Vera Farmiga and James Caan will star opposite Keanu Reeves in Henry’s Crime , the romantic comedy that will be directed by Malcolm Venville from a script by Sacha Gervasi.

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DreamWorks Studios has purchased the original screenplay Someone in the Dark , written by Richard Blaney and Gregory Small. Writer/director Carlos Brooks, who came to the scribes with the idea, is attached to helm and executive produce.

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Tony Scott has become attached to direct a film about the rise and fall of Steve Banerjee, the man responsible for creating Chippendales, who was consumed by excess and competition when the male strip clubs became a phenomenon in the 1980s.

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Jessica Biel is attached to star in and produce rookie screenwriter Julia Brownell’s original screenplay F***ing Engaged , a raunchy comedy about a couple who make a pact to have sex every day leading to their wedding so they don’t turn into their crusty old parents.

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ComingSoon.net talked exclusively to Jared and Jerusha Hess, the husband-and-wife filmmakers behind Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre , about their new comedy, Gentlemen Broncos . Directed by Jared and co-written by both, the October 30 release stars Michael Angarano, Jennifer Coolidge, Jemaine Clement, Mike White and Sam Rockwell.

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Filmmaker Troy Duffy and actors Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus, better known as the McManus Brothers, talk to ComingSoon.net about the long-anticipated sequel The Boondock Saints II: All Saints’ Day , out in limited release on Friday, October 30.

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The new trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar will officially come online at around 10am Pacific Time on Thursday, but a 4-minute behind-the-scenes featurette with new footage is already up and can be watched using the player below! Opening December 18th in conventional 3D theaters and IMAX 3D, the anticipated film stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Peter Mensah, Laz Alonso, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang and Matt Gerald.

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Vancouver-lensed Smallville will include members of DC Comics “Justice Society Of America”, in the 2-part episode Society, featuring the return of actor Phil Morris as the ‘Martian Manhunter’.

The episodes, airing in 2010, were scripted by writer Geoff Johns, showcasing costumed superheroes ‘Hawkman’, ‘Doctor Fate’ and ‘Stargirl’.

‘J’onn J’onzz’, aka the ‘Martian Manhunter’, first appeared in the back-up story “The Strange Experiment of Dr. Erdel” in DC’s Detective Comics #225 (Nov. 1955), written by Joseph Samachson and illustrated by Joe Certa. The character was a green-skinned extraterrestrial humanoid from the planet Mars, pulled to earth by an experimental communication device, constructed by ‘Dr. Erdel’ that accidentally became a teleportation beam.

The shock of the close encounter killed Erdel and left J’onn with no method of returning home. He then decides to fight crime while waiting for Martian technology to advance to a stage that will enable a rescue. To that end, he adopts the identity of John Jones, a detective in ‘Apex City’.

His inhuman powers include super-strength, super-speed, invulnerability, flight, ‘Martian vision’ (seeing through solid objects, generation of optic beams of force/heat), shapeshifting, telepathy and the ability to render himself invisible.

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Women in Trouble is the new ensemble comedy written, produced and directed by Sebastian Gutierrez, starring Carla “Watchmen” Gugino, Elizabeth “Showgirls” Berkely, Cameron Richardson and Adrianne Palicki.

The film is described as “…a serpentine day in the life of ten seemingly disparate women, including a porn star, flight attendant, psychiatrist, masseuse, bartender and a pair of call girls, with one crucial thing in common: A capacity for trouble…”

Women In Trouble opens November 13, 2009.

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is the UK/British Columbia-lensed fantasy feature directed by Terry “Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas” Gilliam, written by Gilliam and Charles McKeown.

The surreal film follows the leader of a travelling theatre troupe who, having made a deal with the Devil, takes audience members through a magical mirror to explore their imaginations.

Canadian actor Christopher “The Silent Partner” Plummer, singer Tom Waits and the late Heath Ledger star in the film, though Ledger’s death one-third of the way through filming caused production to be temporarily suspended.

Ledger’s role was then recast with actors Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell portraying transformations of Ledger’s character ‘Tony’ as he travels through a dream world.

The film received a PG-13 rating for “violent images, some sensuality, language and smoking”.

“…In the present day, immortal 1,000-year-old ‘Doctor Parnassus’ (Plummer) leads a traveling theatre troupe—including a sleight of hand expert ‘Anton’ (Andrew Garfield) and a dwarf ‘Percy’ (Verne Troyer), that offers audience members a chance to go beyond reality through a magical mirror in his possession. Parnassus had been able to guide the imagination of others through a deal with the Devil (Tom Waits), who now comes to collect on the arrangement, targeting the doctor’s daughter (Lily Cole).

The troupe, which is joined by a mysterious outsider named Tony (Ledger, Depp, Law, Farrell), embark through parallel worlds to rescue the girl…”

The film will be released in North America December 25.

Click the posters to enlarge and Sneak Peek the official HD trailer for The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus…

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