Fox fires back. Following the surprising announcement this morning about Disney acquiring Marvel, Fox has announced that they’re moving forward on rebooting the Fantastic Four franchise that director Tim Story ruined twice already. Screenwriter and producer Akiva Goldsman ( Poseidon , I Am Legend , Hancock ) has been hired to oversee the reboot as producer.

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20th Century Fox Moves Forward on a Fantastic Four Reboot

I’m sure some of you will say that it’s better Keanu Reeves is cast in a romantic comedy than as Spike in the Cowboy Bebop adaptation. But I fear he’ll still take on both roles, whether you like it or not.

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Keanu Reeves Joins Malcolm Venville’s RomCom Henry’s Crime

Being a Pixar fanboy myself, I keep getting into discussions today about Pixar’s involvement in the big Disney-Marvel acquisition . Not only is the relationship between Disney and Pixar being referenced as an example of the kind of relationship that Marvel has with the Mouse House (as in, they still remain in creative control over their own company). But, of course, everyone is bringing up the possibility of seeing Pixar make Marvel movies

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The NY Times has yet another first look at an upcoming Toronto Film Festival film with a few new photos. Chloe is the latest film from director Atom Egoyan and is his “most emotionally direct and accessible work” since the The Sweet Hereafter

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First Look: Amanda Seyfried in Atom Egoyan’s New Drama Chloe

pThis Friday, video game players everywhere will rejoice./p pThe Gerard Butler thriller a href=http://www.reelmovienews.com/movies/gamer/emGamer/em/a hits theaters, as the movie is set in a world in which individuals are controlled by other individuals. Gigantic scale, multi-player online gaming environments are the norm, as these make Madden 2010 look quote obsolete./p pCheck out the film’s official trailer below:/p div style=text-align:center;margin:10px auto 10px auto;width:425px; object width=425 height=350 type=application/x-shockwave-flash data=http://www.youtube.com/v/T3xpjrO5_TY param name=movie value=http://www.youtube.com/v/T3xpjrO5_TY / /object br /a href=http://www.reelmovienews.com/videos/gamer-movie-trailer/Gamer Movie Trailer/a/div

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The Gamer Movie Trailer

pemHalloween II/em (which was really the ninth installment in this franchise) wasn’t even the top-grossing new horror movie a href=http://www.reelmovienews.com/2009/08/the-final-destination-scares-up-box-office-receipts/this weekend/a./p pStill, emThe Los Angeles Times/em reports that The Weinstein Company is moving forward with emHalloween 3D/em, yet another sequel in this played out franchise./p p style=text-align: center;a href=http://www.reelmovienews.com/gallery/michael-myers/img src=http://static.reelmovienews.com/images/gallery/michael-myers_327×332.png width=327 alt=Michael Myers height=332 //a/p pWriter/directorRob Zombie won’t return for the follow-up film, as the studio is in negotiations with a new director, one with different take on the movies, according to Harvey Weinstein./p pemHalloween II/em opened in third place this weekend with an estimated $17.4 million./p

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Halloween 3D: Coming Next Summer

Building on its strategy of delivering quality branded content to people around the world, The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire Marvel Entertainment, Inc. in a stock and cash transaction, the companies announced today. Based on the closing price of Disney stock on Friday, August 28th, the transaction value is $50 per Marvel share or approximately $4 billion

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Walt Disney Acquires Marvel Entertainment for $4 Billion!

pA pair of sequels are in the works. Read on, find out more about each and then let us know: Which sounds like a worse idea?/p ul liSylvester Stallone will direct and star in the fifth installment of the Rambo franchise. The movie’s plot will focus in a kidnapping near the U.S.-Mexico border, as filming will begin next spring./li liColumbia Pictures has commissioned a screenplay for emBad Boys 3/em.

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In the Works: Rambo 5, Bad Boys 3

pa href=”http://www.marketwatch.com/story/disney-to-acquire-marvel-entertainment-2009-08-31-9050″Market Watch/a reports that The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire Marvel Entertainment, Inc. in a stock and cash transaction worth $4 billion./p pUnder the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of Marvel including its more than 5,000 Marvel characters including “Iron Man,” “Spider-Man,” “X-Men,” “Captain America,” “Fantastic Four,” “Thor,” “Hulk,” “Sub-Mariner” and of course “The Avengers”/p pMarvel shareholders will get $30 per share in cash plus 0.745 Disney shares for every Marvel share owned.

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Disney Acquiring Marvel Entertainment

pOut doing promotion for “Whiteout”, Kate Beckinsale tells a href=”http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_contentamp;view=articleamp;id=7394:exclusive-kate-beckinsale-talks-to-iesb-about-the-underworld-franchiseamp;catid=43:exclusive-featuresamp;Itemid=73″IESB/a that talk of a new “Underworld” trilogy is nonsense as the film isn’t developed enough to have anyone signed on yet./p pRose McGowan says on her a href=”http://twitter.com/rosemcgowan”Twitter feed/a that while the “Red Sonja” film is delayed and she “pulled out of doing it in ‘09″, she’s “still contracted to do it, Red Sonja. Hopefully filming in ‘10 not ‘09.”/p pAccording to a href=”http://www.timryansreelhawaii.com/”Reel Hawaii/a film location scouting is underway in the jungles of Hawaii’s big island for an 18-day shoot in October for “Predators” directed by Nimrod Antal.

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Underworld, Sonja, Predators Updates