Big Screen Roundup: 1/31/08 Edition - Part II

The official website for Superhero Movie has debuted. As it turns out, however, the trailer for the flick is no longer at YouTube.

Coming Soon has a scanned version of the second new Empire Magazine photo from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The image features Cate Blanchett as villain Agent Spalko. Other exclusives Coming Soon serves include a video of Jim Carrey bungee jumping for the comedy Yes Man, as well as a clip from The Accidental Husband and a one-sheet for Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns.

Dark Horizons informs that Oscar-winner Paul Haggis has signed to an overall nonexclusive deal with United Artists. Under the agreement, he will write, produce and possibly direct projects for the studio through his production company, Hwy61.

Variety reports that DreamWorks has acquired all domestic and remake rights to the Slamdance Fest entry Paranormal Activity. Helmed by Oren Peli, the micro-budget haunted house film was shot over one week with a high-def camera in his own house with two unknown actors.

According to Moviehole, Robert Englund will indeed be approached about reprising his role as Fred Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street remake.

Lightning Entertainment has acquired the international sales rights to Jada Pinkett Smith’s directorial debut, The Human Contract, writes Variety. The pic “tells the story of a relationship between a repressed advertising exec and a reckless woman.”

The New York Daily News has the latest on the video it describes as “showing a guilt-ridden Heath Ledger at a Hollywood drug party confessing to strangers he [had used pot] for most of his life.” Apparently, Entertainment Tonight is no longer planning to broadcast the video.

31Jan2008 | Josh E Armstrong | Continued