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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 »

Tracy Morgan + David O. Russell = Trouble

5:35AM Seth | David O. Russell’s next movie, a romantic comedy called Nailed, adds James Marsden, Catherine Keener and Tracy Morgan to an all-star cast that already includes Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel. As thrilled as we are to see Morgan’s movie career graduate to the level of a Russell production, we fear what mayhem might arise from combining the highly combustible auteur and the manically unhinged actor. [THR] Overseas audiences love 10,000 B.C.! So much so that Warner Bros. has ordered 9999 more sequels, at which point they’ll have Roland Emmerich take a stab at the Nativity Story, in which the baby Savior will fend off bloodthirsty sabre-toothed manger goats. [Variety] Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are close to signing Nanny McPhee’s Thomas Sangster to play the lead role in their motion-capture Tintin trilogy. Do they really have to make it motion-capture? Nothing good ever comes from motion-capture. Let’s just leave it in the early ’00s, like we left sundried tomatoes in the ’80s. [THR] More »