When Henry Selick made a deal to make stop-motion movies at Disney, he put an animated version of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book into development. That film didn’t work out, but the studio is now resurrecting it as a live-action movie, which THR say Ron Howard is in talks to direct.
The story is based on Neil Gaiman’s award-winning novel that puts a genre spin on Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. The plot is about a young boy named Nobody Owens, who is raised by the ghosts in a cemetery after his family is murdered. As a teenager, the boy becomes pursued by an entity known as ‘The Man Jack,’ which killed his parents. Published in 2008, the book made history by becoming the first title to win both the Carnegie and Newberry medals.
Ron Howard will oversee the writing of a new screenplay. The filmmaker may also produce with his Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer.
The pro-Julian Assange lobby is already moving against The Fifth Estate, afraid the movie will be a hatchet job suggesting the Wikileaks founder is a power-mad, paranoid menace. We don’t know yet exactly what tone the movie will take, although as its based on a book by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who was once Assange’s right hand man but had a major ideological falling out with Julian, it’s probably not going to be 100% pro-Wikileaks.
Ray Liotta has joined the cast of The Muppets 2 for director James Bobin and Walt Disney Pictures, according to 
The Host hits cinemas on March 22nd, bringing another Stephenie Meyer (Twilight) book to the big screen. Now a quartet of new images from the film have arrived, showing the likes of Saoirse Ronan, Jake Abel, Max Irons and William Hurt.
While in recent years Michael Winner was best known in the UK for advertising insurance and being an outspoken restaurant critic, he was, of course, a film director. Now he has passed away at the age of 77, after having been given 18 months to live last summer, due to heart and liver complications.
Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, and Sebastian Stan are all set to return to the world of Captain America for The Winter Soldier, and now it appears at least one more actor from the first film will be back.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For has already confirmed the return of Sin City stars such as Jessica Alba as Nancy, Mickey Rourke as Marv, and Rosario Dawson as Gail, and now it’s been confirmed that Bruce Willis is also coming back as Hartigan.