News from http://www.xmenfilms.net/xnews/58.html
"XMF's has learned that 12-year old Riley Cantner and 14-year old Sanjeen Sandhu are part of the cast of X-Kids. Cantner's credits include Mission To Mars, Get Carter and Life Or Something Like It. Sandhu was an undcredited student at Xavier's School for the Gifted in the second X-Men film. Both Riley anbd Sanjeen have already been on set for scenes that were shot at the Royal Roads University in Victoria, Canada last month.
Actor Peter Williams who a while back revealed that he was up for a role read for a mutant role his reps told XMF. They declined to say which mutant and could if another actor had been chosen for the part.We can also reveal that X2 actor Cotter Smith will NOT return as President McKenna. His reps told XMF that he'll continue to work on his new tv series Nightstalker.
In other casting news The Barbara Coultish Talent Management have announced more X3 cast members and their respective roles on their official website. Close to a hundred of their talent worked on the sets of X-Men 3 which has finished it's filming in Victoria. Andrew Abud was chosen as a Chauffeur, Art Hives, Peggy Daniel and Will Rogers had special makeup done, James Leard as a Doctor and Susan Wilkey & Donlea Maxwell as Nurses. Also many of their teens were chosen as students for several days continuity.
A few weeks back we were the first to reveal that Framestore CFC were delivering an unknown quantity of vfx shots for X3. Today we can exclusively reveal more potentially great news in the visual effects department. Academy award winning effects house Digital Domain are on the verge of signing a deal to deliver some of the visual effects shots on X-Men 3. The company's credits include X-Men, Fight Club, Day After Tommorow, Titanic, Lord of The Rings and I, Robot.
Here are some new crew additions - Art Director Chad Frey (MI: 3, Memoirs of a Geisha, Hulk), Production supervisor Jason McGatlin (X2, War Of The Worlds), conceptual artist James Clyne (Minority Report, Troy, War Of The Worlds), storyboard artist Tim Burgard (Superman Returns, Ali, Terminator 2), scenic artist/designer Wojciech (Voytek) Nowakowski (K-19 Widowmaker), previsualization artist Shane Cook ( XXX 2) and digital artist Thomas Reppen (Aeon Flux, Day After Tommorow)."