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Hugh Jackman won’t be involved in Steven Soderbergh’s Cleopatra musical. In other news, Steven Soderbergh is conceiving a Cleopatra musical.

When we last saw The Phantom of the Opera both on stage and on screen, he had slipped out of the opera house and taken off to parts unknown leaving his mask and his lair behind.

The Warner Bros. production of Watchmen directed by Zack Synder was supposed to open March 2009. But that plan is now in jeopardy.

Forget James Bond. He’s nothing more than a human with a tag line. According to Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer the new guy in town is named Darwin and he’s a guinea pig.

The actress and widow of Gene Roddenberry passed away in her home in Bel-Air.

Frank Lloyd Wright doesn’t seem like someone who would be the subject of a romantic film. However, his affair with Chicago society matron Mamah Borthwick Cheney was immortalized in the book “Loving Frank” by Nancy Horan. It’s now been optioned by Lionsgate and is set to hit the big screen.

Fox just picked up an option to adapt “How to Talk to Girls,” a book written by a 9-year old. We wonder how that makes all of the waiters and bartenders in Los Angeles feel…

Ever since that first baby Alien exploded from John Hurt’s chest, the shiny black creature with acid for blood has been a horror favorite. And now they’re thinking of bringing it back for another round.

The Potterites can still get a Potter fix in the new photo out of Frank Dillane as the teenage Tom Riddle who will go on to become the Dark Lord, Voldemort. Better yet ABC TV will have a first looks at the film from December 5-7 during their Harry Potter weekend.

Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) might just be the energizer bunny of film directors. He’s got projects lined up through 2010 and now is ready to direct The Witches based on Roald Dahl’s childrens book.

Rome. Now there was a television series! HBO knocked it out of the ballpark with its lavish take on ancient Rome in those crazy days of the ascendancy of Julius Caesar, the battles between Mark Antony and Octavian, the man who would be Augustus during the glory days of Rome.

SAG is launching a campaign to educate its members on why it is important to vote for a walkout. Is this a good idea? Our resident SAG member chimes in.

Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron will play man and wife for the upcoming adaptation.

John Boorman has signed on to direct a new film of a book that has grown into a legend, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum. Boorman could be an interesting choice for the job of adapting Baum’s classic book into a new non musical animated film version.

Antonio Banderas is in negotiations to play Salvador Dali in Dali, a look at the life of the surrealist painter. And it would appear that he isn’t the only one.

The real question becomes whether or not Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx should now take the road less traveled, and like Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder, go for race-change as well.

Early in the week the news broke that Frank Darabont had dropped out as director of Law Abiding Citizen the new legal thriller starring Gerard Butler. Now we are getting word that F. Gary Gray might be taking over.

The first film from Gerard Butler’s Evil Twins production company has already lost its director. Frank Darabont has confirmed that he won’t be directing Law Abiding Citizen, the legal thriller that’s set to star Butler as an assistant district attorney targeted by a vigilante.

From the visually arresting opening credits, Guy Ritchie’s RockNRolla pulls the audience into its crazy fictional London which is inhabited by gangsters, a superstitious Russian investor, drug addicted rockers and a gang that can’t quit shoot straight or put a car into reverse.

The official domestic trailer for Tomas Alfredson’s critically acclaimed child-vamp thriller Let the Right One In is here, as are some dates for when you can see the flick.

We all know that Johnny Depp has signed on to reprise Captain Jack Sparrow in yet another Pirates of the Caribbean film. Now there’s word that Keira Knightley is balking at the prospect of stepping back into Elizabeth Swann’s corsets or the film.

Vanity Fair has a first look at the movie version of the 2003 cabinet of G.W. Bush from the Oliver Stone film W.

Fox stood idly by while Warner Brothers developed Watchmen. Even though they allegedly owned the rights. Now their day in court might push back the film’s release date.

It comes as no surprise that the hit film Wanted, an adaptation of the Mark Millar, J.G. Jones comic books will spawn at least two sequels. But the films will be stand alone originals with some input from the authors of the original comic miniseries.

Calling all “Doctor Who” fans! The first big screen adventure for “Doctor Who” has become a glimmer on the horizon, a teeny glimmer, but a glimmer just the same.

A new trailer has emerged today for Good, a new film starring Viggo Mortensen and Jason Isaacs which based on a popular London play by C.P. Taylor that opened in 1999.

Who wants to live forever? Highlander that’s who! A new version of Highlander is in the works according to Summit, the people who will be bringing you Twilight. I guess they have a thing for immortals.

Universal Studios has a very black sense of humor. They’re saying they will release Mamma Mia in a sing-along version. It’s a joke right? A jest? A wacky April Fools joke in August?

It seems that making a fictional game look its best isn’t easy. The upcoming film Game starring Gerard Butler has been given a summer 2009 release date.

Apparently what Philip Seymour Hoffman really wants to do is, you guessed it, direct.