pOne great comedy and one unusual family film hit theaters this weekend. Here’s a closer look at each…/p pa href=http://www.reelmovienews.com/movies/funny-people/emFunny People/em/abr /emStars/em: Adam Sandler, Leslie Mann, Seth Rogenbr /emQuick Synopsis/em: A dying comedian takes a funny look at life.br /emPrediction/em: Good humor and important life lessons?

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Opening This Weekend: Funny People, Aliens in the Attic

pIt looks like Ridley Scott is returning to the franchise that made him famous./p pemVariety/em has confirmed that 20th Century Fox will keep the emAlien/em series alive with a prequel that will be directed by Scott, who was behind the camera for the original./p pJon Spaihts will write the prequel./p p style=text-align: center;img src=http://www.reelmovienews.com/files/alien_296×395.png width=296 alt=Alien height=395 //p

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Ridley Scott to Direct Aliens Prequel

pThis movie rumor didn’t last long./p pFollowing brief talk that Katie Holmes might appear in the a href=http://www.reelmovienews.com/2008/11/sex-and-the-city-movie-sequel-update-2010-shoot-planned/Sex and the City movie sequel/a, the actress’ rep has denied the report./p pTotally fabricated story, Ina Treciokas a href=http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b136995_katie_holmes_ready_sex.html target=_blanktold E! News/a of a talk invented by a British tabloid./p pThe fabricated character would have supposedly been that of a high-powered businesswoman that goes toe-to-toe with Kim Cattrall’s Samantha Jones./p p style=text-align: center;a href=http://www.reelmovienews.com/gallery/the-fab-four/img src=http://static.reelmovienews.com/images/gallery/the-fab-four.jpg alt=The Fab Four //a/p p style=text-align: center;strongCould you have pitcured Katie Holmes in the next Sex and the City sequel?/strong/p

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No Sex for Katie Holmes

pJon Spaihts (”Passengers,” “Shadow 19″) has been hired to write a prequel to 1979’s “Alien” in development at 20th Century Fox reports a href=”http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006722.html?categoryid=13amp;cs=1″Variety/a./p pPreceding that first film, the project marks the return of Ridley Scott to the franchise with the helmer returning to the director’s chair./p pSpaihts got the job after pitching the studio and Scott Free, which will produce the film./p

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pRising Aussie helmers Michael and Peter Spierig (”Undead,” “Daybreakers”) have signed on to direct a remake of the classic 1935 swashbuckler “Captain Blood” for Warner Bros. Pictures says a href=”http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006704.html?categoryid=13amp;cs=1″Variety/a./p pErrol Flynn starred in the original as a wrongly imprisoned British doctor named Peter Blood who escapes with a French pirate (Basil Rathbone) and clashes with the buccaneer who kidnapped his woman (Olivia de Havilland)./p pThe new version switches the location to space though will keep quite close to the storyline. Bill Gerber will produce while John Brownlow will pen the script./p

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Spierigs To Remake "Captain Blood"

pNacho Vigalondo (”Timecrimes”) is set to direct the action comedy “Gangland” for Film Rites says a href=”http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3ia2224c3f78e5a3cefbf041e5020ed417″The Hollywood Reporter/a./p pThe story revolves around a team of video-game developers who get in over their heads after they promise to deliver the most realistic game of all time, titled “Gangland,” and soon find themselves having to survive by their own wits in a real-life criminal underworld./p pPat Healy (TV’s “In Treatment”) will pen the script and “Schindler’s List” scribe Steve Zaillian will produce./p

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Vigalondo Enters The "Gangland"

pJerry Bruckheimer has picked up feature rights to the graphic novel “World War Robot” reports a href=”http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006720.html?categoryid=13amp;cs=1″Variety/a./p pThe story is recounted in war-diary form by participants on both sides, centering on a small band of humans and robots facing off in a battle on Earth, the moon and Mars./p pAshley Wood penned the story./p

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Bruckheimer Repairs "World War Robot"

pSydney-based FX company Animal Logic has nabbed the film rights to the mystery/horror graphic novel “Night Mary” says a href=”http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i4e32728fe86b6c043f74a169905db900″The Hollywood Reporter/a./p pNight Mary follows young Mary Specter, a dreamer who goes into the nightmares of the disturbed patients at her father’s sleep disorder clinic. /p pWhen one of these patients turns out to be a serial killer, her time sleeping and her time awake suddenly blend together/p pRick Remender and Kieron Dwyer penned the original./p

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Animal Logic Lands "Night Mary" Rights

pIt’s been quite the time for Robert Downey Jnr whose career, just a few short yearts ago, seemed to be on the decline.

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SDCC: Downey Talks "Holmes," "Iron Man 2"

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