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Steven Spielberg is set to direct Robopocalypse , it was announced today by Mark Sourian and Holly Bario, Co-Presidents of Production for DreamWorks Studios. Based on the novel of the same name by Daniel H. Wilson, Spielberg will begin principal photography on the futuristic tale in January 2012. Disney's Touchstone will distribute the film in 2013.

Last Thursday, reports turned up online indicating that Steven Spielberg had cast actor Eddie Redmayne in the lead role in his screen adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's YA novel War Horse. Not so fast, says Empire Online, who landed the exclusive on the film's full cast list. Lo and behold, there's no Eddie Redmayne listed at all.

After spending half of the last year developing Harvey—an adaptation of Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a man who becomes friends with a tall, invisible rabbit, which was previously a 1950 film starring Jimmy Stewart—director Steven Spielberg has decided to withdraw from making the film, according to Variety.