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Disney has feature film plans for Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride , one of its longest-running theme park rides. The studio has set iconic commercials and video director Pete Candeland to develop a live-action/CGI mix feature that will bring to life a theme park ride that originated in Disneyland on its opening in 1955. The twisting, turning ride was also popular at Walt Disney World in Florida, but the geniuses at the park closed the ride in 1998 and replaced it with The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh, which by comparison is a 10-minute nap for parents. Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride is based on Disney’s adaptation of The Wind In The Willows . Tron: Legacy producer Justin Springer will produce Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, and the studio is looking for a writer to draft the plot into a film. Disney, which turned its Pirates Of The Caribbean attraction into a billion-dollar feature franchise, has a version of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea with David Fincher among several percolating projects inspired by the

We are pleased to announce a new clip featuring Felicity Jones in the upcoming film CHEERFUL WEATHER FOR THE WEDDING . The film is directed by Donald Rice and also starring Elizabeth McGovern and Luke Treadaway . The film will be premiering at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival this week! England, 1932. Today is the wedding day of Dolly Thatcham (Felicity Jones), and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that bubble to the surface at such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph (Luke Treadaway), Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. Dolly's mother (Elizabeth McGovern) will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened, and as the clock ticks, the bride can't decide whether to run away with Joseph or start a new life in Argentina with her husband-to-be. Tribeca Film Festival Screenings: Friday, April 20th at 9:30pm- BMCC Tri

Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake are set to star in Runner, Runner for New Regency. The Lincoln Lawyer helmer Brad Furman is on board to direct the thriller, which takes place in the world of online gambling. While Timberlake's deal is closed, Affleck is in final negotiations. Screenwriters Brian Koppelman and David Levien, whose 1998 thriller Rounders involved high-stakes backroom poker, wrote the screenplay. Production is scheduled to begin this summer in Puerto Rico. Appian Way's Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran are producing along with Double Feature Films' Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher, Stone VIllage Pictures' Scott Steindorff and Koppelman and Levien. Affleck last starred in The Town, which he also co-wrote and directed. He has a new Terrence Malick project wrapped, and he stars in and directed the Warner Bros. thriller Argo, which hits theaters in October. Timberlake most recently starred in Bad Teacher, Friends With Benefits a

Having just secured a fresh line of financing from moneybags backers Reliance, DreamWorks is now off to the film rights sweetshop, intending to splurge on some new projects. The first rainbow coloured treat has caught the company’s eye is the chance to make a movie based on Electronic Arts’ racing game series Need For Speed . Real Steel writer John Gatins has been involved with the project from the start, developing a script with brother George. The Speed console franchise is up to 18 entries now, with EA still planning to release one game a year. The titles haven’t traditionally had much in the way of narrative besides winning races, upgrading cars, steering clear of the cops etc. But the latest, The Run has added some more story elements, with actors Sean Faris and Christina Hendricks voicing characters involved in a race from San Francisco to New York that also involves crime, cops and – for the first time in the games’ history – a proper way to move on foot. It’s not known

Filming for the final Twilight film technically ended last year, but apparently it still needs some tweaks, so the crew is gearing up for a final round of reshoots. So what does the director have to say about the last minute touchups? Bill Condon , director of the upcoming Breaking Dawn Part II , has posted on his Facebook page that the sparkly vamp team is heading back to Vancouver to nail down a few more shots. Apparently, after spending some time in the editing room, Condon figured out he didn't have all the snippets he needed for a smooth cut. "A film is a lot like a puzzle, with each piece—each shot, no matter how brief—needing to fit exactly with the ones around it. Our Part Two puzzle is finally coming into full view, and in a few weeks we'll be heading back north to pick up some additional shots—the last tiny missing pieces. We're not shooting any new scenes or dialogue, just some technical work with some of our cast and stunt actors," he wrote. &

Warner Bros has acquired remake rights to the Danish film and TV series Klovn . The studio has set Danny McBride to write and star in Clown , a film he will produce through his Rough House banner along with Todd Phillips and his Green Hat Films. The film follows the basic premise of the Mikkel Nørgaard-directed film, a concept created by Casper Christensen and Frank Hvam, who’ll also be producers on the project. The logline: two men and a 13-year old boy embark on an R-rated vacation. In the original film that followed the TV series, Casper and Frank plan a canoeing trip deemed “Tour de Pussy” in which they plan to party hard and have as much sex as possible. Then, Frank discovers his girlfriend is pregnant and wants to get rid of the baby. She’ll only relent if he can prove he’ll be a worthy father. Frank’s answer is to take her 11-year old son on the canoe trip, but he and his buddy don’t change any of their plans for debauchery. The film was widely compared to The Hangover, and

Marvel is stacking the deck with characters for Joss Whedon's Avengers , and, while a handful have gotten a chance to shine in the spotlight—most recently, Thor, Captain America and Iron Man —one would think that if Avengers is a hit, some of those heroes might get their own movies. But one most definitely will not. Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury might get his own S.H.I.E.L.D. movie, they've been talking about a Black Widow origin movie for a while now, and—if Jeremy Renner's Bourne Legacy performs well— Hawkeye could very well get called up to the majors. (Agent Coulson, however, is a perennial minor-leaguer.) As for the Hulk ... well, he's had his shot. Or so says Marvel's president, Kevin Feige: "I mean, this was the third appearance of Hulk and everything that we had and were going for, we put in to Hulk's appearance in Avengers. So, I love that people are saying [positive things about the Hulk in Avengers] and are feeling that way about

Voltage Pictures ( The Hurt Locker) is joining New York-based Killer Films ( Boys Don't Cry, "Mildred Pierce" ) on The Disappointments Room , an original screenplay by Wentworth Miller . Nicolas Chartier and Zev Foreman of Voltage will team with Killer’s Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon to produce. The Disappointments Room is a dramatic thriller about a woman who moves into a mysterious old house in the country with her husband and young son, only to discover their new home comes with a dark past. The project is currently out to directors. Miller’s previous screenplay, Stoker, stars Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska and will be distributed by Fox Searchlight. Please Leave A Comment- Source- Comingsoon

While more attention has been focused recently on Tom Cruise’s first sci-fi project for the year, the long-gestating Joseph Kosinsky film Oblivion , another high-profile, high concept film – Doug Liman’s All You Need Is Kill has been chugging along in development. Cruise has been locked in for a while, and the question has turned to the movie’s female lead, with word arriving that Emily Blunt is now in talks to sign on. Kill has had its own lengthy journey towards the screen, with Liman aboard in 2010 and Cruise signing on last December. Adapted from Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s graphic novel, the plot follows a soldier killed in action fighting aliens who is forced to endure his final battle again and again, Groundhog Day-style until he gets it right. If she locks down the role, Blunt will be one of Cruise’s fellow troops. With a script from Dante Harper now going through rewrites courtesy of Joby Harold, the movie should be shooting later this year. Warner Bros., which has been

Paramount Pictures is making a deal to finance and distribute The Intern , which Nancy Meyers will direct from her script, with Tina Fey attached to star. Scott Rudin will produce. T It remains to be seen which film goes first, but The Intern will likely get started in the first quarter of 2013, after Fey completes work on another season of 30 Rock. Fey will play the founder of an e-business with a fashion focus. As her company begins to thrive, she’s told that her company is importing seniors to be interns as a community outreach effort, and she’s getting one. While her first question is whether they are seniors in high school or college, she learns to her horror that she’s getting a real senior, as in senior citizen. The title character, an over-70 widower who is bored with retirement from a middle management career, initially seems like a fossil to his working mother boss, but grows more indispensable. While the boss and internship develop a platonic bond, Meyers tells me that t