Katie Holmes

From Celebrity-Gossip.net

She worked hard to make “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” a super scary film, and now Katie Holmes’ horror flick has been given a release date.

Holmes’ movie was shelved after Miramax was sold by Disney last year, but FilmDistrict has bought it and will release it August 12th.

Katie stars alongside Guy Pearce, who has been getting all kinds of buzz for his work in the multi-award-winning masterpiece “The King’s Speech.”

“Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” was premiered at Comic Con last year, and scheduled for an original release date this past January.

Famke Janssen

(Hollywood Reporter) – “X-Men” actress Famke Janssen has joined Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton in a “Hansel and Gretel” action comedy that depicts the fairy-tale pair as bounty hunters.

The Paramount project, “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters,” picks up years after the siblings’ childhood trauma at the gingerbread house. Janssen will play the leader of the witches.

Tommy Wirkola (“Dead Snow”) is directing the film, which begins shooting in Berlin next month.

Stephen King is big movie business again. Chalk that up to the massive film and TV adaptation of his Dark Tower series that has industry players Ron Howard, Akiva Goldsman and Brian Grazer pushing it forward. Then there is the new version of The Stand, which Warner Bros. is developing, and possible new versions of Firestarter and Maximum Overdrive.

The latest new King project is a possible remake of the 1989 film Pet Sematary, a film about dead pets and children coming back to life.

Read the rest of Russ Fischer’s story HERE

Dianna Agron

Extraordinary teen John Smith (Pettyfer) is a fugitive on the run from ruthless enemies sent to destroy him. Changing his identity, moving from town to town with his guardian Henri (Olyphant), John is always the new kid with no ties to his past. In the small Ohio town he now calls home, John encounters unexpected, life-changing events-his first love (Agron), powerful new abilities and a connection to the others who share his incredible destiny.

Expect a mid February 2011 Release Date

Cast:

Dianna Agron … Sarah
Timothy Olyphant … Henri
Alex Pettyfer … Number Four
Teresa Palmer … Number Six
Kevin Durand … Mog Commander
Jake Abel … Mark James
Callan McAuliffe … Sam
Judith Hoag … Sarah’s Mom
Beau Mirchoff … Drew
Emily Wickersham … Nicole

Teresa Palmer

Alex Pettyfer is Number 4

Anne Hathaway

From CBC News

Anne Hathaway has landed a coveted role in Christopher Nolan’s next installment of the Batman saga, with the Oscar-nominated actress to portray Selina Kyle and her alter ego, Catwoman.

Warner Bros. announced Wednesday the casting of Hathaway and Tom Hardy for Nolan’s forthcoming The Dark Knight Rises.

The film will see Christian Bale reprise his role as Bruce Wayne and Batman.

U.S. actress Hathaway, who is set to co-host the Academy Awards with James Franco in February, has seen her profile in Hollywood rising over the years. Her breakout role came with The Princess Diaries and she followed with several similar films, including a Princess Diaries sequel, Ella Enchanted and Hoodwinked.

She began landing more mature roles, however, after her turns in Brokeback Mountain and The Devil Wears Prada. Hathaway earned her highest acclaim for her starring role as a recovering drug addict in the 2008 drama Rachel Getting Married, which earned her a best actress Oscar nomination.

British actor Hardy, who appeared in Nolan’s mindbending 2010 thriller Inception and has a decade-long career in U.K. TV and film, is set to portray the intelligent, superstrong villain Bane.

The Dark Knight Rises is set for release July 20, 2012.

From BBC News

Juan Of The Dead: Cuba’s answer to Shaun Of The Dead

Blood-spattered, flesh-eating monsters have been roaming the Cuban capital, Havana, in recent months – all part of filming for the country’s first zombie movie.

Bearing a similar title to Britain’s 2004 comedy horror Shaun Of The Dead, Juan Of The Dead’s plot is actually closer to the 1984 ghoul classic Ghostbusters.

In the film, an entire city is overrun by zombies while Cuba’s Communist leaders insist it is just a plot by US-backed dissidents to bring down the government.

So it is left to hero Juan – played by Cuban actor Alexis Diaz de Villegas – to rid the island of the undead for money.

But as the zombie outbreak begins to spread, he is left with no choice but to fight for his own survival.

The film, due for release later this year, was written and directed by 34-year-old Alejandro Brugues.

It is only his second movie since graduating from Cuba’s International School of Film and Television.

“It’s a zombie film but it’s about Cubans and how we react in the face of a crisis because we’ve had a lot of them here over the last 50 years,” Brugues told the BBC World Service’s The Strand.

“It is a social comedy, it has a bit of everything. It has horror, it has action and it pretty much laughs in the face of problems.”

The movie is a joint Cuban-Spanish production with much of the funding coming from overseas.

It is the latest in a wave of independent cinema which has been struggling to find its feet after state funding all but dried up following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.     Read more here

From: MonstersandCrtitics.com

Washington – The US Library of Congress clearly has a sense of humour, on Tuesday including The Pink Panther and Airplane! on a list of 25 iconic movies from the last century that were added to its National Film Registry.

Also inducted this year were: The Empire Strikes Back, the second in George Lucas’ hugely popular Star Wars trilogy; The Exorcist, one of the most successful horror movies ever made; and All The President’s Men, a film about the two journalists who uncovered the Watergate scandal that brought down US president Richard Nixon.

The Library of Congress, the Washington-based guardian of US cultural heritage, names 25 movies to its national registry each year that are considered ‘culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.’ The 2010 list brings to 550 the number of movies in the registry.

Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back Luke and Master Yoda

The country’s top librarian, James Billington, gets the naming rights. He also chose to add John Travolta’s disco-era film Saturday Night Fever, and a biography of civil rights leader Malcolm X that won actor Denzel Washington an Oscar nomination.

Many of the movies’ key protagonists will not get to enjoy the induction. Directors Blake Edwards of Pink Panther and Irvin Kershner of the Empire Strikes Back passed away this year, as well as Airplane! star Leslie Nielsen.

The oldest movie added to the registry was the 1891 film Newark Athlete, a film made at the Edison Laboratory in New Jersey. The film’s creators would go on to help make the world’s first motion picture camera, the Edison Kinetograph, according to the library.

Billington noted that about 50 per cent of films made before 1950 and as many as 90 per cent of those made before 1920 have been lost.

‘The National Film Registry is a reminder to the nation that the preservation of our cinematic creativity must be a priority,’ Billington said in a statement.

By Melissa Molina – LatinoReview.com

Every other big directing gig for the upcoming year has been gobbled up recently, all except for one particular piece. James Cameron is producing a remake of the film “Fantastic Voyage” from Twentieth Century Fox, and the picture is without a director. Well, since Cameron won’t bother to direct it, who will?

Apparently the box office king of the world (had to do that) is keeping his eye on “Clash of the Titans” director Louis Leterrier to tackle the production. That doesn’t mean he’ll get his wish. There’s been several directors that had slid out from the film’s grasp which include Paul Greengrass, Darren Aronofsky, Jonathan Mostow and Timur Bekmambetov. Hopefully Cameron will be able to weave some powerful magic on Leterrier in order to make him stay to direct the 3-D flick.

The Shane Salerno script is currently being re-written by “Shutter Island” scribe Laeta Kalogridis. Filming is expected to start early next year, all depending on whether or not they can keep Leterrier in their grasp.