We will see Danny Glover reprise his stage role in a bigscreen adaptation of Athol Fugard’s apartheid-era play “Master Harold… and the Boys.”

The film will be helmed by Lonny Price, who directed Glover in the recent Broadway revival and played opposite him in the stage production 20 years ago.

According to Variety, the title role will be played by Thomas Sangster, the “Love Actually” star who’ll play the title role in the Steven Spielberg-directed “Tintin.”

The U.K./South Africa co-production will begin production on July 10 in Durban, South Africa.

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The Hollywood Reporter posted that Ricky Schroder and Darrin Henson are set to star in writer-director Jeb Stuart’s indie film “Blood Done Sign My Name,” based on the book by Tim Tyson that follows the true story of the murder and aftermath of a black Vietnam vet in 1970 in Oxford, N.C.

Schroder will play Rev. Vernon Tyson, while Henson will play Eddie McCoy. The film is production in North Carolina.

It’ll be good to see him in a movie.

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George Clooney is set to star in “Men Who Stare at Goats.”

According to Variety, the film is an adaptation of British journalist Jon Ronson’s book about the U.S. Army’s First Earth Battalion, a unit that was to use paranormal powers. Title refers to the notion that one can kill a goat by staring at it.

Apparently, the project has been around for some time, but international buyers only just received the script this week as the Cannes fest and market got started. Script topped the 2007 Brit List of best unproduced screenplays.

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I am pretty excited about the sequel to 2005 “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” The PG rated film is destined to take the box office this weekend with 3,929 domestic theaters and no films opening wide against it.
Sequel is widely anticipated to be one of the summer’s most successful films.

One of the reasons I am excited about the sequel is that “Prince Caspian” reteams director Andrew Adamson with the principal cast from the first film.
The new film is slightly older than the first “Narnia” with more action and likely a broader appeal.

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Most of you know I do not like horror movies.  But, horror movies are very popular, cheap to produce and make a ton of money.  Ask Roger Corman. 

I am pleased to announce that the final installment to director Dario Argento’s horror triology, MOTHER OF TEARS, is opening in select theaters throughout the country on JUNE 6^th! See below to find out where the MOTHER OF TEARS is playing near you.  Visit the newly launched OFFICIAL WEBSITE for updated theater and ticket information!

If you go to the web site you will see the horrific pictures from the movie.  It makes my skin crawl.

June 6^th, 2008

New York - Sunshine Cinema

Los Angeles - Nuart Theatre

Irvine - University Town Center 6

Philadelphia - Ritz Bourse

Cambridge, MA - Kendall Square 9 Cinema

Washington, DC - E Street Cinema

June 20^th, 2008

San Francisco - Lumiere 3 Theatre

Berkeley - Shattuck 10 Cinema

San Jose - Camera

Minneapolis - Lagoon 5 Cinema

June 27^th, 2008

 Denver - Starz Film Center

San Diego - Ken Cinema

Austin - Dobie 4 Theatre

Dallas - Magnolia Theatre

July 4^th, 2008

 Seattle - Varsity 3 Theatre

Chicago - Music Box Theatre

July 11^th, 2008

St. Louis - Tivoli 3 Theatre

Atlanta - Midtown Art Cinema

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I am happy to see Christian Slater working on a film. I haven’t seen him on the big screen for some time. He is starring with Cuba Gooding Jr. in an action/comedy “Lies & Illusions.”

Filming starts this week in Spokane, Wash.

According to Variety, story centers on a novelist being hunted by a spy who believes the writer holds millions of dollars in diamonds stolen by his dead fiancée.

The film also stars Sarah Ann Schultz, Christa Campbell, Al Madrigal and Lochlyn Munro.

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Comic-Con Magazine has debuted a new photo of Samuel L. Jackson as The Octopus in Frank Miller’s The Spirit!

This movie is looking to be a sure winner at the box office this Christmas.

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While on tour promoting “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” Steven Spielberg told German magazine FOCUS, he plans to put his attention on a huge project about President Lincoln and the Civil War. Filming could start early next year.

However, Spielberg plans to shoot “Tintin” in early fall first. It looks like back-to-back projects.

Keep in mind that the director has another project in the wings as well. He been prepping the Aaron Sorkin-scripted “The Trial of the Chicago Seven,” but, according to Variety, that became sketchy after he could not get rewrites during the writer’s strike. Spielberg had enlisted Sacha Baron Cohen and talked to other high profile actors about starring in a drama about the trial of anti-Vietnam war protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. That film will have to wait.

The Lincoln project looks like a sure thing after “Tintin” and could be ready for an early 2009 shoot because of several variables: Spielberg has proved adept at shooting back-to-back films, which he did most memorably when he made “Jurassic Park” and the Oscar-winning “Schindler’s List” in 1993. Also, his Lincoln project — informed by the biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “The Uniter: The Genius of Abraham Lincoln” — has a strong script by “Angels in America” playwright Tony Kushner (who rewrote “Munich” for Spielberg).

Spielberg also has Liam Neeson –who played Oskar Schindler — ready to play Lincoln. Neeson agreed more than three years ago to play the role for Spielberg, and has been waiting for a start date.

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Looks like “Iron Man” is quite a movie to see. It’s number one again – out scoring “Speed Racer” by a huge margin. Personally, I am not surprised. From the first trailer, “Iron Man” has been a success.

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According to Hollywood Reporter, Ron Perlman is set to play the bad guy in a hybrid martial arts movie “Bunraku,” which Guy Moshe is directing from his own script.

Japanese actors Gackt and Shun Sugata also have been cast in the international-flavored movie, which features Josh Hartnett, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Scottish actor Kevin McKidd and Spanish actor Jordi Molla. Now, that is a mixure!

The film is set in a hyperstylized universe a la “Sin City” and draws from a mixed bag of genres, including puppets, origami, comic books, video games and German expressionism. It follows a drifter (Hartnett) who teams with a samurai (Gackt) to take on an Eastern European gang lord, played by Perlman (”Hellboy”).

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