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Regal Entertainment Group Offers Eagle Eye: The IMAX Experience at 17 Locations

FEARnet Video On Demand will premiere Midnight Meat Train October 1, with Clive Barker hosting. Then online October 30.

In a report about its lackluster box office performance, 20th Century Fox is considering more X-Men spinoffs, including a young X-Men and a Deadpool (based on the Ryan Reynolds Origins: Wolverine version) movies, and a remake/reboot of Daredevil.

Fox Searchlight Pictures has the US rights to Darren Aronofsky’s drama The Wrestler. It’s schedule for a December 2008 release.

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has the distribution rights to Mamoru Oshii's The Sky Crawlers in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand.

Universal Pictures and Focus Features, along with Korean company CJ Entertainment, will back Park Chan-wook’s in production vampire movie Thirst. Focus will premiere it in North America with CJ handling the remaining international rights. Starring Song Kang-ho, Shin Ha-kyun, and Kim Ok-bi, it’s about a priest who takes part in a medical experiment with traumatic repercussions. Should be done mid-2009.

Columbia has hired Randall Wallace to write a Will Smith vehicle about the pharaoh Taharqa. The movie will be about Taharqa’s battles with Assyria’s Esarhaddon starting 677 BC.

Ray Harryhausen will work on Kevin Van Hook’s Jason and the Argonauts movie Necronauts. “The hero and his group venture into Hades to collect a group of the dead and bring the fight to the God of War, Ares.” It’s in the very early stages, but Ray Park is in as a “sword master sidekick” and Casper Van Dien maybe, possibly.

David Murphy’s Not Another Not Another Movie will spoof spoof movies by being about “a movie studio that's willing to do anything to make a mint - even if it means ruining their reputation, and running the business into the ground.” Cast includes Chevy Chase, Michael Madsen, Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Sciole, and Richard Tyson. Filming starts the end of the month.

Ray Winstone will replace Robert De Niro in Edge of Darkness.

Tim Blake Nelson's comedic thriller Leaves of Grass will star Edward Norton, Susan Sarandon, and Richard Dreyfuss. It's about pair of twins (Norton) -one a professor, one a marijuana dealer-, their eccentric mother (Sarandon), and a local drug lord (Dreyfuss). Films later this month in Louisiana.

Johnny Depp’s voice will star in John Logan and Gore Verbinski’s animated movie Rango. He’ll play a household pet who “goes on an adventure to discover his true self”. Industrial Light & Magic will animate, and Paramount will finance and distribute with a March 2011 release.

Rupert Grint, Bill Nighy, and Helena Bonham Carter will star in Jonathan Lynn’s dark comedy Wild Target. “A middle-aged hitman Victor Meynard go[es] on his last hit job before he retires. He ends up running into a delivery boy, Antoine. Unable to kill the adolescent, Meynard adopts him as his apprentice, in spite of Antoine's evident lack of enthusiasm for his new career. They are hired by a Corsican gangster to kill a con artist Renée Dandrieux. Again, Meynard's luck is against him, and when he fails to kill Renée, with Antoine's help, the Corsican gangster sends another hitman to kill all three of them.”

Julie Andrews has joined Tooth Fairy and will play “Lily, a high-ranking, acerbic supervisor with the Tooth Fairy Department charged with overseeing Derek's stint as a tooth fairy.”

Michael Douglas will star in Steven Soderbergh’s –still far off- Liberace biopic. It’ll be written by Richard LaGravanese and produced by Jerry Weintraub. Soderbergh is in discussions with Matt Damon to play Scott Thorson.