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A film based on Charles Burns' graphic novel "Black Hole" is planned.

David Fincher is attached to direct the horror romance "Black Hole" for Paramount/ MTV Films.

...the story revolves around a group of high school students whose lives are drastically altered when they come in contact with a sexually transmitted disease called the "teen plague" or "the bug."

...Fincher ("Zodiac") just wrapped "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" for Paramount. He also has "Torso," "The Devil in the White City" and "The Killer" in development at the studio.


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Leonardo DiCaprio is set to produce two films based on Katsuhiro Otomo's manga/anime series "Akira."

The story was set in a neon-lit post apocalyptic "New Tokyo" in 2019 where a teen biker gang member is subjected to a government experiment that unleashes his latent powers. The gang's leader must find a way to stop the ensuing swathe of destruction.

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Beyonce Knowles will play singer Etta James in "Cadillac Records," a film about the founding of Chicago's Chess Records label.

Knowles joins a cast that includes Adrien Brody (Chess), Jeffrey Wright (Waters), Cedric the Entertainer (Willie Dixon) and Columbus Short (Little Walter). Emmanuelle Chriqui and Tammy Blanchard co-star.

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The Wall Street Journal has revealed a few details about the next "Toy Story" film.

In Pixar's coming movie "Toy Story 3," Woody the cowboy and his toy-box friends are dumped in a day-care center after their owner, Andy, leaves for college.

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The Foo Fighters are suing Marvel Studios.

Per the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, "substantial excerpts" of the tunes "Best of You" and "Free Me," both off the 2005 album In Your Honor, were used in a teaser for the upcoming animated series Wolverine and the X-Men.

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