1. The Dark Knight comes to home video on Tuesday, but that doesn’t mean it has left the theatre for good. Warner Brothers announced this week that the film will be re-released across the country on January 23 — one day after the Oscar nominations are announced. Among other things, this will basically guarantee that The Dark Knight becomes the fourth movie ever to gross over $1 billion worldwide — following Titanic (1997), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006). Interestingly, The Dark Knight is the only film in the all-time Top 20 to have made less than half of its money overseas — and the only other such films in the all-time Top 40 are Star Wars (1977) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), both of which came out a generation ago, when distribution patterns were very different. — Variety
2. Will Smith has a few ideas for the prequel to I Am Legend (2007), and he says there will “definitely” be a sequel to Hancock, as well. — Collider, JoBlo.com
3. Superman Returns director Bryan Singer says he is “not divorced from Superman at this point” but he is also “not officially involved” in the current discussions at Warner Brothers over what to do with the character. — UGO.com
4. Len Wiseman, director of the first two Underworld movies (2003-2006) as well as Live Free or Die Hard (2007), has signed on to direct an adaptation of the apocalyptic comic-book mini-series Atlantis Rising. — Variety
5. Sigourney Weaver hints that she and Ridley Scott have talked about making a follow-up to the original Alien movies (1979-1997) — but without the aliens. “What we’re interested in is taking the character of Ripley and seeing what other science fiction story we can tell about someone who has lived several lives,” she says. — MTV Movies Blog
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