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Harry Potter fans might be having a bad week, but Lord of the Rings aficionados can officially rejoice: Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens have agreed to join Guillermo del Toro in writing the screenplays for the two upcoming Hobbit films.

Fan outcry over Warner Bros.' decision to push Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince back to next summer has prompted the studio's president, Alan Horn, to issue a letter of apology.

He still has too much on his plate to work on it right away, but Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas has told Entertainment Weekly that developing a film version of the canceled show is his "top priority."

MGM's planned Poltergeist remake got a little bit closer to the screen yesterday, when the studio announced it had hired Boogeyman writers Juliet Snowden and Stiles White to pen the script.

Vin Diesel has told ComingSoon that he'll be directing a 20-minute Fast and Furious prequel featuring Michelle Rodriguez and Sung Kang. Release details are not known.

Decades after the series ended its brief run, The Greatest American Hero is enjoying a revival, with a new comic, animated webisodes, and a film adaptation in the works -- which, if Connie Sellecca is to be believed, might feature cameos from the original cast.

Months after Natalie Portman left John Maybury's Wuthering Heights remake -- followed by Maybury himself -- Abbie Cornish has stepped in to take her place.

Alex Proyas has signed on to write and direct an adaptation of the 1942 Robert Heinlein story The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, which is being described as "a complex psychological thriller with plenty of action as well as some love interest."

James McAvoy and Emily Blunt are in talks to voice the leads in Gnomeo and Juliet, a CGI-animated Shakespeare adaptation about garden gnomes in love.

Rumor has it that billionaire Kirk Kerkorian has the urge to own MGM again -- and has offered $3 billion for the privilege.

Citing "overwhelming demand," Universal will be sending a "Sing-Along Edition" of Mamma Mia!, featuring subtitled lyrics, to select theaters over Labor Day weekend.

Tired of watching all the other studios have fun with direct-to-DVD sequels, Paramount is rolling out its Famous Productions brand, which will release home-market sequels to films such as Without a Paddle, Road Trip, Mean Girls, and The Bad News Bears.

249 movies are waiting for attendees of the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, and they're all laid out in the official lineup, now available at indieWIRE!

In a recent interview with IGN, Guillermo del Toro promised fans that the special effects in his upcoming Hobbit films will be a blend of CGI and old-fashioned techniques -- and he also mentioned that he passed on the opportunity to direct Watchmen.

The lawsuit between 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. -- in which Fox is alleging the rights to Watchmen and seeking to prevent Warners from going ahead with the movie -- will move forward after a judge refused Warners' motion to dismiss Fox's claim.

We're still waiting for Burn After Reading, but the Coen brothers are already setting up their next project, A Serious Man, and have lined up Michael Stuhlbarg and Richard Kind as their leads.

Is James Franco in the running for the role of Jack Ryan in Paramount's upcoming reboot of the Tom Clancy-inspired series?

Continuing the flurry of new Cruise news, Tom Cruise has been announced as "loosely attached" to a Sam Raimi-produced adaptation of the Ed Brubaker/Sean Phillips comic Sleeper.

According to Variety's Anne Thompson, the eventual sequel to Superman Returns remains in a state of flux, without writers attached -- and with Bryan Singer's involvement in question.

With Nottingham off the table until next year, Russell Crowe is free to concentrate on a number of other projects -- including a biopic about the late comedian Bill Hicks.