Movie News

Fanboys will open on February 6, 2009 (the original release was August 2007).

December 18, 2009, is the release date for James Cameron’s Avatar in IMAX and conventional 3-D theaters.

Director Peter Winther and special effects designer Patrick Tatopoulos have signed on for Arclight Film’s Speed Demon. Based on the last designs of Stan Winston, and written by Randy Vampotic and Mike Sorrentino, it’s about “a talented female wheelman and an enigmatic mob enforcer as they chase her slimy ex-boyfriend and some missing diamonds to a remote desert road that holds a monstrous test for them all.” Filming starts spring 2009.

Alan Cumming will direct, and star in, indie straight to DVD Ghost Writer. A supernatural thriller, it’s about a composer/music teacher (Cumming) who mentors a struggling writer who it turns out is just using him. When the writer accidently dies working off his rent, he comes back to haunt Cumming, who has taken credit for his book. Also cast is David Boreanaz, Anne Heche, Carrie Fisher, and Henry Thomas. Release date January 6, 2009.

Voltage Pictures has the foreign sales rights to Jason Connery’s supernatural thriller Devil’s Tomb. Starring Ron Perlman, Cuba Gooding, and Ray Winstone, it’s about “a team of mercenaries sent on a rescue mission in a Middle Eastern desert who uncover a mystery that has been hidden for thousands of years.”

Director, co-writer, and producer Gurinder Chadha is prepping It’s a Wonderful Afterlife. Chadha describes the movie, about a how a mother’s obsession to marry off her daughter comically leads to serial murder, as “My Big Fat Greek Wedding meets Shaun of the Dead.” Filming begins in February in the UK.

Sylvester Stallone will direct and star in The Expendables for Nu Image/Millennium Films. The movie, which he also wrote, is about a team of mercenaries sent to overthrow a South American dictator. Jason Statham has joined, and Jet Li is in final negotiations. Filming starts February in Costa Rica and Louisiana.

Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci, Justin Long, and Josh Charles will star in Agnieska Wojtowicz-Vosloo’s psychological thriller After Life. It’s about a young woman who gets caught between life and death, and a funeral director who might be trying to bury her alive.