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- Tom Hanks, the actor and star of Forrest Gump, will turn on the Large Hadron Collider, designed to recreate the ‘Big Bang’, when it is finally repaired. Hanks was approached about the move while filming his latest film Angels & Demons in which he plays a Harvard University academic investigating a plot to annihilate the Vatican with 0.25 grams of antimatter stolen from Cern.
- Jerry Bruckheimer has confirmed in an interview that he is planning a 4th Pirates of the Caribbean film and that Johnny Depp is interested in that project as well as another project called “The Lone Ranger.”
- Ang Lee is in talks to bring Yann Martel’s Life of Pi to the big screen. The novel chronicles the travails of a shipwrecked teenage boy stuck on a life raft with only an orangutan, a zebra, a hyena and a tiger. M Night Shyamalan, and several others have all been attached to the project, but none have been able to extract it from development hell.
- Author Terry Pratchett has been knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace for services to literature. Sir Terry, who was named in the New Year Honours list, is best known for the Discworld series.
- It hasn’t even hit theaters yet but Zack Snyder has promised that the Directors Cut of Watchmen will contain almost an hour more of content including the Tales of the Black Freighter.
- Paramount has announced Blu-ray release dates for season one of the “Star Trek” original series, as well as for several of the original films. The series will be released April 28 and the movies May 12.
- Friday the 13th earned 19.1 million dollars opening night the biggest single-day gross so far in 2009. It went on to earn a total of $43 million, almost double the next highest, He’s Just Not That Into You.
Warrington Gillette, who played Jason Vorhees in 1981′s Friday the 13th Part 2, was attending an event honoring the remake. The actor arrived in full costume, wearing the famous ice hockey mask, and took to the stage wielding a real axe. But his performance ended in disaster when a woman tried to wrestle it away from him, slashing his hand. Lingerie-clad models were running and screaming, as a blood-soaked Jason ran off the runway to get to a hospital.”
- New Line and Platinum Dunes have tapped director Samuel Bayer to reimagine their prized “The Nightmare on Elm Street” property and could begin shooting as early as the spring. A first-time director, Bayer is a slightly unconventional choice to remake the classic. But the Bayer is renowned for his commercials and music videos, many of them iconic. Those videos include Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and Blind Melon’s “No Rain,”. He also has won best director at the MTV Video Music Awards and a host of CLIO awards.
- In the upcoming Johnny Quest movie Race Bannon will be played by Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson and the role of Johnny possibly going to High School Musical’s Zac Efron. Efron is also signed on for the 2010 remake of Footloose.
- Scarlett Johansson is reportedly set to join the cast of the upcoming superhero film Iron Man 2. Johansson is reportedly in talks to play Russian spy Natasha Romanoff, AKA The Black Widow, in the sequel to last summers blockbuster.
- A first-edition “Conan The Barbarian, No. 1″ comic book and five superhero-themed figurines are the latest losses to be sustained by Graham Crackers Comics in Naperville. The comic book was valued at $690 and the figurines had a collective value of $560, for a total estimated loss of $1,250, Hoffman said. A store manager was also scammed on Dec. 10, 2007. That was when a customer wrote a counterfeit check for $980.99 and stole a 1963 first-edition copy of “The Amazing Spider-man, No. 2.”
- Bruce Campbell’s mock-autobiographical film My Name Is Bruce is now available on DVD. He has also stated that he has no intention to return to the character of Ash saying “You are bound to disappoint. I would rather disappoint with a brand new original movie.”
- The latest incarnation of the Nintendo DS, the Nintendo DSi, will be released in the U.S. on April 5 and priced at US$169.99. It is launching in black and new color blue. Gamestop will take preorders starting tomorrow.
- Dustin Browder, lead developer for Blizzard’s Starcraft II, assured visitors to the official forums that the game was “in the final stretch.” But no firm dates on the 3 part release or the betas yet.
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