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Jason Bateman and Jeffrey Tambor have confirmed that they’ve had calls from Mitch Hurwitz and Ron Howard about an Arrested Development movie. Word is other cast members have been called also, and everyone seems pretty eager to do it. While there isn’t an actual script, Mitch Hurwitz has “a good, solid understanding of what he'd like to do for the movie.” (Submitted by aargmematey)

Christopher P. Garetano describes his movie South Texas Blues, a non-documentary about the making of the 1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as, "Shadow of the Vampire, minus the vampire."

After years of development George A. Romero’s Diamond Dead should be underway soon. The movie is a horror comedy about a zombie rock band.

Robert Englund has finally gotten financing to direct evil genie movie The Vij based off Nikolai Gogol’s novel. It stars Christopher Lee and Olga Schuvalova, and will shoot in Italy. The story: An evil genie leads a young priest to commit murders and fall in love with a witch.

EuropaCorp has the film rights to Mathias Malzieu’s La Mecanique du Coeur (The Mechanics of the Heart). Malzieu will write and co-direct -with Stephane Berla- the 3-D animated movie. The story, set in 1874, is about a young man who should avoid strong emotions because his heart was replaced with a clock.

The Weinstein Co. has the rights to Evan Kuhlman’s Wolf Boy: A Novel. According to Variety, "The [graphic] novel concerns the Wolf family, which loses a son in a car accident. The other son channels his grief into the creation of a comic book superhero based on his brother called Wolf Boy."

Karolína Isela Kurková will play Cover Girl in G.I. Joe

Romantic comedy Chilled in Miami has added Nathan Fillion (!) to its cast. It also has Renee Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr., Siobhan Fallon Hogan, J.K. Simmons (!), Frances Conroy, and Rashida Jones. It’s about a business woman from Miami who gets transferred to Minnesota blah blah blah, and it has Nathan Fillion and J.K. Simmons.

Rob Lowe, Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Jonah Hill, and Louis C.K. will star in the Gervais and Matt Robinson co-written and co-directed This Side of the Truth, a fantasy comedy about a world where everyone tells the truth.

Gary Oldman, Odette Yustman, and Cam Gigandet are in negotiations to star in David Goyer’s untitled supernatural thriller. Goyer’s script is about a nineteen year old girl who is followed the dybbuk of a boy who died at Auschwitz. Shooting starts in March in Chicago.

Luke Goss will play Steve Fox in the Tekkon movie, which should start filming this month.

Ellen Page to star in Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell.

Randall Duk Kim has been cast as Gohan in the Dragonball movie, which is set to release August 15.

Sam Rockwell will play a man stranded on the moon for three years in Duncan Jones’ Moon.

Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robin Wright Penn, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Alan Arkin, and Monica Bellucci will star in the Rebecca Miller adapted dramedy The Private Lies of Pippa Lee. The Hollywood Reporter says it, "centers on a dutiful 50-year-old wife whose husband falls for a younger woman, freeing her to explore her buried sensuality and leading to a very quiet nervous breakdown."

Michael Goldbach’s teen comedy Daydream Nation has cast Hayden Panttiere and is in talks with Kieran Culkin.

Brittany Murphy will be replacing Lindsay Lohan in Poor Things, with director Scott Marshall replacing Ash Baron-Cohen, who left over “creative differences.” The story: Two con artists meet and murder homeless men in order to collect their insurance. The cast includes Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Rosario Dawson, and Channing Tatum.

Brittany Murphy has signed on to Across the Hall, a thriller about a standoff between a man, his fiancée, and his best friend. Also stars Mike Vogel and Danny Pino.

After having completed filming on I Sell the Dead, Dominic Monaghan will now be in psychological thriller Pet. The story: A man runs into his high school crush, becomes obsessed, and locks her up in the basement of an animal shelter… Only to discover she’s not quite what she seems. Ominous.

David Slade will direct Unthinkable, about a man who knows where to find three nuclear weapons in the US. The movie looks into the psychological manipulation of his interrogation. It’s written by Peter Woodward and Oren Moverman, with shooting planned to start in the summer.

Richard Kelly’s The Box has just finished filming and will start post production. James Marsden and Cameron Diaz play a couple who push buttons inside a box to get rid of their difficulties – only every time they push a button someone dies.

Will Ferrell and Anna Friel to star in and Brad Silbering to direct the movie adaptation of ‘70s adventure fantasy show Land of the Lost. Filming starts next month.

Filming starts in Boston late February on romantic comedy the Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, a take on A Christmas Carol. It’s directed by Mark Waters and stars Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Breckin Meyer, Lacey Chabert, Anne Archer, Amanda Walsh, and Emma Stone.

Valkyrie has finished its filming in Germany and will start shooting in Southern California. Brian Singer’s “July 20 Plot” movie stars Tom Cruise as Col. Claus von Stauffenberg.

The Korean live action version of Marimo Ragawa’s Japanese slice of life comic Baby and Me (Akachan to Boku) should be coming out this summer in South Korea. The story follows a nineteen year old boy (an elementary student in the manga) who, along with his father, must take care of his baby brother after their mother dies in an accident. The cast includes Jang Keun Suk, Kim Byul, and Oh Kwang Rok.

Korean GP 506 should come out in South Korea in spring. From Su-chang Kong, the same director of ghost/war movie R-Point, it’s a zombie movie is set in the demilitarized war zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea.

Based on the novel Prisoners of Power, Inhabited Island is a science fiction that follows Maxim Kammerer who crashes on a planet controlled by a cruel totallitarian ruling elite. The Russian film is set for a 2009 release.

It has been confirmed that psychological suspense 20th Century Boys (based on Naoki Urasawa's manga) will now be a trilogy. Toshiaki Karasawa will star as Kenji, Etsushi Toyokawa as Otcho, and Takako Tokiwa as Yukiji. The story: Kenji must remember his childhood to figure out the secrets about the cult “Friend” that is connected to several deaths. The first two movies are shooting simultaneously January-June, and the third August-October.

Hayao Miyazaki's Gake no Ue no Ponyo (Ponyo on a Cliff) opens in Japan the middle of July.

Anchor Bay Entertainment has the rights to Walled In, a thriller about a demolitions expert who finds bodies in the walls of a building about to be destroyed.

Richard Gere and Claire Danes drama The Flock will be going straight to DVD.