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Saturday, August 21, 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

Hayden Christensen says there is currently some talk about doing a sequel to Jumper.

Rumor has it that Noomi Rapace (Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) is being courted for roles in Sherlock Holmes 2 and Mission Impossible 4.

Are you ready for the story of Valerie Plame?  I am now that I've seen the first trailer for Fair Game.

January Jones (Mad Men) has been cast as Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class.  The part originally went to Alice Eve (She's Out Of My League), but apparently she had issues with some script changes and asked to be released from her contract.

Monsters has a new trailer.  I think the movie could be a lot of fun.

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy will star in Hysteria.  The film is said to be centered around the invention of the vibrator.

There's a trailer for Vanishing On 7th Street.  Looks very direct to DVD.

Idris Elba (The Losers) has signed on to star in Cross, which is about a detective searching for a man who may have killed his pregnant wife.  Morgan Freeman played the role of Alex Cross in Kiss The Girl and Along Came A Spider.

Seth Rogen will lend his voice to Boo U.  The animated feature will follow a ghost who can't properly scare any of the living, so he gets sent back to school.

Yikes.  Little Fockers looks worse that I imagined it would.  International trailer is here.

Guillermo Del Toro has said he's currently not interested in doing a Hellboy 3 because of the ending he has planned for it.  Apparently, he's just not ready to see it played out on screen.

Hugh Jackman has dropped out of Avon Man in favor of X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2.

The first trailer for Black Swan can only be described as incredible.

Jim Carrey will star in Mr. Popper's Penguins and Under Cover.  The former is about a man who inherits six penguins and the latter involves a man who joins a cover band in order to raise enough money to gain custody of his children.

Love And Other Drugs has a trailer.  Date movie!

Bruce Willis, Danny Trejo and Carey Mulligan will star in Violet And Daisy.  The exact plot is not currently known.

Work has supposedly started on a movie that will tell the story of how Google was created.

John Woo is hoping to add Liam Neeson to the cast of his Flying Tigers movie.  The story is said to follow the American squadron who trained Chinese fighter pilots to take on Japan in WWII.

Imogen Poots, Ophelia Lovibond, Lily Collins, Teresa Palmer and Emma Roberts are said to be in contention to play Peter Parker's love interest in the upcoming Spider-Man reboot.

I'm Still Here, which is the documentary that features Joaquin Phoenix as a hip hop artist, now has a trailer.  Doesn't really show a lot, but it's well done.

Josh Hartnett and director Paul McGuigan (Lucky Number Slevin, Wicker Park) are set to team up again with a movie called Tomorrow.  It's said to follow a guy who travels back and forth in time trying to prevent the murder of his family.

Just in case you don't feel indie enough today, check out the new trailer for Nice Guy Johnny.

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