-After months of troubles due to financial woes at MGM "Bond 23". finally has a release date....Sam Mendes will direct Daniel Craig in the film set for a Nov 2012 release says THR. Aceshowbiz cites sources that say Rachel Weisz could be the next Bond Gal "Rachel has been speaking with Sam for some time now about appearing in the new Bond film, long before she and Daniel hit it off," says a source A spokesperson for actor Simon Russell Beale says the role he is up for in "the pic is not a villain despite widespread chatter that it is...Studios make a play to distribute Bond 23 says THR
-Pigtailed tomboy Pippi Longstocking is getting a film reboot with the help of Debra Granik (Winter's Bone) says the LA Times
-It seems the first trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger has been delayed to ensure the footage is very strong when it finally hits There are 2 images from the comic book pic making the rounds - a shot of Hugo Weaving in character as Red Skull (pre-makeup as Johann Schmidt) holding the Cosmic Cube--concept art of Red Skull after the transformation can be found here.
-A supposed description of the teaser trailer for X-Men: First Class can be found over at The Daily Blam. The first trailer will NOT be attached to The Green Hornet this week and is being held back till a later date
-Disney Channel series "Phineas & Ferb" is being turned into a theatrical feature that will combine live-action and animated elements reports Deadline. Premiering in 2007, the animated series follows two kindhearted suburban stepbrothers on summer vacation. Each day the boys embark on some grand new project, which annoys their controlling sister, Candace, who tries to bust them. No story details of the film been been revealed. Producer Sean Bailey is developing the pic
-Actress/singer Charlotte Gainsbourg her husband Yvan Attal, as well as Nathalie Baye are all set to star in Lucas Belvaux's "Une nuit" (One Night) reports Premiere (via The Playlist)
-Jeremy Piven and Mike O'Malley have joined the cast of the action-comedy "So Undercover says Variety . The film centers on a private investigator (Miley Cyrus) hired by the FBI to go undercover in a college sorority. Piven will play an fed agent, while O'Malley plays Cyrus' father Tom Vaughan ("What Happens in Vegas") will direct from a script by Allan Loeb and Steven Pearl.
-Dreamworks is developing a Bollywood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia style animated feature musical set in Mumbai and based on the Hindu epic poem "Ramayana" reports Variety.
Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama will adapt the 1980s Atari arcade game "Missile Command" for the big screen reports Variety.
-Actor Christopher Lee is now set to return as Saruman in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: Part 1 and Part 2 If Orlando Bloom does the pics he will reportedly set to earn a million dollars for a two-minute cameo as Legolas...And Elijah Wood says via IGN of his role in The Hobbit that "they’ve come up with something that I think is kind of interesting and I think very fitting that doesn’t necessarily infringe upon the integrity of the original novel. It’s great. I’m really excited"
-Queen guitarist Brian May says that writer Peter Morgan has delivered a first draft of the script for the Freddie Mercury biopic. Shooting would kick off late this year for release late 2012
-Brendan Fraser and Kristin Scott Thomas will star in Neil Labute‘s Seconds of Pleasure says Deadline Colin Firth and Ed Harris are in talks to appear in the film as well.
-Director Frank Coraci (Zookeeper) will re-team with Kevin James on the upcoming untitled mixed martial arts comedy written by Allan Loeb says Deadline
-"Deadwood" co-stars Molly Parker and John Hawkes will star in the indie drama "The Playroom" says Variety.Set in 1975, the pair will play suburban parents of four. Their volatile teenage daughter (Olivia Harris) acts as a kind of surrogate mother to the younger children, who themselves "have created a make-believe world in their attic hideaway while the parents act out a sordid story below. Cody Linley also stars as the daughter's boyfriend. Julia Dyer ("Late Bloomers") directs from a script by her sister Gretchen Dyer. Filming is currently under way in Dallas.
-Jon Favreau has confirmed in a Tweet that there'll be a Super Bowl XLV ad for Cowboys & Aliens and that it's being worked on right now.
-J.J. Abrams says we should see a full trailer for Super 8 in March, and that he hopes to have made his decision about whether to return to the director’s chair for the Star Trek Sequel by then.while IMAX has inked a four-picture deal with Paramount Pictures to release "Super 8," among others in the format says.THR
-"Blake Lively, Jennifer Lawrence, and Emma Watson are in line to play Taylor Lautner's love interest in the sci-fi/fantasy "Incarceron" says Deadline
-Ivan Reitman says due to the deal he has, if Bill Murray doesn't like the Ghostbusters III script then it probably won't get made at all.
-Frances McDormand will voice the villain in "Madagascar 3" says Heat Vision. McDormand will voice a calculating and goal-oriented animal control officer out to capture our heroes Eric Darnell is directing the sequel from a script by Noah Baumbach
-Director Paul Greengrass has announced that his next project will be "Memphis", a film about the lead-up to Martin Luther King, Jr's assassination in Tennessee in 1968 reports Vulture.
-Three years after production fell apart just weeks before it was to begin the biopic about newspaper columnist and adventurer Robert Ripley has found new life reports Deadline. The story follows Ripley's search around the world for the most unusual people and places that he immortalized in his column, and his journey to appreciate that said unusual people were more than just conquests to be cataloged-thus Ripley's Believe It or Not! was born
-Mathieu Kassovitz and Juliette Binoche are teaming for Sylvie Testud's directorial debut, the dramedy "La Vie d'une auto" reports Variety.
-Chris Hemsworth, says he put on 20 pounds of muscle for "Thor" but lost most of that since he stopped shooting due to the effort it takes to keep it on...via ComicBookMovie
-Director Edgar Wright says after a two year break from working on the Ant-Man script, he's finally getting back into it....
-Producers Adrian Askarieh (Hitman) and Bill Block (District 9) are teaming for the sci-fi flick "Alien Sleeper Cell" The story details are being kept mum for now says The Wrap
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