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Are Brangelina on their way to a forbidden city to adopt their 100th kid? No, Brad Pitt has found a new movie to star in, The Lost City of Z.

Summit Entertainment is looking for a director to appeal to teenagers and they may have found their man, Chris Weitz, who helped direct American Pie.

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…

Keanu Reeves will find his inner Asian for the upcoming film, 47 Ronin. That’s not the same as finding yourself in an Asian (nor is it as much fun), but it sure pays a lot better.

It would appear that Miramax wants Ben Affleck back behind the camera for Arizona, a fact-based crime drama about a murdered journalist.

Oddly enough, my first thought was Dog the Bounty Hunter with a Cockney British accent. My second thought was Cartman as Dog the Bounty Hunter on South Park, with a British accent.

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.

Producer Kathleen Kennedy confirms a few things for us about Steven Spielberg’s upcoming slate.

“No fucking way,” that is what Daniel Craig had to say when asked whether or not Quantum of Solace would be the second film in a three picture story arc.

Word is getting around this evening that Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke has been cut loose from the franchise.

Two small pieces of Smith family news today, both courtesy of JoBlo.com. Will Smith is doing publicity for his upcoming film, Seven Pounds, and he was asked about Hancock and his son’s Karate Kid remake.

In a Nostradamus-like move, Frank Miller is using the press tour for The Spirit to talk a little bit about that Sin City follow-up, telling the gents at IGN UK that it is ready to roll.

Kyle Newman might be the geek world’s favorite director whose movie hasn’t actually come out yet. But despite the problems he’s had with Fanboys, it appears that he’s still getting work.

Fox is hoping to recreate the magic with a remake of Romancing the Stone, and have tapped Daniel McDermott to write it. So what does this tell us? Besides the obvious that Hollywood is brain-dead I mean.

To paraphrase They Live’s main character, Nada, Hollywood has come to have original ideas and make movies… and they’re all out of original ideas.

In this world of constant rebooting, reinvention and re-envisioning something is bound to go wrong eventually. Leave it to Stephen Sommers to bring us to that eventually moment.

After he is done Burtonizing Alice in Wonderland, it will be imperative that director Tim Burton move on to something equally as challenging, equally as ambitious and equally as Johhny Depp-filled. Right?

In an attempt to avoid Daniel Radcliffe syndrome — whereas a young star gets stuck in the tween franchise that propelled them to stardom — Twilight star Kristen Stewart is reaching out and grabbing another potentially high profile role by signing on to play Joan Jett in The Runaways.

Producer Brian Grazer attempts to clear up some of the confusion about Nottingham, mostly focusing on how many characters Russell Crowe will be playing.

Johnny Depp continues to find oddball films to counter-balance his blockbuster turns as Captain Jack Sparrow and his obligatory appearances in every Tim Burton movie.

I have been learning a lot about director Lexi Alexander this week. And no, I did not just realize that she is (a) very attractive and (b) a former kick boxing champion. I did, however, learn that she’s very interested in directing Jonah Hex.

Rome and Grey’s Anatomy star Kevin McKidd has confirmed that he’s still in the running to play Thor. He’s got the look, but does he have the chops?

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.

Perhaps it is my love for a little old school sci-fi, or the fact that I am currently working my way through all five of the original Planet of the Apes movies on Blu-ray, but the prospect of another Apes movie is music to my ears.

Once upon a time, the true mark of Hollywood stardom was your name as the lead in an adaptation of a John Grisham legal thriller. Today, Variety is reporting that one more name is about to be added to that exclusive list.

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.

Our friends at Latino Review got their hands on the storyline and, in a nutshell, it doesn’t sound too good.

It is likely that even director Joseph Kosinski hasn’t much more of a clue than we do about what is happening with Tr2n, the mysteriously trailered film that had all of Comic-Con wishing they hadn’t skipped the Race to Witch Mountain presentation.

Androgynous teen sensation Kristen Stewart was on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show recently chatting up her new movie, Twilight. She spoke about her introduction to acting, fan obsession, and more. Seacrest also asked her for any information on Twilight’s inevitable sequel, New Moon.

The mega-star is being realistic about the difficult task the lies before him and Marvel when it comes to a film that’s already gathering buzz even before getting out of the starting blocks.