updates
* Jeff Vintar (I, ROBOT) will write sci-fi adaptations of Y: THE LAST MAN for New Line and Isaac Asimov's FOUNDATION trilogy for Fox. Shekhar Kapur is attached to direct the latter. ALL of this looks GREAT to me.

* Gore Verbinski is set to direct PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 2 for Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Terry Rossio and Ted Elliott are penning the sequel with Johnny Depp also reprising his starring role. Ladies try and control yourselves when you's see this, eh?

* Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Duvall are set to star in BIT PLAYERS for Universal Pictures with Scott Rosenberg and Michael Lewis writing the script. Story is about a trio of men whose small town in the West is destroyed by a Wall Street crook who has swindled townsfolk out of their pensions. Hoffman is the duped owner of the bank that leaves the town high and dry. Hackman and Duvall will play two of those men who band with Hoffman and head to New York, where they hatch a scheme to get even. This one looks really good. Awesome cast and a good plot. What more could you ask for?

Karl Urban (THE TWO TOWERS) is in talks to play Matt Damon's nemesis in Universal Pictures' THE BOURNE SUPREMACY for director Paul Greengrass. I'm glad they're making more Bourne movies. S'good stuff.

* Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are in talks to star in the New Line Cinema comedy THE WEDDING CRASHERS about two guys who have a hobby of crashing weddings in order to meet girls. While crashing a random nuptial, one of them unexpectedly falls in love. I love these guys. This will be a good one. Same goes for the next one.

* Brooke Burke has landed a cameo role in 20th Century Fox and Red Hour Films' UNTITLED DODGEBALL MOVIE, starring Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn, for writer/director Rawson Marshall Thurber. And who doesn't love Brook?

thats it for now. til i dig up more movie goodness...