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Casting Notes: Virginia Madsen In Red Riding Hood; Javier Bardem Guests On Glee; Gina Gershon, Danny Glover And Robert Patrick In Five Minarets In New York Virginia Madsenis the latest recruit forCatherine Hardwicke’s medieval thrillerRed Riding Hood, which is shooting in Vancouver. The script byDavid Leslie Johnsonsets a wildly altered version of the Little Red Riding Hood story in a medieval village beset by a werewolf.Amanda Seyfried,Lukas Haas,Shiloh Fernandez,Julie ChristieandGary Oldmanround out the impressive cast....

Check Out Mad Magazine’s Two Page ‘Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Spread The Hunger Gamesmay be one of the biggest franchises in the world, but leave it toMAD Magazineto really boil it down. It’s just a movie about a world where kids kill each other over food. Sure, there’s more to it, but in the latest issue of the iconic publication, there’s a beautiful two page skewering of the franchise, specifically its latest theatrical incarnationThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and we’re proud to exclusively debut the image....

Cool Stuff: ‘The Mighty Ducks’ Funko POPs Will Get You Addicted To Quack What I love most about the ever-growing line of Funko POPs arriving pretty much every single month is that they’re willing to give us collectible figures from movies and TV shows that would otherwise never get action figures.Step Brothers, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Tommy Boy, Big, Billy Madison, The Sandlot, The Big Lebowski, The Shiningand more have been given the Funko POP treatment, and now one of Disney’s most beloved sports franchises will join them....

David Fincher Adapting UK Mini-Series House Of Cards For Weekly US Series Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of acclaimed UK television probably saw this coming. So many great series have been adapted or are on the verge, and one notable political project was missing:House of Cards, originally broadcast in 1990. NowDavid Fincherand hisThe Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonscreenwriterEric Rothare re-teaming to adapt the series into an ongoing hour-long drama for US television....

David O. Russell Wants Jennifer Lawrence To Play The Inventor Of The Miracle Mop The last two times thatDavid O. Russellteamed up withJennifer Lawrence, it went really well for both of them. They each got Oscar nominations forSilver Linings PlaybookandAmerican Hustle(with Lawrence actually winning for the former), and both films fared well at the box office. So it shouldn’t come as much of a shock that he’s eager to team with her again....

Dexter Fletcher To Direct Freddie Mercury Biopic Sadly, theFreddie Mercurybiopic gets a little less promising with each development step. The long-standing assumption was thatSacha Baron Cohenwould play the late Queen frontman based on a script byPeter Morgan, with the surviving members of the band (Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon) acting as producers. The band is still on board, but Cohen is gone, reportedly because he wanted to make a wild, R-rated tell-all film, while the band wants something a little more sanitized....

Eminem To Star In Multiple Roles In 3D Anthology Horror Movie Shady Talez Nationwide, Juggalos are already boycotting in parking lots, in addition to breeding.Eminem, the 37-year-old adolescent rapper, will follow up his $116 million grossing fictionalized biopic,8 Mile, from 2002 with a3D anthology horror moviehorrifically entitledShady Talez. The project has kicked around fora while, and is now part of a synergy package that includes a same-named four-issue comic book series due 2010 fromMarvel Icons....

Four New Photos From ‘Iron Man 3,’ Including The First Look At Rebecca Hall Marvel Studios continues to slowly revealShane Black’sIron Man 3. Earlier this week, studio president Kevin Feigetalked aboutthe film’s tone (it’s not serious); mentioned the villain (the Mandarin is unlike anyone Iron Man has faced before); and confirmed none of the other Avengers would appear. That’s all fine and well, but let’s see some new stuff, right?...

Francis Lawrence Officially Set To Direct ‘The Hunger Games’ Sequel ‘Catching Fire;’ Will Shoot Fall 2012 As Planned Setting a director to makeThe Hunger GamessequelCatching Fireturned out to be a little more complicated for Lionsgate than was originally expected. WhileGary Rosswasfirst thoughtto be fully set to reprise his directorial duties after making the smash first film, hemoved onto other jobs. Aftercasting about for follow-up options, Lionsgatemade an offertoI Am Legend,ConstantineandWater For ElephantsdirectorFrancis Lawrence....

Guillermo Del Toro Denies 3D/Casting Rumors, Names DP, And Talks Avatar A couple weeks ago, arumor circulatedthatPeter Jacksonwas going to direct a new Middle Earth film which would connectThe HobbitandThe Lords of the Rings, and that all three films (remember,The Hobbitis two films) would be produced in 3D. Of course, we didn’t really believe the rumor at the time, and said as much, but now Hobbit directorGuillermo del Torohas put all of the rumors to rest....

Joe Carnahan Still Directing ‘Five Against A Bullet,’ Bruce Willis No Longer On Board About three and a half years ago,Bruce Willisbecame attached toFive Against a Bullet, an action thriller formerly set up at Columbia Pictures fromTransformersandG.I. Joefranchise producerLorenzo DiBonaventura. Then just last year,The A-TeamandSmokin' AcesdirectorJoe Carnahancame on board the project. However, one of them has fallen away. Joe Carnahan is still attached to direct the film, but it appears Bruce Willis (whomay or may not have been firedfrom Woody Allen’s next movie) is no longer part of the movie....

John August Latest Writer To Adapt ‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark’ Movie CBS Films has been trying to crack the popular children’s book series,Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, for a while. Originally, they brought onSawwriters Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Meltonto pen a script. Evidently their take wasn’t what the company wanted. CBS has now gone back to square one and hired a writer who knows a little something about blending the tones that made these books so popular....

K-2SO Might Return In ‘Rogue One’ Prequel Series For Disney+, According To Alan Tudyk K-2SO, one of the many fussy droids in theStar Warsuniverse, met an untimely end inRogue One: A Star Wars Story, along with pretty much every other character. But we may not have seen the last of him. There’s aRogue Oneprequel series headed to Disney+, and according toAlan Tudyk, the actor who performed motion capture and voice work for K-2, the droid might pop up in some capacity....