Today the trio announced that TITANIC will be re-released in theaters on April 6, 2012 in 3D…

The release will mark the 100th anniversary of the Titanic setting sail, which took place on April 10th, 1912. Cameron first announced the news back at the 2009 Comic-Con and has been working on the 3D conversion since.

Says Cameron of the re-release: “There’s a whole generation that’s never seen ‘TITANIC’ as it was meant to be seen, on the big screen. And this will be ‘TITANIC’ as you’ve never seen it before, digitally re-mastered at 4K and painstakingly converted to 3D. With the emotional power intact and the images more powerful than ever, this will be an epic experience for fans and newcomers alike.”

Buried near the end of Screen Daily’s story about producer Ed Pressman’s plans to remake the 1988 thriller Bloodsport with director Phillip Noyce at the helm was an item about Pressman also pressing forward on his Crow remake. The producer said 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo plans to begin shooting this latest Crow in January, adding that Bradley Cooper is still in negotiations to play the back-from-the-dead angel of vengeance.

Joining the Batman cast is Alon Aboutboul (Castle, Body of Lies, Munich). He will be playing a mad scientist and rumour is that it will be one of the main villains, but no word on the name of the scientist.

There’s plenty of room in this movie for a mad scientist. We’ve got possible Lazarus pits and younger Ra’s Al Ghul’s in this movie, not to mention someone with an affinity with super steroids that probably needs a scientist to actually create the drug. Not to mention that there have been mad scientist rumors for a while now. I wonder what kind of mad scientist he will be…

Megan Ellison has won an auction for the rights to make at least two more installments of The Terminator franchise, with Fast Five’s Justin Lin attached to direct and Arnold Schwarzenegger attached to star. The deal came down to Ellison’s Annapurna Films and Lionsgate, which seemed to have had the project sewn up until she came forward with a dramatic bid. The auction at the time was for a guarantee for at least half of the $29.5 million paid by hedge fund Pacificor to pull the franchise out of bankruptcy.

Farrell plays a struggling screenwriter who gets drawn into a strange world of dog kidnapping by his two friends (Rockwell and Walken). Rourke will play a tough gangster whose beloved dog is among those that have gone missing.

Genre: Superhero Action
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Staring: Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Tom Hiddleston and Natalie Portman
Released: May 6th, 2011

THE GENERAL IDEA

Universal already pulled the plug on the ambitious horror adventure At the Mountains of Madness even with Guillermo Del Toro in the driver’s seat.

And now the bean counters have their eyes on Stephen King’s The Dark Tower project proposed to mix a series of feature films and Television mini-series/seasons to fill the gaps.