Summit Entertainment confirmed today that THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN will be released as two separate films with the first of the two slated to be released in theatres on November 18, 2011.

VARIETY reports that Geoffrey Rush is ready to play Capt. Hector Barbossa again in PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES.

Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures are working on getting CLASH OF THE TITANS 2 into production quickly.

The Weinstein Company has secured the North American and South African rights to Chinese martial arts flick, REIGN OF ASSASSINS, starring Michelle Yoeh, reports VARIETY.

Last month, Columbia Pictures announced that MEN IN BLACK III would arrive in theaters on May 25, 2012. Because of the power of Will Smith and a proven franchise, Universal has decided to move Peter Berg's boardgame adaptation BATTLESHIP from that date to May 18, 2012, reports ComingSoon.net.

The trailer for Walt Disney's TANGLED has debuted online at Yahoo! Movies.

Paris-based Herold and Family has said its 3-D, CG feature, CENDRILLON 3D, will be ready in June 2011, reports VARIETY.

Weta Workshop has been hired by RG Ent. to work on its live-action/animatronic version of THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, reports VARIETY.

Warner Bros. has hired GREEN LANTERN scribes Greg Berlanti, Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim to pen the treatments for both GREEN LANTERN 2 and THE FLASH, reports HEAT VISION.

John August, writer of BIG FISH, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY and CORPSE BRIDE, is in talks to pen DreamWorks' adaptation of the strategy game MONSTERPOCALYPSE, reports HEAT VISION.