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The A Team has a theatrical release date of June 12, 2009.

Magnolia Pictures has the distribution rights to Special, and it’ll be getting a theatrical release “later this year.” It’s about a comic book geek that signs up for experimental drug tests that he thinks have given him super powers.

Relativity Media bought Brad Ingelsby’s first script The Low Dweller. Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio are already being looked at to maybe direct and star, respectively. It’s about “Slim, a man who gets released after serving years in prison for murder, and wants only to follow through on his promise to marry his long-suffering girlfriend. That is, until he discovers that his loser brother has been murdered after getting involved in a seedy midwestern gambling racket. While Slim did time for a murder he couldn’t avoid, he decides he can’t skip out on his obligation to avenge his brother’s murder.”

“Directed by Julian Doyle, Chemical Wedding is a supernatural horror film that tells the story of a shy professor (Simon Callow) at Cambridge University, England, who brings evil occultist Aleister Crowley (also Simon Callow) back to life. In a move kind of reminiscent of Jekyll and Hyde, the wussy professor actually transforms into the sexually depraved but strangely attractive Crowley, and goes onto kick butt all around the hallowed halls.” It will premiere May 17 at Cannes, and have a UK release in the summer.

Steven Spielberg produced (unknown if he’ll direct) and Jonah Nolan written Interstellar has used Caltech physics professor Kip S. Thorne to check the script’s science concerning wormholes.

Steve Zahn joins Timothy Olyphant in David Twohy’s action thriller The Perfect Getaway. It’s about a couple who encounter two killers posing as hikers while on their honeymoon in Hawaii. Shooting starts March 31.

Collin Chou has been cast in the Wachowski brothers Ninja Assassin (working title). He says production will start in April or May.

Victor Garber and Douglas Smith have been added to the cast of Gus Van Sant’s Milk.

Naohito Fujiki, who played Rui in the 1995 Hana Yori Dango movie, will play a new character in Hana Yori Dango Final.