Another day’s worth of film news for you from around the globe. Let us know what intrigues you the most and enjoy.
[Cinema Blend] reveals that Leonardo DiCaprio is going to be a fighting killer in Button Man which is adapted from a comic strip. A refreshingchange of pace for Leo it sounds like.
[Screenhead] dishes on Tobey Maguire pushing it to The Limit (not like the Scarface song), as a race car driver in a movie will both star in and produce.
Rob Zombie gives [MTV] the details of his Tyrannosaurus Rex, an “incredibly violent 70’s action movie. Not a horror film.” Think Raging Bull, I suppose.
The Scarlett Letter retelling has Emma Stone leading the cast in what is currently titled Easy A. Not to be confused with Eazy-E, the late deceased rapper. [Collider]
Now, we might not be able to call the Karate Kid remake, a remake after all, since it the Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith starrer has a new title, The Kung Fu Kid. Those crazy Hollywood producers have me fooled now. [Screenrant]
We missed last week’s [Entertainment Today and Beyond] blog dish on Tony Scott’s new Unstoppable movie. It’s an action movie on a train and with action being Scott’s specialty, expect a big name to star.
Jonathan Levine, The Wackness director has a new project in The Sitter, an update of sorts on the “classic” 1987 pic Adventures in Babysitting. [The Moving Picture]
“An All New World Awaits” for James Cameron’s Avatar and [Filmonic] has some coverage on film coming to IMAX later this year.
Paul Bettany will star in Priest, based on a Korean comic-book which melds the horror and Western genres. [Superhero Hype]
Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman, co-writers of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, have a lot to say to [Sci-Fi Wire] about the robots in the movie and Leonard Nimoy voicing one of them.



