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Searchlight Pictures grabs rights to psychological thriller The Night House

Searchlight Pictures has announced that it has nabbed worldwide rights to David Bruckner’s psychological thriller The Night House following the film’s world premiere in Park City as part of the Sundance Midnight program of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Based on an original screenplay by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski (Stephanie), The Night House centers ….

Batman 3 confirmed for 2012, adding to biggest summer for sci-fi/comic films ever

Warner Bros. has set July 20, 2012, as the release date for the third Christopher Nolan Batman film, according to HeatVisionBlog. This even though there’s no title or start date for the project. According to the report, the studio is not even in pre-production yet, and Nolan still completing post work on Inception, but apparently ….

BIG Comic-Con news: Avatar and Tron footage in 3-D: ABC’s Lost panel with surprise guests: Warner’s brings Ninja Assassin and Jonah Hex: Peter Jackson brings District 9: Screenings for Fox’s unseen Dollhouse ep. & new V sci-fi series

The folks over at Sci-Fi Wire have posted even more grand events that will be happening at Comic-Con San Diego between July 22nd and 26th. Keep in mind that the full list of events hasn’t been published yet, so some of these events and/or times could change.

More on the Next Batman Film

According to Comingsoon.net, Christopher Nolan is set to direct Warner Bros. next Batman film, now titled The Dark Knight. The pic was written by Jonathan Nolan, based on a story by Christopher Nolan and David Goyer. The film will be produced by Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan. Christian Bale will resume his role as Bruce Wayne and Academy Award nominee Heath Ledger has been cast as The Joker. The announcements were ….

Thor and Fantastic Four 2 Updates

While speaking at Charlotte’s Heroes Convention 2006 J. Michael Straczynski let slip that David Goyer, writer of Blade and Batman Begins, is set to write a treatment for a Thor film. It’s not known whether that means he’s rewriting the script that Mark Protosevich has already written, or coming up with something completely new. Based on the legendary thunder deity, Thor might not seem like the perfect superhero-comic-to-film. The story ….

Doug Liman to Direct Jumper

Variety reports that the upcoming sci-fi adventure film Jumper will be directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity). Jumper is planned as a trilogy, and will be produced by Lucas Foster and Simon Kinberg, who produced Regency’s summer 2005 hit, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, also directed Liman. Jim Uhls (who wrote Fight Club) is rewriting the screenplay, originally penned by David Goyer (Batman Begins). Jumper is based on 1992 novel written by ….