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This Week's Ketchup includes news about movies based upon Micronauts, Arabian Nights and The Berenstain Bears, as well as casting news for Sir Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Depp, George Clooney and Owen Wilson; and a new movie for the director of Slumdog Millionaire.

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#1 J.J. ABRAMS WANTS TO PLAY WITH YOUR OLD MICRONAUTS TOYS
Hot off the success of his reimagining of Star Trek, J.J. Abrams is in negotiations to produce a movie based upon the popular 1970s-1980s Japanese toy franchise Micronauts, which was also a long-running Marvel Comics series.

The shanty home of another Slumdog Millionaire child star was torn down by Mumbai authorities Wednesday as they demolished part ...

Just as Rafiq Qureshi's denial about a report claiming he tried to sell his actress daughter made its rounds, the 'Slumdog Millionaire' story gets even stranger as Rubina Ali's mother and step-mother got into a full-on fistfight with photographers there to catch every blow.

In a finale that felt as inevitable as that of the film's unlikely hero, "Slumdog" clawed its way to victory, grabbing eight Oscars, including best picture.

The hero of "Slumdog Millionaire," a poverty-raised teaboy seeking his lost love, works his way through the questions on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" knowing that, at any time, he can lose and walk away with nothing.

It didn't take long for Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel to go Hollywood. M. Night Shyamalan has cast the 19-year-old actor for his supernatural martial-arts movie The Last Airbender, which begins filming in Greenland next month.

"Slumdog Millionaire" continued its awards sweep Friday night at the 21st annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards after walking away with the org's top prize.