Daft Punk To Cameo In ‘Tron Legacy,’ Eli Roth Wants Exorcism Pic, ‘Cotton’ To Premiere At Sundance 2010

Bit of a slow day and we’re also not compelled to write about a lot in full (ironically we’re behind about six or seven reviews, le sigh…).

Daft Punk are evidently going to make a cameo in “Tron Legacy.” “They were in the movie,” Olivia Wilde told MTV about the French electro-house rockers who have also composed the film’s score (which will be the only truly interesting part to us).

Wondering about Nimród Antal’s “Armored,” his foll0w-up to the horror “Vacancy”? It’s hitting theaters December 4 and it’s apparently been completed for a long time. Antal is currently prepping “Predators” in Austin, Texas for a October shoot in Hawaii. We thought “Kontroll,” was great, but “Vacancy” was a hollow horror with zero character motivation, so we’re hoping his film before “Predators” will instill us with a bit more confidence. Speaking of that film, we’ve heard many names are going to be small-ish (though there is one [redacted awards] winner involved too). Michael Jai White is rumored to play a part according to the always iffy, IMDB, and Coming Soon says Walter Goggins, of the FX series “The Shield,” will also have a role.

Horror meister Eli Roth, who we try and spend as little time discussing as possible, is apparently finishing up two films. One, a Louisiana exorcism film called, “Cotton” and another, a sci-fi adventure film called, “Endangered Species,” which is not quite done, but in the final screenwriting stages. “Cotton,” is apparently completed and Roth says he’s aiming to have the film premiere at next year’s Sundance Film Festival. The script for ‘Species,’ will apparently be finished up this month and he it seems he still has plans to shoot, “Thanksgiving,” the trailer from “Grindhouse,” as a feature-length film. In fact, he wants to shoot ‘Species’ and “Thanksgiving” back to back. Hey, why not, they’re probably similar or like, close enough, right? Roth doesn’t want to divulge info on ‘Species,’ but says the film will have a “sick sense of humor.” Greaaaaaat.

Dunno about you, but this image of Liam Neeson on the set of “Clash Of The Titans,” makes us laugh. Hopefully in the context of the movie he’ll look imposing, cool, what-have-you, but man, right now in this picture he just looks ridiculous.

Disney just dumped Dick Cook last week, right? Well, Rich Ross has been named the new Disney Studios chairman. We’re sure you really care and are writing that down somewhere.

Were you puzzled when it was announced that James Franco would appear on TV soap opera, “General Hospital,” in a storyline that involved more than a brief cameo? You weren’t the only one. But his explanation? “It’s performance art.” Mmmkay, if you say so.

Lionsgate and Oprah Winfrey are teaming up for “Be My Black Friend?” a project that will likely star Chris Rock. This is interesting because it must mean that Winfrey is pretty happy so far with the way Lionsgate is handing “Precious,” the urban drama she executive produced with Tyler Perry that’s been earning Oscar buzz (we saw it this weekend and didn’t really care for it, we’ll get into that more this week). The film will be based on a GQ article about a writer who realizes all his friends are whitebread Caucasians and goes out of his way to recruit an African-American friend. It’s been said probably more than once now, but why is Chris Rock’s stand-up tremendously funny (we’ve seen him live too and he’s a hysterical riot), and then his movies (or at least the one’s he stars in), so unfunny and usually fairly lame. Can Oprah and Lionsgate remedy this unfortunate perennial phenomenon? Let’s hope so.

EW has a super exciting shot of Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark on the set of “Iron Man 2,” at a coffee shop where he will meet Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury character. Will this film have any surprises at all?

Five clips from “Where The Wild Things Are,” have made their way onto the Interwebs, but if you’re like us, you don’t really watch early clips of movies you’re anticipating cause you don’t want them to spoil things.