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- Last Monday, it sounded like Let Me In director Matt Reeves was doing a They Lives remake, but now it seems he might instead be doing an adaptation of The Passage. "Is that inevitably something about vampires," you ask? Yes, of course it is.

- Winona Ryder and the ubiquitous James Franco have joined The Stare, a psychological thriller in which a playwright (Ryder) launching a new production is freaking out because she isn't sure if she's being gaslighted or going insane. Whichever it ends up being, as ever, throwing around wild accusations definitely sounds like the path to resolution.

- Sylvester Stallone has reiterated that, despite some apparent rumors to the contrary, he still is not directing The Expendables 2. No word on if the film will manage to get both Schwarzenegger and his exciting new The Governator character.

- Percy Jackson star Logan Lerman has signed for the lead in Seth Gordon's The Only Living Boy in New York, and will play a boy who ends up involved with his father's mistress. Any chance that this situation can be resolved with a couple lines and hilarious reaction shots, like it was in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade?

- Ut oh, Nick Cassavetes isn't directing that John Travolta-starring John Gotti biopic anymore. But, PHEW, Lindsay Lohan is still in talks to pretend this would be her big comeback.

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    The Expendables was really less a movie than a action film-themed sideshow, a group of veiny freaks gathered together so that we could see them lined up and shot at, just to say that we saw it. A sequel, then, is pretty redundant unless some new freaks have been dragged out to ... / Continue →
  • April 29, 2013
    The ever-busy, ever-Franco-centric James Franco has found his next James Franco film to direct James Franco in. Deadline reports he'll direct and take a lead role in The Garden of Last Days, a Hanna Weg-scripted adaptation of Andre Dubus III's 2009 follow-up to The House of San... / Continue →
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