The Random - Tintin, Star Trek, Hung, Sex & The City 2, A Couple of Dicks, Gulliver's Travels, Creature from the Black Lagoon

- Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment today announced their release plans for the long awaited 3-D motion capture feature film The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Spielberg, Peter Jackson, and Kathleen Kennedy. The highly anticipated film will be released by Paramount in the U.S. on December 23, 2011. The film will launch internationally in late October and early November, 2011 with Sony Pictures Releasing International handling Continental Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and India, and Paramount distributing the film in Asia, Australia, UK and all other English speaking territories.

- James Clyne, one of the concept artists on the recent film release of Star Trek, has put up some sketches of his work for the film on his official site.

- Hung, HBO's new series starring Thomas Jane as a divorced dad with a huge penis who decides to get into porn, kicks off its ten-episode first season run on June 28th at 10pm ET/PT.

- The Sex and the City sequel is scheduled to begin a two-month shoot in New York City on August 19th, with two weeks filming in London - full details

- Ana de la Reguera ("Nacho Libre") has joined the cast of Kevin Smith’s A Couple of Dicks as the third major lead. Reguera plays a Mexican beauty named Gabriela, who is rescued by two veteran LAPD detectives (Bruce Willis & Tracy Morgan) and might hold the key to millions in laundered drug money - full details

- "The IT Crowd" star Chris O'Dowd talks to Suicide Girls a little about his Gulliver's Travels role.

- "We're about halfway through. Most of my stuff is still left. I've done a couple of scenes" says Dolph Lundgren this week about his work on The Expendables - full details

- Breck Eisner has dropped out of directing Universal's 'Creature from the Black Lagoon' remake. As of right now the re-imagining is being penned and produced by Gary Ross, whose father wrote the original - full details

Source: Dark Horizons

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The Random - Hyperion, Iron Man 2, Gulliver's Travels, Cloud Atlas, Rambo V, Resident Evil, The Flash

Scott Derrickson (The Day The Earth Stood Still) to direct Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos. Beware the Shrike!

Variety is reporting that Emily Blunt and Jason Segel are both in negotiations to join 20th Century Fox's Gulliver's Travels comedy that will star Jack Black. Emily Blunt was rumored to appear as Black Widow in Iron Man 2 - apparently not anymore. "Fox holds an option on the actress that was part of her deal when she co-starred in The Devil Wears Prada, and the studio may invoke it to see that she takes part in the giant tale."

Tom Tykwer said "I'm trying to adapt a novel called Cloud Atlas, which is a novel by David Mitchell that I'm really completely excited about. And I'm sitting down with the Wachowski Brothers and trying to adapt that for a screenplay. It's very interesting." More here.

ExtraTV have the news on Rambo V. Stallone says "Yeah, we are doing another Rambo, but the conflict is whether to do it in America or a foreign country…"

The next Resident Evil film will be set in Alaska. JoBlo reports that Patrick Tatopoulos in charge of the creature effects. Michael Lantieri has also been hired as the special effects supervisor, and the report regarding the script is that the location is to be Alaska and it's a lot darker than the previous films.

IESB is claiming that they know for certain that screenwriter Dan Mazeau is currently working on a Flash script for Warner Brothers.

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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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