Last night Fox aired a new trailer for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer during So you think you can Dance?

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The superhero sequel stars Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans, Ioan Gruffudd, Julian McMahon and Kerry Washington. A motion-captured Doug Jones will appear as the Surfer who is voiced by Laurence Fishburne. The movie is scheduled for a June 15, 2007 release date.

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Variety reports that Avi Lerner’s Millennium Films, spurred on by the success of 300, is developing a live-action Hercules movie.

Lerner and Millennium’s Boaz Davidson, Danny Dimbort and Trevor Short are producing the project based on the mythological Greek hero. Sean Hood has already delivered a script but no director has yet been attached.

Hercules has appeared on screen numerous times: most notably in the form of Steve Reeves in the 1957 Italian cheapy, the syndicated TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys starring Kevin Sorbo and Disney’s animated outing in 1997.

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Warner Bros. Pictures is planning a big-screen adaptation of DC Comics’ superhero team Teen Titans reveals the Hollywood Reporter.

The live-action project is being produced by Akiva Goldsman and Kerry Foster through their Weed Road banner, while Mark Verheiden has been brought on board to write the script.

The Teen Titans made their debut in 1964 with a lineup that included the superhero sidekicks Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Wonder Girl and Speedy. 

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It was a no-brainer really: Universal Orlando has secured rights to the Harry Potter stories and is set to build a themed area of rides, shops and restaurants called The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Islands of Adventure.

Universal, author J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers Studios are expected to make a worldwide announcement of the deal today which would see The Wizarding World of Harry Potter open by late 2009.

Universal plans to build the attractions on a 20-acre site, a little bigger than the average size of its themed islands at Islands of Adventure.

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Ubisoft, one of the world’s leading video game publishers, has announced that it will develop and publish the video game based on Paramount Pictures’ and Shangri-La Entertainment’s Beowulf, the upcoming feature film from Academy Award®-winning director Robert Zemeckis.

Neil Gaiman & Roger Avary adapted the legend for the screen. The film is produced by Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis and Jack Rapke. The executive producers are Martin Shafer, Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman.

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Variety reports that Scott Stuber and Mary Parent are preparing The Wolfman for a December start in London, with Mark Romanek directing.

The original 1941 Universal version of The Wolfman starring Lon Chaney Jr and Claude Rains tells the story of Lawrence Talbot (Chaney) who returns to his ancestral home in Wales and is attacked by a werewolf, who infects him with the curse of lyncanthropy.

Earlier reports suggested that Benicio Del Toro is attached to the project.

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According to Empire Online, Chris and Paul Weitz will begin work on adapting Michael Moorcock’s Elric after completing their work on His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass.

‘ [it’s] one Of the great classic fantasy series, it’s the one that hasn’t been done yet’ Chris Weitz told Empire Online. ‘My brother, Paul, and I liked those books growing up, and we’ve met Michael Moorcock, and he trusts us to take those books forward.’

Elric of Melniboné is a fictional character created by author Michael Moorcock in 1961, later appearing in the novel Elric of Melniboné in 1972, which became the first of a series of books.

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Variety reports that David E. Kelley has hired The West Wing and Studio 60 helmer Thomas Schlamme to direct the pilot for the US version of Life on Mars.

Schlamme will also executive-produce the pilot, which is in preproduction and slated to shoot sometime this summer. Kelley, Stephen Garrett and Jane Featherstone are also executive-producing.

Life on Mars is an International Emmy-winning British television drama series, which was first shown on BBC One in January and February 2006. The series follows the exploits of DCI Sam Tyler of Greater Manchester Police (originally played by John Simm), who, after being hit by a car in 2006, finds himself somehow transported back to 1973.

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Despite being based on the longest book of the series, the fifth Harry Potter movie will actually have the shortest running time of all the films so far.

The British Board of Film Classification has revealed that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix runs for 138 minutes. To compare, Philosopher’s Stone was 152 minutes long, Chamber of Secrets 161 minutes, Prisoner of Azkaban 141 minutes and Goblet of Fire 157 minutes.

The fifth Potter opens in theaters July 13.

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According to Film Ick, the acclaimed novelist and comic author Neil Gaiman (Stardust) will be helming his first movie later this year - an adaptation of his own comic mini-series Death: The High Cost of Living.

The site claims that Gaiman met with Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro over the project a few weeks ago, and that Shia LaBeouf is in the front seat to land the lead role of Sexton Furnaval. The female lead, which is that of Death (or Didi, as she calls herself in her mortal form), has apparently snagged the interest of one famous young actress in particular - an announcement on this is expected soon.

There is no news yet on who will play the Eremite or Mad Hetty.

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