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

Watch the trailer on the X-Boards.

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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