- Martin Scorsese has dropped out of the Bob marley project according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The Academy Award winning director has quit the project due to 'scheduling conflicts'.
Taking his place in the director's chair is The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia filmmaker Jonathon Demme.
The film is expected to be released early 2010 and will commemorate the 65th anniversary of Bob Marley's death.
- Iron man writing team Art Marcum and Matt Holloway will pen the new Highlander screenplay.
Summit Entertainment have picked up the remake rights and will have Peter Davis, producer on the original film, returning in a production role.
Filming is expected to get underway in 2009 and Summit Entertainment hopes that the new film will revitalise the Highlander franchise.
-Academy Award winner Ang Lee has signed on to direct 1949, an epic love story set in the final years of the Chinese Civil War.
The $40 million Chinese language production will star Chang Chen and Korea's Song Hye-kyo and shooting will start in December.
- Dreamworks are jumping on the Pirates band wagon as they bring the story of legendary pirate Blackbeard to the big screen.
Gladiator writer David Franzoni has been bought in to pen the script and Enchanted's Barry Josephson is also aboard the project to produce.
- Hellboy director Guillermo Del Toro will co-produce the big screen adaptations of David Moody's 2006 novel Hater.
The story revolves around an epidemic of random violence that breaks out where people are lashing out without warning.
Del Toro was originally expected to direct the project but his new commitments in New Zealand on The Hobbit has forced them to look elsewhere.
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