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Calling the opportunity "a dream come true," Michael Chabon has confirmed reports that he's been hired by Pixar to contribute revisions to Andrew Stanton and Mark Andrews' script for Pixar's "John Carter of Mars."

Ever since Seth Rogen told us about the top-secret fight scene that director Michel Gondry shot with his own money as an audition for “The Green Hornet” movie, I’ve been dying to know what visual tricks the distinctive filmmaker has up his sleeve. Now, Gondry is finally talking about the groundbreaking technique ...

The Reading Eagle reports that Paramount Pictures will start filming M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender in Reading, Pennsylvania on Thursday. Here's an excerpt ...

IESB has gotten some more news on the WONDER WOMAN front from inside the Warner Bros. camp.

I don't know why this is news, but I guess everyone loves to report on these two doing another project. When did Matt Damon and Ben Affleck become as awesome as peanut butter and jelly? They did their little Good Will Hunting thing, but I doubt if lighting is going to strike twice if they team up again. I know they were in that shitty Kevin Smith film (wait, Kevin Smith makes shitty films?) but is there really an audience clamoring for these two guys to be together once again? I know I couldn't (happy, grammar police?) care less.

Rhys Ifans announced on "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross" that he will play a role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, though he did not reveal which character he'll play. You can watch the interview below - he starts talking about "Harry Potter" at the 5:55 minute mark.

With F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story “The Mysterious Case of Benjamin Button” collecting a trio of Oscars this year, picking up the writer’s best-known work “The Great Gatsby” sounds like a great decision for director Baz Luhrmann. The wildly experimental filmmaker behind “Moulin Rouge!” and “Romeo + Juliet” loves period pieces, so his choice to take [...]

MGM and the Farrelly brothers are closing in on their cast for “The Three Stooges.” Studio has set Sean Penn to play Larry, and negotiations are underway with Jim Carrey to play Curly, with the actor already making plans to gain 40 pounds to approximate the physical dimensions of Jerome “Curly” Howard.

Most interestingly, it sounds like GREEN HORNET director Michel Gondry will be muting his signature handmade aesthetic in order to, presumably, deliver a more studio-friendly summer film.

Summit Entertainment has debuted this second teaser trailer for Astro Boy , coming to theaters on October 23. Directed by David Bowers, the CG-animated big screen adaptation features the voices of Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Nathan Lane, Bill Nighy, Eugene Levy, Matt Lucus and Donald Sutherland.