According to Superhero Hype! the working title for Lionsgate and Marvel Studios’ new Punisher film is The Punisher: Welcome Back Frank.

The new movie see Frank Castle/The Punisher, played by Ray Stevenson (Rome) knocking heads with a mobster in New York.  Filming is set to commence  in Montreal with Levi Alexander (Hooligans) in the director’s chair. The story was written by Nick Santora, Kurt Sutter, Matt Holloway and Art Marcum.

In the original Marvel comic books the Punisher is a vigilante who considers killing, kidnapping, extortion, coercion, threats of violence and torture as acceptable crime-fighting tactics. Driven by the deaths of his wife and children, who were killed by the mob when they witnessed a Mafia gangland execution in New York City’s Central Park, Frank Castle wages a one-man war on the mob and all criminals in general by using all manner of weaponry. A war veteran, Castle is a master of martial arts, stealth tactics, hand-to-hand combat, spatial planning and a wide variety of weapons.

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The LA Times reports that New Line have been quietly trying to smooth over relations with Peter Jackson in an effort to move The Hobbit project forward.

Riding on a terrible financial slump and with shaky relations with parent company Time Warner,  it seems that the studio is once again turning its attention to the property that is guaranteed to return big box office dollars. 

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Rather inevitably,  following the global success of Transformers,   it seems that more giant toy robots are looming on the Hollywood horizon.

According to Variety, 20th Century Fox is close to a deal with the Mark Gordon Co. to adapt Voltron: Defender of the Universe into a live-action film. Gordon has been developing the pic, based on the popular 1980s Japanese animated TV series,  comicbooks and toy line, with Justin Marks penning the script.

Marks’ take is described as a post-apocalyptic tale set in New York City and Mexico.  Five ragtag survivors of an alien attack band together and end up piloting the five lion-shaped robots that combine and form the massive sword-wielding Voltron that helps battle Earth’s invaders.   Marks is also adapting He-Man and the Masters of the Universe for Joel Silver at Warner Bros,  the Green Arrow movie Supermax and Street Fighter.

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Hot on the heels of the news that Richard Briars has taken a role in Torchwood,  his old The Good Life co-star Felicity Kendal has been announced as a guest star in parent show Doctor Who.  Best known as Barbara Good in the classic 1970s sitcom, Kendal will play Lady Clemency Eddison.

Over the course of the series, the time-travelling hero will also revisit his old enemy The Ood - a race of squid-like humans - and drop in on legendary crime novellist Agatha Christie.  The crime novellist will be played by Fenella Woolga who was seen recently in Jekyll, which was written by Who writer Steven Moffat.

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Warner Independent Pictures have appointed The Shield executive producer Kurt Sutter to write and make his feature directing debut on Awaken the Dragon reports Variety.

The picture is a noir-style remake of Enter the Dragon, the 1973 martial arts classic that made Bruce Lee a global star and will be produced by John Wells, Fred Weintraub and Paul Heller.

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Marvel Studios has recruited Matthew Vaughn to direct the movie adaptation of Thor reports Variety.

In the original comic book, Thor is banished to earth by Odin to live the life of a mortal.  After a decade has passed he discovers the enchanted hammer Mjolnir, one of the most formidable weapons known to man or god and transforms back into his Godlike form.  Among the hammer’s various enchantments are its indestructibility and the ability to summon all the elements of storm (wind, rain, thunder, and lightning).

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We’ve added five new posters promoting the upcoming The Golden Compass to our movie gallery, courtesy of CelebUtopia.net. You can use the following direct links to load them:

• Main poster
• Mrs. Coulter
• Lyra & Iorek
• Lord Asriel
• Serafina Pekkala & Lee Scoresby

The anticipated movie is set to open in cinemas December 7.

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