Ghostbusters - Did you know it was actually a film in 1954 starring Bob Hope?

An excellent trailer mash-up. You have to watch it.

What if...Ghostbusters, the movie, was shot in 1954 instead of 1984? Who should be part of the cast? Would they have the same equipment? Who would they battle? Considering Dan Aykroyd's concept owes a lot to Bob Hope, Abbott and Costello, and Lewis and Martin comedies of the 40s and 50s, it is not that big of a stretch to speculate.

Here's the recipe for the trailer:

Ghostbusters, The Three Stooges, Scared Stiff, Ghost Breakers, Topper Takes a Trip, The Ghost Busters, Abbott and Costello meet the Invisible Man, Star Trek, Ghosts on the Loose, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Spooks Run Wild, Flubber, Son of Flubber, The Caddy, 100 ans d'histoires de Bibendum

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How about Tom Cruise as the Third Stooge?

With the recent news that Sean Penn was taking a year off from acting this means there is a place within the the Farrelly Brothers Three Stooges film. Penn was playing Larry opposite Jim Carrey as Curly (he is apparantly going to pile on the pounds for the role) and Benicio Del Toro as Moe.

Who could join Carrey and Del Toro? Names such as Paul Giamatti, Zach Galifianakis, Matt Damon, Larry David, Ben Stiller, Jack Nicholson and Simon Pegg have been mentioned.

However, another name put forward is Tom Cruise and out of all of them I think I like that idea the most - although the whole idea of the Three Stooges film leaves me feeling a little cold. He was great in Tropic Thunder when he played quite a slapstick character so he has the skills.

How do you feel about the Stooges film? Who would be the best person to fill Sean Penn's shoes?

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The Random - No Nolan on Batman 3? 9, Star Trek 2, Jurassic Park 4, Neverending Story, Bourne 4, Red Dawn, Sean Penn

Batman-On-Film have the news that Christopher Nolan still has yet to commit to a third Batman film, and at this point he still isn’t interested in making another installment in the Batman series. Who would be a good director to take his place?

Focus Features has launched a viral site at 9experiment.com for Shane Acker's 9.

SciFi Wire talked with the writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci recently about how they're planning to tackle the sequel to J J Abrams Star Trek. "I think the major lesson we learned is that fans were willing to accept differences and surprises, provided that they were somehow echoes or inspired by canon," Orci said in an exclusive interview earlier this month. He added: "We still have to be true to Star Trek the next time around, but we've also been blessed with being able to be unpredictable. And that doesn't mean we can just be shocking for no good reason and just throw everything away… It still has to echo everything that Star Trek has been."

Producer Frank Marshall talked with Coming Soon about the future of various projects and franchises he's involved in.

Bourne 4 "We'd like to shoot next year. It's trying to get everybody's schedules in the right place and getting the script right. We've done pretty well with these scripts that are pretty loosely put together, but I'd like the script to be really solid this time before we go forward. We're spending a lot of time on this story" says Marshall.

The Neverending Story - It sounds like the remake will be more faithful to the original book - "We love the book and we've always thought there was an opportunity (because) there were a lot of elements in the book that weren't in the movie. It's another one where we're still working on the rights and it's a huge thing to get it. Once we get it, we'll bring on a writer, but that's kind of off in the distance. But it's a great story."

Jurassic Park IV - It's still quite a long way away - "We just have to see if they can come up with a story. We don't have a story."

Marshall also is looking into an adaption of the New Yorker article The Last of the Metrozoids about art historian Kirk Vanedoe and his decision to coach a football team before he died of cancer shortly afterwards, and a film adaptation of Warren St. John's book "Outcasts United" about immigrants on a soccer team in Georgia.

Josh Peck (The Wackness, Special) and Adrianne Palicki have joined the cast of the remake of Red Dawn for MGM/UA says The Hollywood Reporter. The story follows a group of teenagers who form an impromptu insurgency when their town is invaded by Chinese and Russian soldiers. Peck will play Matt Eckert, the hotheaded younger brother of Jed Eckert (Chris Hemsworth - Star Trek, Thor) and star quarterback of their Spokane high school football team. Palicki will play Tonim a tough fighter the brothers encounter who develops romantic feelings for Jed, a Marine home on leave and the group's unofficial leader. John Milius directed the original 1984 Cold War-era actioneer, the new one will be handled by "The Bourne Ultimatum" and "Quantum of Solace" second-unit director Dan Bradley. Filming kicks off in September.

Sean Penn has dropped out of Universal's action movie Cartel as well as MGM's Three Stooges, according to several sources in Hollywood, including Hollywood Reporter and Deadline Hollywood. Word is that he's had private conversations where he's said that he doesn't want to work "right away" and wants to "regroup" and "just needs personal time."

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The Three Stooges could almost be Penn, Carrey and del Toro

MGM and the Farrelly brothers are closing in on their cast for "The Three Stooges."

Studio has set Sean Penn to play Larry, and negotiations are underway with Jim Carrey to play Curly, with the actor already making plans to gain 40 pounds to approximate the physical dimensions of Jerome "Curly" Howard.

The studio is zeroing in on Benicio Del Toro to play Moe.

The film is not a biopic, but rather a comedy built around the antics of the three characters that Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Howard played in the Columbia Pictures shorts.

The quest by the Peter and Bobby Farrelly to harness the project spans more than a decade and three studios. They first tried at Columbia, again at Warner Bros., and finally at MGM, where Worldwide Motion Picture Group chairman Mary Parent championed the cause and bought the WB-owned scripts and made a deal with Stooges rights holders C3.

Production will begin in early fall for a release sometime in 2010. The Farrellys, who wrote the script, are producing with their Conundrum partner Bradley Thomas, and Charlie Wessler.

The project will get underway after Penn completes the Asger Leth-directed Universal/Imagine Entertainment drama "Cartel." He hasn't done a comedy since the 1989 laffer "We're No Angels."

The Farrellys have long had their eyes on Del Toro to play Moe. Del Toro, who's coming off "Che," showed comic chops in the Guy Ritchie-directed "Snatch."

The surprise is the emergence of Carrey to play Curly. Howard established the character as a seminal physical comedian, from the first time he appeared in the first Stooges short in 1934 until he suffered a stroke on the set in 1946.

Are you excited about this project? Do you think the three actors are the best choice for the Stooges?

Source: Variety

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The Random - Green Lantern, Three Stooges, Stephen King, Book of Eli, Candy Land, The Cross

Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, Goldeneye, Vertical Limit, Edge of Darkness) is in talks to direct a big screen adaptation of the DC comic book series The Green Lantern according to Variety. The screenplay was penned by Greg Berlanti (Everwood, Eli Stone), Marc Guggenheim (Law & Order, Eli Stone) and Michael Green (Smallville, Heroes).Who could play Hal Jordan?

Just Jared have the word that the Farrelly Brothers want Johnny Depp and Sean Penn as Moe and Larry, respectively, in their Three Stooges movie.

Stephen King isn’t a fan of Twilight author Stephanie Meyer. King tells USA Weekend that while both Rowling and Meyer are “speaking directly to young people, The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”

Michael Gambon (Harry Potter, The Good Shepherd) has joined the cast of the post-apocalyptic thriller The Book of Eli for Warner Bros. Pictures says The Hollywood Reporter

Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa) will write and Kevin Lima (Enchanted) will direct a live-action feature based on the Hasbro board game Candy Land for Universal Pictures reports Variety.

Orlando Bloom (Pirates of the Caribbean), Vincent Cassel (Eastern Promises, Ocean's 12) and Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace, Hitman) are set to star in the Australia-France-Germany co-production The Cross reports Variety. Set against the backdrop of a futuristic border town, Bloom plays a man seeking to cross a mysterious border, something no one else has achieved. Cassel, meanwhile, is the guard who will go to any lengths to foil him. Kurylenko takes the female lead. Andrew Niccol (Lord of War, Gattaca) will direct.

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Bloody Disgusting is reporting that they've confirmed a sequel will be forthcoming to David Slade's wintry vampire tale 30 Days of Night. Steve Niles, the original film's screenwriter and author of the comic book series, and Ben Ketai are tentatively on the roster to script the follow-up.

Jonathan Swift’s classic book, Gulliver’s Travels, is going to have another run at the big screen. Twentieth Century Fox is moving forward with a film version of the book, this time with Jack Black playing the titular character.

The new trailer for Jim Carrey's Yes Man hits the web and it looks like Liar Liar.

Robert Downey Jr talks to MTV about the Terrence Howard / Don Cheadly switch for Iron Man 2.

Filmstalker talks about the Farrelly Brothers bringing back the 3 Stooges.

Some set photos of Daniel Bruehl on Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Jessica Alba shooting An Invisible Sign of My Own in New York City

Ian Jeffers ("Death Sentence," "Castlevania") has sold an original werewolf-themed script to director-producer Ridley Scott..." (full details)

"Arthouse films has nabbed worldwide rights to Hamptons International Film Festival documentary winner "Herb and Dorothy" Megumi Sasaki's feature follows a post office clerk and his librarian wife who've amassed one of the most important minimalist and conceptual art collections of the 20th century. An early 2009 release is planned..." (full details)

"Rowan Atkinson says he's only been in one movie that he's entirely proud of - "Four Weddings and a Funeral"..." (full details)"

"Family Guy" and "American Dad" creator Seth MacFarlane talks about the new $100 million deal he just signed with FOX..." (full details)

"Warner Bros. Pictures has started adding biographies for the characters in "Watchmen" to the official website. First up is The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) ..." (full details)

"ABC has expressed interest in picking up "King of the Hill," which Fox last week decided not to renew beyond its current thirteenth season. The idea is that the show would make a strong companion to the ABC's upcoming animated comedy "The Goode Family" from the creators of 'King'..." (full details)

" Sony Pictures Classics has nabbed North American and Latin American rights to Jeffrey Levy-Hinte’s “Soul Power.” Documentary profiles a 1974 concert of R&B headliners who converged in southern Africa during the Muhammad Ali-George Foreman fight known as the “rumble in the jungle..." (full details)"

"Smokin' Aces" writer/director Joe Carnahan confirms that a prequel to the 2007 release "Smokin' Aces" has been greenlit..." (full details)

"Fortissimo Films has picked up international sales rights to Cheng Hsiao Tse's Taiwanese multisexual drama "Miao Miao" from Jet Tone Films and J.A. Movies. Warner Bros. Pictures will release it mid-November in Taiwan, with Golden Scene distributing in Hong Kong at the end of the month..." (full details)

"Hong Kong director Jingle Ma has confirmed that the $6.5 million live-action project about legendary warrior princess Hua Mulan is due to begin lensing in February..." (full details)

"Voltage Pictures has picked up foreign sales rights to Bubble Factory's supernatural thriller "The Devil's Tomb" from director Jason Connery ("Pandemic"). Cuba Gooding, Ron Perlman and Ray Winstone star in the sub-$10 million feature in which a team of mercenaries on a rescue mission in a Middle Eastern desert uncover a mystery that has been hidden for thousands of years..." (full details)
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