New Line Cinema has released the trailer for Michael Gondry’s (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) new film Be Kind Rewind - starring Jack Black, Mos Def, Mia Farrow and Danny Glover - in high-definition quality on Yahoo! Movies.

The film centers on man (Black) whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally and destroys every tape in his friend’s (Def) video store. In order to satisfy the store’s most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films, which include Back to the Future, The Lion King, and Robocop.

The movie will go into limited release December 21.

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Scholastic, the US publisher of the Harry Potter books, plans to print an additional two million copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, according to Gammag.com.

Of the 14 million copies that were originally printed for the US market, no less than 11.5 million were sold within the first ten days of the final Potter book’s release.

Meanwhile, Amazon.com has revealed that their pre-orders for the book amounted to 2.2. million and that 1.75 books per second were being sold on its busiest advanced order day. Sales figures outside of the US currently remain vague.

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Michelle Monaghan (Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Mission Impossible III) will star alongside Transformers star Shia LaBeouf and Death Proof actress Rosaria Dawson in Eagle Eye, reports Variety.

Monaghan plays a single mother who teams up with LaBeouf’s character as they are framed as terrorists and are forced to join a cell plotting a political assassination.

Production on the thriller directed by DJ Caruso (Disturbia) begins this fall.

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Film Ick by way of comicbookmovie.com are reporting that the visage of archvillian Two-Face,  aka Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight could be digital.

The site suggests that once the crime-fighting lawyer, played by Aaron Eckhart assumes his evil alter-ego, his face will be computer generated by digital FX outfit Framestore.  The company is alreay working on virtual set extensions for scenes set in Hong Kong, as well as a CG stand-in Batman

However, although the rumor of Framestore’s work on the character might be legit, it could well be the case that they are simply creating the transformation FX for the scene where crime boss Sal Maroni throws sulphuric acid in his face.

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According to the Hollywood Reporter, classic Hanna-Barbera adventure series Jonny Quest is set to be adapted for the big screen.

Warner Bros are eyeing the property as a potential franchise with Dan Mazeau penning the screenplay and Adrian Askarieh and Daniel Alter producing.

First broadcast in 1964 and inspired by radio shows, comic strips and James Bond movies, the primetime sci-fi adventure series aired on ABC, then spent the next two decades in reruns. The show told the stories of Quest, a young boy who accompanied his scientist father on extraordinary escapades. Also in the mix was his adopted brother from Calcutta, his pet bulldog pup, and the government agent assigned to protect them. The show, which was noted for its realistic portrayal of people, was canceled not because of low ratings but because it was too expensive to produce. A new series was introduced in the late 1980s as were other revivals. Several comic books series were also published.

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Carla Gugino (Sin City, Entourage) has joined the cast of Zak Snyder’s Watchmen says the Hollywood Reporter.

Gugino joins Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Malin Akerman in the movie, which is set in an alternate America that has passed a law banning costumed crimefighters. When one is murdered, the remaining members set out to solve the mystery.

Gugino will play Sally Jupiter, a burlesque dancer-turned-costumed heroine and sex symbol the Silk Spectre who is part of the Minutemen, a group of heroes who preceded the Watchmen. She also is the mother of the new Silk Spectre (Akerman). Sources said Gugino will portray Jupiter in varying eras, playing different ages throughout the movie.

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