The 10 animated shorts that will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards were announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Craig Hayes tells us what it was like working in China on Red Cliff, which benefitted greatly from contributions by Prime Focus and CafeFX.

Peter Iliff (PATRIOT GAMES) has been hired to transform the AMERICAN GLADIATOR game show into a feature film property, reports VARIETY.

John Hlavin, writer on THE SHIELD, has been enlisted to write UNDERWORLD 4 for Screen Gems and Lakeshore, reports the Heat Vision blog.

PRODUCTION WEEKLY tweeted that Tarsem plans to begin production on DAWN OF WAR, formerly known as WAR OF GODS, in March.

The Heat Vision blog reports that OBSESSED star Idris Elba has joined the cast of THOR.

Brad Pitt's Plan B have teamed with India's Reliance Big Pictures to adapt Capcom's videogame DARK VOID into a feature film, VARIETY reports.

Deadline Hollywood has added a new name to the SPIDER-MAN 4 cast rumors.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura is set to produce a new film franchise based on Michael Scott's YA fantasy series, THE SECRETS OF THE IMMORTAL NICHOLAS FLAMEL, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

The Heat Vision blog reports that Mandalay Pictures has snatched up the rights to Boom! Studios’ comic UNTHINKABLE.

Mania.com reports that Sam Worthington will star in a screen adaptation of Radical Publishing's comic THE LAST DAYS OF AMERICAN CRIME.

Focus Features Intl. has picked up the rights to Matthew Vaughn's KICK-ASS, reports VARIETY.

Commercials director Carl Rinsch is set to direct the samurai flick, 47 RONIN, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

The Academy's Monday Nights With Oscar presents "An Animated Academy Salute To UPA."

Movies based on Michael Scott's fantasy-series THE SECRETS OF THE IMMORTAL NICHOLAS FLAMEL will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventra (TRANSFORMERS), according to VARIETY.

Blockbuster Inc. ( BBI, BBI.B), a global leader in entertainment, today announced that consumers in the Seattle area can now rent the latest new video games such as "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2", "Assassin's Creed 2" and "New Super Mario Bros. Wii" online at blockbuster.com and have them delivered directly to their mailbox, expanding on a pilot test launched in Cleveland earlier this year.

The animated feature film based on a series of children's books by Kathryn Lasky has picked up Sam Neill for voicing work.

The 10th anniversary release of FIGHT CLUB has a gag that could leave buyers thinking they got the wrong disc.

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has signed a three-year marketing and distribution deal with CBS Films, under which Sony Pictures will handle international theatrical distribution of CBS Films productions as well as service worldwide distribution of the unit's films in the home entertainment marketplace, it was announced today by Peter Schlessel, president, Worldwide Affairs for Sony Pictures, and Jeff Blake, chairman, Sony Pictures Worldwide Marketing & Distribution. CBS Films will handle domestic theatrical distribution of all titles and retains rights in a limited number of foreign territories.

Justin Theroux is lined up to write a draft of SPACE INVADER for Fox, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.