Movie News

MGM has announced that they will release Bryan Singer’s suspense Valkyrie on December 26, 2008.

Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s science fiction movie Game, where futuristic video game players control actual people, will be delayed until 2009 due to visual effects. Producer Gary Lucchesi says he expects to announce a new release date soon.

A substantial amount of visual effects work has been awarded to Sony Pictures Imageworks for Roland Emmerich’s 2012.

Stone Village has acquired Dikran Ornekian and Ryan Colluci’s werewolf action thriller spec script Lobo. Ezna Sands will direct the movie about a man who goes to an isolated town in Brazil, after receiving some letters from his mother’s will, where he finds a group of werewolves and helps them fight for survival. It starts filming October 15 outside Rio de Janeiro.

J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot will produce an earthquake movie with Universal. Other than David Seltzer working on a script and the fact that it isn’t remake of the 1974 Earthquake, details are slim.

Mike Myers has joined the cast of Quentin Tarantino’s WWI movie Inglorious Bastards, while Simon Pegg has had to leave due to scheduling conflicts. Production starts October 13, in Germany.

Edgar Ramirez [rawr] will replace Javier Bardem in Joe Carnahan’s Pablo Escobar movie Killing Pablo.

Philip Noyce’s Edwin A. Salt will no longer star Tom Cruise, but Angelina Jolie. The spy thriller will also undergo a title change [duh], and be redrafted by Kurt Wimmer.