Movie News

Myriad Pictures/The Weinstein Company has announced the theater dates for the limited run of Dario Argento’s Mother of Tears, starting on June 6. Fangoria has more dates and locations.

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane is looking at an August theatrical release.

Anchor Bay Entertainment has picked up for DVD distribution indie horror movies Breathing Room, directed by John Suits, and Five Across the Eyes, directed by Greg Swinson and Ryan Thiessen.

Midnight Meat Train will be going straight to DVD after all.

Ernie Cline's spec script Thundercade has been bought by Lakeshore Entertainment. The comedy is about three friends who go on a journey to the world's ultimate gaming championship when one of them, a video game junkie, goes through a midlife crisis after someone has broken his record.

Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese's "scifi epic" pitch Earth vs. Moon has been bought by Universal. Plot unknown.

Columbia Pictures has Chris Bertolini's spec script Battle: Los Angeles. An alien invasion starts in Santa Monica, California, and spreads to LA.

And Ben Wexler's spec script Bobism has been bought by MGM . "A shy collegian who discovers that life in 1,000 years will be based on his blog."

The Avi Arad produced live action/CGI Robosapien: Rebooted has begun filming in New Orleans. Based on the Wowwee toy, a boy befriends a robot on the run from "malevolent corporate interests." Stars Bobby Coleman, Penelope Anne Miller, Kim Coates, David Eigenberg, Holliston Coleman, and Joaquim de Almeida.

Lindsay Lohan has the lead in, writer-director, Matthew Bright's Manson's Girls. "'Manson's Girls' tells the monstrous story of Charles Manson through the eyes of Lohan's character — Nancy Pitman, one of the cult fiend's former girlfriends who remained a fierce disciple throughout his bloody reign. It's unclear to what extent she may have participated in the killings that he inspired, but, after Manson was arrested, she passed out pamphlets, hoisted placards and sang in public of her undying support." Filming starts July 21.

Joshua Leonard's independently financed Spectacular Regret, is an interconnected stories drama set in Los Angeles. Danny Houston, John Ortiz, and Kelly Garner will star, with Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson still negotiating. Shoots in July.

Musician Akiko Yano is the first announced cast member of Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. She'll play one of Ponyo's sisters.