SILVER LINING PLAYBOOK (Trailer)

• SILVER LINING PLAYBOOK

The Weinstein Company has debuted the trailer for writer/director David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook, based on the bestselling novel by Matthew Quick.

Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper

Happy to see Chris Tucker back on the big screen, in a film that isn’t Rush Hour!!

The November 21 release is described as follows:

“Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything -- his house, his job, and his wife. He now finds himself living back with his mother (Jacki Weaver) and father (Robert DeNiro) after spending eight months in a state institution on a plea bargain. Pat is determined to rebuild his life, remain positive and reunite with his wife, despite the challenging circumstances of their separation.

All Pat's parents want is for him to get back on his feet - and to share their family's obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles football team. When Pat meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a mysterious girl with problems of her own, things get complicated. Tiffany offers to help Pat reconnect with his wife, but only if he'll do something very important for her in return. As their deal plays out, an unexpected bond begins to form between them, and silver linings appear in both of their lives.”

CARMEN SANDIEGO (In Development)

• WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SAN DIEGO?

The live-action movie of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Is finally moving forward, The Hollywood Reporter reports.

Jennifer Lopez might be Carmen Sandiego

Darren Lemke (Shrek Forever After, Jack the Giant Killer) has been brought on board to write the screenplay for Walden Media. Jennifer Lopez will be producing the film, but might also be playing the lead role in the film.

The trade says Walden Media sees the game-turned-cartoon adaptation "as being a cross between Thomas Crown Affair and National Treasure."

No release date for Carmen has been announced as yet.

HIGHLANDER (Cast News)

• HIGHLANDER

Ryan Reynolds has been cast as Connor MacLeod in the forthcoming reboot of the Highlander franchise, IGN reports.

Ryan Reynolds takes on Highlander

According to The Tracking Board - who broke the story - Reynolds has been in negotiations for the last month to play the immortal, who was a sword-happy Scot in the original.

Reynolds character is described as, a Highlander who discovers he is one of a dwindling group of immortals who wander the earth and kill each other in combat for the final “Prize” – immortality.

No word if Ryan will be going in with a Scottish accent, although since the film is early in development, we don’t know that much about the film.

So stay tuned for more

VAN HELSING (Reboot)

• VAN HELSING

Tom Cruise to Play Van Helsing

A little while ago it was announced that Universal was planning on moving forward with another Van Helsing film.

The last Van Helsing film, saw Wolverine, I Mean Hugh Jackman, star as the main character. This time around we will see Tom Cruise starring as van Helsing as he looks set to produce alongside producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.

Kurtzman spoke to CraveOnline about the project and had this to say:

"Well, I don’t want to give away too much, because we are actually at the very beginning of talking about what to do with it.

But I do feel like the Van Helsing that Anthony Hopkins plays in [Bram Stoker’s] Dracula is sort of the parody version of it, and the Van Helsing that Hugh Jackman played was obviously in a different place as well.

I think that these kinds of movies have evolved a lot since then. You know, The Dark Knight was a major, major corner-turning moment in the way that genre and superhero stories could be told. Really grounded in reality. Really grounded in really cool things. That’s what I’d like to do without sacrificing the fantasy element. We aspired to do that as well on Trek, you know, keep it ‘real.’ That’s such a different franchise than Batman, but that’s really what we wanted to do. And we’d love to do that with Van Helsing."

Kurtzman and Orci are also planning a new version of The Mummy at Universal, so stay tuned for more awesome updates.

STARSHIP TROOPERS (Reboot)

•  STARSHIP TROOPERS

Given that Starship Troopers is somewhat of a cult classic, many fans are not even entertaining the thought of a possible reboot.

However, as a reboot film is in the works and the producers are not winning fans over after claiming that they are aiming for a less violent take on the story, Empire reports.

In an interview with Empire, Toby Jaffe said: "The more expensive a film is, the harder it is now to make it that violent. With Recall in particular, we made a conscious choice to keep it tonally closer to something like Minority Report. It gives the studio, and us as producers, the opportunity to reintroduce it in a new way."

What is cool, however, is that Jaffe mentions the "jump suits" featured in Robert Heinlein's book: "Working in a visual-effects renaissance as we are, we have the ability to do so much more now. We can do the Jump Suits [armoured exoskeletons from Heinlein's novel], for example, which I don't think they could have done before."

No word on a release date or director but Thor and X-Men: First Class screenwriters Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz have written the script.