The Latino Review have posted a rumour that Jessica Biel is set to star in a new movie adaptatation of the Street Fighter video game franchise from Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment and Capcom Ltd.

Apparently Biel is in the frame after Keira Knightley & Jessica Alba passed on the role in a movie that will focus on the game’s most popular female fighter, Chun-Li. Although the storyline is under wraps, the film is targeted to be released in 2008, the 20th anniversary of the game franchise.

Biel is an American actress and former fashion model who is probably best known for her role as Mary Camden in the long-running family-drama series 7th Heaven.

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Paramount have released a couple of high resolution images from next year’s big screen adaptation of the classic Marvel comicbook Iron Man.

The first depicts a tuxedo-wearing Robert Downey Jr as billionaire industrialist Tony Stark, the second a higher detail version of the Mark III armour that was revealed recently. Click here to view the images.

Iron Man tells the story of a troubled scientist who creates a life support suit to assist him after a life threatening accident, and ultimately decides to use its technology to fight evil and crime. The movie stars Downey Junior in the lead with Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges and Leslie Bibb. The movie is scheduled for release May 2, 2008.

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Rotten Tomatoes reports that despite its poor performance at the box office, Hostel director Eli Roth is nagging Edgar Wright and various studios to let him film a Grindhouse sequel based on the faux trailers for Thanksgiving and Don’t.

‘We have the outline,’ said Roth, ‘the story ideas but part of the fun of Grindhouse is actually not having a script. I wouldn’t want to write it too detailed. You’ve just got to work out the kills and then see who’s around and grab a camera and have fun. The catch is that me and all my friends who are in our 30s, we all have to play high school students, because that’s how they did it in ’80s horror movies.’

Roth added that he felt that the three and a half hour running time contributed to the commercial failure of the recently released movie.

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The Los Angeles Times reports that a conglomerate of Mexican directors led by Pan’s Labyrinth helmer Guillermo del Toro, is trying to sell a multiple movie deal to various Hollywood studios.

Del Toro has teamed up with Alfonso Cuarón (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel), Carlos Cuarón (Ofelia) and Rodrigo Garcia (Passengers) to hawk a five movie deal with a combined budget of $100 million.

Next up for del Toro is the comicbook adaptation Hellboy 2: The Golden Army.

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