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Fox, Ridley Scott Apparently Reviving ‘A-Team’ For Real This Time

1:55AM STV | A year after Fox inflated and mercilessly dashed a few hundred Americans’ hopes of a big-screen A-Team adaptation, behold the promise of a new start — with surprisingly, almost bafflingly influential connections. More »

‘Nottingham’ Star Russell Crowe Instructed to Cut Back On Black Forest Ham

2:48AM STV | With The Reader and Australia in the awards-season rearview mirror, Hollywood desperately needs a new soap opera to occupy its time. They might have it with Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott’s oft-delayed Nottingham.

Put Sigourney Weaver in ‘Ghostbusters 3,’ or ‘Alien 5′ Gets It!

7:44AM Kyle Buchanan | Now that talk on a possible, long-gestating Ghostbusters sequel is heating up, MTV spoke to Sigourney Weaver about her potential involvement (when will someone call Peter MacNicol? We’re dying over here!). Weaver admitted that she’s supposed to call Bill Murray next week about the project, adding, “I would hope that my little [movie son] Oscar would be one of the Ghostbusters even if I’m not in it!” Careful, Sigourney — you’re giving producers some Seth Rogen casting suggestions. Weaver also revealed that she’s been talking to Ridley Scott about a potentially radical overhaul of the Alien franchise: More »

Ridley Scott Heads Back To The Future

6:05AM Seth | Ridley Scott’s first sci fi film since Alien and Blade Runner will be The Forever War, a project delayed for decades over book rights. Please God let it not star Russell Crowe. [Variety] The 24th Mipcom festival was overshadowed by economic tsuris, but reps from the American TV industry are remaining optimistic, saying, “C’mon—Desperate Housewives catfights are universal and depression-proof. Am I wrong?” [Variety] After the jump: Which agent kissed off WMA, taking her highish-profile client list to UTA? More »

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Sinking Ship ‘Body of Lies’ Readies the Lifeboats

9:20AM STV | Tracking on Body of Lies isn’t dazzling anyone today at Warner Bros., which has spent the last two months trying to push Ridley Scott’s $US100 million Leonardo DiCaprio/Russell Crowe war-on-terror thriller onto the top of this weekend’s congested slate of new releases. Most forecasts place its opening gross around $US17 million — likely enough to dispatch mildly aromatic new competition like Quarantine, City of Ember and The Express, but not nearly enough to guarantee a first-place finish ahead of Beverly Hills Chihuahua Not. Acceptable. Is it too early to ask what the hell happened here? More »

Lost in Time, Like Tears in Rain: Yesterday, …

8:20AM Kyle Buchanan | Lost in Time, Like Tears in Rain: Yesterday, we brought you the news that the writing duo behind Eagle Eye had set their sights on Blade Runner 2 — and now, one half of that team is washing his hands of the project. Said screenwriter John Glenn to Slashfilm: “Travis [Wright] and I actually broke off as writing partners years ago – after the first draft of Eagle Eye. Due to previous commitments, I couldn’t make the screening/Q&A last week — so to be honest, I have no idea what Travis was talking about or why he brought up a project we were tooling with years ago, when we still wrote together…It never got too far off the ground because the movie is so perfect, so the more we thought about it, the more uneasy we became with the idea…My apologies to you and your readers for the confusion Travis created.” [Slashfilm] More »

‘Eagle Eye’ Team Hopes to Replicate Its Success With Wholly Unnecessary ‘Blade Runner 2′

8:00AM Kyle Buchanan | Sometimes the Ridley Scott sci-fi classic Blade Runner can seem like a film franchise all by itself, what with the numerous international cuts, “no, for real this time” director’s cuts, and “no, for really real” final cuts the film has spawned. One thing Blade Runner has never had, though, is a sequel — and that’s something the writing duo behind the Shia LeBeouf starrer Eagle Eye is working to change. Cowriters Travis Wright and John Glenn have already scripted studio updates to The Warriors and Clash of the Titans, and at a Creative Screenwriting event recently, Wright said Blade Runner is the next property on their hit list: More »