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Sunday, April 5, 2009

Did anyone bother downloading the Wolverine movie?  I don't really want to see what leaked (work prints have never really interested me), but I would like to know if what's there is any good.  Speak up!  I won't tell on you.

And now, the news.  Read on.

 



- The Rundown -
 

David Cronenberg is working on a sequel to Eastern Promises.

Vin Diesel has let it be known that he some interest in playing the comic book character Sub-Mariner, but he would really like to portray a major villain like Dr. Doom.


Jackie Earle Haley's take on Rorschach has landed him the role of Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare On Elm Street reboot that's coming up.

Michael Caine thinks that the next Batman villain will be the Riddler.

Martin Cotillard, Cilian Murphy and Ellen Page are expected to join the cast of Christopher Nolan's Inception.  James Franco, however, is no longer involved.

In other Franco news, he is close to starring opposite Danny McBride in Your Highness.

Work has already begun on a sequel to this summer's Star Trek flick.

Sam Raimi recently said that the way Spider-Man 3 turned out upsets him and that he's happy to have full control (finally) over the fourth entry.

Thing are moving forward on Little Fockers, Paul Weitz has been hired to direct.

Aaron Eckhart is in talks to join Nicole Kidman in Rabbit Hole.  The movie follows a couple dealing with the loss of a child.

Megan Fox is set to play an angel opposite Mickey Rourke in Passion Plays.

Kevin Spacey will play the lead role in Father Of Invention, which is about a billionaire inventor who loses everything and has to start from scratch.

Zack Snyder has replaced Amanda Seyfried with Emily Browning in the upcoming Sucker Punch.

Supermodel Serinda Swan has joined the cast of Tron 2.0.

Supposedly, Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg are going to be writing the script for The World's End later this year.  It will cap the end of their Blood And Ice Cream Trilogy.

Rumor of the week: John Cena as Captain America.
 

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