THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN 2 (in Development)

• THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN 2

Last year we got word that Peter Jackson was hoping to have the next "Tintin" film out in 2015, and now director Steven Spielberg (who helmed the first film) is echoing that sentiment. In an interview with Times of India, Spielberg said they're hoping to start production this year.

"Peter Jackson is directing the next one, I'm producing. We have a script and we're going to start performance capture probably at the end of this year.

"Don't hold me to it, but we're hoping the film will come out around Christmas-time in 2015. We know which books we're making, we can't share that now but we're combining two books which were always intended to be combined by Herge."

While it hasn’t been confirmed, many believe that the two-part "Seven Crystal Balls" and "Prisoners of the Sun" would be the focus of the sequel. Peter Jackson has said previously that he'd like to do the "Destination Moon" and "Explorers on the Moon" books as the third or fourth film in the series.

The first film, 2011's The Adventures of Tintin, grossed over $370 million worldwide.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Update)

• BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

There's a new live-action take on "Beauty and the Beast" on the way from Walt Disney Pictures. Deadline brings word that the studio has hired Trance screenwriter Joe Ahearne to work on a reimagining of the classic tale, to be titled The Beast.

Emma Watson

A French fairy tale with origins in the 18th century, "Beauty and the Beast" has been brought to the big and small screen time and again. Recently, 2011's Beastly offered a modern take on the story, as has The CW's recently launched "Beauty and the Beast" television series. Another, still-untitled live-action film is in the works with Guillermo del Toro slated to direct and Emma Watson attached to headline.

The new Disney version will be produced by David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman.

JANE GOT A GUN (cast News)

• JANE GOT A GUN

There have been a few changes in the casting of Lynne Ramsey's soon-to-shoot western Jane Got a Gun. The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Michael Fassbender has departed the project (due to conflicts with the production schedule on X-Men: Days of Future Past). As a result, Joel Edgerton, previously attached to play the villain, will take over Fassbender's role and Jude Law will step in to play the antagonist.

Jude Law

The film, which will also star Natalie Portman and Rodrigo Santoro, features a script by Brian Duffield and centers on a woman (Portman) who must ask an ex-lover for help in order to save her outlaw husband from a gang out to kill him.

Law recently provided a voice for DreamWorks Animation's Rise of the Guardians and can be seen in theaters now in Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects

X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (Update)

• X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

So far all we know about the story of Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Day’s of Future Past is the comic the film would be  based on. It goes without saying Singer would be taking some liberties, and with the potential to tell a singular story that will cross through future and past it will be interesting to see just what Singer has in store.  

X-Men Days of Future Past Fan Art

In an interview with Digital Spy, Bryan Singer was asked about Magneto's arc in the upcoming film and whether his morality struggle, as seen in X-Men: First Class, will still play a role in the film, something which Singer essentially confirmed.

"Because I have both Ian McKellen and Michael Fassbender in the picture, you'll deal with both sides of that point of view and it really explores the relationship between Xavier and Magneto and the evolution of that relationship, where it came from and where it's going."

Also in their interview, James McAvoy revealed he doesn't know if he'll have to be bald for the upcoming sequel. Check out the full video below.

Set for release on July 18, 2014, X-Men: Days of Future Past features a script by Simon Kinberg and is said to be inspired by Chris Claremont and John Byrne's comic book storyline that ran in "Uncanny X-Men" #141 and 142 back in 1981. "Days of Future Past" introduced the idea of an alternate future for Marvel's mutants that grew out of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants killing an important senator, leading to a future where all mutants are hunted by Sentinels.

The film's cast includes Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Halle Berry, Omar Sy and Peter Dinklage

BIOSHOCK (Update.. No Movie)

• BIOSHOCK

A few years ago we got word that Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean, Rango) had plans to develop BioShock as a feature film. Unfortunately, the project would fail to materialize, with very little information as to why. Irrational Games' creative director Kevin Levine reveals that it was he himself that ultimately decided to "kill" the project.

"My theory is that Gore wanted to make a hard R film," Levine recalls, "...Then 'Watchmen' came out, and it didn't do well for whatever reason. The studio then got cold feet about making an R rated $200 million film, and they said what if it was a $80 million film - and Gore didn't want to make a $80 million film... They brought another director in, and I didn't really see the match there - and 2K's one of these companies that puts a lot of creative trust in people. So they said if you want to kill it, kill it. And I killed it."

ComingSoon.net spoke with Verbinski some time back about his plans and he himself lamented the budget woes.

"I couldn't really get past anybody that would spend the money that it would take to do it and keep an R rating," he said. "Alternately, I wasn't really interested in pursuing a PG-13 version. Because the R rating is inherent. Little Sisters and injections and the whole thing. I just wanted to really, really make it a movie where, four days later, you're still shivering and going, 'Jesus Christ!'... It's a movie that has to be really, really scary, but you also have to create a whole underwater world, so the pricetag is high. We just didn't have any takers on an R-rated movie with that pricetag."

As for whether or not a BioShock movie could someday happen, neither Gore or Levine is fully writing off the possibility.

"It comes along so rarely," says Levine, "but I had the world, the world existed and I didn't want to see it done in a way that I didn't think was right. It may happen one day, who knows, but it'd have to be the right combination of people."

"That would be a great movie to do in 3D," Verbinski said. "I'd like to go into that world wearing a pair of glasses. I think in general, gaming is perfect for 3D. Anything where you're the protagonist... To make people feel on-edge."