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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has restarted in Vancouver with Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, and Jude Law. In a statement from the movie’s producers: "Since the format of the story allows for the preservation of his entire performance, at no point will Heath's work be modified or altered through the use of digital technology. Each of the parts played by Johnny, Colin and Jude is representative of the many aspects of the character that Heath was playing."

Dreamworks’ Monsters vs. Aliens will be out March 2009. Starring Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, and Steve Colbert, it’ll have Earth’s beasties facing off against space invaders. Also, it’s the first CGI movie to ever be produced in 3-D, instead of being animated then having 3-D effects put in later.

Sopranos movie rumors have surfaced again, and HBO still says it’s a no go.

Also from the rumor mill, Paramount says that Iron Man will not be released two days early.

Len Wiseman will be directing futuristic action thriller scifi movie Shell Game. While investigating the black market immortality trade, a detective has a moral delima.

Neil Marshall’s will write and direct Sacrilege, horror set in the old west. "It is set during the gold rush, a time remembered for incidents like the Donner party. It is meant to be a pitch-black, gritty, period horror movie."

Wolfgang Petersen will direct Columbia Pictures’ sci-fi Uprising. It’s about "the resistance efforts of some citizens after Earth has been occupied by a powerful alien race." Charles Leavitt is writing.

MGM currently owns a script by Ben Browder and Andrew Prowse for a horror movie called Black Mountain. "Yeah, it sort of has a horror/sci-fi critter in it and it's a critter in the woods."

Justin Long is onboard for Drag Me to Hell. Also, Universal is distributing domestically and in select international territories, while Mandate International will distribute to all other foreign territories.

Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, and Leslie Mann are signed onto Judd Apatow's, still unnamed, next comedy.

Ray Winstone will star in Rob Green’s Live Girls. After visiting his first strip club a man, and a wild night with one of the dancers, he starts going through strange changes. When he returns to the club for answers, he teams up with a private eye looking for revenge for the murder of his family. It turns out the club is a nest of blood suckers.

Val Kilmer is replacing Al Pacino in Charles Winkler’s cop drama/murder mystery New Orleans. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson also stars.