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A Lucasfilm official press release for the Blu-rays confirms that all six movies are being released on Blu-ray and that the boxed set is coming out Fall 2011, it will include, “documentaries, vintage behind-the-scenes moments, interviews, retrospectives and never-before-seen footage from the Lucasfilm archives.”

When Lucas made the announcement they showed a previously unreleased scene from Return of the Jedi which will be included, Luke constructs his green light saber before going to see Jabba:

Source: SlashFilm.com

Very interesting trailer via ScreenRant.com. Gorgeous CGI and an interesting plot.

“The Cup of Tears follows a scorned geisha who creates a magical cup made of tears that causes any man who drinks from it to fall into a permanent sleep. One night the cup is stolen, setting off a chain of events that threatens civil war amongst the clans. Taro, a gifted samurai, sets out to find the cup and one who can break the spell.”

Samurai meets post apocalyptic future, sign me up!

The Cup of Tears film trailer. Dir. Gary Shore from Gary Shore on Vimeo.

Links: Wiki, Official Site

Based on the works of Darren Shan:

Starring:John C. Reilly as Larten Crepsley, Willem Dafoe as Gavner Pur, Salma Hayek as Madame Truska, Orlando Jones as Alexander Ribs, Ken Watanabe as Mr. Tall, Jane Krakowski as Cormac Limbs (female), Kristen Schaal as Gertha Teeth.

Source : SlashFilm.com

Want to know how to get 11.5 million people to go see a movie? Have Sam Rami, oh mighty force behind Evil Dead, come on board as the director for your big screen adaptation of that mother of all video game addictions World of Warcraft.

Let the line camping begin…

The full press release from Blizzard can be found here.

Gizmodo.com brings the Coffin Couch to the attention of the wannabe Goth Geeks out there who do not already have their own coffins. Only $3,500 from Etsy.

ComingSoon.net has some concept art and shots from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. Looks amazing, Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena as the Red Queen and Anne Haffayourwaywithme as the White Queen.

And in honor of the wonderful pillaging of child hood properties to be remade I give you more Toy Movie Trailers:

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James Cameron signs up for Heavy Metal and joins Zach Snyder, David Fincher, Mark Osborne, and Gore Verbinski to direct a segment of Kevin Eastman’s own vision of the classic movie.

I pity da film! Liam Neeson and Bradley Cooper are in negotiations to appear in an A Team movie.

Ridley Scott involved in the production of the Alien Prequel.

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Cam Gigandet who plays James in Twilight is playing another vampire in his next movie, Priest.

AintItCoolNews.com is giving away tickets to a screening of Moon for Monday June 15th at a theater in Chicago. Moon stars Sam Rockwell and is a science fiction tale of a man working on the moon with no company but Gerty a robot, voiced by Kevin Spacey. After a three year stint mining gas he is set to go home, but two weeks before he is due to leave things start to go wrong.

Couple of highlights from ComingSoon.net: District 9 and will be appearing on the panel appearing in Hall H on Friday, July 24. They better plan that line well.

Clint Eastwood will be opening Invictus in the awards season which stars Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and also stars Matt Damon. I will not go into details at it involves rugby which is a proper sport that is lost on most of the US population.

SlashFilm.com mentions the possibility of Tarantino, Pitt and Jolie teaming up for a trilogy of film based on Stieg Larsons Millennium books. This prompted me to add Girl with a Dragon Tattoo to my Bookswim reading list.

ScreenRant.com sums up the latest happenings around Marvel titles Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America, The Avengers and Spiderman 4.

Monsters Inc. sequel, “MIKE WIZZOWSKI!”

Variety.com fangs up and salivates over the coming True Blood Season 2 starting on the 14th.

R.I.P David Caradine found dead in a hotel closet allgedelly hung.

More wannatween joygasms for Twilight: New Moon fans.

From the Ground Hog Day files…. Dan Milano of Robot Chicken to remake Short Circuit, Ain’tItCoolNews.com offers up some potentially terrible insights into the Highlander Remake, Poltergeist Remake script available online and Predators remake by Robert Rodriguez reaches out to Arnie.

Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull director Jeff Nathanson is signed to write and direct “The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making Of America’s First Superhero” based on the book of the same name. Amazon Book Link

The spate of “re-imagining” continues with news that Jason Moore of Shrek:The Musical fame is going to direct the re-make of Valley Girl. Like oh-my-gosh that is such a lame ideah! Moore is not alone in the pilaging of barely warmed corpse of movies-gone-by and is joined by Kurt Wimmer who is writing a new version of Total Recall. Kuato is going to be very unhappy about this.

Sony wants to resurrect H.R. Pufnstuf with a new movie. Will Smith re-does the Karate Kid.

Coming in a close second the Cox kids are looking into wheeling out another dead horse for whipping with a new trilogy of Scream movies.