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The Wall Street Journal (via Coming Soon) is reporting today that J.J. Abrams is in talks to produce a movie about the Japanese interchangable toys Micronauts.

Everyone is on Twitter these days. Jason Reitman, Rian Johnson, Kevin Smith, entire movies. And now, Milla Jovovich has joined the party from the set of Resident Evil: Afterlife.

One of my more praised, but lesser known Sundance 2009 favorites is coming to town — and with it comes writer/director John Krasinski, who you may know as Jim from The Office.

Overture Films has released a new photo from their upcoming thriller The Crazies, a Breck Eisner directed reinvention of a George Romero classic.

If you’re anything like me, then you are ready to get out there and pick up Star Trek on Blu-ray (or DVD, if you’re so inclined). But before you head out, check out these awesome retail exclusives…

Exactly what you’ve all been waiting for… Sort of. Warner Home Video has announced today that they will release Halo: Legends, a series of seven animated short films.

You know that it’s going to be a good day when we start off with a sweet giveaway. And we also know that it’s going to be a good day when we get to run a giveaway for a movie with a completely ridiculous concept.

Over the past few months, we’ve become one of the go-to sites on the web for direct-to-DVD flicks. And we know exactly why: we love that crap. Now come inside and watch this clip.

The project that began with Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman, then added Helen Mirren, is now adding the always lovely Mary Louise Parker to its cast. Oh, and John C. Reilly is coming along, as well.

Two of those words in single quotation marks are movie titles. I’ll let you guess which ones. Suspense!

Fox Searchlight, the studio that distributed Danny Boyle’s Oscar-winning gem Slumdog Millionaire last year, is teaming up with the director on his next project, 127 Hours.

The beard enthusiast (and sometimes actor) is in talks to voice Humpty Dumpty. Beats getting high and agreeing to G-Force.

If we never see the fine folks from Pajiba again, we now know why. They are reporting today on a film project so secretive, it threatens their very lives to even whisper its name.

Production on The Tourist is set to begin early next year. The players within that production seems to be changing daily.

Ever since Universal Pictures released the first teaser trailer for their upcoming animated comedy Despicable Me back in July, I’ve been curious about it. After trailer two, I’m interested.

Ridley Scott has been talking about directing Monopoly for some time now. Peter Berg is still waiting to board a Battleship movie. Kevin Lima is going to take us to Candyland. And now, Sony Pictures is planning a big screen adaptation of RISK.

Our friends over at First Showing got an interesting little scoop this afternoon, picking up some casting news from Robert Redford’s upcoming Lincoln assassination film The Conspirator.

There’s no doubt that Warner Bros. wants this version of Sherlock Holmes, of which the vision is derived from the wild mind of Guy Ritchie, to be the exciting, exhilarating version of Sherlock Holmes.

Spotted at the American Film Market: a new poster from Scream 4. Spotted in the FSR newsroom: audible boredom from the Rejects’ staff.

It’s been a long time coming for Steve Guttenberg, or “The Gutt” to his friends. He’s headed back to the big time, back to the marquee… back to the 80s well.