Parker, Efron, Berry Celebrate "New Year's"

After recently adding Sofia Vergara and Jessica Biel to it's already star studded cast, Garry Marshall's "New Years Eve" has brought in a few more big name stars to the party.

Sarah Jessica Parker has signed on while Zac Efron and Halle Berry are in negotiations to star in the romantic comedy ensemble according to Reuters.

The story follows several characters as they make their way through the year-end holiday in New York City. Parker will play the mother of Abigail Breslin's character, who is too clingy with her daughter.

Efron is set to play a bike messenger who tries to keep a promise to Michelle Pfeiffer's character by scoring tickets to a big party. Berry is in talks to play a caterer who runs into an old lover.

All three should help bring some more people to theaters, especially Efron who seems to have a monopoly on teenage girls in America. The cast of the film is utterly stacked with Robert De Niro, Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Biel, Hilary Swank, and Lea Michele also starring.

Shooting will begin very early in the 'new year' (aka 2011).

Biel, Vergara To Celebrate "New Year's"

What better way to ring in the new year than with two of Hollywood's most beautiful actresses. According to The Hollywood Reporter Jessica Biel and "Modern Family" actress Sofia Vergara are in negotiations for roles in Garry Marshall's "New Year's Eve".

The film serves as a sort-of sequel to this years release "Valentine's Day", but this time the ensemble project will follow various lovers preparing for the New Year holiday. The numerous storylines will combine, with Biel playing a pregnant woman who tries to win a cash prize given by a hospital to the couple who are first to give birth on New Year's Day.

Lea Michele and Abigail Breslin are already confirmed while Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hilary Swank and Ashton Kutcher are in various stages of negotiations to join the cast.

Both actresses have string comedic talents, especially Vergara who has clearly proven herself to be quite the comedienne on "Modern Family". Although "Valentine's Day" was extremely formulaic, I admit it got some laughs out of me, and I'm sure this film will do the same. The cast truly is shaping up to be fantastic, and with a comedic vet like Marshall at the helm, it surely won't disappoint.

Filming kicks off shortly in New York City.

DeNiro, Pfeiffer, Swank Ring In Garry Marshall's "New Year's Eve"

Admit it, somewhere inside you is a soft spot for ensemble romantic comedies. While no one will argue that they ever are Oscar-worthy, they can be fresh and fun, and just pure movie entertainment. In them are usually a nice group of stars we all know and enjoy, mucking it up together in some sort of situation we all wish we could get into.

Following "Valentine's Day," director Garry Marshall is working on a follow-up entitled "New Year's Eve" and is attempting to pull in some big names to take part.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer are in negotiations, while Hilary Swank and Ashton Kutcher are circling key roles in the ensemble project.

The movie tells intertwining stories of a group of New Yorkers as they navigate their way through romance over the course of New Year's Eve.

De Niro will play a bitter dying man in a hospital, while Pfeiffer will be a frustrated secretary who decides to take on her unfulfilled resolutions. Swank would play a producer of the famed Times Square New Year's Eve show, while Kutcher would play a guy who hates New Year's Eve. Obviously.

Lea Michele and Abigail Breslin are already set to star in the project, while "Army Wives" creator Katherine Fugate, writer of the "Valentine's Day" script, has written the film.

Marshall has shown over his career that he is one of the most skilled comedic directors, and after assembling the cast he did for "Valentine's Day," I'm sure he won't have a problem handling all the stars on this film. With De Niro joining, this certainly he has kept himself busy, having appeared in "Machete" and in the upcoming "Little Fockers."

The project is set to kick of filming in mid-December in New York.