1. Ben Burtt, who helped create the sound effects for everything from Star Wars to WALL•E, has now added J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Trek movie to his résumé. — TrekMovie.com
2. Screenwriter John August says the Shazam! movie project is dead, dead, dead — partly, he figures, because of the success of the ultra-grim The Dark Knight and the failure of the kid-oriented Speed Racer, both of which were produced by Warner Brothers, as the kid-oriented Shazam! would have been. — John August
3. It looks like Simon Pegg and Nick Frost may indeed be playing Thomson and Thompson in Steven Spielberg’s Tintin. If this were a live-action movie, I would say this was terrible casting; the whole point of the characters is that they are virtually impossible to tell apart. But Tintin is a motion-capture movie, so who knows, this could work very well after all. — Ain’t It Cool News, Variety
4. Rumour has it that the screenplay for Thor has been tweaked in such a way as to bring the titular Norse god into contact with the modern world, and thus make it possible for him to join the other Marvel heroes in The Avengers. — IESB.net
5. Jimmy Hayward, who made his directing debut with Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!, is now attached to direct the big-screen version of Jonah Hex, starring Josh Brolin. — Hollywood Reporter
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