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Concept art for the zombie sequel has been released (see right and below)

DAWN OF THE DEAD

The 'Hollywood Reporter' indicates that Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction) and Sarah Polley are in talks to star in a Dawn Of The Dead remake.

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DISNEY'S KING ARTHUR

'IGN Filmforce' scooped additional casting for Disney's new King Arthur animated movie, starring Clive Owen. Keira Knightley (Bend It Like Beckham) is in talks for the role of Guinevere and Stephen Dillane is set to play Merlin.

Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard (Exorcist: The Beginning) is in talks for the role of Cedric; Joel Edgerton (Star Wars Episode II) for Gawain; Ken Stott (Plunkett & Macleane) as Marius Honorius; Ray Stevenson for Dagonet; Sean Gilder for Jols; Pat Kinevane (The General) as Horton; Valeria Cavalli (Double Team) as Fulcinia; and Ivano Marescotti (The Talented Mr. Ripley) as Bishop Germanius.

THE FANTASTIC FOUR

The rumour that George Clooney was being actively pursued by 'Marvel' executive Avi Arad for the role of Reed Richards (a.k.a Mr Fantastic) in the Fantastic Four movie have proved... false.

'E! Online' discussed the rumours about the movie, saying that one inside source heard that the studio want a comedy thriller similar to Charlie's Angels, while other execs prefer a dramatic thriller akin to X-Men.

Screenwriter Mark Frost, co-creator of TV's Twin Peaks, has replaced Tristan Patterson to write the movie because "no one's been able to totally get it.

However, director Peyton Reed hasn't heard anything about preferences for a more comedic version of the movie, saying: "that's news to me. I think Mark [Frost] is a smart writer... I'm not gonna say the tone will be Twin Peaks, and it's not a rollicking comedy. There's 40 years of source material; The Fantastic Four incorporates a lot of different tones, so that's what's great about it and also what's tricky about it."

FIVE CHILDREN & IT

'Capitol Films' are teaming with 'Jim Henson's Creature Shop' to produce Five Children & It - a family film based on Edith Nesbit's 1902 novel, reports 'Variety'.

Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Izzard and Freddie Highmore will star in the $20 million movie, to be directed by John Stephenson.

The movie is the story of five siblings who are sent to stay with their uncle (Branagh) in a strange house by the sea. While exploring, they dig up an ill-tempered 8,000-year-old Psammead (sand fairy), voiced by Izzard, who grants them one wish a day. But the consequences are never quite what the children intend...

The film starts shooting in July. Of course, the book was previously adapted into a BBC TV show in the mid-90's, running for two series.

HANNIBAL LECTER - THE EARLY YEARS

Producer Dino De Laurentis has arrived at the Cannes Film Festival 2003 and revealed plans for another Hannibal Lecter movie!

Author Thomas Harris and is currently writing a prequel book entitled The Lecter Variation, focusing on the childhood of Hannibal Lecter in his natibe Lithuania, travelling through Paris as a teen, then moving to the States as an adult.

De Laurentis is seeking four different actors to play Lecter - aged 12, 16, 20 and 25. The accepted history of Lecter has him fleeing his rich family after killing his parents and forming a close relationship with his sister.

The film is scheduled for release in 2005.

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HELLBOY

Ron Pearlman's make-up for Guillermo Del Toro's Hellboy movie has been revealed (see right)

INDIANA JONES 4

The film is definitely scheduled for Summer 2005, just a few weeks after Star Wars Episode III.

Frank Darabont's screenplay is apparently moving along well, with Spielberg and Harrison Ford ready to begin, according to Vic Armstrong (stunt co-ordinator extraordinaire). He elaborated saying: "I saw Steven at the Golden Globes and I asked him about Indy 4, and he said 'clear your diary because we're on'."

But it's likely that fan-favourite character Sallah (John Rhys-Davies) won't be returning. Rhys-Davies himself commented: "I get asked this question 25 times a week, and everyone knows more than I do. I guess I'm not in it."

"In truth, I'd love to work for Steven again. I'd love to have one more go at Sallah, get him right. You come close, but you always want to have one last bash at trying to make the character magical."

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JAMES BOND 21

It appears that the studio is in a quandary over Bond 21's release date. The next film is likely to be released in 2007 (007, geddit?), but should this symbolic date mark Pierce Brosnan's swansong, or the ideal starting date for his replacement?

The execs are debating it right now, with some preferring to introduce a new Bond on the 50th Anniversary in 2012!

'E! Entertainment News' reported that the script for a potential Jinx spin-off movie has been completed, so Halle Berry may begin work on the film after Catwoman.

Bond honcho Michael G. Wilson spoke with 'Film Review' magazine about the next film: "As for Bond 21, it's not even a glimmer in it's mother's eye. It's a matter of logistics, it takes time to make these films and they get bigger and bigger, and they take more and more planning... I reckon it would be at least three years from the last film."

"MGM, and ourselves, and Halle [Berry], thought it might be a good idea to make a Jinx film, so we're just kicking around some ideas with the writers, to see if we can do something with that."

KING KONG

'TheOneRing.net' has revealed that director Peter Jackson (Lord Of The Rings) will definitely begin work on his King Kong remake as his next project.

Jackson said: "We can do a complete rewrite. Now that Philippa has joined the team, it's a chance to start over. The basic storyline will be very similar but the scenes, the sequences and the detail will be very different."

It appears he now doesn't like "the flip, smart-arsed tone of our old script. We are better writers now than we were in 1996. This new version will be based on the 1933 movie, but not on our 1996 script. This movie will be so much better than the 1996 film would have been. In hindsight, fate has been kind to us."

Jackson also commented that more of the film (about two thirds) will be set on Skull Island, as compared to previous drafts. Jackson has always stated that he doesn't want to just make a "colourised version" of the monochrome original.

THE SMURFS

'Filmink' reports that Jeff Goldblum is hoping to direct a movie adaptation of The Smurfs, as well as playing Gargamel!

SON OF THE MASK

Alan Cumming (X-Men 2) is in early talks to star as a villain for Son Of The Mask, says 'The Hollywood Reporter'. The sequel to Jim Carrey's 1994 original is set to begin filming on 21 July.

SUPERMAN

'E! Online' reported that Justin Timberlake has been approached to play Jimmy Olsen in the new Superman movie!

'Superhero Hype!' also reported that the latest candidate for replacement director is Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek The Next Generation's Riker). Frakes is currently filming the Thunderbirds movie, which some see as being a litmus test for the executives.

VAN HELSING

The 'Chicago Sun-Times' interviewed Hugh Jackman about his latest movie Van Helsing, in which he confirmed that he "fight[s] Frankenstein, Wolfman, Dracula and a few other surprises are thrown in. It's a huge movie. Don't get me wrong. X2 was a big movie, but Van Helsing, my God. The sets, the action pieces - it's out of control. It's like I walked into Indiana Jones."

"The village peasants were extras. We literally went into the shelters to give them work, but the problem was their English was nonexistent. So imagine this scene where I'm on wire. I have to run, run, run and then jump and grab onto Kate Beckinsale's legs and go flying through the air before I get flipped. Once I launch into this move, I cannot stop."

"There's a lot of horse-riding and wirework and the fight sequences are on a huge scale. Doing Wolverine is pretty intense. That scene with Kelly Hu took three weeks to shoot, but it was essentially on the ground or whacking into a wall. Some of the stuff in Van Helsing we're flying around."

Some interesting concepts for the movie have also been revealed, such as: Van Helsing has about fifteen weapons, one of which is a circular saw the size of a mobile phone.

Frankenstein's Monster is being tracked by Dracula because the Count thinks the Monster's existence will shed light on his desire to have a woman bare him a child.

The design for the Monster will feature a glass chest-plate, so we can see his innards working and wires dangling from the back of his neck.

The werewolves in the movie will transform in an original way. The idea is the wolves are inside the men, so the human body is like a skin the wolves can hide inside.

THE WICKER MAN

The 'Chicago Sun-Times' spoke with director Neil LaBute about his remake of the classic 1973 British horror film The Wicker Man, which will star Nicolas Cage.

"The original was a horror film about a policeman [Edward Woodward] sent to a small island to investigate the disappearance of a girl who finds a pagan society. Cage is attached to play [the cop]. He winds up on this island that's a very matriarchal society run by women who are direct descendants of pilgrims."

"The women range in age from 10 to 50. I think Angelina [Jolie] and Winona [Ryder] would be great choices."

WONDER WOMAN

Screenwriter Peter Levens is the latest scribe attached to write the movie-adaptation of the hit comic-book series.

WORLD OF TOMORROW

The 'LA Times' published an great article on the Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie movie World of Tomorrow.

The pre-WWII adventure tale stars Jolie as a pilot matched with a swashbuckling colleague [Law] and a probing journalist [Paltrow].

World Of Tomorrow is written and directed by first-timer Kerry Conran, a computer boffin who promises to push the extremes of special-effects in movies: "The whole movie is a special effect, even a scene with two people sitting in a room. Really, it's a live-action cartoon."