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Lots of catching up to do here. Catching up, up and away.<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/a> Warner Brothers gave some reporters an advance look at about 26 minutes of footage from Watchmen<\/a><\/i>, and the reporters liked what they saw. The film itself currently runs 163 minutes. \u2014 SpoutBlog<\/a>, ComingSoon.net<\/a>, IGN<\/a>, New York Times<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

2.<\/a> Philip Glass<\/a> has been hired to compose an opera about Walt Disney for the New York City Opera. The musical \u201cwill be based on Peter Stephan Jungk\u2019s German-language novel \u2018The Perfect American'\u201d and it \u201cimagines the last months of Disney as seen through the eyes of a fictional Austrian cartoonist who worked for him.\u201d \u2014 Variety<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

3.<\/a> Steven Spielberg is thinking of casting comedy duo Simon Pegg<\/a> and Nick Frost as the bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson in his motion-capture adaptation of the Tintin<\/a><\/i> comics. So says Pegg, at any rate, though it\u2019s not clear whether Spielberg was serious about this or just joking. \u2014 Sunday Times<\/a><\/i>, Stuff.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n

4.<\/a> Green Lantern<\/a><\/i> might start shooting as early as next spring. \u2014 FirstShowing.net<\/a>, MTV Splash Page<\/a><\/p>\n

5.<\/a> Kenneth Branagh<\/a> is in talks to direct the movie version of Marvel Comics\u2019 Thor<\/a><\/i>, and current comics writer J. Michael Straczynski<\/a> says Branagh would be \u201cperfect\u201d for the film, given the \u201cclassical bent\u201d of the character. \u2014 Variety<\/a><\/i>, MTV Splash Page<\/a><\/p>\n

6.<\/a> Paramount and Marvel Comics had so much fun with Iron Man<\/a><\/i>, they have agreed to distribute five more films together: Thor<\/i>, The First Avenger: Captain America<\/i>, The Avengers<\/a><\/i> and two Iron Man<\/i> sequels. \u2014 Variety<\/a><\/i>, Nikki Finke<\/a>, MTV Splash Page<\/a><\/p>\n

7.<\/a> Will Iron Man\u2019s daddy be part of the Captain America movie? Perhaps even the man who \u201ccreated\u201d Captain America? \u2014 MTV Splash Page<\/a><\/p>\n

8.<\/a> Kirsten Dunst says she may or may not be in the next Spider-Man<\/a><\/i> movie. \u2014 MTV Splash Page<\/a><\/p>\n

9.<\/a> Rumours are afoot to the effect that the next Batman<\/a> movie might start pre-production as early as February 2009, even though they don\u2019t have a script or anything like that yet. \u2014 Batman on Film<\/a>, MTV Splash Page<\/a><\/p>\n

10.<\/a> We\u2019ve already got a TV show about the young Clark Kent, i.e. Superman, so why not a TV show about the young Dick Grayson, i.e. Robin<\/a>? Well, um, for one thing, isn\u2019t Robin supposed to be young in the first place, before his parents are killed and he is adopted by Bruce Wayne, i.e. Batman? How much back-story can there be, really? The new show, which is being developed by the CW, will be called The Graysons<\/i>. \u2014 Variety<\/a><\/i>, MTV Splash Page<\/a><\/p>\n

11.<\/a> Disney has announced that Cars 2<\/a><\/i> will now come out in 2011, one year earlier than originally planned. Alas, it will not co-star the original film\u2019s Paul Newman, who passed away this week. Pixar<\/a> is also producing a series of related short films called Cars Toons<\/i>. \u2014 Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i>, Associated Press<\/a><\/p>\n

12.<\/a> Warner Brothers is developing a feature-film version of Yogi Bear<\/i>, in which Yogi Bear and Boo Boo will be CGI characters in a live-action world. \u2014 Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"