35 years ago, when men were men,”’ Goodman said. Ruffalo next appears in Blindness, Margaret, and The Brothers Bloom. Hawke appears in Tonight at Noon and Daybreakers. Peet next appears in Martian Child.

Have I ever mentioned how much I love Mark Ruffalo?

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I have a pair I’ve been dying to dig out!  Here is Jennifer Connelly whom I normally LOVE at the “Reservation Road” Gala Premiere at Toronto Film Festival - September 13.  I’m just going to believe she has bunyans or something and has to wear them.

PSST! Get your hands off my man!

Forget what you guys think, I think he’s hella hot. Love him! I would see any of his movies, even if they SUCK like “In the Cut”. I just looked at IMDB - and he has 4 new movies coming out! Yay team! Anyways…back to my Mark Ruffalo post…

MARK RUFFALO is to become a father once more - his wife is pregnant with their third child. The Zodiac star revealed his spouse Sunrise Coigney is due to give birth to a baby girl next year (08) - and he simply cannot wait. He tells People.com, “I dig having the little ones running around.” And the 39-year-old is doing everything he can to help his 34-year-old wife deal with her pregnancy cravings. He adds, “Anything that has refined white sugar is totally game for her. The (more) cupcakes and cakes, the happier she is. I dote a lot… I massage her!” Ruffalo and Coigney already have two kids: six-year-old son Keen and two-year-old Bella.

Those of you who have seen Brick will know that Rian Johnson has a bit of a gift for re-inventing genres. With his first movie, the writer director brought a hip highschool spin to film noir and with The Brothers Bloom he casts his peculiar eye over the con movie. Expect mucho weirdness, of the good kind.

As you can see from these exclusive pics, The Brothers Bloom stars Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo (luff him) as a pair of sibling con artists. Ruffalo is Stephen, a happy-go-lucky swindler, while his brother Bloom (Brody) is the more sensitive of the pair, getting attached to each of his marks and often getting his heart broken. And when the latest victim of their nefarious ways is Rachel Weisz, a bored heiress in search of adventure, you can see why. That the film also stars Rinko Kikuchi (Babel) as a largely mute conwoman with a penchant for karaoke gives you a pretty good idea of the tone to expect.

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