The Random - Inglorious Bastards, Get Smart 2, Will Ferrell, Kevin Smith, Sin City 2, The Spirit, Y: The Last Man, Star Trek

Despite Samuel L. Jackson claiming to have had talks with Quentin Tarantino about the role of Marcel, a French movie theater projectionist in QT's upcoming WW2 flick "Inglorious Bastards", it has gone to Jacky Ido..." (full details)"

Anne Hathaway re-affirmed her commitment to a "Get Smart" sequel this week - "I would love to do a second one, but I haven't heard if we're going to. I hope we get to"..." (full details)"

After comedies about soccer, ice skating, NASCAR and basketball - Will Ferrell says he's done with doing any more sports-themed comedies..." (full details)"

Kevin Smith was co-host on the Cinema Blend podcast this week and spoke of his upcoming projects "Red State", "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" and his sci-fi feature..." (full details)"

Frank Miller was in Rome presenting new scenes of "The Spirit" recently and says he's "very close to begin Sin City 2 with Robert Rodriguez"..." (full details)"

DJ Caruso ("Eagle Eye," "Disturbia") talks about his plans for the film adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan's "Y: The Last Man" comic..." (full details)"

JJ Abrams had a 40-minute video conversation with Chris Moyles from BBC Radio 1 covering Lost, Fringe and Star Trek..." (full details)

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Red Dawn remake and news on Robocop

The Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell tale of school kids fighting a World War III style invasion is apparantly going to be remade. Their cries of "Wolverines!" will once more echo in cinemas around the world (Wolverine was their school mascot, not the X-Man).

It's going to be scripted by Carl Ellsworth (he wrote Red Eye, co-wrote Disturbia and did a rewrite of the Last House on the Left remake). He has also finished an adaption of the comic series Y: The Last Man for New Line.

Dan Bradley will direct. He has worked on The Bourne Ultimatum, Spider-Man 3 and the Quantum of Solace as a second unit director / stunt coordinator so he has the chutzpah for a big action movie of this type.

The remake was announced at the Cannes Film Festival by Harry Sloan of MGM. Interestingly they also announced a big budget remake of RoboCop with rumours that Darren Aronofsky may direct .

"The tone is going to be very intense, very much keeping in mind the post-9/11 world that we're in," says Ellsworth, who was 11 when the original was released. "As 'Red Dawn' scared the heck out of people in 1984, we feel that the world is kind of already filled with a lot of paranoia and unease, so why not scare the hell out of people again?"

Interestingly, the 1984 action drama was the first film released in theaters with the newly devised PG-13 rating because of its intense subject matter and violent content.