Saturday, April 3, 2010

Time for your weekly notable news update!  Below you'll find a slew of sentences meant to provide a brief glimpse of what's been going on over the past week in movieland.  If something leaves you desperate for more info then my advice is to do a little extra research on one or all of the following fantastic sites:  Latino Review, Dark Horizons, Ain't It Cool News, CHUD and/or JoBlo.  Now, read on!

Movie News Rundown

Angelina Jolie's Salt has a new trailer.  Looks like your fairly standard action fluff.

Joss Whedon is said to be on the shortlist of possible directors for The Avengers.

Now that it's gone from happening to not happening, XXX 3 is now happening.  Rob Cohen will return as director, Vin Diesel will star and it will be shot in 3D.  Hooray.

The trailer for Splice is pretty badass.  Could be good sci-fi thriller fun.

Now that Chris Evans has been cast as Captain America, Sebastian Stan has been announced as the sidekick Bucky Barnes.

Speaking of Captain America, Emily Blunt has reportedly turned down the role of Peggy Carter (the love interest).

Warner Bros. have setup a remake of Private Benjamin.  Anna Faris is said to be starring.

As expected, The Expendables looks pretty awesome.

Will Smith and Roland Emmerich are said to both be locked in to do two sequels (shot back to back in 2011) to Independence Day.

George Romero is back with another zombie flick.  It's called Survival Of The Dead.  The trailer looks OK.

Matthew Vaughn will reportedly follow up Kick Ass with an adaptation of the comic Bloodshot. 

Rumor has it that The Hobbit keeps getting delayed due to MGM's money woes.

Cameron Crowe is said to be close to being ready to make the Marvin Gaye biopic he's been working on for almost four years.

Ryan Reynolds will star in R.I.P.D.  The comic adaptation is said to follow a cop who has to team with an old gunslinger to police the dead.

Ben Stiller and Noah Baumbach may team up again for Mr. Popper's Penguins, which is about a painter who one day randomly receives a shipment of penguins.

Henry Selick (Coraline) is said to be returning to Disney/Pixar with a long term deal to make stop motion films.

Doug Liman is in talks to direct the Three Musketeers re-imagining.

Paul Greengrass may direct a 3D remake of The Fantastic Voyage.

It looks as though Leonardo DiCaprio will play J. Edgar Hoover in Clint Eastwood's Hover.

Not surprisingly, everything is all set and ready to go on Hangover 2.  The movie is set to be released in 2011.

Knight And Day has a trailer.  Could be a bomb.

There's a rumor floating around that Rachel Weisz could play the leader of the Quantum Organization in the next Bond movie.

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