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Thor:

Marvel Studios has confirmed an earlier report that Natalie Portman has been cast in the upcoming Thor playing Jane Foster. In the comics, Foster was a nurse who became Thor’s first love. Chris Hemsworth stars as the title character. Tom Hiddleston plays the villain Loki.

 

Here’s the summary from Marvel:

Marvel Studios expands its film universe with a new type of superhero: Thor. This epic adventure spans the Marvel Universe; from present day Earth to the realm of Asgard. At the center of the story is The Mighty Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. Once here, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.

 

Kenneth Branagh is directing the movie which is scheduled to begin filming in early 2010 for a May 20, 2011 release.

 

 

 

The Kung-Fu Kid:

Will Smith-produced remake/re-imagining of The Karate Kid has officially been retitled The Kung-Fu Kid. Directed by Harald Zwart (The Pink Panther 2) and written by Chris Murphy and Steven Conrad (The Pursuit of Happyness). Filming on the remake has begun this weekend in Beijing, and is expected to last three months.

 

Jaden Smith plays Dre, a skateboarding video game buff who is forced to move to China after his single mother (Taraji P. Henson) is forced to transfer to the China for work. Of course, unable to speak Chinese, Dre finds it hard to settle in, and gets beat up by the local bully. Jackie Chan plays Mr. Han, a maintenance man who spots Dre’s black-eye and offers to teach him both martial arts and Chinese, so he can defend against the students of Li Quan Ha’s Fighting dragon school of Kung-Fu.

 

 

 

Green Hornet:

Cameron Diaz has been offered and is apparently in early talks for the female lead role in "The Green Hornet" for Sony Pictures. Michel Gondry is set to direct the film based on a script by actor/comedian Seth Rogen and his writing partner Evan Goldberg. Rogen would play the titular masked hero, based on the character made famous through the 60's TV series, 40's short film serials and 30's radio serials.

 

 

 

The Smurfs Movie:

Raja Gosnell (Beverly Hills Chihuahua) has been tapped to direct Sony's live-action/animated "Smurfs." The film will be released in 3-D and 2-D formats on Dec. 17, 2010. "Smurfs" will be produced by Jordan Kerner ("Charlotte's Web"). J. David Stem and David N. Weiss (“Shrek 2,” "Jimmy Neutron") penned the script and Audrey Wells (“George of the Jungle”) is polishing; the logline’s being kept under wraps.

 

Best known in the U.S. for the long-running Hanna-Barbera cartoon, the Smurfs were created in 1958 by Belgian cartoonist Pierre Culliford, known throughout the world as Peyo. The Smurfs, known as "Les Schtroumpfs" in French, were created for a Belgian series of comicbooks, first as minor characters. The dwarflike villagers spawned a line of statuettes, games, toys, theme parks and a hit TV series, which ran as part of NBC's Saturday-morning lineup 1981-90.

 

 

 

Robinhood:

Danny Huston is gearing up for Universal and Imagine Entertainment's Robin Hood movie. Ridley Scott is directing the film in England. Russell Crowe will be playing Robin Hood in this film that was written by Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris and Brian Helgeland. Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind) is producing along with Scott and Crowe. Huston will be playing the historical figure King Richard. He was later dubbed Richard the Lionheart because of what he did in the Third Crusade.

 

 

 

City That Sailed:

"I Am Legend" director Francis Lawrence is back in business with Will Smith. Lawrence is aboard to develop and direct "City That Sailed," a 20th Century Fox project about a father and daughter living on opposite sides of the ocean whose love is so strong that it causes Manhattan to split off and float across the Atlantic. The film will be developed as a potential star vehicle for Smith, who is producing with Overbrook Entertainment partner James Lassiter.

 

 

 

The Losers:

Holt McCallany ("Below," "Fight Club") has joined the cast of the comic book adaptation "The Losers" for Warner Brothers and Silver Pictures. he story deals with a band of black ops commandos who are set up to be killed by their own government. They barely survive and set out to get even. McCallany will play the role of Wade, a special-ops officer who has abandoned the group. Zoe Saldana, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Jason Patric also star. Sylvain White will direct and Gregory Noveck will produce.

 

 

 

Max Steel:

Despite the "G.I. Joe" film not being out yet, Paramount Pictures is moving forward with another film based on Mattel action figures - this time "Max Steel". The toy property revolves around a 19-year-old extreme sports junkie recruited by a secret agency after an accident infects his body with nanobots, making him superhuman.

 

The toy was introduced in 1999 and became both an animated series from 2000-2002, and the biggest selling Mattel figure in Latin America. The plan with the film is to help 'relaunch' the toy line. Mattel and Joe Roth are seeking a screenwriter and director, who will work closely with the toymaker to develop the film's characters and storyline to match the company's plans for the franchise.

 

 

 

The Beaver:

Mel Gibson will star in "The Beaver" for director Jodie Foster. The script, written by Kyle Killen, topped the Blacklist in December. Gibson will play a depressed man who finds solace in wearing a beaver hand-puppet. On top of helming, Foster will play the role of the man's wife. Foster boarded the project and brought it to Gibson, with whom she co-starred in 1994's "Maverick."

 

 

 

Furry Vengeance:

After a 10-year hiatus from mainstream movies, Brooke Shields is returning to the big screen, coming aboard Summit and Participant Media live-action family comedy "Furry Vengeance." The company also announced that Dick Van Dyke, Ken Jeong and Samantha Bee have joined the cast of the live-action family pic. Brendan Fraser is playing the lead in Roger Kumble's film, which centers on a real estate developer who gets more than he bargained for from a band of raccoons when he pushes too hard into more pristine territory. Shields will play Tami Sanders, the wife of Fraser's character.

 

 

 

MacGruber:

Ryan Phillippe and Val Kilmer are in talks to star in a big-screen adaptation of the 'MacGruber' sketch from "Saturday Night Live". SNL alum Will Forte and Kristen Wiig are reprising their roles from the skits which are a comedic riff of 80's action show "MacGyver".

 

In the skits, Forte plays MacGyver's son and Wiig as his assistant. The pair usually find themselves, and the week's guest star, stuck in a room with a ticking bomb which usually goes off due to MacGruber getting caught up in his own personal issues.

 

The feature film takes a different tack - in it, the much decorated MacGruber is pulled out of retirement as a monk in Ecuador by a colonel, who needs him once more to fight on behalf of his country. This time the mission involves going up against the evil Cunth, who has a nuclear warhead; the mission is personal because Cunth killed MacGruber's bride.

 

Phillippe would play Piper, an Army officer forced to pair up with a reluctant MacGruber. Kilmer would be Cunth. Jorma Taccone will direct and co-wrote the script with Forte and John Solomon. Production begins next month in New Mexico.

 

 

 

Elfie Hopkins and the Gammons:

Vertigo Films is producing what it claims will be the U.K.’s first 3-D horror pic, “Elfie Hopkins and the Gammons.” Project, a co-production with Size 9 Prods., will star Jaime Winstone as a teen misfit and aspiring detective who lives in a rural village. Her suspicions are aroused when a mysterious family, the Gammons, move into her neighborhood.

 

 

 

Treevenge:

Treevenge details the experiences and horrifying reality of the lives of Christmas trees. Clearly, for trees, Christmas isnt the exciting peace on earth that is experienced by most. After being hacked down, and shipped away from their homes, they quickly become strung up, screwed into an upright position for all to see, exposed in a humiliation of garish decorations. But this Christmas will be different, this Christmas the trees have had enough, this Christmas the trees will fight back. Treevenge could be a short film about the end of days for Christmas trees, or perhaps, the end of humanity?

 

 

 

Let Me In (remake):

young actor Kodi Smit Mc-Phee (Romulus, My Father, the upcoming The Road) revealed that he's up for a role in Hammer Films and Overture's remake of the Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In, currently titled Let Me In. Though the deal isn't done yet, the actor says it's looking good. Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) will get behind the camera for the film, inspired by the Swedish horror pic about a bullied 12-year-old boy who develops a friendship with a vampire child in Blackeberg, a suburb of Stockholm, in the early 1980s.

 

 

 

 

G.I. JOE: The Rise of the Cobra

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Jennifer's Body:

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Check out these new movie trailers:

 

Jennifer's Body:

A newly possessed cheerleader, Jennifer (Megan Fox) turns into a killer who specializes in offing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?

 

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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

David Seville and chipmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore, return in the sequel to lay waste to Seville's surroundings and sing in three-part harmony. The sequel movie introduce the Chipmunks' female counterparts, the Chipettes.

 

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Planet 51:

American astronaut Captain Charles "Chuck" Baker lands on Planet 51 thinking he's the first person to step foot on it. To his surprise, he finds that this planet is inhabited by little green people who are happily living in a white picket fence world, and whose only fear is that it will be overrun by alien invaders...like Chuck!

 

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District 9:

An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly find a kindred spirit in a government agent that is exposed to their biotechnology.

 

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The Horde:

North of Paris. In order to avenge the murder of one of their own by a group of ruthless gangsters, corrupt cops four go on a rampage in a condemned building serving as the mobster's hideout. Now trapped, the officers are about to be executed when the unimaginable occurs: hordes of bloodthirsty, cannibalistic creatures invade the building, savagely attacking everyone. Unexpected alliances are made when their lives are threatened by the unthinkable.

 

 

 

Giallo

Taking place in Italy, the trailer follows an American woman who fears her sister may have been kidnapped. Inspector Enzo Avolfi fears it’s worse. They team up to rescue her from a sadistic killer known only as Yellow. Elsa Pataky, Adrien Brody and Emmanuelle Seigner all star. The film will premiere at Frightfest UK this August.

 

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Rick Riordan's series of adventure books for young adults is headed for for the screen with Chris Columbus at the helm, which bodes well for fantasy/adventure tomes. When Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman of 3:10 to Yuma and the upcoming Gamer) discovers he's the descendant of a Greek god and sets out on an adventure to settle an on-going battle between the gods.

 

The first of five books thus far, The Lightning Thief's film adaptation rounds out it's godly cast with Rosario Dawson as Persephone, Steve Coogan as Hades, Uma Thurman as Medusa, Pierce Brosnan as Chiron, Ray Winstone as Ares, Kevin McKidd as Poseidon and Sean Bean as Zeus, as well as the more mortal Catherine Keener as Percy’s mom.

 

Check out the teaser trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGITXIELXXE

 

 

 

Alice in Wonderland:

Empire has just posted a brand new image from Tim Burton's upcoming film, Alice in Wonderland, which is set for release on March 5, 2010.

 

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Scream 4:

It seems that two characters from the Scream universe will be back for a fourth film. According to E! Online, both Courteney Cox-Arquette and David Arquette will be returning for Scream 4.

 

"We're going to be doing Scream 4," David Arquette told the site. ""Kevin Williamson is writing the script at this moment, and hopefully Wes Craven is going to direct."Neve Campbell was said to turn down a chance to reprise her role in the sequel, but Arquette added, "I hope Neve does it. I really hope so."

 

In the original film series, David Arquette portrayed police deputy Dewey Riley, while Courteney Cox-Arquette portrayed sensationalist TV reporter Gail Weathers.

 

 

 

Hack/Slash:

It seems that a gestating cult comic-book film project is finally getting off the ground. Fredrik Bond has signed on to direct Hack/Slash.

 

The film is based off the comic book created by Tim Seeley and Stefano Casselli, which revolves around Cassie Hack, who symbolizes the one woman that survives at the end of most horror films, but has become much more than that. Not only has Hack survived, but she has transformed into a killer herself, travelling the back roads and killing youngsters in small towns all across the country.

 

The script was written by Justin Marks and the film, now with a director firmly in place after many had come and gone, is eyeing a winter start date for production.

 

 

 

Zombieland:

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Let Me In:

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Iron Man 2:

Entertainment Weekly has managed to score the first look at Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow in the upcoming Iron Man 2 as the film and its stars make the mag's July cover story in preparation for next week's San Diego Comic Con.

 

Johansson enters the film as Stark's mysterious new assistant, Natasha, who has an alter ego of her own, Black Widow. That introduction inevitably sparks romantic tension between Stark and former assistant Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), who's been promoted to CEO of Stark Industries.

 

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Iron Man 2:

- Don Cheadle, who replaced Terrance Howard as Col. James ‘Rhodey’ Rhodes, who appears to be at some kind of court hearing.

- Sam Rockwell appears in the background as the fast-talking weapons manufacturer Justin Hammer.

- Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr watching playback from a boxing ring.

- Tony Stark talking to Gwyenth Paltrow, who returns as Pepper Potts, in what appears to be a court room, possibly the same one from the Rhodes photo.

 

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- Tony Stark in a racing suit

 

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Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

Entertainment Weekly has scored another exclusive, this time the first official picture from Prince of Persia: Sands of Time starring Jake Gyllenhaal. The movie is based on the popular video game. Gyllenhaal will play Dastan, a young prince who must stop the Sands of Time from getting into the hands of a villain.

 

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The Last Airbender:

Starring Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel, Jessica Jade Andres, Aasif Mandvi, Shaun Toub, Cliff Curtis and Keong Sim, and produced by Frank Marshal, The Last Airbender is to be released on July 2nd of next year. It is the first in a planned trilogy of films.

 

The film follows Aang and is set in a world where human civilization is divided into four nations: Water, Earth, Air and Fire. With the help of a protective teenage Waterbender named Katara and her bull-headed brother Sokka, Aang proceeds on a perilous journey to restore balance to their war-torn world. But, his goal will meet a tough challenge from exiled Fire Nation’s evil prince Zuko who is sent to capture the Avatar in order to restore his honor and right to the throne.

 

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The Hobbit:

According to an interesting article on the LA Times website, there are three finalists for role of The Hobbit’s Bilbo Baggins. It looks like it’s going to be either Harry Potter, The Last King of Scotland or Dr. Who. In other words, the lead role in Guillermo del Toro’s The Hobbit has come down to Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy or David Tennant.

 

 

 

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Upcoming Aussie actor Xavier Samuel has scored the first new role in "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse", the third film in the "Twilight" franchise. Filming kicks off August 17th for release June 30th 2010.

 

The main thrust of the story is that Bella (Kristen Stewart) must chose between her love for werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner) and the vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson).

 

Samuel will play the role of a "newborn vampire" named Riley, a good-looking college student who joins the plot of villain Victoria to murder Bella. Riley is corrupted by Victoria, for whom he has an inexplicable weakness.

 

 

 

Resident Evil: Afterlife

Sony Screen Gems' Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth pic in the game-to-film franchise, is slated to go behind cameras for an 8 week shoot September 28th at Cinespace Film Studios in Toronto, writes Production Weekly. The studio has plopped the film on their release calendars for September 17, 2010. No word on who will be returning just yet, but the plot is said to take us to Tokyo for more Umbrella Corporation zombie mayhem.

 

 

 

Machete:

Some interesting casting news for the movie Machete. According to reports, Michelle Rodriguez will play Luz, Jonah Hill will play Julio and Robert Deniro will be Senator McLaughlin. Of course, Danny Trejo is already confirmed as “Machete”, the man who seeks revenge on the corrupt Senator who double-crossed him.

 

 

 

World War Z:

Matthew Michael Carnahan ("State of Play," "Lions for Lambs," "The Kingdom") has been set to rewrite "World War Z". Max Brooks, the author of the book on which the property is based, says "He’s one of Hollywood’s hot A-list writers, so if they went after him and paid him a mountain of gold, it definitely shows their confidence in this project." "Babylon 5" creator and "Changeling" scribe J. Michael Straczynski was previously attached to write the film and submitted a draft which scored very good online reviews.

 

Set a decade after a virus turned much of the planet's population into zombies, the story follows a journalist interviewing subjects from around the world about their experiences during the 'zombie war'. The book fuses elements of political satire, war and survival horror as it explores how various nations, governments and individuals respond to the crisis.

 

 

 

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Kick-Ass:

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Book of Eli:

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The Hobbit:

According to an interesting article on the LA Times website, there are three finalists for role of The Hobbit’s Bilbo Baggins. It looks like it’s going to be either Harry Potter, The Last King of Scotland or Dr. Who. In other words, the lead role in Guillermo del Toro’s The Hobbit has come down to Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy or David Tennant.

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one would think that radcliffe would want to steer away from yet another role from the fantasy genre.

but then again he does look kinda hobbit-like right next to the stretched grint in the latest HP movie. mas matangkad pa nga yata si emma watson sa kanya e.

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The Hobbit:

According to an interesting article on the LA Times website, there are three finalists for role of The Hobbit’s Bilbo Baggins. It looks like it’s going to be either Harry Potter, The Last King of Scotland or Dr. Who. In other words, the lead role in Guillermo del Toro’s The Hobbit has come down to Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy or David Tennant.

 

 

 

Will Doctor Who star David Tennant be announced as the new Bilbo Baggins at Comic-Con next week?

 

The LA Times is spreading the rumours, citing the fact that David Tennant is over in San Diego to promote Doctor Who - a show he will shortly be leaving - as evidence that he will accept the part. Hobbit director Guillermo del Toro is also scheduled to be at the event.

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Voltron: Defenders of the Universe

Charles Roven, the producer of The Dark Knight, Get Smart, and The International, has acquired the screen rights to the 1980s animated TV series Voltron. Roven will produce Voltron via his Atlas Entertainment banner along with Richard Suckle and Steve Alexander and Jason Netter of Kickstart Entertainment and World Events' Ted Koplar. No studio is involved yet.

 

Voltron had been in-development for years at producer Mark Gordon's company until New Regency put it into turnaround last year. Justin Marks had penned the screenplay and newcomer Max Makowski was lined up to direct.

 

The series featured a band of five robot-lions who combined to form one super lion. A group of five pilots control the lions, which are charged with defending the planet Arus from villain King Zarkon, who dispatches evil creatures called Robobeats to fight the Voltron robots.

 

 

 

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

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Red:

Morgan Freeman is in talks to star with Bruce Willis in Red based on the WildStorm/DC Comic. The espionage thriller tells the story of a former black-ops CIA agent now living a quiet life in retirement until the day a high-tech assassin shows up intent on killing him. The comic was originally written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Cully Hamner. Erich Hoeber and Jon Hoeber are writing the script.

 

 

 

The Green Hornet:

Despite rumours floating around the internet that The Green Hornet is dead in the water and confirmation that Stephen Chow will no longer play Kato, Seth Rogen has confirmed, in an interview that the movie is forging ahead. Rogen, who will produce, write and star in the movie, stated, “we’re building sets! There’s more people working on the film every day! They traditionally don’t spend millions and millions of dollars on movies that are dead.“.

 

 

 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:

John Fusco has been hired to write the new live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, scheduled for a 2011 release. Fusco has been practicing martial arts since he was 12, and continues to study Shaolin Kung Fu. He wrote last year's The Forbidden Kingdom, starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li. He also wrote a redo of The Seven Samurai for the Weinstein Co. His other credits include Hidalgo and Young Guns.

 

"It is always exciting when you can come aboard a project that bridges the worlds of what you do with what you love," Fusco said.

 

Fusco will incorporate elements of the "Turtles" comics, created by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman in 1983, for the new adventure, which is being planned as an origins story. No studio or director are yet attached to the project.

 

 

 

Discipline:

David Permut and Steve Lee Jones are set to produce the sci-fi adventure "Discipline". Based on Paco Ahlgren's 2008 novel, the story centers on a man's psychological battle with an enemy he cannot see. The outcome determines the past, present and future of human existence. Permut and Jones are also developing a biopic about late automaker John DeLorean.

 

 

 

The Collector:

The movie follows the story of handyman and ex-con Arkin, who aims to repay a debt to his ex-wife by robbing his new employers country home. Unfortunately for Arkin, a far worse enemy has already laid claim to the property - and the family. As the seconds tick down to midnight, Arkin becomes a reluctant hero trapped by a masked Collector in a maze of lethal invention - the Spanish Inquisition as imagined by Rube Goldberg - while trying to rescue the very family he came to rob.

 

Check out the new trailer: http://thecollector-movie.com/age_verification.php

 

 

 

The Twilight Zone:

Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio's production company Appian Way are working on a feature-film remake of Rod Serling's seminal TV series The Twilight Zone. Rand Ravich has been hired to write the script for the movie. He previously wrote and directed The Astronaut's Wife and executive-produced Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, in addition to his TV work on Life.

 

The Twilight Zone redux has been in the works at Appian for the past year, apparently, though Ravich's hire is news. No word yet on the specifics of the film, and whether or not it will focus on one feature-length story or several anthology-style shorter stories as did the 1983 movie. Whatever the case, it seems unlikely that the project will be able to match the magic and singular feel of Serling's original.

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Iron Man 2:

Another picture of Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff (aka Black Widow) from Iron Man 2 is online. In the movie, she plays a Russian spy who is hired by Tony Stark which obviously irks his current assistant, Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow).

 

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Warcraft:

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Spider-Man and Evil Dead helmer to tackle Warcraft.

 

The trades are reporting that Sam Raimi has signed on to direct "Warcraft," the live-action film adaptation of the fantasy videogame franchise "World of Warcraft."

 

Legendary Pictures and vidgame publisher Blizzard Entertainment are mounting the film, and Warner Bros. will co-finance and distribute. The team boasts an impressive pedigree: In addition to the director of "Spider-Man," the partners have added "The Dark Knight" producer Charles Roven to the creative mix.

 

The plan is for Raimi to supervise development of "Warcraft" and shoot the picture after he completes work on "Spider-Man 4," which gets under way early next year for Columbia Pictures.

 

The movie will be financed under the Legendary Pictures' co-production and co-financing deal with WB, in a manner similar to the Todd Phillips-directed "The Hangover" plus the Roven-produced "Batman Begins" and "Dark Knight."

 

 

 

Alice in Wonderland:

Walt Disney Pictures has just sent over the official synopsis for next year's release of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, which stars Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and Mia Wasikowska as 19-year-old Alice, who returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting with her childhood friends: the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Dormouse, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, and of course, the Mad Hatter. Alice embarks on a fantastical journey to find her true destiny and end the Red Queen’s reign of terror. The cast also includes Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter and Crispin Glover.

 

 

 

Diary of a Wimpy Kid:

Youngster Zachary Gordon ("National Treasure: Book of Secrets," "The Brothers Bloom") has scored the title role in "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" for Fox 2000.

 

Based on Jeff Kinney's best-selling illustrated novels, the story follows the travails of smart-aleck middle-school student Greg Heffley (Gordon) during the course of an academic year.

 

Chloe Moretz is in negotiations for the female lead, an intense student with a wry sense of humor who dresses in all black. Rachel Harris ("The Hangover") has also been cast as Gordon's mother. Jeff Filgo, Jackie Filgo, Jeff Judah and Gabe Sachs wrote the screenplay. Thor Freudenthal is directing while Brad Simpson and Nina Jacobson are producing.

 

 

 

Magdalena:

Director Ryuhei Kitamura ("Midnight Meat Train") and writer Holly Brix ("The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations") are set to adapt the Top Cow comics character "Magdalena" into a feature film. Magdalena, a descendant of Mary Magdalene, is a protector of the Catholic Church. Jenna Dewan ("Step Up") and Luke Goss ("Hellboy II: The Golden Army") are attached to star. Gale Anne Hurd and Scott Mitchell Rosenberg are set to produce.

 

 

 

Gungrave:

Convergence Entertainment has nabbed the rights to turn the comics Gungrave into feature films. The company wants to make the movie as live-action films with budgets somewhere in the $30 million-$35 million range.

 

Gungrave which is owned by Red Entertainment and was initially created by Japanese manga author Yasuhiro Nightow. The comic follows a lone figure who moves through the ranks of the crime world. He is killed by his best friend and then brought back to life to inflict mortal pain on those who did him harm.

 

The property was the basis of an animated series that ran 26-episodes. Two versions of the game came out for the Sony PlayStation.

 

 

 

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:

50 Cent has been spilling the beans regarding his role in the forthcoming adaptation of 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', confirming rumours that he will play the villainous Hyde part.Speaking to MTV, Fiddy admitted "Yeah, I'm supposed to play Hyde... it's going to be intense."

 

As previously announced in Cannes, Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker will star opposite the rapper as Dr. Jekyll, while Abel Ferrara will direct the Robert Louis Stevenson adaptation, which will be set in modern times.

 

 

 

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

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Alice in Wonderland:

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300 sequel:

Frank Miller ("300") has completed a first draft of a proposed sequel to his graphic novel "300". Serving as a direct follow-up to its predecessor, the book will provide the basis for a potential film collaboration between Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures who produced the first film. Zach Snyder, who helmed the first movie, has expressed an interest in returning and co-writer Kurt Johnstad is rumored to be contributing to the screenplay.

 

 

 

Pirates of the Caribbean 4:

Disney's Head of Production Oren Aviv yesterday to talk about, among other things, the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. And the news is very good. "We're going to shoot Pirates 4 in April and May of next year," Aviv said. "We are going to release it hopefully in 2011." Pirates 4 would "hopefully be the first of another trilogy," he says, and would be shot by itself, not back-to-back again.

 

There's no word yet if director Gore Verbinski will be back again for Pirates 4, but Aviv does admit that the whole franchise needs a bit of scaling down. "It's important to get the story right and it's important to me to scale it down, because we can't get bigger," Aviv said. "The movies have subsequently gotten bigger and bigger and very complicated and they were satisfying on so many levels obviously, but I want to kind of reboot the whole thing and bring it down to its core, its essence, just characters." One thing's for certain, Captain Jack Sparrow will be swashbuckling his way back into theaters again come 2011.

 

 

 

Castlevania:

James Wan ("Saw," "Dead Silence") will co-write and direct the film adaptation of classic video game "Castlevania". Wan is replacing Sylvain White, who was previously set to direct.

 

Paul W.S. Anderson penned the script and is producing. The story begins as a Transylvanian knight leads his men into a gothic castle to seek refuge from the Turkish army. The knights soon discover the castle is controlled by the original vampire.

 

The script sets up a generational clash between Vlad the Impaler and the Belmont family, a clan that unleashed the original vampire and battles to defeat him.

 

 

 

Toy Story 3:

Director Lee Unkrich has confirmed the rumor that Michael Keaton will be voicing a role in the upcoming Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar feature, Toy Story 3. The actor will voice the character "Ken" in the film.

 

Set for release on June 18th, 2010, the film brings back the entire cast, including Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, Estelle Harris, John Ratzenberger, Ned Beatty and Michael Keaton.

 

 

 

The Book of Eli:

In the film Denzel Washington portrays a lone hero in a not-too-distant apocalyptic future who must fight across America to bring society the knowledge that could be the key to its redemption.

 

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Dark Shadows:

Tim Burton's first project after his upcoming "Alice in Wonderland" 3D project will be the long gestating "Dark Shadows". Based on the cult '60s supernatural TV show, the spooky soap-opera featured gothic horror staples like vampires, ghosts and zombies. Johnny Depp is attached to play Barnabas Collins, the vampire patriarch of the series.

 

 

 

Tron Legacy:

TRON Legacy is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (GARRETT HEDLUND), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (JEFF BRIDGES), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant (OLIVIA WILDE), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.

 

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The Hills Run Red:

Starring Sophie Monk, Tad Hilgenbrinck, William Sadler, Alex Wyndham, Janet Montgomery, Mike Straub, Ewan Bailey and Danko Jordanov, the story centers on a film fanatic whose obsession with finding a complete print of an infamous slasher movie leads him and two friends into the backwoods where the film was shot. They realize too late that filming never ended -- and now they must survive a nightmarish onslaught or become part of the movie forever.

 

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SAW 6:

Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.

 

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A Nightmare on Elm Street (remake):

The first picture of Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger has finally shown up online. The remake of the classic dream demon flick arriving in theaters April 16, 2010. Directed by Samuel Bayer, the film stars Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Thomas Dekker, Rooney Mara, Kellan Lutz, Katie Cassidy, Clancy Brown and Connie Britton. The films' premise centers on Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley), a serial child molester murdered by angry parents, who returns with a burnt face and a razor glove to terrorize teens in their dreams.

 

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Sherlock Holmes:

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Jonah Hex:

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Solomon Kane:

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Ninja Assassin:

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Carriers:

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Saw VI:

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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

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King Kong (prequel)

Spirit Pictures is looking at a movie that will be based on the book “Kong: King of Skull Island”. The movie would focus on the backstory of Skull Island and how Kong became King of the island inhabited by other giant gorillas and dinosaurs. Penned by Joe DeVito and Brad Strickland, “Kong: King of Skull Island” was published right around the time that Peter Jackson made his King Kong remake in 2005. The movie would use the same motion-capture technology that Robert Zemeckis has used in The Polar Express, Beowulf and A Christmas Carol.

 

 

 

The Black Panther:

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who is more affectionately known as Mr. Eko from “Lost”, has revealed that he is in talks with Marvel Comics to play The Black Panther in a big-screen adaptation of the comic book. The revelation was made during an interview with MTV at this weekend’s Comic-Con in San Diego.

 

Created by Stan Lee, The Black Panther came to New York City from the fictional African nation of Wakanda. He has fought alongside The Fantastic Four, The Avengers and Captain America. He has helped his homeland when it was on the brink of civil war and also returned to America to fight the Klu Klux Klan.

 

 

 

The Goon:

Paul Giamatti and Clancy Brown will be the voices for the upcoming animated movie based on the comic book series The Goon. The announcement was made during an entertaining panel that featured series creator Eric Powell. The upcoming movie will be produced by David Fincher. Clancy Brown will voice The Goon and Giamatti will be Franky.

 

The story is about the adventures of the Goon, a muscle-bound brawler who claims to be the primary enforcer for the feared mobster Labrazio. The Goon (and his sidekick Franky) often get tied up in other machinations, often in relation to the evil zombie gangs under the command of the Nameless Zombie Priest.

 

The series has a distinctly paranormal slant, with the average story concerning ghosts, ghouls, skunk-apes with an unnatural hunger for pie, extra-dimensional aliens, and mad scientists.

 

 

 

Black Swan:

Darren Aronofsky has cast Mila Kunis as Natalie Portman's nemesis in Black Swan. Kunis is in discussions to star opposite Portman in the supernatural drama centering on a talented ballerina (Portman) in the New York City Ballet who is tormented by a rival who might or might not be a figment of the dancer's imagination. Kunis would play the rival, Lilly, with strange occurrences between the two increasing as they prepare for a big performance.

 

 

 

Dead Space: The Movie

D.J. Caruso ("Eagle Eye," "Disturbia") is attached to direct the sci-fi/horror video game adaptation "Dead Space". Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey will produce.

 

Game manufacturer Electronic Arts is developing the property and considering takes from prospective screenwriters. Once a scribe is set and the details worked out, the property will be auctioned off to studios sometime in September.

 

Dead Space is set in the 26th century in deep space, where an engineer who responds to a distress signal from a mining ship finds the vessel infested with monstrous creatures called Necromorphs. The creatures are human corpses, reanimated by an alien virus.

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The First Avenger: Captain America

 

One year before The Avengers hits theaters, we'll be seeing The First Avenger: Captain America, which will be set in WWII and is being directed by Joe Johnston. A few hints about the potential appearance of two groups in Captain America: The Invaders (good guys) and Hydra (bad guys).

 

"Setting it in the Marvel version of WWII is going to open it up [to an international audience] in a big way. It'll actually end up being our most diverse and our most international film. In terms of the cast there's a group that [Cap] works with that will have an opportunity for much more international casting."

 

When asked straight up if we'd see The Invaders in the movie, Marvel's Kevin Feige answers was a coy "I don't know." At a future point in their interview at Comic-Con, he also "namedropped" the villainous organization called Hydra, a technologically advanced secret terrorist group that often fought against SHEILD and Captain America. However, Hydra was never active in the comics until after WWII, so therefore they'd be messing with the canon a bit too much if they were to introduce them in this movie. However, this could be a subtle hint at who we could see as a villain in The Avengers movie.

 

As for The Invaders, they were a group of WWII superheroes first created in 1975 by Roy Thomas. In addition to Cap and Bucky, the Invaders consisted of other various characters like the Human Torch, Toro, Namor the Sub-Mariner, the Blazing Skull, and the Silver Scorpion. I think it would be smart for them to actually put a group like this in Captain America, because it allows them to cast international actors (like Feige said) and give us a taste of what a powerful team like the Avengers will be like. And for non-comic book fans, this is a good way to get them ready for what we'll be seeing in 2012 - an epic Avengers movie.

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Alien (prequel):

Twentieth Century Fox is resuscitating its "Alien" franchise. The studio has hired Jon Spaihts to write a prequel that has Ridley Scott attached to return as director. Spaihts got the job after pitching the studio and Scott Free, which will produce the film.

 

The film is set up to be a prequel to the groundbreaking 1979 film that Scott directed. It will precede that film, in which the crew of a commercial towing ship returning to Earth is awakened and sent to respond to a distress signal from a nearby planetoid. The crew discovers too late that the signal generated by an empty ship was meant to warn them.

 

 

 

 

The Darkness:

Reports says that Channing Tatum (Fighting, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Public Enemies) has been cast in The Pang Brothers' (The Eye) latest genre effort, The Darkness. Based on the on the Garth Ennis ("Preacher") David Wohl and Mark Silvestri comic, on the eve of his 21st birthday, Jackie was targeted for assassination by the don of the New York mafia, "Uncle" Paulie. He finds his body possessed by "the Darkness" , a malevolent spirit that has inhabited his family for several generations, with the benefit of giving Jackie supernatural powers that feeds off the dark.

 

 

 

inFAMOUS:

In the continued onslaught of game-to-film adaptations, the PS3 exclusive open-world superhero-action title inFAMOUS has been tapped for the big-screen treatment. Sony Pictures is currently bidding for the rights to the game, a no-brainer since the title was published by Sony Computer Entertainment.

 

Avi and Ari Arad will produce the film – to be scripted by Sheldon Turner – which involves an everyday bike messenger named Cole MacGrath who is transformed into a lightening-powered bad-ass in the wake of a mysterious explosion. The game, which allows the player to skew good or bad, follows Cole as he takes down three of the city's most nefarious gangs and uncovers a conspiracy of comic-book proportions.

 

 

 

Tron Legacy:

Disney, today, has confirmed that Michael Sheen will play the villain in Tron Legacy, the sequel to the 1982 cult classic. The talented actor has played a vast array of charcters in the past, including Lucien in the Underworld movies, Tony Blair (twice), David Frost in Frost/Nixon and a vampire named Aro in New Moon. This will be the first time Sheen plays what will probably be a computer-generated bad ass.

 

The long-awaited sequel also stars Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Bruce Boxleitner, Olivia Wilde and Beau Garrett.

 

 

 

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Bryce Dallas Howard is set to join the cast of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse as the character of Victoria replacing Rachelle Lefevre who appeared as the character in the 2008 original film.

 

Lefevre will also appear in the upcoming The Twilight Saga: New Moon, but has reportedly had to bow out of the third film due to scheduling conflicts. Filming on the third film begins in Vancouver in August with David Slade directing for a release of June 30, 2010. New Moon hits theaters on November 20 this year.

 

This is the second bit of new casting for Eclipse that has been announced as unknown actor Xavier Samuel joined the cast back in mid-July and will play newborn vampire Riley, a good-looking college student who joins the plot of villain Victoria to murder protagonist Bella (Kristen Stewart).

 

 

 

The Parsifal Mosaic:

Ron Howard is to direct The Parsifal Mosaic, an espionage thriller written by author Robert Ludlum. The novel is about a CIA operative, Michael Havelock, who witnesses the execution of the love of his life because she is believed to be a KGB double agent. The CIA then sees Havelock as a paranoid schizophrenic and a threat to their operations in Europe and orders he be terminated. Ludlum is also the author of the Jason Bourne series. Currently, the fourth Bourne novel, The Sigma Protocol, is in development.

 

 

 

Oblivion:

"Tron Legacy" director Joseph Kosinski is developing "Oblivion," based on his own concept, as a feature for Radical Pictures. Kosinski has signed to direct the action feature and will produce along with Radical principal Barry Levine, filmmaker David Fincher and Anonymous Content's David Morrison. "Oblivion" also will become an illustrated novel, Radical Publishing's first venture beyond comic books, done in a format featuring 40 fully painted landscape images that will accompany the prose.

 

The story centers on a battle-damaged soldier who, assigned to a desolate planet after a court-martial, patrols the bleak landscape in an effort to destroy the last vestiges of a primitive alien race. When a mysterious traveler arrives unexpectedly, their lives become inextricably linked as they are forced to question everything they know about this world and themselves.

 

 

 

The Lorax:

Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment are turning the Dr. Seuss book "The Lorax" into a 3-D CG animated feature. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax will be co-directed by Chris Renaud and Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio, with Paul & Daurio writing the script.

 

"The Lorax" is narrated by a greedy entrepreneur who, despite warnings from the tree-loving Lorax, strips a forest of its stock of Truffula trees to manufacture clothing. The results are catastrophic as all the animals leave and nothing's left. The picture is targeted for a March 2, 2012, release, which falls on the birthday of Theodor Geisel, who died in 1991.

 

 

 

Battle: Los Angeles

Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Peña and Bridget Moynahan are joining Aaron Eckhart in Columbia Pictures' Battle: Los Angeles. The sci-fi action film, directed by Jonathan Liebesman and produced by Original Film's Neal Moritz, is set to begin production in the fall.

 

"Battle" revolves around a Marine staff sergeant (Eckhart) and his new platoon's battle against an alien invasion on the streets of Los Angeles. Rodriguez will play Crpl. Adriana Santos, a member of a radio battalion. Pena plays the father of a boy the Marines find along the way, and Moynahan plays a veterinarian.

 

 

 

The Warded Man:

Filmmaker Paul W. S. Anderson and longtime producing partner Jeremy Bolt, the duo behind the moneymaking "Resident Evil" franchise, have picked up film rights to Peter V. Brett's debut fantasy novel "The Warded Man." Anderson is attached to direct and will produce with Bolt. Stephanie Johnson, who brought the title to the pair, will executive produce. Anderson and Bolt acquired the rights via their respective production companies, Tannhauser Gate and Bolt Pictures.

 

The book is set in an undetermined future where mankind is beset by nightly attacks from demonkind and has been thrown back into a feudal state. Three young people emerge with the potential power to turn the tide, including the title character, a man who has wards (spells) tattooed on his body.

 

 

 

Trick `R Treat:

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Final Destination:

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Edited July 31, 2009 by sickness

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