By Stuart Oldham – Variety

Bombs away “Harry Potter” fans.

Daniel Radcliffe will play the lead role in an updated version of the Oscar-winning Best Picture “All Quiet on the Western Front.”

Daniel Radcliffe in All Quiet on the Western Front

The WWI drama tells the story of Paul Baumer (Radcliffe), a young German soldier fighting in the trenches of France.

Producing duo Ian Stokell and Lesley Paterson wrote the script and will produce through their Sliding Down Rainbows Entertainment production shingle.

Says Stokell, “Daniel brings a vulnerability and innocence to Paul. When we realized how much he loved the script we were really excited because we know he can tap into the delicate balance between intensity and believability that is critical for this demanding role.”

Based on the World War I novel by Erich Maria Remarque, “All Quiet on the Western Front” was first adapted for the bigscreen in 1930 by Lewis Mileston, whose film later took home the Oscar for Best Picture.

Shooting on “Western Front” will begin in the spring of 2012 after Radcliffe wraps a 2011 Broadway stint on “How to Succeed Without Really Trying.”

The 20 year-old actor can next be seen this fall in Warner Bros.’ “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One,” which opens November 19.

Marisol Nichols plays Sarah Monahan

From puggal.com

ABC’s The Gates TV show is an original drama series which is being written by Grant Scharbo and Richard Hatern. It is actually a crime drama series under the category of supernatural dramas. Terry McDonough is the director of this drama series. Every episode of ABC’s The Gate TV show is around of 45 minutes and executive producers of this series are Richard Hatern, Grant Scharbo and Gina Matthews.

Rhona Mitra plays Claire Radcliff

According to the movie’s plot, Nick Monahan shifted to the community of “The Gates” from Chicago along with his family. The Gates is a quiet planned community of fashionable or comparatively rich people. Nick Monahan is a police chief in that area. But it is soon realized by him and his family, that their neighbors are engage in some strange activity and they are not as same as they look like.

Janina Gavankar plays Leigh Turner

Stars of this drama series are Justin Miles (playing the character of Marcus Jordan), Victoria Platt (playing the character of Peg Mueller), Skyler Samules (playing the character of Andy Bates), Janina Gavankar (playing the character of Leigh Turner), Rhona Mitra (playing the character of Claire Radcliff), Luke Mably (playing the character of Dylan Radcliff), Travis Caldwell (playing the character of Charlie Monahan), Marisol Nichols (playing the character of Sarah Monahan) and Frank Grillo who is playing the character of Nick Monahan.

by Elisabeth Rappe – Cinematical.com

Marvel Studios continues to be incredibly innovative when it comes to their cast of characters. Whereas other studios struggle to introduce their comic book characters to mainstream audiences, Marvel has continued to look at inexpensive ways to do so. In April, CHUD landed the scoop that they were looking at making smaller budgeted films featuring lesser known characters such as Doctor Strange, Dazzler (apparently not included in the X-Men stable), Ka-Zar, and Power Pack. Now Latino Review hears they may be aiming even tinier, and examining the possibility of short films.

According to an anonymous source, Marvel / Disney is looking to make short, ten minute films that could run before big Marvel movies and would introduce characters like Doctor Strange, Black Panther, Luke Cage, and so on. They think it would be an effective way to put them on audience’s radar, without wasting a lot of money and jamming them like so much exposition in Iron Man 3 or The Avengers. Right now, this is strictly rumor and whisper, and there’s no solid plan as to what Marvel movie they would appear before or what characters would be introduced.

Read the rest of Elisabeths’ article HERE

by Fiona – Filmofilia.com

If there’s such thing as impressive cast list then this project definitely has it! If there’s such thing as impressive producing then this project has it too!

Halle Berry

Director Tom Tykwer asked Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, James McAvoy and Sir Ian McKellen to star in his latest film, the adaptation of the award-winning novel by British author David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas.

Natalie Portman has been linked to the film before so seems likely to sign on. This project is going to be produced by the Wachowski Brothers, the pair behind the Matrix trilogy. See what we’re talking about?

Mitchell’s book “consists of six nested stories that take us from the remote South Pacific in the nineteenth century to a distant, post-apocalyptic future. Each tale is revealed to be a story that is read (or watched) by the main character in the next.

All stories but the last one get interrupted at some moment, and after “Sloosha’s Crossin’ an’ Ev’rythin’ After” concludes at the center of the book, the novel “goes back” in time, “closing” each story as the book progresses in terms of pages but regresses in terms of the historical period in which the action takes place. Eventually, readers end where they started, with Adam Ewing in the Pacific Ocean, circa 1850.”

Natalie Portman

Jason O'Mara

By Nellie Andreeva – Deadline.com

Jason O’Mara is finalizing his deal to star in Terra Nova, Fox’s midseason series produced by Steven Spielberg and Peter Chernin. The pact had been in the works for the past two weeks.

Terra Nova, one of the highlights at the Fox upfront presentation, centers on the Shannons, an ordinary family from 2149 when the planet is dying who are transported back 85 million years to prehistoric Earth where they join Terra Nova, a colony of humans with a second chance to build a civilization. O’Mara will play Jim Shannon, a devoted father with a checkered past who guides his family through this new land of limitless beauty, mystery and terror. Alex Graves recently came on board to direct the pilot for the series, which is produced by 20th TV, DreamWorks TV, Kapital Entertainment and Chernin Entertainment.

Bruce Lee as Kato and Van Williams as Britt Reid / Green Hornet in 1966 TV series

By Kellvin Chavez – LatinoReview.com

IMAX Corporation and Sony Pictures Releasing announced today that The Green Hornet, the highly anticipated adaptation of the radio and television masked superhero character will be released to IMAX(R) theatres, simultaneously with the film’s wide domestic 2D and 3D release on January 14, 2011. The film will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience(R) and presented in IMAX(R) 3D.

Cameron Diaz will play Lenore Case

“We are tremendously excited that The Green Hornet will be released in IMAX 3D as part of our wide release of the film,” said Rory Bruer, President, Worldwide Distribution for Sony Pictures Releasing. “When you have a film that has such an imaginative and unique depth, scope, and visual style, you really should experience the film with the outstanding 3D elements that the filmmakers are delivering. We believe The IMAX 3D Experience(R) will offer audiences a truly state of the art cinematic experience.”

“Superhero movies typically play very well with IMAX audiences, making the release of The Green Hornet a great way to kick off our 2011 slate,” said IMAX Chief Executive Officer Richard L. Gelfond. “We’re pleased with the continued expansion of our relationship with Sony Pictures, and we’re excited to work with them to reach our growing audience base with another quality film.”

Seth Rogen will play Britt Reid / Green Hornet

“We’re excited to welcome Michel Gondry to the list of acclaimed directors who have released films into the IMAX network and we believe his innovative creative vision will play very well in IMAX,” added Greg Foster, Chairman and President, Filmed Entertainment. “This film is ideally suited to our fan-boy audience, and in IMAX 3D, they will be transported into the world of The Green Hornet.”

In the film, Britt Reid (Seth Rogen), son and heir to Los Angeles’ largest newspaper fortune, is a rich, spoiled playboy who has been happy to maintain a direction-less existence. When his father James Reid (Tom Wilkinson) mysteriously dies, Britt meets an impressive and resourceful company employee, Kato (Jay Chou). They realize that they have the resources to do something worthwhile with their lives and finally step out of James Reid’s shadow. Kato builds the ultimate weapon, The Black Beauty, an indestructible car with every weapon and gadget imaginable and Britt decides that in order to be heroes, they will pose as villains. With the help of Britt’s new secretary, Lenore Case (Cameron Diaz), they learn that the chief criminal in the city is named Benjamin Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz). He has united all the gangs under his power, and he quickly sees that the Green Hornet is a direct threat to the prosperous criminal underworld he controls. Directed by Michel Gondry. The screenplay is by Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, based upon “The Green Hornet” radio series created by George W. Trendle. The film is produced by Neal H. Moritz.

by Brandon Gray – BoxOfficeMojo.com

The Thing (2011) will strike theaters on April 29, 2011, distributor Universal Pictures announced today. The science-fiction horror thriller is currently the only nationwide release scheduled for that weekend, and it slots into the same timeframe that the Nightmare on Elm Street remake haunted earlier this year.

Described by Universal as a “prelude” to John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982), the new Thing involves the discovery of an extraterrestrial organism and ship buried in Antarctica. The main character is a paleontologist played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Final Destination 3), who along with a scientific crew, must fight for survival when the organism is unleashed. The creature will be a shape-shifter that can replicate the humans, stirring paranoia as the characters get infected one-by-one.

The 1982 Thing posted relatively soft numbers back in the day, grossing $13.8 million and ranking 56th for the year, but it has resonated as a horror fan favorite over the years. It was a remake itself of The Thing from Another World, the comparatively light-hearted Howard Hawks production from 1951. Both were based on the story “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell Jr.

The Thing (2011) is being produced by Strike Entertainment, the company behind the Dawn of the Dead remake and Slither. According to IMDb, its screenplay is by Eric Heisserer (A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) and Ronald D. Moore (televisions’s Battlestar Galactica remake), while Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. will direct.

The Thing is only the latest John Carpenter movie being revisited. Previous remakes of his movies include The Fog (2005) and Halloween (2007), and a new Escape from New York is in the works.

Robert Downey Jr

By Nikki Finke – Deadline.com

Let me confirm that Sam Raimi is set to direct Robert Downey Jr in Disney’s extravagant ‘Wizard of Oz’ 3D prequel. I understand that talks to hire Raimi for Oz: The Great And Powerful turned into a deal last night. It’s a coup for new studio bosses Rich Ross and Sean Bailey, who are rolling the dice big-time by hoping that this pic will be a global hit like the billion-dollar-grossing Alice In Wonderland.

Downey will play the Wizard Of Oz before he became the Wizard Of Oz circa the 1939 iconic film: he’s in fact a circus wrangler transported by tornado to the mysterious world of Oz where he gets mistaken for a know-it-all.

This will be Raimi’s first firm project since he exited Spider-Man 4, which prompted Sony Pictures to reboot the entire franchise earlier this year. Now the only question is whether Sam Raimi can do what Tim Burton just did.

Sam Raimi

Gemma Ward

By Josh Winning – TotalFilm.com

Australian actress Gemma Ward has joined the cast of Pirates Of  The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

The former supermodel joins fellow Australian Geoffrey Rush alongside Johnny Depp for “a small speaking role” in the film, which is currently shooting in Hawaii under director Rob Marshall.

Ward will play the role of a second mermaid alongside the already-cast  Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, making for some very multi-national sirens.

The actress, who is 23 years old and was born in Perth, also appeared in The Strangers (hidden behind a doll mask) and Aussie drama The Black Balloon.

Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides will be released in cinemas on 20 May 2011.

Astrid Bergès-Frisbey will also play a mermaid

David Tennant

By NIX – BeyonHollywood.com

The new Las Vegas-based “Fright Night” remake has added two more victims to its cast, with former “Doctor Who” David Tennant  filling the Roddy McDowall role as a horror has-been who teen Charlie (Anton Yelchin) recruits to battle his vampire neighbor (to be played by Colin Farrell). In the remake, Tennant’s Peter Vincent will be a horror-themed Las Vegas magician instead of a washed up horror movie actor, but he will remain just as hapless and ill-equipped to deal with a real vampire threat.

Meanwhile, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, last seen battling alongside Kick Ass in Matthew Vaughn’s “Kick Ass”, will once again play sidekick to Yelchin’s Charlie. When the friendship sours, Mintz-Plasse’s Evil Ed character joins up with Farrell’s vampire neighbor. Yeah, that’ll show him, kid!

Toni Collette was previously cast as the disbelieving adult aka Charlie’s mom. Craig Gillespie is directing the remake for Dreamworks.

Colin Farrell