Actress and model Jaime King (Pearl Harbour, Sin City) has been cast in Will Eisner’s: The Spirit reports IESB.

King joins a growing female cast that includes Scarlett Johansson as Silken Floss, Eva Mendes as Sand Saref and Sarah Paulson as Dr. Ellen Dolan.

The Spirit (real name Denny Colt) is a fictional American masked crime-fighter, created by Will Eisner in 1940, who starred in a Sunday-newspaper comic-book insert.  The Spirit is a man who fakes his own death so he can fight crime from the shadows of Central City.  His nemesis is the Octopus,  who kills those unlucky enough to see his face and is looking to wipe out the entire city.  In the movie version Gabriel Macht is taking the lead role with Samuel L Jackson portraying the octopus.

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IESB reports that screenwriter Stuart Beattie has handed in his draft for Paramount’s G.I. Joe movie adaptation and has some info on possible story elements.

The site claims that Cobra Commander is ‘an Emperor Palpatine-like figure’ and that Destro and the Baroness are lead villains.   Zartan and the Dreadnoks will serve as Cobra’s mercenary henchmen while the relationship between Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow ‘will be a main focal point and the soul of the film.’  The G.I. Joes will be an inernational military force but will be US-based.

G.I. Joe is being helmed by Stephen Sommers (The Mummy) with shooting set to commence in early ‘08.

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Sarah Polley (Beowulf & Grendel, Dawn of the Dead) and Adrien Brody (The Pianist, King Kong) have been cast in sci-fi thriller Splice says the Hollywood Reporter.

The film will be directed by Vincenzo Natali and produced by Steven Hoban of Copperheart Entertainment and executive produced by Franck Chorot of Gaumont.  Guillermo del Toro, Don Murphy and Susan Montford also are executive producing via their Angry Bulls outfit.

The story explores a dark vision of the world of genetic engineering in which two young scientists (Polley and Brody) become superstars by splicing different animal DNA to create fantastical new creatures. They ignore the legal and ethical boundaries and introduce human DNA into their experiment. The screenplay was written by Natali, Antoinette Terry Bryant and Doug Taylor. Production is slated to begin in November in Toronto.

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The Hobbit movie adaptation might be with us before 2010 with Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson at the helm reports EW.

Sources close to the talks between the Kiwi director and New Line have told the site that ‘they’re detecting a lot less frost in the air, and that a deal may be reached that could help usher J.R.R. Tolkien’s maiden Middle-earth masterpiece to screens before the end of the decade’.

‘There has been a détente,’ said an insider. ‘There is now the beginning of a discourse between Peter Jackson and New Line that’s running parallel to the litigation proceedings.’

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John Carpenter fans take a deep, deep breath –  an unverified source over at AICN is claiming that Len Wiseman has jumped off the Escape from New York remake.

His replacement?   Stepping into the Underworld  helmers shoes is allegedly the much maligned Brett Ratner,  best known as the director of After the Sunset,  Red Dragon, the Rush Hour movies, and X-Men: The Last Stand.   You have our deepest condolences.

Anyway,  Gerard Butler is set to play Snake Plissken in the remake,  a convict and war hero who’s sent into a futuristic Manhattan — which has been turned into a giant maximum security prison — to rescue the president of the U.S. after his plane is knocked down by terrorists.  The much-loved original starred Kurt Russell.

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The trailer for Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd had arrived with a bloody thump.

Click here to watch in various formats including HD or watch the Youtube version on the X-Boards.

The film starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall and Sacha Baron Cohen is an adaptation of the award winning musical-thriller by Steven Sondheim. It tells the story of a man unjustly sent to prison, who vows revenge not only for that cruel punishment but for the devastating consequences of what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to reopen his barber shop, he becomes the Demon Barber of Fleet Street who ‘shaved the heads of gentleman who never thereafter were heard from again.’

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Fox has committed to producing a new X-Files-style TV show called Fringe from the minds of J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci reports Variety.

The show will launch with a two-hour pilot budgeted at more than $10 million with the trio executive producing alongside Bryan Burk (Lost).  A search has begun for a pilot helmer as well as a series showrunner.

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Warner Bros.  Pictures has launched the official I Am Legend website.

The site includes a teaser trailer,  wallpapers, screensaver, buddy icons and poster.  Click here to visit or head to the X-Realms gallery to take a peek at the new wallpapers.

I Am Legend is a post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film based on Richard Matheson’s novel of the same name. The movie stars Will Smith, Alice Braga, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Willow Smith and Charlie Tahan and opens in conventional and IMAX cinemas on December 14th.

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Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios have unveiled a new Iron Man teaser poster via Yahoo! movies.

Take a look in our gallery and remember to click through for a higher resolution version.

The much anticipated film is directed by Jon Favreau and stars Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jeff Bridges. It is scheduled to open in theaters May 2, 2008.

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