It's Friday again, yes the days are really flying past this quick, and it's that time of week again when FemaleFirst rounds up the studio news.
Who's be hired? What films have got the green light? Let's find out.
- There is a three studio war to acquire the rights over Mark Millar's title KIck-Ass.
Lionsgate, Paramount and Universal are rumoured to all be interested into bringing the movie to the big screen.
The movie has already been filmed and was part of Comic-Con International in San Diego a fortnight ago.
Directed by Matthew Vaughn the film stars Nicolas Cage and Aaron Johnson. Kick Ass follows Dave Lizewski, a kid growing up in a rundown suburb of America, he isn’t a gamer, he isn’t a jock, he isn’t a mathlete, he’s just a regular kid.
The only thing that is unusual about Dave is that about a year ago his Mother died and he now lived alone with his father. But somehow through this blend of normality, teenage angst and irritation at being continually mugged, Dave makes the decision to become a superhero’ Kick Ass!
- There has been no shortage of Twilight Sage news this week as Jack Huston joined the cast earlier this week. However it was announced yesterday that the latest addition to the ever growing cast list is Catalina Sandino Morena.
The Oscar nominated actress will appear in the third movie Eclipse as Maria, a vampire from Jasper Cullen's past, who tried to create an army of vampires.
Filming on the third movie will get underway later this month and Eclipse is expected to be in cinemas in June 2010.
- Kim Basinger is currently in talks to star alongside Zac Efron in Charlie St Cloud.
If cast the actress will pay Efron's mother in the movie that follows a cemetery caretaker (Efron) who meets up with the ghost of his dead younger brother.
The adaptation of Ben Sherwood's novel, is being directed by Efron's 17 Again director Burr Steers.
Filming has already got underway.
- It looks like Bryan Singer is going to be the filmmaker that helms the big screen version of hit TV show Battlestar Galactica.
However the movie will not be based on the current TV show but in the original series that starred Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict.
Singer has been behind hit blockbuster movies such as X-Men, X-2 and Superman Returns.
- Christopher McQuarrie has been signed up to pen the script for the second Wolverine movie.
The movie will see Hugh Jackman return to the character of Logan for the fifth time and the actor confirmed earlier this week that the movie would focus on Wolverine's training under the samurai.
This story line has been taken from the mini-series by Chris Claremint and Frank Miller in the eighties. He went on to add that the movie would film in Japan.
McQuarrie penned the script for X-Men, the movie that made Jackman a star. After grossing $363 million at the global office, and kicking off the blockbuster summer it seemed inevitable that a sequel would be in the pipeline.
- Alex Holmes will direct the John DeLorean biopic movie.
The House of Saddam director is also working on the script for the yet untitled project with Rob Warr, the pair collaborated in BBC series Dunkirk.
The movie looks set to follow the auto industry giant, he developed the Pontiac GTO muscle car, the Pontiac Firebird & the DeLorean DMC-12 sports car, before being arrested by the FBI on drug trafficking charges.
There have been no hints of a cast so far.
- Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick, the writing and directing team behind hit horror movie The Blair Witch Project have revealed that they are planning a new sequel to the movie.
Speaking to the BBC Sanchez said: "Ideally, each Blair Witch film would be a completely different kind of movie. We've thought about doing a film that takes place in the late 1700s and looks like a [Stanley] Kubrick movie with gritty-looking people and lighting.
"But now, we're thinking about going back and seeing what happened directly after the first film finished. I think it will have some kind of video element in it, but it won't be a first person hand-held movie."
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw
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