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It might be an exciting week at the cinema with the release of Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds, and let's face it the release of every Tarantino movie is a bit of an event.
But we have got to that time of the week to look forward and see what is on the horizon as we round up the exciting studio news.
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp and George Clooney are all rumoured to be being considered for the lead role in Sinatra.
The New York Post reported that the three Hollywood stars were all in contention for the lead role on Martin Scorsese's new movie.
Scorsese is allegedly keen to cast DiCaprio while executive producer Tina Sinatra wants Clooney. Then Universal Studios muscled into the discussions backing Depp.
Shutter Island is Scorsese's next film and work on Sinatra is expected to get underway after the release of this movie.
- Josh Zetumer has been hired by Universal to pen the script for the new, and fourth, Bourne movie.
That job usually belongs to George Nolfi, who had been working on the screenplay, but he has moved aside to go and direct.
Zetumer will work on a second script with the plan that the parts of each script will be brought together to make one final screenplay.
At the end of The Bourne Ultimatum is was believed that that would be the last in the franchise, how the end of the movie was left open for another sequel.
And it seems that the lure of another movie for leading man Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass is to strong. There is no new yet as to the plot of this fourth movie.
- Bryan Singer is currently in talks to produce and a new Excalibur movie.
The movie will be a new version of John Boorman's film and Warner Bros have made a deal with Boorman to share the right. The studio is now eager to get the Usual Suspects and X-Men filmmaker on board.
But just last week it was announced that Singer had joined the production of Battlestar Galactica.
- Christopher Nolan has pulled out of plans to bring cult TV show The Prisoner to the big screen.
Nolan has been working on the cinema version of the hit show but left the project to go and shoot Inception.
The movie's producer told CineFools: "Chris Nolan has dropped out of it but we have a first draft by David and Janet Peoples who wrote Twelve Monkeys and David wrote Unforgiven and it's a good draft and we're working on the script right now."
But Mendel is confident that work on the project will eventually make it into cinemas. It is still unknown if Nolan is intending to return to the Batan franchise.
- The release of the Michael Jackson movie This Is It has been pushed forward two days.
Sony Picture Entertainment are expecting huge demand to see the movie and this is the reason they gave to pushing the film forward.
This Is It will follows Jackson's last rehearsals for his string of London shows before he collapsed and died in June.
A 3D sequence was rumoured to included in the footage but that will no longer make the final cut of the movie.
- Universal Studios has announced that Little Fockers will be released in July 2010.
Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo, and Owen Wilson are all back for the third movie in the franchise which will follows Greg and Pam being parents.
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