James Mangold's "Untitled Witchita Project"

James Mangold, director of Walk the Line and 3:10 to Yuma started filming a new untitled project in Boston recently.

The film is being shot under the code

name "Zephyr." Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood) was recently added to the cast that already included Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.

Apparently the story has to do with "a powerful battery that holds the key to an infinite power source"

which was most likely created by Dano's character, Slashfilm reports. Cruise plays a government agent who's just met Diaz's character and they must survive conspiracy theory type action scenarios. This sounds a lot like Eagle Eye, no?

Your thoughts?

Haggis' "The Next Three Days"

Paul Haggis, writer/director of Crash, 2006's Academy Award winning film, is working on a new film titled "The Next Three Days."

The movie will be a remake of a 2008 French film called Pour Elle. The story will revolve around a man that goes to great lengths to get his wife out of a 20-year jail term after she is arrested out of nowhere for a murder she says she didn't commit. The couple will be played by Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks.

Also casted in the film are Brian Dennehy and rap music's the RZA, who has really been acting quite a bit lately. Keep it here for more details as they arrive.

Coens' "A Serious Man" Trailer

The Coen Brothers' latest film is the dark comedy A Serious Man.

There are really no big name actors here. Michael Stuhlbarg plays Larry Gopnik, whom IMDb describes as "a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel when his wife prepares to leave him because his inept brother won't move out of the house." It will be a dark comedy, probably similar in style to Burn After Reading, which I loved, (Tony?).

You might also notice Richard Kind (Spin City) in the trailer, which is awesome.

Enjoy. Let us know what you think. We love hearing feedback!

Quickie: The Book of Eli trailer 2

Holy Wow... are you freakin' kidding me?! I can't wait! Watch, enjoy, comment.

Quickie: 'Cloudy' wins the box office two weeks in a row

Hey folks. Pixar pioneered the Computer Animation genre that we all know today. But what's happening is, the other studios are also making great films within the genre. Sony Pictures Animation as adapted the kid's novel, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, into a winning movie; taking the top spot in the box office, two weeks in a row. The film beat out the highly anticipated Surrogates, starring Bruce Willis. Here's the rest of the top ten:

1. "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," $24.6 million.

2. "Surrogates," $15 million.

3. "Fame," $10 million.

4. "The Informant!", $6.9 million.

5. "Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself," $4.8 million.

6. "Pandorum," $4.4 million.

7. "Love Happens," $4.3 million.

8. "Jennifer's Body," $3.5 million.

9. "9," $2.8 million.

10. "Inglourious Basterds," $2.7 million.

Venom Spin-Off moving along at Sony

"Zombieland" writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese have been working on a script for a Venom movie for Sony Pictures. Werrick told Sci-Fi Writer “We’ve written two drafts of Venom, and the studio has it, and they’re pushing forward in whatever ways they push forward.”

It will be interesting to see whether or not Sony will try to tie this in with the upcoming Spider-Man 4, or if it will be a true spin-off.

Tony & I both disliked Spider-Man 3 very much and think the Venom character deserves a better movie outing. Zombieland has been getting mostly positive reviews, and seeing as how both writers Wernick and Reese also wrote for TV's excellent Joe Shmoe Show, we have high expectations of their creative talents.

So what do you guys think of a Venom movie spin-off: yay or nay? Click on "comments" below and let us know!

David Mamet's Anne Frank movie on hold

The Wrap is reporting that the Anne Frank movie we told you about is in turnaround. Apparently David Mamet's script was so Pro-Isreal, so dark, that when it got to Disney, they reject it and put the movie on hold.

I'm have a little bit of mixed feelings about this. If it is true and the script was very Pro-Isreal, that's not right, because that should become apparent through Anne Franks's diary entries. I also think it SHOULD be dark, it SHOULD be intense. That was a very dark time in the world's history, no one should make light of it. I don't think Disney was the proper venue for this type of movie anyway. They like the cookie-cutter family films, not dark dramas as intense as The Diary of Anne Frank. So we'll have to wait until Disney sells off the rights and another studio makes the film.