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Saturday, June 06, 2009

Cine-Sweep

A few cinema crumbs...

*Clint Eastwood's Nelson Mandela biopic starring Morgan Freeman is now called Invictus and has an official release date of December 11th according to Variety.

Previously going by the name "The Human Factor", the new title is Latin for 'Invincible'...

*Kickstart Entertainment will produce a film based on Joshua Williamson's graphic novel "Dear Dracula" reports ICV2.

*Robert Rodriguez told the Moviehole gang that he has reached out to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to take part in "Predators", his upcoming reboot of the Predator franchise. He has not heard back from him.

*Anna Paquin (pictured), says via IGN Movies, that she'd certainly be up for reprising her role of the mutant Rogue for spin-off feature “X-Men: First Class

I would hope I could do a little bit more action next time,” the actress said. “I kind of find it ironic that I did three big action films and did, actually, no action whatsoever."

*Sony Pictures has picked up "Swift", a script described as a reimagining of the Tom Swift adventure novel series says Variety.

*A live-action/CGI hybrid flick of the classic 1970's comic strip cat character Heathcliff is in the works reports Variety.

*Brian Blessed will play Thor's father Odin according to Bleeding Cool.

*The 1983 cult comedy "Valley Girl "is being remade as a musical says The Hollywood Reporter.
*British actress Lucy Punch replaces Nicole Kidman in Woody Allen's new and still untitled pic reports Variety.

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