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According to the trades, "The Departed" scribe William Monahan has been set by Paramount to adapt John Grisham's bestselling legal thriller "The Associate" as a star vehicle for Shia LaBeouf.

Warner Bros. Pictures has provided us with the full gallery of photos from Watchmen, opening in conventional and IMAX theaters on March 6. Directed by Zack Snyder ( 300 ), the graphic novel adaptation stars Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Patrick Wilson. You can view the 2-page gallery by clicking here or on the image below!

Just like Will Shakespeare, Jane Austen has gotten a lot of play by modern media. Just last year, she got a taste of time travel with the UK-based miniseries Lost in Austen.

MSN has debuted the new trailer for Columbia Pictures' Angels & Demons , opening in theaters on May 15th. Directed by Ron Howard, the suspense thriller stars Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgard, Pierfrancesco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Armin Mueller-Stahl. The film is based upon the bestselling novel by Dan Brown.

Now that he's pushed "Cleo" back a year, Steven Soderbergh is looking at directing an adaptation of Michael Lewis' bestselling "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game." Brad Pitt may star.

The new trailer for 20th Century Fox's Dragonball Evolution has come online and can be watched using the player below! Written and directed by James Wong, the big screen adaptation stars Justin Chatwin, James Marsters, Jamie Chung, Emmy Rossum, Eriko Tamura, Joon Park, Chow Yun-Fat, Texas Battle, Randall Duk Kim and Ernie Hudson. Opening April 8th, Dragonball Evolution is adapted from the manga created by Akira Toriyama.

Five years ago, Al Pacino played Shylock in Michael Radford's adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice , and now, it looks like the duo will be tackling another one of the Great Bard's plays with Pacino playing King Lear in a new film adaptation written and directed by Radford. According to Variety , this will be the first time that Pacino will play the character of King Lear, the aging monarch who selects his successor by parsing his kingdom in three parts, ruled by his trio of daughters.

Chuck Roven is no longer working on the feature film adaptation of Robotech although he wishes the remaining
producers well.

Variety has confirmed Latino Review 's scoop that Warner Bros. and producer Joel Silver have set Kung Fu Panda co-director John Stevenson to make his live action directing debut on Masters of the Universe, a re-imagining of the signature Mattel toy line.

Michael Fassbender, Dominic West and Olga Kurylenko have signed to star in Neil Marshall's British-set sword-and-sandals thriller "Centurion."