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Alibi comic headed to big screen via Surrogate producers

Mandeville Films and Top Cow Productions are developing a film adaptation version of Top Cow’s comic Alibi, according to Variety. The 2008 comic centers on a well-known socialite whose public appearances establish a perfect alibi for the espionage activity of his twin brother, who is a government assassin. Alibi was created by Top Cow president ….

New image, trailer, featurette and possible genre festival premiere for Fruit Chan’s horror film Don’t Look Up

I received an email this morning about Fruit Chan’s (Three… Extremes) long-awaited remake of Don’t Look Up. Not much has been posted about the film, which first appeared at American Film Market last year. According to the email, the rumor from inside the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival, is that Don’t Look Up will premiere during ….

Charlize Theron and Sam Worthington to top-line French spy thriller remake

Charlize Theron (Monster) and Sam Worthington (Terminator Salvation, upcoming Avatar) have signed to star in Spyglass Entertainment’s thriller remake The Tourist, according to THR. Worthington is taking over the role previously meant for Tom Cruise. The pair will play the leads in the remake of the 2005 French spy thriller Anthony Zimmer, which was written ….

Chat live this Wednesday with the filmmakers behind the indie horror The Collector

The producers of The Collector are holding a live Facebook Video chat with writer/director duo Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton this Wednesday, August 5th, at 1:00 pm Pacific Time. Here is how to participate: This Wednesday, 8/5 at 1:00 PST, log into Facebook and visit http://apps.facebook.com/vpypebroadcaster. Type in your questions to Marcus Dunstan & Patrick ….

New photos from Kate Beckinsale’s sub-zero thriller Whiteout released

Yahoo has posted new stills from the long-delayed Kate Beckinsale film Whiteout, the film based on Greg Rucka’s graphic novel. Dominic Sena directs Whiteout from a script by Jon & Erich Hoeber and Chad & Carey Hayes, about a U.S. Marshal (Beckinsale) who’s tracking a killer in the sub-zero temperatures of Antarctica, as the sun ….

The Strangers 2 starts shooting this fall with original writer and a new director

Rogue Pictures announced that shooting for the sequel to last year’s breakout indie horror The Strangers starts this fall. The original film told the story of a couple staying in an isolated vacation house, who are terrorized by masked strangers. The studio won’t reveal the sequel’s storyline yet, but say that you can expect masks, ….

Director Jon Favreau looking to bring Iron Man 2 to IMAX and Iron Man 3 or Avengers to 3-D

On the heels of the first 3D-imbued Comic-Con panels this year, MYV Movies reports that director Jon Favreau confirmed that there’s a good chance that Iron Man 2 will be released on IMAX screens, and that he wants to shoot either Iron Man 3 or the 2012 Avengers movie in 3-D.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s new Twilight Zone film gets new writer

Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way have taken a step closer to creating a film based on the cult classic TV show The Twilight Zone, by contracting TV series Life show creator Rand Ravich to write a screenplay for the project. Aside from creating Life, Ravich directed The Astronaut’s Wife and produced ….

Morgan Freeman may join espionage comic adaptation Red

Morgan Freeman is currently in negotiations to star opposite Bruce Willis in Summit Entertainment’s espionage thriller Red, to be based on the three-book WildStorm/DC comic series, according to Variety. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian are producing the film, with DC’s Gregory Noveck on board as executive producer. Erich and Jon Hoeber are writing the ….