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Universal Pictures has confirmed that it will remake David Cronenberg's 1983 thriller Videodrome.

According to Variety, Ehren Kruger will pen the script and co-produce with Daniel Bobker.

The original movie starred James Woods as the boss of Civic TV Channel 83. Woods's character attempts to revive the channel with Videodrome, a series that features torture and murder, and pulls large viewing figures.

The new movie will reportedly "modernise the concept" and turn the film into a "large-scale sci-fi action thriller".

Cronenberg is not currently attached to work on the reboot.

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Miley Cyrus has revealed that she wants to become a director.

The Disney star, whose Hannah Montana movie arrives in UK cinemas this Friday, discussed her future ambitions at a press conference to promote the film.

"I love travelling so I would like to travel and study photography at some point," she said. "Then find different locations I like and be a director and shoot films in different locations."

The 16-year-old claimed that it was never her intention to become a star, saying: "I always wanted to be an entertainer, I don't think 'famous' is necessarily what I went for."

Cyrus added that she found inspiration from her father Billy Ray's search for success: "He got told 'no' so many times when he was first becoming a musician. I was told 'no' and it was hard so to have someone be successful and not be told 'yes' right away was inspiring to me."

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Meryl Streep is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award.

The star will receive the Rome Film Festival's Marcus Aurelius award for her contribution to cinema, according to Variety.

The Oscar-winning actress is also reported to be discussing her career on stage during the event, which takes place from October 15 - 23.

Streep holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations received by any actor with 15. She won best supporting actress for 1979 film Kramer Vs. Kramer and best actress for Sophie’s Choice in 1982.

The 59-year-old also holds the record for the most Golden Globe nominations with 23, along with Jack Nicholson and Angela Lansbury. However, she has the most wins with six trophies.

Previous recipients of the Marcus Aurelius award include Al Pacino and Sean Connery.

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Uma Thurman, Meg Ryan, Whoopi Goldberg and Adrien Brody will head the judging panel at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.

The Hollywood stars will join fellow actors Melissa Leo, Parker Posey and James Franco, who are among the 32 jurors selected for the event.

Thurman, director Spike Lee and event founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal made the announcement in New York City last week.

Thurman said: "For me and people who enjoy films, Tribeca has been a major event for which all look forward to with major anticipation. As a New Yorker, it's wonderful to see the impact it has on the city.

"This year is especially exciting because I get to be a part of it as a juror."

The Tribeca Film Festival was founded by De Niro and partners Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in 2002 to help restore lower Manhattan after the 9/11 terror attacks.

The festival ends its run on May 3.

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The upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine reportedly has multiple secret endings.

According to Total Film, the first movie of the blockbuster summer season has been given several hidden finales by director Gavin Hood.

The varied climaxes will be issued into numerous prints of the movie, which will be spread across different cinemas.

The director announced the news at a screening for the film in Los Angeles on Friday, but did not disclose exactly how many endings there will be.

There are rumours that one possible ending has Hugh Jackman's Wolverine disembowel 'The Pirate Bay Four', the owners of a torrent tracking website who were found guilty of copyright infringement earlier this month, after mistaking them as the source for the film being leaked on to the internet.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine opens in UK cinemas on April 29.

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Robert Pattinson has landed the lead role in upcoming movie Remember Me.

The 22-year-old actor is scheduled to begin shooting the Summit Entertainment project after he finishes work on second Twilight instalment New Moon in May, MTV News reports.

Remember Me is a romance which Summit CEO Patrick Wachsberger likened to 1970's tear-jerker Love Story. The film's producers have not yet decided on the actress who will play Pattinson's love interest.

Allen Coulter, who has won Emmys for his work on TV shows like The Sopranos and Damages, will direct the project with Jenny Lumet writing the screenplay.

Pattinson can next be seen in Salvador Dali biopic Little Ashes, which is scheduled for a May opening in the US and UK.

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Star Trek director JJ Abrams has suggested that the relationship between Captain Kirk and Spock is the "spine" of the sci-fi franchise.

Speaking at the UK press conference for the upcoming blockbuster, Abrams admitted that he had approached the movie as "almost a story of two brothers".

"The thing about Kirk and Spock is that they are each, separately full of great potential, but it's not until they come together as a team that they accomplish almost anything," he explained.

"To me, the key to the movie is that friendship. My approach to the movie was almost a story of two brothers. I just thought that it was their relationship that was the spine of the film."

Star Trek, which features Chris Pine as Captain Kirk and Heroes' Zachary Quinto as Spock, arrives in cinemas on May 8.

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Sarah Jessica Parker has dismissed speculation that Chris Noth has yet to sign up for the sequel to Sex And The City: The Movie.

The actress, who plays Carrie Bradshaw, told E! News that Noth (Mr Big) would definitely be reprising his role in the highly-anticipated movie.

Discussing reports that Gilles Marini was hoping to return as Samantha Jones's neighbour Dante, she said: "I don't have a clue [if he will]. I don't know anything specific about a story for him, but it's very possible."

Last year's summer blockbuster saw Carrie and Mr Big finally tie the knot, although Parker again refused to disclose what might be in store for their relationship this time around.

Filming on Sex And The City 2 is scheduled to begin this summer for a May 28, 2010 release date.

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Russell Brand will star in a remake of Drop Dead Fred for Universal.

The comic will play the imaginary friend of a woman who loses her job and husband over the course of her lunch break, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The 1991 original starred Phoebe Cates in the lead role and Rik Mayall as the friend.

Dennis McNicholas (Land Of The Lost) is working on the script for the remake, which will be similar in tone to Beetlejuice.

Brand is currently filming Get Him To The Greek for Universal, a comedy featuring his Forgetting Sarah Marshall character Aldous Snow.

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Bill Milner has said that he wasn't in awe of Michael Caine when working with him on new drama Is Anybody There?.

Speaking to DS, the Son Of Rambow lead admitted that the legendary star treated him "just like any other actor".

"He was just very lovely and we had a really good relationship. He's so nice and he treated me just like any other actor," Milner said of Caine.

"I watched quite a few of his films so I was aware of how good he was, but I wouldn't say I was in awe or excited or nervous," he added. "I was just really happy to be working with such a brilliant actor."

Is Anybody There?, about a young boy who befriends a magician residing in his parents' retirement home, is out in cinemas this Friday.

Click 'play' below to watch our chat with Bill Milner.

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Amanda Peet has been cast as Jack Black's love interest in the Gulliver's Travels remake.

Peet will play the editor who dispatches Black's travel writer Lemuel Gulliver on an assignment that leads him to discover the secret island of Lilliput, reports the The Hollywood Reporter.

Rob Letterman (Monsters Vs. Aliens) is directing the movie, based on Jonathan Swift's satirical novel, from a script by Nicholas Stoller and Joe Stillman.

Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Catherine Tate and Chris O'Dowd are also among the cast for the movie, which is currently filming in the UK.

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Don Johnson has joined the cast of Adam Sandler's porn comedy Born To Be A Star, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Johnson joins Christina Ricci, Stephen Dorff and Nick Swardson in the cast.

The film will tell the story of a small-town nerd (Swardson), who discovers his parents were successful porn stars in the '70s. He then leaves Iowa for Hollywood, hoping to follow in their footsteps.

Ricci plays the innocent girlfriend, while Dorff is cast as adult star Dick Shadow. Johnson will star as a "down-on-his-luck director" who gives Swardson his first break.

Sandler is producing the project through his Happy Madison company.

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Zachary Quinto has praised the support that he received from original Spock actor Leonard Nimoy in helping him bring the iconic Star Trek character back to the big screen.

The Heroes star portrays the character as a young man in JJ Abrams upcoming blockbuster, while Nimoy reprises his legendary role for a brief cameo at the beginning of the prequel.

Speaking at the film's UK press conference, Quinto said: "I had the great advantage of working closely with him during this process. From the very beginning he was so available to me and supportive and welcoming. He gave me such creative freedom that I didn't feel any sense of expectation or pressure from him.

"Also, just to have the personal experience of the impact that this character had on his life and the impact that his life had on this character."

Quinto added that having Nimoy on set during filming had been "reassuring", saying: "It removed any anxiety or pressure that I might have otherwise had, by having him available and involved and clearly supportive and excited.

"It was a very profound experience for me because I don't think Leonard ever expected to play this character again, and I think for him it was a good opportunity, not only to play the character again, but to be intimately involved in the passage of the mantle, which for me was an incredible honour and certainly one that I will cherish for years."

Star Trek arrives in cinemas on May 8.

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Natalie Portman has started a new website aimed at giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at how movies are made.

According to WENN, she created Making Of along with co-founder Christine Aylward after several friends expressed an interest in the filmmaking process.

The Star Wars actress enlisted director Marc Foster and actor Jason Bateman to explain all aspects of movie making in layman’s terms for the general public.

The site includes conversations with the pair alongside the likes of Billy Bob Thornton and Ron Howard. It also explores the duties of film crew such as cinematographers, makeup artists and casting directors.

"Every time a friend of mine came to visit [on set] I was sort of reminded of how exciting a place it is to work and I was reminded how little we all know when you're just a moviegoer about all the different aspects that go into making a film," Portman said.

She unveiled her website at a press conference for the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.

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20th Century Fox co-chairman Tom Rothman has hinted that Ridley Scott may revive the Alien franchise.

Speaking to IESB.net at Wolverine's US premiere, Rothman appeared to confirm rumours that Scott, who helmed the first Alien movie in 1979, is considering making a prequel.

"There's been some talk," said Rothman. "Ridley is right now working on Robin Hood, but I think he's toying with the idea and that would be great for us.

"I mean, it's always been a matter of, really, if you can get the originator to do it that would be the greatest thing, so I've got my fingers crossed, all of them."

Alien spawned three sequels before leading into crossover series Alien Vs. Predator. The films have taken more than $850 million at the worldwide box office.

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Michael Douglas has said that he is in "serious discussions" to reprise his role as Gordon Gekko in a sequel to 1987's Wall Street.

"We're probably going to do a 'Wall Street 2' - maybe towards the end of the summer," the actor told Access Hollywood.

"It's probably about a week away from announcing it with the elements coming together."

Edward Pressman, the producer of the original Wall Street, has reportedly signed on to produce the sequel. Allan Loeb, who worked on 21, is writing the script.

"It would be cool. Good timing for it," Douglas said.

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Simon Pegg has confessed that he was overcome with excitement when filming Star Trek scenes with Leonard Nimoy.

The British actor, who takes on the role of Enterprise engineer Scotty in J.J. Abrams's franchise reboot, said that appearing in the film was "extraordinary".

"To become part of it, as a nerd, which is what I am, is extraordinary," Pegg said at the film's UK press conference. "When Chris [Pine] and I were doing our scene with Leonard Nimoy it was kind of weird because he was talking to me as the man I've known since I was 9, and it's not a man from this planet it's a man from Vulcan with pointed ears.

"It's kind of odd to have Leonard look at me say lines and [not] become very excited and need to go to the toilet. So for me the joy of being part of this story is on a daily basis. I wake up and pinch myself, it's fantastic."

Pegg also likened the bond shared by the cast to the "spirit of togetherness" present in the original series: "When I came on board it felt so right, and in a weird kind of hippie-ish way it felt like we already knew each other and it immediately clicked. It was a great feeling and I think that kind of spirit of togetherness that pervades Star Trek was very much there on the set."

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Hugh Jackman has admitted that he almost walked away from the the role of Wolverine.

The actor revealed that he grew frustrated with his character’s progress in the X-Men franchise.

Jackman said that he feared his mutant superhero had gotten too "soft" after X-Men: The Last Stand and considered abandoning the role for future projects.

"It felt like Wolverine had got a little soft by X-Men 3 and I wanted to take it back to that bad ass quality," he is quoted as saying. "He's tough, he's gruff, he's not politically correct - he doesn't say the right things."

Jackman added that the return of his character’s "berserker rage" persuaded him to return for spinoff X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

"There has to be complexity to this character. He's very tough but there's a lot of pain, history to his life that you find out about. It's not pretty," he said.

"He's a flawed character. That's what I like about it, that's why I'm doing it for the fourth time or else I wouldn't."

X-Men Origins: Wolverine opens in UK cinemas on April 29.

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Oliver Stone has agreed to direct a follow-up to his 1987 drama Wall Street.

Shia LaBeouf is also in talks to join the cast of the sequel, which will see Michael Douglas reprise his role as ruthless stockbroker Gordon Gecko, reports Variety.

Wall Street 2 will centre on a young trader who is taken under Gecko's wing. Charlie Sheen's character Bud Fox played a similar role in the previous movie.

Allan Loeb (21) has been commissioned to pen the script, which will use the recession as inspiration for its storyline.