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- Original “Stargate” fave (well, I guess Kurt Russell is the ‘original’, strictly-speaking) Richard Dean Anderson will reprise the role of General O’Neill in the forthcoming ‘Stargate Universe’. A few other familiar faces from the original series will also pop up in the new series.
- Filmmaker Declan O'Brien ("Wrong Turn 3") tells Bloody Disgusting, "I just optioned Roger Corman’s 'The Little Shop of Horrors', which I'm setting up as a big studio remake. We're in the process of talking to studios this week. It will be a remake of Roger’s original 1960’s movie. I don’t want to reveal too much, but it’s me, it’ll be dark. It wont be a musical."
- Patrick Wilson has been cast in the Paramount comedy "Morning Glory" opposite Harrison Ford, Rachel McAdams, Diane Keaton and Jeff Goldblum. The "Watchmen" star will play McAdams' romantic partner.
- "I know definitely that they are talking about the third film, but I have no idea what the story or the premise would be yet", Amy Smart tells About.com of a third "Crank" film.
- Our friend Robert Sanchez is joining Director Patrick Tatopoulos, "Underworld" co-creator Kevin Grevioux and Death Ray Films to bring comic' "I, Frankenstein" to the big screen. The upcoming Darkstorm Comic, written by Grevioux, brings together classic monster characters, including Frankenstein's Monster, the Invisible Man, Dracula and the Hunchback of Notre Dame, in a contemporary film noir setting. Another pal, Ryan Turek of ShockTilYouDrop.com is co-developing the film.
- Footage from "Inglourious Basterds" screened on "American Idol" this week. Did you miss it? No need to worry, IESB has it.
- Megan Fox will star in Screen Gem's "The Crossing", according to The Hollywood Reporter. Byron Willinger and Philip de Blasi penned the pic, in which a couple returning from a Mexican vacation is carjacked and the husband kidnapped. The wife (Fox) must smuggle heroin across the border in order to spring him.
- Recently seen in "Behind Enemy Lines: Columbia", beginning June 7, 2009, actor Joe Manganiello is set to star alongside Tony award winner Harriet Harris, Emmy award winners Doris Roberts (Everybody Loves Raymond) and Richard Thomas(The Waltons) and Maria Dizzia in the west coast premiere of Terrence McNally's new show "Unusual Acts of Devotion".
- “The ending is indeed elliptical,” McG tells MTV of "Terminator Salvation". "And it challenges the audience. It’s not a happy little bow of an ending at all. The ending is tough and requires reflection, and in some degrees it bifurcates the audience. You walk back to the car and one person thinks it means this, and the other person thinks it means that.”
- The trailer for Steven Soderbergh's "The Girlfriend Experience" can be found here
- Kristen Bell is to play the lead role in a movie based on Meg Cabot's 'Queen of Babble" novels. This one tells of the misadventures of a college girl looking for Mr. Right in Europe. Bell will also produce the film.
- Eli Roth tells MTV that he'll be directing a "Transformers"-like blockbuster. ''I don’t want to say what [the monster is] yet,” Roth says. “Once it gets set up, I will let everyone know. It is not aliens or robots or a virus - it’s a little more grounded. But when people hear it they are going to be like ‘That is going to be insane!’.”
- Will Ferrell is crawling into the extreme trenches with Bear Grylls for an upcoming episode of Discovery Channel's "Man vs. Wild", says Variety.
- Patrick Swayze pic “Jump” has been chosen to open the fourth annual Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival on April 23. Producer Lilly Berger said that Swayze plans to attend the premiere at the WGA theater. “He told me, ‘I’m not dead yet. I will be there.’ ”
- Maggie Gyllenhaal has signed on for ''Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang'', a sequel to the 2006 film about a Mary Poppins-like governess played by Emma Thompson.
- Warner Bros. has moved up "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" to a midweek domestic bow on July 15 from July 17.
- Catherine Keener ("What Just Happened") has joined the cast of Fox 2000's "Percy Jackson," Christopher Columbus' adaptation of Rick Riordan's fantasy-adventure book series. The books, which put Greek gods in modern times, involve Poseidon's half-human son, Percy, who is on a quest in modern America to prevent a war among the gods.
