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Emma Stone has already shown off her extreme zombie fighting ability, starring alongside Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson in the apocalyptic present of "Zombieland." Now, it looks like she'll be going into the past to knock some undead heads.

Columbia Pictures has provided ComingSoon.net with eight clips from director Ron Howard's Angels & Demons , opening in theaters on May 15. The anticipated film, based on Dan Brown's best-selling novel, stars Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgard, Pierfrancesco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Armin Mueller-Stahl.

Calling the opportunity "a dream come true," Michael Chabon has confirmed reports that he's been hired by Pixar to contribute revisions to Andrew Stanton and Mark Andrews' script for Pixar's "John Carter of Mars."

I don't know why this is news, but I guess everyone loves to report on these two doing another project. When did Matt Damon and Ben Affleck become as awesome as peanut butter and jelly? They did their little Good Will Hunting thing, but I doubt if lighting is going to strike twice if they team up again. I know they were in that shitty Kevin Smith film (wait, Kevin Smith makes shitty films?) but is there really an audience clamoring for these two guys to be together once again? I know I couldn't (happy, grammar police?) care less.

Rhys Ifans announced on "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross" that he will play a role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, though he did not reveal which character he'll play. You can watch the interview below - he starts talking about "Harry Potter" at the 5:55 minute mark.

With F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story “The Mysterious Case of Benjamin Button” collecting a trio of Oscars this year, picking up the writer’s best-known work “The Great Gatsby” sounds like a great decision for director Baz Luhrmann. The wildly experimental filmmaker behind “Moulin Rouge!” and “Romeo + Juliet” loves period pieces, so his choice to take [...]

Paramount Pictures has attached Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman to star in a film based on the new Leanne Shapton book "Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry."

Regular readers know we’ve been eagerly following Spike Jonze’s long-in-development adaptation of the iconic children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are.” Our interest was peaked nearly two years ago when we premiered the very first image from the film, and again last summer when we unveiled a second photo.

The film is based on a futuristic young-adult novel by Suzanne Collins.

Having put her stamp on "Twilight," Catherine Hardwicke is in talks with Columbia to develop and direct a film adaptation of the young-adult series "Maximum Ride."