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Chris Columbus ’ 1492 Pictures has partnered with CJ Entertainment & Media to acquire remake rights to the 2010 Andre Ovredal-directed Norwegian film Troll Hunter . Marc Haimes is set to write the script. Deal comes just as Magnolia opens the original Troll Hunter in the US and on VOD. The documentary-style film is about a group of students whose investigation into a series of mysterious bear killings leads to something sinister. They wind up following and documenting a mystery man who turns out to be a troll hunter. Columbus will produce with 1492 partners Michael Barnathan and Mark Radcliffe, and CJ Entertainment. Filmkameratene AS’s John M. Jacobsen (who produced the original) will also be a producer along with his partner Sveinung Golimo. "Troll Hunter was a visceral, thrilling, cinematic rock and roller coaster ride of a movie. Visually, there are scenes in this film that American audiences have never seen. We want to introduce an international audience to this amazin

Because he clearly doesn’t already have enough on his plate, Jeremy Renner seems intent on keeping the work flowing by setting up Slingshot, a rally racing sports drama at Paramount that he’ll star in and produce. Slingshot will be based on the true story of Bill Caswell, who ditched a lucrative job as a finance banker, bought a $500 BMW car from Craigslist, souped it up for rally competition and went up against professional teams in the World Rally Championships in Mexico in 1991. Given the enormous challenges ahead of him, he won great acclaim by placing third in the final race. Don Handfield, Renner’s partner in his new production company, has written the script, which doesn’t yet have a director attached. It’s the second project announced by the pair, who already have a Renner-headed Steve McQueen biopic in development with James Gray writing the screenplay. You’ve got to give the man some credit for striking while the iron of his career is white hot. Renner’s got Mission

French actress Elodie Yung is in talks to join Dwayne Johnson and Channing Tatum in Paramount's new G.I. Joe movie. Yung will play a ninja member of the Joe squad named Jinx . Jon Chu is directing the movie while Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing the action movie, which is rebuilding mode. A host of characters not seen in the first movie are being introduced, with martial arists Jinx being one. Johnson is in negotiations to play Roadblock while Tatum returns as Duke . Yung has already displayed considerable ninja-like prowess in District 13: Ultimatum, the parkour action movie whose highlight included a sequence in which she took on corrupt cops with a knife in her ponytail. Yung, repped by Gersh and Caliber Media and UK-based Hamilton Hodell, will be seen playing the lesbian girlfriend of Rooney Mara in David Fincher¹s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Please Leave A Comment- Source- Heatvision

Before Al Pacino and director Barry Levinson re-team for Gotti: Three Generations , the duo will first reunite on an adaptation of the Philip Roth novel The Humbling , which has been set for a fall start and will be financed by Avi Lerner's Millennium Films/Nu Image. It is just the latest in a period of extreme productivity for Levinson, some of it directly attributable to the acclaim he got for directing Pacino's Emmy-winning turn as Jack Kevorkian in HBO's You Don't Know Jack. The Humbling revolves around Simon Axler ( Pacino ), a famous stage actor in decline who is revived when he retires to his upstate New York farmhouse and takes up with a much younger woman. It has a script by Buck Henry, Michal Zebede and Levinson. Levinson will be looking to quickly cast the young female lead, the actor's agent, and several other eccentric characters you would expect in a Roth novel. Levinson committed to this movie after completing production on the low-budget eco-horr

Spike TV‘s Guys Choice Awards will be airing this Friday night and they pay tribute to one of the greatest comedy ever made. Fast times at Ridgemont High . Spicoli and cast show up to receive the award. Be on the look out for a classic line that we all can recite. Watch the clip after the Jump... Sean Penn Leads A Ridgemont High Reunion Tags: Sean Penn Leads A Ridgemont High Reunion Please Leave A Comment-

Danny Glover has been cast in Touch , Fox’s likely midseason drama starring Kiefer Sutherland , sources confirm to The Hollywood Reporter . From Heroes creator Tim Kring , the drama pilot revolves around a father ( Sutherland ) and his autistic and mute son ( David Mazouz ) who can predict events before they happen. As first reported by TV Line, Glover will play Arthur DeWitt , a professor who works with gifted children. The drama marks Kring’s first series since Heroes and Sutherland’s first since 24 . Production on Touch will begin soon now that Sutherland has completed his run on Broadway in the revival of Jason Miller’s That Championship Season. Kring penned the script and is executive producing with Sutherland, Katherine Pope and Peter Chernin for 20th Television and Chernin Entertainment. Glover’s most recent TV credits include episodes of Human Target, My Name Is Earl and an arc on Brothers & Sisters. Please Leave A Comment-

Paramount Pictures has released the first images of Sacha Baron Cohen as The Dictator . The film, due out May 11, 2012, tells the heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed, the studio said earlier this year. It is inspired by the novel Zabibah and The King by Saddam Hussein. Producing alongside Baron Cohen are Scott Rudin, Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and David Mandel. Please Leave A Comment- Source- THR

The very first half of Doctor Who is almost over, but today we got our hands on a teaser trailer for the second half of the season. We can’t make the autumn come any quicker, and that means you’ve still got a wait in store for the remainder of Doctor Who series 6 to hit the tube. Watch the teaser trailer after the Jump... Please Leave A Comment- Source- denofgeek

The secret's almost out. Super 8 will open in theaters everywhere tonight and we'll finally see if it lives up to the hype. But before we can do that, Paramount has released a new viral video that gives us our first look at the supposed "villain" of the story. To read my review of the film, hop on over HERE   save the spoilers for later if you can . I'm sure you are well aware that Twitter and Paramount teamed up for SUPER 8 sneak previews, as the film is now being released tomorrow, So if you live in Northern California it will be playing  at the Metreon in San Francisco, and the Century Greenback in Sacramento The video shows a group of scientists (starting in the late 1950s) who are working on a top-secret military experiment. The footage reveals some info that's relevant to the plot, so if you don't want to be slightly spoiled, this would be the time to turn away . Spoilers Ahead Watch the clip after the Jump... As you might suspect

In its latest attempt to hatch a large-scale film that can play to a family audience, Disney has made a seven-figure deal with screenwriter and Lost exec producer Damon Lindelof to write and produce an original large-scale science fiction feature film. Other than the fact that the project has a working title of 1952 , I couldn't pry plot details out of anybody. I'm not sure if the title connotes a period the film is set in, or if it is a Lost reference. I've also heard that this project isn't just being conceived for movies only, but that it has multiple platform aspirations. The project came out of a series of meetings that Lindelof had with Disney's production president Sean Bailey and senior exec Brigham Taylor, and it's the first film that Lindelof is producing from the ground up. Since ending the run of Lost and serving as one of the show's architects all the way through, Lindelof has been on fire as a screenwriter. He teamed with Alex Kurtzman an