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Time to get a few more<\/i> backlogged items off my plate.<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/a> Has it really been two years<\/a> since Guillermo Del Toro first talked about directing a Tarzan<\/a><\/i> movie? Oh well, a little thing called The Hobbit<\/a><\/i> got in the way, and now the producers of the Tarzan<\/i> movie are thinking of getting someone else to direct. Someone like \u2026 Stephen Sommers<\/a>. Ugh. \u2014 Variety<\/a><\/i>, Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

2.<\/a> The judge presiding over the Watchmen<\/a><\/i> lawsuit between Fox and Warner has set a trial date: January 6, exactly two months to the day before the film is scheduled to come out. Fox is trying to prevent the film from being released at all<\/i>. \u2014 Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i>, New York Times<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

3.<\/a> I remember words like \u201cyarn\u201d and \u201ccenton\u201d, but I had no idea the word \u201c frak<\/a>\u201d was created for the original, cheesy, 1970s version of Battlestar Galactica<\/a><\/i> and not for the new, improved, gritty version that everyone now knows and loves. Huh. \u2014 Associated Press<\/a><\/p>\n

4.<\/a> Mark Millar<\/a> likes trilogies, apparently. The comic-book writer says he is working on a \u201cbasic story\u201d for the next two Wanted<\/a><\/i> films, and he says he is currently pitching \u201ca big three-picture Superman<\/a> thing, like a Lord of the Rings<\/a><\/i> epic, starting over from scratch again with a seven-hour Superman story. One to be released each year.\u201d \u2014 Newsarama<\/a>, G4<\/a><\/p>\n

5.<\/a> James Cameron says Avatar<\/a><\/i>, his upcoming effects-heavy 3-D movie, \u201cmakes \u2018Titanic\u2019 look like a picnic. . . . It\u2019s simultaneously the most vexing and the most rewarding type of production that I\u2019ve done yet.\u201d \u2014 Canadian Press<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"