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Robbins in the Green Tim Robbins will return to his comic-book roots (he, er, starred in 'Howard the Duck' back in the day), signing to play Senator Hammond in director Joe Johnston's 'Green Lantern'. Hammond is the father of Hector Hammond (Peter Sarsgaard), the film's

Ray penning 24 movie The oft-rumoured '24' movie is inching forward - or atleast it would seem that way, with Fox hiring 'Shattered Glass' helmer/scribe Billy Ray to pen Jack Bauer's first big screen jaunt. According to Variety, the studio will be looking at the ratings of Win Tickets to The Hurt Locker Thanks to Roadshow Films, Moviehole has 25 double in-season passes up for grabs to see the Academy Award Nominated 'The Hurt Locker'. If war is hell, why do so many men choose to fight? In an age when armies consist not of draftees but of volunteers, and Laeta Kalogridis After executive producing the enormous two billion dollar success of ''Avatar'', ''Shutter Island'' could be back-to-back box office hits for , who joins Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio as screenwriter for the film adaptation of Dennis Lehanes Box Office Report : Feb 5-7, 2010 This Week Last Weekend Title Weekend Gross % Change Theater Count Average Total Gross Budget Week # 1 - Dear John $30.5M - 2,969 $10,262 $30.5M $25M 1 2 1 Avatar $22.9M -26.9% 3,000 $7,617 $629.3M $38 380M* 8 3 - From Paris With Love $8.2M - 2,722



Mr & Mrs Smith Spin-Off! With Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie likely to break the Fox bank, the studio has opted to spin-off, rather than sequelize, the duos 2005 hit Mr and Mrs Smith. The new film ' which, for all intents and purposes, will be akin to one of those DTV in-name-only Captain America Updates! Director Joe Johnston was out stumping the surprisingly (considering it suffered more hiccups than a backseat toddler that's not easily scared) good 'The Wolfman' on the weekend, and considering his next project is the rather large-ish 'The First Avenger Rodriguez nixes Apes With Robert Rodriguez in bed with Fox on the upcoming 'Predators', its really no surprise to hear Tom Rothman's giving the Austinite first dibs of anything else Predator-ish at the studio. According to Vulture, Fox recently offered Rodriguez first Valentine\'s Day sequel? With Warner's 'Valentine's Day' tracking rather well (watch it topple 'Dear John' from the top of the U.S Box Office this weekend), its no surprise to hear the studio's already greasing the wheels on their next big all-star chick flick. What is Goyer back in Gotham When it was that FlashForward showrunner David Goyer would be exiting the struggling science-fiction series, many automatically assumed, since Goyer worked on the previous two Batman films, that it was to spend time in Gotham City. Deadline Hollywood has *Murray confirms Ghostbusters 3* Spoiler A couple of months back, that Bill Murrays Peter Venkman will be a Ghost in the upcoming ''Ghostbusters 3''. The actress, wholl be reprising her role as Dana Barron ' Venkmans on-again off-again squeeze - in the flick, later back-peddled, ribticklingly Wanna see Joel Edgerton\'s Thing? Im not as opposed to a prequel to John Carpenters The Thing as much as I expected to be. For one, Carpenters film was in a remake in itself, but more so, a prequel is so much better than the alternative, right? (And quite frankly, Im surprised Universal Lost\'s Jin stays on the Island With TV hit Lost winding down this season, most of its ensemble cast (Elizabeth Mitchell already has another gig ' on V, as does Ian Somerhalder ' a regular on The Vampire Diaries ' theyll be doing double-duty for the next few months) will be beseeching Romance Overtakes Avatar Moviegoers turned their attention to a mushy Nicholas Sparks Your guide to the news and the nonsense of awards season. Join the discussion. Super Bowl movie trailers 'Alice in Wonderland' (Credit: Disney) Hollywood loves the Super Bowl just as much as other advertisers. This year's game may not have featured quite as many wannabe summer blockbuster previews as last year's showdown, but considering the titles we got a Brad Fischer When first picked Dennis Lehanes New York Times bestseller ''Shutter Island'', he could never imagined that the existing film rights would fall out of option and in to his lap, and his dream team of legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese and Hollywood Invictus Clint Eastwood scores yet again with a rousing tale of the moment when Nelson Mandela harnessed the power of rugby to unite South Africa Clint Eastwood has been acting in movies for 55 years and directing them for 40. Astonishingly, in an industry that Tony Peter Ferdinando in . Shot in 12 days for £40,000, this deadpan look at a week in the life of a London serial killer is a promising feature debut, but it's definitely not in the class of John McNaughton's harrowing 1986 movie, Henry: Portrait of a Cry, the Beloved Country Philip French salutes a landmark movie from the dawn of apartheid in South Africa This remarkable if somewhat solemn adaptation of Alan Paton's classic novel, published in 1948 on the eve of apartheid, is a milestone in political cinema and the Philip French's screen legends No 82 Henry Fonda 1905-92 Philip French The Fondas left Italy for Holland around 1400 and moved to America in the early 17th century, eventually fetching up in Nebraska where Henry was born, his father a jobbing printer and a Christian Scientist. Henry The Island Pyotr Mamonov as Father Anatoly in . This visually ravishing, mentally numbing movie is set on a small, flat, misty island in remote northern Russia. In 1942, a teenage Soviet sailor is forced by his German captors to kill an officer. He survives the Takeshis' In this five-year-old, uncharacteristically self-indulgent piece, writer-director Takeshi Kitano (aka Beat Takeshi), Japan's favourite screen tough guy, talk-show host, wit and singer, plays two characters. The first is himself, apparently making, Letter From an Unknown Woman Ophüls, son of well-off German-Jewish parents, fled to America in 1941 with a reputation as a decent stage and movie director. He spent six years on unmade projects and being messed around by Howard Hughes before making four minor masterpieces in Youth in Revolt Michael Cera and Portia Doubleday in . Photograph: Bruce Birmelin Best known for the quirky comedies Chuck & Buck and The Good Girl and more recently working on the TV series Ugly Betty and Six Feet Under, Miguel Arteta returns to the big screen with an Holy Water** Gaffer (John Lynch, left) and Podger (Cornelius Clarke) in . Set in Ulster, shot in Devon, this heavy-handed comedy, all booze, blarney and the blessed Mary, centres on four sex-starved, under-employed men in a depressed Irish village who decide to get

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