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After going back and forth over the NC-17, the MPAA has given Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno an R rating.

Eric Bana will make his directorial debut while playing himself in Australian movie Love the Beast. A journey about living life to the fullest, it revolves around Bana’s “Beast,” a 1974 Falcon Coupe. Madman Entertainment have the distribution rights.

Chris Thornton, Mark Ruffalo, and James Franco will star in Sympathy for Delicious. In it, a paralyzed DJ in L.A. turns to faith healing only to find out he can heal people other than himself. It’ll be Ruffalo’s directing debut and Thornton wrote the script. Shooting starts this fall and is fully financed by Corner Stone Entertainment.

Brad Pitt, Simon Pegg, BJ Novak, and Eli Roth are now signed on for Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards.

Walter F. Parkes, producer for The Trial of the Chicago 7, says that right now Steven Spielberg is no longer on the project, "No, he is not going to do it. He kind of had a moment of availability to do it, and the strike got in the way. We were unable to do the script work that Steven felt he needed and then, by the time the strike was over, he had already committed himself to to begin production on Tintin, which he's shooting along with (producer) Peter Jackson, and I guess it's in October or November. So, it's not inconceivable that he would come back, but for now, he's had to move on to Tintin, which is something that he's been working on for 20 years.''

ADV Films has the North American distribution rights to Attack Girl Swim Team vs. The Undead, Cruel Restaurant, Gluttonous 1 & 2, Female Prisoner Epsilon, and a new series of Kunoichi movies. Most will release through Switchblade Films.