www.slashfilm.com reports:

Tom Cruise is teaming up with Sam Raimi to develop an adaptation of the Wildstorm comic book Sleeper. Cruise might star, while Raimi will produce with Josh Donen.

Written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips, the story follows a covert “sleeper” operative named Holden Carver (aka The Conductor), who is fused with an alien artifact that makes him not only impervious to pain , but also able to pass it along to others through skin contact. Carver has been placed undercover in a villainous organization led by TAO (a WildC.A.T.s villain from Alan Moore’s run). But when the only guy who knows that he is an undercover agent goes into a coma, Carver must question right and wrong, as he falls and for a member of the group while rising through he ranks.

Aside from being a spin-off of WildC.A.T.s, Sleeper also features characters from Gen 13. Cruise’s involvement has put the project on the fast track. Warner Bros hopes to turn the project into a franchise. I haven’t read the series, but the synopsis certainly sounds interesting enough for the big screen. Sleeper placed #81 on Comic Book Resource’s top 100 comic book runs of all time.

The problem start with the fact that Warner Bros wasn´t happy with the first film. An executive from WB admited “it might be better to just start from scratch# (rather than make a sequel.” Another interesting qoute said ““Today I was told that it is a priority at the studio to find the right direction and if Bryan Singer is willing to do that, fine, but if he gets in the way, he may not stay on the project.”

www.slashfilm.com reports: I haven’t seen this officially reported anywhere, so I thought I’d pass along word that Jimmy Fallon has been cast in Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut Whip It! Fallon has been spotted by /Film sources on set of the roller derby dramedy playing “Hot Tub Johnny”, a cheesy hungover announcer who makes nasty comments to all the skaters.My sources have also spotted Andrew Wilson, brother of of Owen and Luke (fans of Wes Anderson know as “Future Man” in Bottle Rocket), who is playing a roller derby coach. The film stars Ellen Page as “an indie-rock loving misfit” who finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin Texas. Whip It! is currently in production.

wow… I dont know if its on purpuse or vandalism but thats cool stuff…

Here is another attempt to milk the 80´s for everything they were worth. Hollywood is not trying to put together a movie version of VOLTRON:

Fox-based New Regency has put robot project “Voltron: Defender of the Universe” into turnaround.

Ryan Kavanaugh’s financing and production venture Relativity Media is in negotiations to back the property, though on a more moderate budget, utilizing the type of cost-effective technology employed in films including “300.”

Last summer, New Regency picked up the rights to the property, adapted by scribe Justin Marks, who’s behind Warner Bros.’ bigscreen versions of “He-Man” and “Green Arrow.”

Marks’ take is described as a post-apocalyptic tale set in New York City and Mexico, where five survivors of an alien attack band together and end up piloting the five lion-shaped robots that combine and form the massive sword-wielding Voltron that helps battle Earth’s invaders.

not cool…

Quentin Tarantino is already getting drama about the WWII movie Inglorious Bastards click after the jump for an article from www.imdb.com:

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Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) will come out naked in the next Harry Potter movie read the BANG SHOW BIZ artcile after the jump:

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The makes of the Harry Potter films fear that since the Harry Potter books are finished no one will want to see the movies. Click after the jump to read the article:

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