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It’s a bird. It’s a plane…

• A poker-faced Christopher Nolan quashes rumors about Superman and his third Batman. And he doesn’t create any new ones. (LA Times)
• Warner Bros. is looking at two Wizard of Oz projects in hopes of having Alice in Wonderland-type success. (LA Times)
• Clint Eastwood has his sights set on a J. Edgar Hoover biopic written by Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. (THR)
• Fox has moved Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps from its April release date to Sept. 24. (The Wrap)

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Bada Bing!

• Sopranos creator David Chase is set to direct a rock drama for Paramount Vantage. (DHD)
• What do John Hughes and Tupac have in common? Hughes, who died in August, has a screenplay titled Grisbys Go Broke floating around Hollywood. (THR)
• The Last Song’s Liam Hemsworth will star in the period action film Arabian Nights And yes, it will be in 3D. (THR)
• Anna Faris and Chris Evans will star in the R-rated comedy What’s Your Number? (Variety)

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Do it with others.

• Justin D. Hilliard wants you… to help him make Swallow. And you should. (IndieGoGo)
• The Butler brothers, my favorite Canadian indie brewers, just posted the second episode of their web series Larry & Burt’s Gut Rot. (YouTube)
• David Spaltro writes about making his spectacular indie …Around for The Wrap. (The Wrap)

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Yes, I’m alive. And I have some news to prove it.

• Best. First Lady. Ever. Michelle Obama has invited the cast of Glee to perform at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. (EW)
• Taylor Launter’s Twihard fanbase just landed the teen star a role in Abduction. Lionsgate spent mucho dinero ($1 m) on the screenplay. (The Wrap)
• Kevin James, the only man in entertainment less funny than Jay Leno, will star opposite Vince Vaughn in an untitled Ron Howard comedy. (DHD)
• Love was in the air in 2008. Brian White will star opposite Mallika Sherawat in Politics of Love, which follows a romance that blossoms in the lead up to Obama’s election. Wonder if the sequel will be about divorce? (THR)

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Where does he get all those wonderful toys?!

• I get Candy Land. I get Battleship. I even get View-Master. But Erector Set: The Movie? (EW)
• Hugh Jackman’s Avon Man finds Enchanted director. (Variety)
• Wuthering Heights is set to be Twilight-ified. No joke. (Deadline)
• NBC, desperate to find hour-longs for the 10 p.m. time slot, settles on some guy named Spielberg. (THR)

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Good Morning!

• Kristen Wiig will have a couple of freaks and geeks behind her when she makes her debut as a leading lady. (THR)
• Doug Liman is ready to scream, “Attica! Attica!” Don’t worry. It’s not a remake. (Screen Daily)
• Amanda Bynes will join Owen Wilson, Jenna Fischer and Jason Sudeikis in the Farrelly brothers’ Hall Pass. (Variety)
• The Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl, 90210, America’s Next Top Model and Supernatural will all be back on the CW next season. (AICN)

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Heart you.

• Madonna is directing again and she’s going royal. The pop superstar will be at the helm of W.E., which follows King Edward VIII’s affair with Wallis Simpson. (Variety)
• Colin Firth, one of this year’s Best Actor nominees, is set to star in Winterbottom’s thriller The Promised Land with Jim Sturgess and Matthew Macfadyen. (The Wrap)
• The A-Team director, Joe Carnahan, and star, Bradley Cooper, will reteam for the plane-crash-wolf-pack thriller The Grey. (Screen Rant)
• Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Rapunzel is now Tangled. (ComingSoon.net)

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Drinking it indie…

• Gary King’s indie musical How Do You Write a Joe Schermann Song just crossed $1,500 on Kickstarter. Help him make the film happen.
• Gavin B. James’ Footsteps, which has a hypnotic little trailer, now has some behind the scenes footage online at Vimeo.
• Better late than never: Check out Frederic Lumiere’s Obama Inauguration video, Keep it Moving, released last month.

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Hearsay and conjecture:

• “I said to them, ‘I’ll do it if you kill me off in the first reel.’ So now they are going to have me as a ghost in the film.”  Bill Murray spills the beans on Ghostbuster 3 to the UK Mail.
• Christopher Nolan’s not directing; he’s just supervising. Superman reboot rumors on DHD.
• Tom Cruise signs  on for Mission: Impossible 4. Insert career revival joke here. From The Wrap.

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Someday, I’ll get back to regular posting, but for now, here’s some news that’s fit to link.

• Skins and About a Boy star Nicholas Hoult has joined George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road. (THR)
• Zac Efron has lined up two more projects without signing or dancing, Fire, based on the graphic novel by Brian Mitchell Bendis, and a “Back to the Future-like” film. (DHD)
• George Lucas says, “I’ll see your furries, Cameron,  and raise you singing CGI fairies.” Seriously. TMNT director Kevin Munroe is set to helm. (The Wrap)
• Sam Worthington will go vamp in Alex Proyas’ Dracula Year Zero. (Latino Review)

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