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Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has boarded "Machete," the action-thriller pic from Robert Rodriguez.

You can't keep a overextended franchise down. The quintessential mulleted badass is back, with Sylvester Stallone officially getting the green light for a fifth Rambo.

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Josh Zetumer ("The Infiltrator," "Dune") is set to pen the fourth installment of Universal's "Bourne" movie series says The Hollywood Reporter

"The Bourne Ultimatum" scribe George Nolfi initially returned to pen the fourth script but is now no longer available for further work due to his commitment to adapt the Philip K. Dick short story "The Adjustment Bureau".

Hugh Jackman either lives in a bubble or an alternate universe in which the feature film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, stole the box office as well as the hearts of Marvel fans and mainstream audiences everywhere. Either that or he likes to terrorize children. At least, those are the only explanations I have for his statement at this weekend's Teen Choice Awards. Holding his surfboard award proudly, Jackman threatened the assembled with, "Who knows?

FRIDAY PM UPDATE: With a big pricetag of $175 million, and bad buzz preceding it, G.I. Joe seemed certain to tank. For months, Paramount's claims that the movie worked fell on deaf ears. Not until the Stephen Sommers' directed pic came on tracking with incredibly high awareness among males (with scores in the 90s).

In an article at Variety talking about Overnight Productions, the trade revealed that production began this week on Machete, a feature version of the fake trailer that was included in Grindhouse.

The good folks over at Latino Review managed to sneak a look at the script for XXX 3, or as it’s officially known, XXX: THE RETURN OF XANDER CAGE. After FAST AND FURIOUS, the film marks Vin Diesel’s second comeback to a franchise he abandoned, presumably because he learned the golden Hollywood rule of “if something works once, you can get paid more to do it again.

After years of lounging in development, a live-action feature based on the classic 80's cartoon series "Voltron" is in the works at Atlas Entertainment says The Risky Biz Blog.

The series featured a band of five robot-lions who combined to form one super lion. A group of five pilots control the lions, which are charged with defending the planet Arus from villain King Zarkon, who dispatches evil creatures called Robobeats to fight the Voltron robots.

The "Transformers" sequel has become China's biggest boxoffice hit ever by earning 400 million Chinese yuan ($59 million), a publicist for one of the country's two film importers said.

Yes, we know, these screenshots are really crappy, but... it's the first photos of Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow in Iron Man 2 ! The pics, which were showing during "Entertainment Tonight," come from Friday's issue of Entertainment Weekly , so we should have some hi-res versions of all of them soon, stay tuned. Opening in theaters on May 7, 2010, the Jon Favreau-directed sequel is wrapping up filming this week as well.