Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov are reteaming to produce a big screen adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Grahame-Smith, who is the author of the international bestseller “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” is also onboard to pen the screenplay.

Burton most recently collaborated with “Wanted” director Bekmambetov on Shane Acker’s animated feature “9,” which they produced.

Publisher’s Weekly describes the book as follows:

Seth Grahame-Smith inserts a grandiose and gratuitous struggle with vampires into Abraham Lincoln’s life. Lincoln learns at an early age that his mother was killed by a supernatural predator. This provokes his bloody but curiously undocumented lifelong vendetta against vampires and their slave-owning allies. The author’s decision to reduce slavery to a mere contrivance of the vampires is unfortunate bordering on repellent, but at least it does distract the reader from the central question of why the president never saw fit to inform the public of the supernatural menace.

Check out the preview trailer for the book below:

Summit Entertainment has brought Scott Kosar aboard to work on the screenplay for it’s upcoming vampire flick, Vlad .

Kosar’s credits includie The Crazies, The Machinist, as well as the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Amityville Horror remakes.

Actor Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) wrote the original script, which takes an action-oriented look at Dracula, or Vlad the Impaler, as a young prince.

Music video director and photographer Anthony Mandler will direct.

Source: THR

Universal Pictures announced breaking news about two of its upcoming event films based on popular Hasbro brands, Stretch Armstrong and Battleship. The announcements were made today by Universal Pictures Chairman Adam Fogelson and Co-Chairman Donna Langley.

Taylor Lautner (The Twilight Saga) will play the title character in the upcoming 3-D superhero adventure Stretch Armstrong, to be released in 2012.

The epic action-adventure Battleship has moved its release to May 25, anchoring the Memorial Day weekend of 2012.

“Universal has put all the elements in place to successfully launch two of our classic Hasbro brands on the big screen,” said Brian Goldner, President and CEO of Hasbro, Inc. “The addition of Taylor Lautner and the 3-D twist to Stretch Armstrong, in addition to giving Pete Berg and the filmmakers the extra time and resources to make Battleship an even bigger summer blockbuster, is sure to pay dividends when the film is released in 2012.”

Peter Berg (Hancock, The Kingdom) came aboard in Fall 2009 to produce and direct Battleship, which will unfold as a massive Naval adventure across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force. Originally slated for release in July 2011, the film was moved to give it the time and resources to thoroughly realize its huge-scale ambitions and position it for Memorial Day weekend in 2012. Scott Stuber (The Wolfman, Couples Retreat) is producing Battleship through his Universal-based Stuber Pictures, and Sarah Aubrey (The Kingdom, upcoming Dune) is producing with Berg for Film 44. Brian Goldner and Bennet Schneir are producing for Hasbro.

“We believe in Pete Berg and the incredible vision that he and the Battleship team have for this film,” said Fogelson. “We’re honored that Hasbro is partnering with us to turn one of its landmark properties into a huge summer box-office hit.”

Stretch Armstrong is moving to 2012 to allot time to shape the project into a 3-D superhero adventure and to accommodate Lautner’s existing commitments.
“In the past two years, Taylor has emerged as a real star at the global box office. He brings the perfect balance of energy and athleticism to the role of an unlikely super hero with a fantastic super power,” said Langley. “We couldn’t be more pleased that he has agreed to be our Stretch.”

Stretch Armstrong is based on the iconic action figure made popular around the world beginning in the 1970s and re-launched in the 1990s. Academy Award®-winning producer Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind, 8 Mile, American Gangster) will team with Hasbro to bring Stretch Armstrong to life. Steve Oedekerk (Bruce Almighty) has written the screenplay, and Hasbro’s Goldner and Schneir also produce.

Summit Entertainment has announced that The Twilight Saga: New Moon will hit DVD and Blu-ray on Saturday, March 20th, 2010. Check out the full details below.

One of the most talked about films of 2009, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, will be released on a Two-Disc Special Edition DVD and Special Edition Blu-ray on March 20, 2010 – a Saturday street date that will allow for fans across the nation to celebrate at retailer’s midnight release parties before taking home the film at 12:01 a.m.

Already a worldwide literary phenomenon, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, a post modern Romeo and Juliet story filled with action, suspense and the supernatural, took in an estimated $300 million domestic at the theatrical box office and had the third largest opening weekend box office in movie history at $142 million.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon Two-Disc Special Edition DVD has a suggested retail price of $32.99, while the Special Edition Blu-ray is set at $34.99. Both are packed with bonus features that are sure to please even the most-hard core fans, including a revealing Audio Commentary with Director Chris Weitz and editor Peter Lambert; a riveting 6-part documentary that takes you behind the scenes; exclusive band rehearsal footage with Muse; and music videos from Death Cab for Cutie, Anya Marina and Mute Math.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Dakota Fanning, Michael Sheen and Anna Kendrick. Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Nikki Reed, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone and Kellan Lutz return to their roles in the Cullen family.

SYNOPSIS:
In the second chapter of Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling Twilight series, the romance between mortal Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) grows more intense as ancient secrets threaten to destroy them. When Edward leaves in order to keep Bella safe, she tests fate in increasingly reckless ways in order to glimpse her love once more. But when she’s saved from the brink by her friend, Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), Bella will uncover mysteries of the supernatural world that will put her in more peril than ever before.

SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Audio Commentary by director Chris Weitz and editor Peter Lambert
- Six-Part Documentary takes you behind the scenes of the film
- Rehearsal Footage with Muse, who is featured on the hit soundtrack
- Three Music Videos from Death Cab for Cutie, Anya Marina and Mute Math
- And more!

Overture Films has announced the official release date for their upcoming film, Let Me In, which is directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) stars Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road), Chloe Moretz (Kick-Ass) and Oscar®nominee Richard Jenkins (The Visitor). The film is slated to open in theaters on October 1st, 2010 and is currently shooting in New Mexico.

Synopsis: An alienated 12-year-old boy befriends a mysterious young newcomer in his small New Mexico town, and discovers an unconventional path to adulthood in Let Me In, a haunting and provocative thriller written and directed by filmmaker Matt Reeves (Cloverfield).

Twelve-year old Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is viciously bullied by his classmates and neglected by his divorcing parents. Achingly lonely, Owen spends his days plotting revenge on his middle school tormentors and his evenings spying on the other inhabitants of his apartment complex. His only friend is his new neighbor Abby (Chloe Moretz), an eerily self-possessed young girl who lives next door with her silent father (Oscar®nominee Richard Jenkins). A frail, troubled child about Owens’s age, Abby emerges from her heavily curtained apartment only at night and always barefoot, seemingly immune to the bitter winter elements. Recognizing a fellow outcast, Owen opens up to her and before long, the two have formed a unique bond.

When a string of grisly murders puts the town on high alert, Abby’s father disappears, and the terrified girl is left to fend for herself. Still, she repeatedly rebuffs Owen’s efforts to help her and her increasingly bizarre behavior leads the imaginative Owen to suspect she’s hiding an unthinkable secret.

The gifted cast of Let Me In takes audiences straight to the troubled heart of adolescent longing and loneliness in an astonishing coming-of-age story based on the best-selling Swedish novel Lat den Ratte Komma In (Let the Right One In) by John Ajvide Lindqvist, and the highly-acclaimed film of the same name.

Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema have revealed a new theatrical trailer for ‘Sex and the City 2′ which is slated to be released in theaters on May 28, 2010.

Michael Patrick King will serve as the writer/director and the franchise’s beloved vixens, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis, will also be along for the sequel.

The film adapation of HBO’s ‘Sex and the City’ had a $57 million opening weekend and went on to earn $152.6 million domestically and earned a worldwide total of $412.6 million.

Women all over America can now go wild as Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema have revealed a theatrical poster for ‘Sex and the City 2′ which is slated to be released in theaters on May 28, 2010.

Michael Patrick King will serve as the writer/director and the franchise’s beloved vixens, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis, will also be along for the sequel.

The film adapation of HBO’s ‘Sex and the City’ had a $57 million opening weekend and went on to earn $152.6 million domestically and earned a worldwide total of $412.6 million.

‘Sex In The City 2′… it’s like ‘Twilight’ for Cougars.

Source: Moviefone

Photos from on of the more highly anticipated films at Sundance Film Festival, Jake Scott’s ‘Welcome to the Rileys’, have hit the web. The film stars Kristen Stewart, Melissa Leo, and James Gandolfini. In the film, Twilight star, Kristen Stewart plays a stripper/prostitute.

The 2010 Sundance Film Festival will take place from January 21 to January 31, 2010.

Synopsis: (Potential Spoilers)
Their relationship steadily deteriorating in the eight years following their daughter’s untimely death, a married couple unable to break the cycle of grief gets a second shot at love thanks to a scrappy, underage prostitute in this family drama starring James Gandolfini, Melissa Leo, and Kristen Stewart. Ever since the death of their daughter Emily, Doug (Gandolfini) and Lois Riley (Leo) have been drifting apart. As Lois wrestles with a suffocating sense of guilt over her daughter’s death, Doug copes by entering into an affair with Vivian, a local waitress. Lately, Lois hasn’t even been able to muster the courage to venture outside, summoning hairdressers to her home in order to maintain appearances and communicating with few people other than her sister Harriet and the local pastor.

When Vivian dies and Doug finds himself in a Baton Rouge strip club during a business trip, he realizes he’s come to a dangerous crossroads in life. Turning down an offer for a private dance by 16-year-old stripper Mallory (Stewart), Doug instead accompanies the girl home and makes a most unusual proposition: if Mallory will allow him to stay in her run-down apartment long enough to straighten himself out, he will pay her $100 a day for her trouble. For Mallory, who isn’t used to getting money for nothing, it seems like a great deal. She accepts, and Doug phones Lois to tell her he won’t be coming home. As time passes, Doug and Mallory settle into an unconventional kind of domesticity. Meanwhile, back home, Lois realizes that she’ll have to act fast in order to save her marriage, even if that means venturing well outside her comfort zone for the first time in nearly a decade. Most days she can’t even make it to the mailbox, but after a couple attempts, Lois manages to start up her car and get on the freeway heading south.

When Lois arrives in Louisiana and discovers that her husband is living with a foul-mouthed, underage hooker, she is at first horrified. Like Doug before her, however, Lois quickly warms to Mallory, due in part to her striking similarities to Emily. Before long, Lois, too, has moved in, and the three form something of an unconventional family. But when Lois attempts to steer Mallory from the path of self-destruction, the young girl bristles. Later, Mallory is hospitalized after being badly beaten by a client, and Doug and Lois rush to be by her side. Could this be the thing that pulls them back together? When Lois admits to Doug how their daughter really died, his kind understanding gives hope for a new beginning.

Dark Sky Films and Glass Eye Pix have released a teaser trailer for the epic vampire road film Stake Land. Check out the trailer and synopsis below!

In Jim Mickle’s new film, Stake Land, a young boy is about to learn how cruel the world can become. Martin was a normal teenager before the country collapsed in an empty pit of disaster, and a vampire epidemic swept across the nation’s abandoned towns and cities. It’s up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin to safety. Armed with a trunk full of wooden stakes and a desperate will to stay alive, Mister and Martin make their way through locked down towns, recruiting fellow travelers along the way. A devout nun (Kelly McGillis as “Sister”) joins the small team of survivors. She faces a crisis of faith during the vampire bloodshed, ultimately taking up arms to do battle with her newly formed family unit.

As with his hit, Mulberry Street, Jim Mickle creates a dark and terrifying world, although this time it is fully stocked with the most evil vampires in recent film history. Stake Land is a gritty, post-apocalyptic road movie with teeth!

Stake Land is due in 2010 from Dark Sky Films.

Twilight’s Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart will be featured in the December issue of Harper’s Bazaar. Check out the photos from the upcoming issue below and weigh in with your thoughts!

For more, check out Harper’s online and be sure to follow Harper’s Bazaar on Twitter to get all of their updates!

Summit Entertainment recently announced that they will re-release “Twilight” to theaters on Nov. 19 for a single night, in response to fan requests. The following day will see the launch of the highly anticipated sequel, ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’.

The original film has grossed over $380 million in worldwide box office following its release last November. “New Moon” is directed by Chris Weitz and stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner.

“Eclipse,” the third film in the franchise based on Stephenie Meyer’s teen vampire books, will be released on June 30, 2010 and recently wrapped production.