James Cameron’s “Avatar” is set for a lengthy three month run in IMAX theatres when the film sees a release. Theatres are clearing schedules for the film between it’s December 18th release to March 15th, the release date of Tim Burton’s “Alice In Wonderland.” [NY Times]
Melissa Leo, who earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress for her role in “Frozen River,” is set to play the mother of Micky Ward and Dickie Eklund, the two protagonists of David O. Russell’s “The Fighter.” Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale will portray the two brothers. [Variety]
Josh Brolin is eyeing a biopic about John Brown based on a script by Mark Gordon. Who’s John Brown, you ask? Brown was an American abolitionist who killed five Southern slave-owners before the start of the Civil War. Brolin does have that western hero look that serves him well “No Country For Old Men” and potentially for “Jonah Hex.” [ComingSoon]
Brad Furman is set to direct an untitled project based on an original screenplay by Bret Easton Ellis. The film will center on an awkward social outcast who exacts revenge on a group of peers by taking them hostage after being humiliated. [Variety]
Is this the first look at Arnold Schwarzengger as the T-100 in “Terminator Salvation”? It does look bad but not THAT bad, right? [Arrow In The Head]
A six part real time computer animation generated series called “Terminator Salvation: The Machinima” is set to be released. The series will follow the character of Blair Williams, voiced by Moon Bloodgood, on a journey that will arch her involvement with John Connor’s resistance movement two and a half years before the upcoming feature film begins. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here. [WB]
Oliver Stone is in talks the the leading prosecuting attorney in the Charles Manson case to make a silver screen version of his novel “Helter Skelter,” the story of the Manson Family murder and the attorney’s prosecution. [Shock Till You Drop]
Bruce Willis will be leading Russell Mulcahy’s “Grimm,” a film that follow a cop’s attempts to solve mysterious supernatural happenings in a small town. Cue seeing dead people jokes. [STYD]
Melissa Leo as the mom in “The Fighter” is PERFECT casting. Well done. I’d be frightened to death of the prospect of David O. Russell doing a boxing movie, if he hadn’t already illustrated his capacity to direct action in “Three Kings.”
Not that a boxing film is “action,” but you know what i mean.