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Actor Ian McKellen says that production on "The Hobbit: Part 1"--directed by Guillermo del Toro--will begin in June. No decision has been made on the 3-D issue

New Line Cinema is ready to reboot the Police Academy film franchise says The Hollywood Reporter.

Variety has more on director Guy Ritchie's version of Excalibur

Actor John Cho tells Collider that A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, is moving quickly with a script already turned in and depends on the availablity of co-star Kal Penn.... As for the Star Trek Sequel , they are apparently still working on the script and he hasn’t heard anything about the villain yet.


Amanda Bynes has exited the comedy Hall Pass over a scheduling conflict....even as Richard Jenkins and Bruce Thomas recently joined the cast Jenkins will play a man who never found the right woman, Thomas will play a baseball player

Christian Bale and Josh Hartnett, were apparently the only two actors director Wolfgang Petersen met with for the role of Superman in the aborted "Batman vs. Superman" flick

Josh Duhamel says he will indeed return as Major Lennox in "Transformers 3". The script is done with filming to kick off this Summer..

Lizzy Caplan jhas confirmed she's joined the cast of Danny Boyle's "127 Hours" as the sister of the lead character - mountain climber Aron Ralston (James Franco). She begins filming on the project next month--two different cinematographers will be used on the biopic as well.

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino will voice Brainy Smurf in the 3-D hybrid live-action/CG animation feature film adaptation of The Smurfs," ??!! Oh and he is also being sued over Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & Kill Bill: Vol. 2

More docus about Michael Jackson are on the way

Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park tells The BBC that there were, at one time, plans to do an IMAX "Wallace and Gromit" project.

Jon Voight talked with Swedish publication MovieZine and mentioned plans to re-team with his"Deliverance" and "The General" director John Boorman for a new pic.