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--- Adorable hipster director Cary Fukunaga will make that sci-fi movie Spaceless next, which was a rumor a few weeks back. Two movies down - Sin Nombre and Jane Eyre - ad I'll follow the dude anywhere.

--- Thrones Keepers - Some casting news for A Game of Thrones: they've cast Theon Greyjoy's sister Asha (although she can't be named Asha in the TV series because of that whore character Osha they invented for the show, so now she's called Yara, because none of us need any more complications when it comes to this show) and Xaro Xhoan Daxos, a kingly dude that Dany deals with. I'm not familiar with either actors at first glance, but the show's shown itself pretty dang good at picking the right actors so far.

--- Recent Piranha remaker Alexandre Aja might remake Pet Semetary. I find myself with very little to say about that. Huh.

--- After Zach Snyder makes his Superman movie with Henry "swoon" Cavill, he's lining up a movie called The Last Photograph which sounds more serious than what we're used to from him - it's set in "war-torn Afghanistan" and:

--- Ben Foster will be playing John Gotti Jr. in that Gotti movie with John Travolta; we worried last week when Dominic Cooper was rumored up for the role, and now we're worried for Ben. Mitts off, Travolta!

--- Diablo Cody, who seems to be inexplicably-to-me hated these days more than she's liked, appears to be drawn to birds of a feather since she's apparently offered the co-lead in her directorial debut (previous post) to Russell Brand. These are both people I am always being forced to argue in favor of! This movie will drive me to knife-wielding!

--- Have you seen the poster for Drive yet? It's Goslinglicious! (via)

--- We just rambled a little bit about Miranda July earlier, and here's more - she talked to io9 about the science-fictional way time works in her new movie The Future.

--- And finally, here's the first clip from Todd Solondz's new movie Dark Horse. I haven't watched it yet and I might not watch it in order to keep myself pure - please please please let this movie play at the New York Film Festival this Fall! - but have at it if you will.

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--- A New Midnight - The third book in Clive Barker's Abarat series will for sure be out in September, says Mr. Barker himself. It's called Absolute Midnight. It's been listed on Amazon for then for awhile so I guess he's just making we know for sure for sure here. I might have to go back and read the first two volumes, my memory's pretty vague on it at this point. The last one came out several years ago. It's a good series though. Now that I've finished A Dance With Dragons I've picked Barker's Imajica back up, which is also great.

--- One Million Movie March - If you haven't been you oughta be keeping up with Glenn's epic journey through the Melbourne International Film Festival - he's seeing like 30 thousand movies over the course of it's couple weeks and writing up his thoughts over at Stale Popcorn. Of movies I haven't yet seen but am dying to see he's already seen Meloncholia and Martha Marcy May Marlene and The Innkeepers, amongst others. Jealous.

--- Two For Hugh - Two bits of Hugh Jackman news - he's apparently pretty much set to star in the movie version of Les Miz, and it's about time he made a movie musical wouldn't you say? Even if I have very little interest in seeing this I can say that all the same. And secondly, he's revealed who the villain will be in the second Wolverine movie. I guess it's a spoiler but we'll probably hear all about whoever gets cast when it happens so I doubt anybody will be able to avoid this news for too long.

--- Frat Boys - Seth Rogen and Zac Efron are teaming up for a fraternity-themed R-rated comedy, says Deadline. Somebody's balls better end up on somebody's chin, is all I gotta say.

--- Head Go Boom - Alexandre Aja is going to produce a TV series based on David Cronenberg's 1981 telekinesis classic Scanners? This is what awesome sounds like.

--- Betting On Braga - I say this every time I link to one of these but man I love Craig's Take Three series at The Film Experience. He always manages to make me think about performers that I either don't give enough thought to personally or don't hear other people mention often enough. His latest is on Alice Braga. She was great in Predators; much better than that movie knew what to do with.

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