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As Spike Lee's take on Old Boy moves towards production, Twitch reports that Rooney Mara is being eyed for the female lead. A remake of Park Chan-wook's Oldboy, the film focuses on a man named Joe (Dae-su Oh in the original) who is captured and imprisoned in a hotel room for over two decades (15 years in the original) with no understanding as to why. When he is suddenly released, he's told that he has just four days to determine the reason for his imprisonment.

Days after a handheld camera-shot tape of the first red band "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" trailer was leaked (or planted) onto the web from a movie screening, Sony has officially released its first -- and approved for all ages green band -- preview for its David Fincher-helmed adaptation of the hit Stieg Larsson book.

Alexander Skarsgard may have lost the chance to wield Thor's hammer, but at least he'll get to terrorize the heck out of Cyclops and Lois Lane. According to Variety, Skarsgard and Kate Bosworth are set to costar with James Marsden in "Straw Dogs," Rod Lurie's controversial remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 classic thriller.
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