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Guillermo del Toro , The Jim Henson Company and Pathe are ready to go on Pinocchio , a 3D stop motion animated adaptation of the Carlo Collodi fairy tale that will be edgier than the 1940 animated Disney classic. Gris Grimly will co-direct with Mark Gustafson , and production will begin later this year. Grimly illustrated a 2002 book of Collodi’s tale that formed the basis for a project that is years in the making. The storyline was hatched by Del Toro and Matthew Robbins, and the script was written by the latter, who has collaborated with del Toro on scripts for Mimic , the remake Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark , and del Toro’s next directing project At the Mountains of Madness. Del Toro will produce with Jim Henson Company’s Lisa Henson and Jason Lust, and Allison Abbate. Gary Ungar is exec producer along with Pathe’s Francois Ivernel and Cameron McCracken. “There has to be darkness in any fairy tale or children’s narrative work, something the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian An

Precious Director Lee Daniels Wants Sofia Vergara, Bradley Cooper for Thriller The Paperboy It’s been a year since Lee Daniels devastated us with Precious, but since then we’ve gotten precious little clarity about what he’d be doing next. (Is it The Butler, Selma, Anna in the Tropics? Or maybe that Fellini adaptation?) But now our spies tell us that Daniels appears to be settling on his next project, rewriting an adaptation of Pete Dexter 1995 novel The Paperboy that’s fast coming together at Relativity Media. We hear that Daniels was in town last week reading young actors for parts, and now hear that he’s made offers to  Bradley Cooper ,  Alex Pettyfer  (who should open at No. 1 this weekend in DreamWorks’s I Am Number Four), and Modern Family's  Sofia Vergara  to star in the thriller. Cooper would play Pettyfer’s older brother, Ward, while Vergara would play the wife of a death-row inmate. If you don’t know Peter Dexter the novelist (Paris Trout; Brotherly Love; Train;

Michelle Pfeiffer is in negotiations to reteam with Tim Burton for Dark Shadows , Warner Bros’ big-screen take on the 1960s gothic vampire TV soap opera starring Johnny Depp . The movie has an April start and has been casting up, with Jackie Earle Haley, Eva Green and Bella Heathcote already on board. Depp will portray Barnabas Collins, a self-loathing vampire living in a Maine manor who is searching for his lost love. Pfeiffer would play Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the reclusive matriarch of the Collins family which runs the Maine town. The character has not left the mansion since the disappearance of her husband a decade earlier. Pfeiffer is finding herself very much in demand this new year. The actress is juggling a role in New Line’s all-star New Year’s Eve and shooting Welcome to People, the directorial debut of scribe Alex Kurtzman. The last time she worked with Burton was as Catwoman in 1992’s Batman Returns Please Leave A Comment- Source- Heatvision

I need to thank Relativity Media for these official photos that they sent me to for their upcoming film Immortals . The film stars Henry Cavill (upcoming Superman Reboot), Stephen Dorff (Public Enemies), Isabel Lucas (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen), Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire), Luke Evans (Robin Hood), Kellan Lutz (Twilight series), with John Hurt (Hellboy), and Mickey Rourke (Iron Man 2) The movie is scheduled to be released on November 11,2011 In Immortals, the ruthless King Hyperion ( Rourke ) leads his bloodthirsty army on a murderous rampage across Greece to find a deadly weapon that will destroy humanity. A mortal chosen by Zeus named Theseus ( Cavill ) must lead the fight against Hyperion and his evil army with the fate of mankind and the Gods at stake. See more pictures after the Jump... Directed by Tarsem Singh (The Cell) and written by Charles Parlapanides and Vlas Parlapanides, and was  produced by Mark Canton (300), Gianni Nunnari (Shutter Is

Latinoreview reported last week that Robin McLeavy got the lead role as Mary Todd in the upcoming Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter which is an adaptation of Seth Graham-Smith's novel with the same name. Today we learned that Mary Elizabeth Winstead has actually been cast as Mary Todd. Mary Elizabeth Winstead will play Mary Todd in 20th Century Fox’s period vampire adventure Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. She’ll star opposite Benjamin Walker, who plays Abraham Lincoln. Timur Bekmambetov is directing Vampire Hunter, based on the book by Seth Grahame-Smith. It’s Bekmambetov’s first movie since the 2008 hit Wanted, and tells the story of how Lincoln fought vampires during the Civil War. Dominic Cooper and Anthony Mackie also star in Vampire Hunter. Winstead was last seen in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World . Please Leave A Comment- Source- THR

Rachel Bilson has signed to star in the CW drama pilot Hart of Dixie.  The project reunites Bilson with Josh Schwartz; the two worked together on the Fox drama The O.C . before Schwartz went on to develop Gossip Girl for the CW. Rachel Bilson Returns To TV In CW's  Hart of Dixie Bilson will play a New York City doctor who relocates to a small southern town — filled with eccentric characters, of course — when she inherits a medical practice there. The fish-out-of-water drama is produced by Warner Bros. Television and Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire shingle. Leila Gerstein wrote the script and will executive producer with Schwartz, Savage and Len Goldstein. Please Leave A Comment- Source- THR

Tonight has been a pretty amazing night with Yahoo and Paramount Pictures brought us the new trailer for Thor . If you haven't seen the trailer check it out Here . Now thanks to geektyrant we have screen shot from the trailer for you to enjoy and get a closer look at the action. The film stars Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman, Jaimie Alexander and Anthony Hopkins with Kenneth Branagh directing a script by Mark Protosevich, Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz and Don Payne. The movie will be released on May 6, 2011 See all the pictures after the Jump... Directed by Kenneth Branagh, in THOR, Chris Hemsworth portrays the title character with Tom Hiddleston in the role of Thor’s brother Loki, and Natalie Portman as Jane Foster. Additionally, the studio has cast Academy Award® winning actor Anthony Hopkins as Odin, Renee Russo as Frigga, Ray Stevenson as Volstagg, Tadanobu Asano as Hogun, Josh Dallas as Fandral, Jaimie Alexander as Sif, Idris Elba as Heimdall,

If you were creeped out by Paranormal Activity and freaked out by Saw , wait'll you see what the guys behind those two franchises cooked up when they got together. I'm not a huge scary movie type of person but I do love a horror film that make you think. Here's your first look at  Insidious courtesy of SyFy . Insidious, which stars Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne and Barbara Hershey , is a new horror film from Saw's director-writer team of James Wan and Leigh Whannell that's produced by Oren Peli, Jason Blum and Steven Schneider, the masterminds behind Paranormal Activity. Watch the trailer after the Jump... The movie tells a different kind of haunted-house story, one in which a family trying to escape a haunting and save their son discover—it's their son, and not their house, that's being haunted. Insidious hits theaters April 1, 2011. And after you watch the trailer below, check out the film's Facebook page for more info. Please Leave A Comme

Yahoo and Paramount Pictures delivers another amazing trailer for Thor . The film stars  Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman, Jaimie Alexander and Anthony Hopkins with Kenneth Branagh directing a script by Mark Protosevich, Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz and Don Payne. The movie will be released on May 6, 2011 Watch the trailer after the Jump... Directed by Kenneth Branagh, in THOR, Chris Hemsworth portrays the title character with Tom Hiddleston in the role of Thor’s brother Loki, and Natalie Portman as Jane Foster. Additionally, the studio has cast Academy Award® winning actor Anthony Hopkins as Odin, Renee Russo as Frigga, Ray Stevenson as Volstagg, Tadanobu Asano as Hogun, Josh Dallas as Fandral, Jaimie Alexander as Sif, Idris Elba as Heimdall, as well as Colm Feore, Kat Dennings and award-winning actor Stellan Skarsgård. The film is slated for release in theatres domestically on May 6, 2011 via Paramount Pictures which will also release the film on a worldwide b