Dutch director George Sluizer has completed what was River Phoenix‘s final film, Dark Blood and it will have its premiere at the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht on September 27. Phoenix died of a drug overdose during filming in 1993. [Cineuropa]
Kristen Stewart will star in the ’50s-set indie adaptation of William Styron’s 1951 novel, Lie Down In Darkness for Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper. The film sounds like a real treat as Stewart’s character, Peyton Loftis, is so insanely beautiful she becomes the object of her frigid mother’s jealous hatred and the target of her father’s incestuous, alcoholic lust. [Vulture]
Jimmy Fallon is rumored to be in negotiations to host the 2013 Oscar with “Saturday Night Live’s” Lorne Michaels producing. We’ll see… [Los Angeles Times]
Legendary Entertainment has brought on Charles Leavitt (K-PAX) to draft a screenplay adaptation of Blizzard Entertainment’s hit videogame World of Warcraft. Sam Raimi was once attached to direct, but recently revealed he is no longer involved with the project. Leavitt recently scripted the fantasy film The Seventh Son (10/18/13) for Warner Bros. starring Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore and Ben Barnes. [Variety]
Lynn Cohen (“Sex and the City”) will play eighty-year-old Hunger Games contestant Mags in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. [Lionsgate]
Lucas Till (X-Men: First Class) will star in Wolves with X-Men screenwriter David Hayter directing. Yes, it’s a werewolf movie, because there aren’t enough of them around. [STYD]
The Ghostbusters 3 talk won’t die. Bill Murray has continually dodged any involvement, but now Dan Aykroyd says, “I can tell you [Murray] won’t be involved… we’ve got a brilliant new writer [Tropic Thunder‘s Etan Cohen] on it and we’ll be passing the torch on to a new generation. We’re working on it to make it just right to satisfy our fans. I’m confident we’ll be in production in the next year… We’ve tried a few concepts which weren’t right but now we’ve got a good structure and will make it happen.” Now the question is… who cares? [Metro]
Terrence Malick‘s To the Wonder clocks in at 112 minute, his first film under two hours since Days of Heaven. [The Playlist]
Finally, here’s a red band trailer for Bachelorette starring Lizzy Caplan, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Scott, Casey Wilson, Isla Fisher, James Marsden and Rebel Wilson. The film hits theaters on September 7.
