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Rodriguez to reboot 'Spy Kids' series

Robert Rodriguez has confirmed that he is planning to reboot the Spy Kids franchise.

Speaking to Collider, the filmmaker said that the fourth movie will follow two new children who become secret agents with their parents.

"I've already turned in a script for... a reboot of Spy Kids," he said. "It's different kids, not the old kids, and that [movie] is really cool. I'd probably do that in the early part of next year, March or April."

He continued: "It reminds me of the first one where it's not so much just the kids - in fact it leans more towards the parents because you become a parent, you get a lot of ideas on where you can put some of this."

Rodriguez, who is currently overseeing a retooling of the Predator series, added that he has more fans from the Spy Kids series than Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn.

"I even went back and pilfered off my old original first script and found some ideas that I couldn't bring to life back then I was like, 'Wow these are good ideas,'" he said of the new storyline. "So they get to finally come back up."

Spy Kids was released in 2001 and spawned two sequels. The trilogy grossed more than $460m (£284m) at the worldwide box office.

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Downey Jr: 'Holmes would tear Iron Man up'

Robert Downey Jr has claimed that Sherlock Holmes would beat Iron Man in a fair fight.

Downey Jr has the starring role in the two upcoming movies Sherlock Holmes and Iron Man 2.

"Out of the suit, I think Sherlock would tear Tony up," Downey told MTV News. "But it depends - [Tony] might have a little piece of safety tech on him."

Sherlock Holmes premieres on December 25. Iron Man 2 is scheduled for release in spring 2010, in which the actor reprises his role as Tony Stark - aka Iron Man - from the first film.

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Cameron: 'Avatar follow-up not prequel'

James Cameron has claimed that his Avatar follow-up will not be a prequel to the first movie.

The director said that the second of his two planned sequels will follow on directly from the events of the original.

"We'll follow [lead characters] Jake and Neytiri," Cameron told MTV News.

"I have a trilogy-scaled arc of story right now, but I haven't really put any serious work into writing a script."

Avatar debuted in cinemas last week.

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Report: 'Spider-Man 4' in turmoil

The latest Spider-Man movie is "in turmoil", a new report claims.

Production on Sam Raimi's blockbuster has been put on hiatus over Christmas while filmmakers attempt to complete a shooting script, according to Indiewire's Thompson on Hollywood.

Regular franchise producer Laura Ziskin has allegedly taken a backseat for the latest film, titled Spider-M4n, leaving Todd Black (The Taking Of Pelham 123) to deal with demands from Sony, Marvel and director Raimi.

The new Spider-Man script has passed through the hands of James Vanderbilt, David Lindsay-Abaire and Gary Ross. Raimi is keen to dictate the choice of storyline and villain for the superhero's fourth outing.

Filming on Spider-Man 4 is still expected to begin early next year to make the May 5, 2011 release date. Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst will reprise their roles as couple Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson.

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Sam Worthington praises 'Avatar' co-stars

Sam Worthington has said that Avatar is a great film because there is such a strong chemistry between the cast members.

The Australian actor, who appears in the story of paraplegic marine Jake Sully on the planet Pandora, claimed that he is only good in the movie because of the support he received from his co-stars.

"Acting is reacting so you're only as good as your fellow actors. And when you work with Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver, you tend to be pretty darn good," Virgin News quotes Worthington as saying.

Talking about his character, he added: "He doesn't take any crap. He doesn't believe that he's got a disability. He believes that people who are telling him what he cannot do - they've got the disability. I think that's a good message."

Avatar is out in cinemas now.

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Tom Hanks for third 'Da Vinci Code'?

Tom Hanks is reportedly ready to star in a third Da Vinci Code film.

The Oscar winner played Robert Langdon in 2006's The Da Vinci Code and its 2009 sequel Angels & Demons, both based on Dan Brown's bestselling novels. According to Cinemablend, Hanks is to reprise the role for an adaptation of Brown's third book The Lost Symbol.

"[He is] all but ready to return to the character of Robert Langdon," said a source.

The film is close to pre-production. Studio Columbia Pictures is eying a 2012 release.

It is unclear if Ron Howard, director of the first two films, will return for the sequel.

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London critics to honour Tarantino

The London Film Critics' Circle will award Quentin Tarantino with its top honour in 2010.

The Oscar-nominated filmmaker will be the recipient of the group's Dilys Powell award for excellence in cinema, reports WENN.

"This is such an honour. I have always relished discussing my work with film critics," Tarantino said of the news.

The group is to present the Inglourious Basterds director with the prize during a February 18 ceremony in London.

Tarantino recently revealed that he plans to write novels and books about movies when he retires from filmmaking at 60.

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Kevin Bacon to play 'Super' villain

Kevin Bacon has been tapped to co-star in upcoming action-comedy Super.

Writer-director James Gunn's film centres on an average man (Rainn Wilson) who takes on the role of superhero Crimson Bolt, after his wife (Liv Tyler) falls under the influence of Bacon's villainous drug dealer.

Bacon's character Jacques is described as a smooth-talking criminal, according to Screen Daily.

"Kevin Bacon is one of the few actors nimble enough to give life to Jacques, our super-villain with a nice streak," Gunn said.

He added: "We need to love Jacques even while he's doing horrible things – Kevin is one of the only actors I know who can pull that off."

Super also stars Ellen Page and Sean Gunn.

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Peter Jackson adapting 'Mortal Engines'?

Peter Jackson will bring Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines fantasy novels to the big screen, reports The Dominion Post.

The Lord Of The Rings helmer's Weta effects studio has allegedly been crafting designs for the adaptation, which features giant floating cities.

A spokesman for Jackson refused to confirm or deny the project's development, saying that "any comment should come from Peter".

Reeve's four steampunk-inspired Engines books, titled Hungry City Chronicles in the US, are set in a post-apocalyptic world where cities become vehicles and must consume each other to survive.

Jackson's latest film The Lovely Bones opens in UK cinemas on January 29.

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Singer's 'First Class' to supersede 'Magneto'

Bryan Singer has claimed that his X-Men: First Class film will replace the planned Magneto prequel.

The director, who signed a deal to return to the superhero series last week, suggested to The Hollywood Reporter that his project's overlap with Magneto could mean that David Goyer's movie gets put on the back-burner.

"This story would probably utilise some of the Magneto story because it deals with a young Magneto, so it might supersede that because this would explore that relationship between a young energetic professor and a disenfranchised victim of the Holocaust," Singer explained.

The filmmaker said that he does not believe another X-Men movie, the franchise's fifth, will exhaust the Marvel characters on screen.

"I don't see an exhaustion. The X-Men universe is boundless," he added. "These are great characters. And as young characters, they are quite different than the characters we have seen in the contemporary movies."

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Lively, Garner in line for 'Green Lantern'?

Gossip Girl's Blake Lively is reportedly among the five candidates to play the love interest in Warner Bros's Green Lantern movie.

According to Latino Review, Lively, Jennifer Garner, Keri Russell, Diane Kruger and Casino Royale's Eva Green are the frontrunners to star opposite Ryan Reynolds in the superhero picture.

The actresses are allegedly being targeted for the role of Carol Ferris, the 27-year-old daughter of Ferris Air chief Carl. The character begins a romance with Reynolds's pilot Hal Jordan in the DC Comics adaptation.

Green Lantern is expected to begin production next year under the direction of Martin Campbell. The movie will bow in cinemas in summer 2011.

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Rodriguez: 'Sin City 2 is not my next film'

Director Robert Rodriguez has said that Sin City 2 will not be his next film.

Despite reports that production on the movie adaptation of Dark Horse comic Sin City - written and illustrated by Frank Miller - will begin in the second half of 2010, Rodriguez indicated that the status of the sequel to his 2005 film is less certain.

"I can't say no, because I don't know it's no," Rodriguez told Coming Soon. "I know Frank wants to do it. I know I want to do it. It's always sort of a 'time permitting' kind of thing.

"But it's not like I can tell you definitely we're starting. It's not my next picture, I know that. It doesn't mean that it's not the picture right after because that's still a possibility."

Rodriguez recently announced that he is working on a reboot of the Spy Kids franchise.

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'Sherlock Holmes' was pitched as comic

Sherlock Holmes producer Lionel Wigram has revealed that he pitched the movie to Warner Bros in the form of a comic.

Wigram said that he had a comic-style pamphlet made in order to convince the studio to make the film.

"Basically, I saw a quite different version [of Sherlock Holmes] in my head than I had ever seen in any movie," he told CBR.

"I thought, how do I convey that to Warner Bros in a way that they'll get it, and understand that Holmes isn't that stuffy guy with a deerstalker [hat] and a pipe? If you go back to the original Conan Doyle stories, he's a much more modern, interesting and contemporary character than he is in a lot of the later movies.

"I thought the best way to do that was to put it in a presentation, which I sort of called a comic book. I wrote the story, and then I had this amazing artist called John Watkiss - draw these panels - and he did about 30 panels.

"[I] put it together in a beautiful pamphlet, I gave it to Warner Bros and that's sort of what sold them on it. [Holmes] had stubble, a gun in one hand, a sword in the other. They said, 'OK, we get it - that's the Sherlock Holmes we want to see'."

Sherlock Holmes is released in cinemas on Christmas Day.

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Topher Grace not approached for 'Venom'

Actor Topher Grace has claimed that he has not been approached to reprise the role of Venom in the planned Spider-Man spinoff movie.

Grace appeared as Eddie Brock - aka Spider-Man villain Venom - in Sam Raimi's 2007 movie Spider-Man 3.

When asked by ComingSoon.net about a potential part in the forthcoming Venom picture, Grace said: "I don't know. I haven't heard anything."

Spider-Man 4 writer Gary Ross is rumoured to be scripting the film.

Venom is reportedly being recast in the role of an anti-hero for the movie.

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Nimoy joins online 'Star Trek' game

Leonard Nimoy has joined the voice cast of Star Trek Online, the franchise's massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).

Atari Inc. and Cryptic Studios announced that Nimoy, who played Spock in the original Star Trek series, will join Zachary Quinto, who portrayed Spock in the J.J. Abrams theatrical relaunch, in the forthcoming online game.

Quinto is to voice the title's tutorial scenes while Nimoy will give the introduction and record dialogue for key scenes and in-game events.

"I am happy to be involved with Star Trek Online. In this game, the essence of Star Trek - exploration and adventure - lives long and prospers," Nimony said in a statement in Atari's news release.

He added: "I'm pleased that a whole new generation of fans will be able to discover new frontiers in the Star Trek universe."

The game takes place 30 years after the events of the 2002 film Star Trek: Nemesis. Time travel missions will result in the player encountering classic Star Trek characters.

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Jude Law denies 'Thor' casting rumour

Jude Law has denied a rumour that he is appearing in the forthcoming Thor movie.

Speaking to MTV, the 37-year-old said that he has not been asked to play a role in the Marvel Comics adaptation.

"Was there?" he said when told about the claim.

Asked if he was ever approached to appear in Kenneth Branagh's film, he replied: "No, I had no idea."

Thor, starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman and Anthony Hopkins, opens in US cinemas on May 20, 2011.

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Keira Knightley takes Cronenberg's 'Cure'

Keira Knightley will lead the cast of David Cronenberg's latest film The Talking Cure, reports The Playlist.

The Brit actress will star alongside Inglourious Basterds pair Christoph Waltz and Michael Fassbender in the drama, which is based on Christopher Hampton's play.

Hampton's story follows Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, the founders of psychoanalysis, and their relationship with patient Sabina Spielrein.

The project will be Cronenberg's first since 2007's gangster drama Eastern Promises. Knightley, currently starring in West End play The Misanthrope, previously starred in the Hampton-scripted war romance Atonement.

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Wahlberg: 'I cried filming Lovely Bones'

Mark Wahlberg has revealed that he kept bursting into tears off set while making new movie The Lovely Bones.

The film, which also stars Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon, tells the story of a murdered girl looking down on her family.

Wahlberg told Movies Online: "I would just grab my daughter and hold her, and I would start crying. She'd be like, 'Daddy, what's wrong?' She just wanted to play.

"I would try to talk to her about taking care of herself and not talking to strangers. She was three at the time. But, thankfully, I had another movie to go to that helped me get out of that."

Wahlberg added that co-star Weisz impressed him with her ability to "just snap into it and have these floods of emotion coming out and then turn it all off".

The Lovely Bones is scheduled for release in January.

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Law: 'Holmes costume was like razor'

Jude Law has revealed that his Sherlock Holmes costume was very uncomfortable.

The actor, who starred alongside Robert Downey Jr in the movie, said that the collar felt like a "razor blade" against his throat.

He told Bang Showbiz: "I had to wear this terribly stiff, tight collar as part of my costume which was just horrible.

"On the first day I actually tried staying in character and wearing it to lunch. It was like trying to swallow sushi with a razor blade around my neck!"

Law recently claimed that he only agreed to appear in the film because he wanted to work with Downey Jr.

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Let's just say this teaser trailer for Knight and Day is a bit confusing but boastful. There's high-speed car chases, plane crashes, and guns, but it also kind of looks like a romantic comedy. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't scratching my head when it ended.

That may be just the point though: Cameron Diaz plays a woman who is suddenly pulled into a world of drama and explosion when she gets on a plane she's not supposed to. After the plane crashes, she wakes up in her bed having no idea how she got there — all she remembers is Tom Cruise, a "secret agent. . . or something." Her friend thinks she's just seeking attention, until Cruise shows up on cue and immediately takes her hostage. Though the teaser doesn't make much sense, it still makes the film look like a fun ride filled with twists, humor, and action, action, action.



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