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It\u2019s been a long, long time since the last batch<\/a> of news quickies.<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/a> Julian Farino<\/a> is attached to direct<\/a> The Year of Living Biblically<\/a><\/i> from a script by Jay Reiss, based on the A.J. Jacobs book<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2.<\/a> Battlestar Galactica<\/a><\/i> producer Ronald D. Moore is working on a sequel<\/a> to I, Robot<\/a><\/i> (2004; my review<\/a>; another version<\/a>).<\/p>\n

3.<\/a> Disney has set a release date<\/a> \u2014 namely May 1, 2009 \u2014 for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader<\/a><\/i>. That will be less than 50 weeks after the May 19, 2008 premiere of its predecessor Prince Caspian<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

4.<\/a> Variety<\/a><\/i> picks up the story about the falling American dollar<\/a> and the harm it\u2019s doing to the Canadian film business<\/a>.<\/p>\n

5.<\/a> Mongrel Media<\/a> and Capri Releasing<\/a> say Away from Her<\/a><\/i> has become the first English-language Canadian film to gross over $1 million<\/a> in Canada this year. That isn\u2019t what the site I usually check<\/a> for this sort of info tells me, though. Unless maybe the site is reporting only one distributor\u2019s earnings, and not the other\u2019s?<\/p>\n

6.<\/a> Uh, does the long-shelved and much-reviled Pathfinder<\/a><\/i> remake really merit two-disc extended-edition<\/a> treatment?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"