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Marvel executive Peter Cuneo: "We will not be doing any R-rated films in our studio."…”Today, it would be very hard for us to partner with another studio, unless it was an R-rated film, and then I think that's pretty self-obvious because we are not interested in making R-rated films [at Marvel Studios]."

Tartan Films USA (whose titles include Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) has admitted to having financial problems. Palisades Media Asset Fund announced a “public foreclosure sale” of the assets of Tartan Films USA and Tartan Video USA, including a film library of 101 titles.

George Romero’s 1978 Dawn of the Dead will be 3-D-ed for a planned theatrical release. 3-D company In-Three expects to finish the "dimensionalization" (achieved with a software that moves objects forward or backward in relation to each other frame by frame) this year for New Amsterdam Entertainment.

Instead of premiering in Sydney Australia, on June 10th, Hancock will premiere a week later in Paris, France. The reason is that the final print will not be ready in time.

Bandai Entertainment has the North American theatrical and DVD rights to Masahiro Ando’s Sword of the Stranger. The latest from animation studio Bones, it will have a theatrical release on July 18.

The WMA/Hannaywood Ltd.'s Beverly Bridge Fund will pay $200,000 to complete funding on Patrick Read Johnson's 77. Formally titled 5/25/77, John Francis Daley stars in Johnson’s “autobiographical indie” about him and Star Wars: A New Hope.

Quentin Tarantino says that “if all goes well” Inglorious Bastards could be in theaters next year. The long gestating war movie is about a group of US soldiers who have a chance to save themselves from a firing squad by taking a suicide mission in Nazi occupied France.

TLA Releasing has the North American rights to ‘80s style slasher Gutterballs to be released through their Danger After Dark label. Directed by Ryan Nicholson, the night before a bowling tournament, a member of the local team is gang raped on her way home. Later during the tournament players from the other teams have gruesome deaths dealt out by a masked killer wearing bowling gloves.

Joe Dante will direct horror film The Hole, about two brothers in a new house who find a hole in the basement with, seemingly, no bottom. Producer David Lancaster says it represents "the fear of the kids." Preproduction has already started.

After Dark Films has added Sean Ellis’s The Broken to its 8 Films to Die For series. The psychological thriller about a radiologist who discovers a mystery after seeing her own double stars Lena Headey, Richard Jenkins, Asier Newman, and Melvil Poupaud.

Ray Winstone and Stephen Curry will star in Simon Wincer’s The Cup playing horse trainer Dermot Weld and jockey Damien Oliver, respectively. Based on a true story, a jockey, haunted by the racing deaths of his father and brother and going through discouraging defeats, teams with a trainer to go on and win at the Australian Melbourne Cup. Shooting starts September.

Oliver Stone has asked Richard Dreyfuss to play Dick Cheney in W.