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Kick-Ass 2 Moves Forward with New Director and Studio

While he has been more wrong than right, we have to give Kick-Ass comic book co-creator Mark Millar credit. At long last, his insistence that Kick-Ass 2 was in the works has turned out to be true.

In February, Millar said a sequel to 2010's Kick-Ass would start shooting this summer, which was hard to take seriously since Millar had made similar comments several times before, starting with the proclamation that the sequel would start production in 2011 for a planned 2012 release (which clearly never happened). However, according to Deadline, Millar is finally right this time, and Kick-Ass 2 is now a reality.

Remake News: Sam Raimi to Produce Poltergeist; Chole Moretz Updates Carrie

After helping put a remake of his own 1981 classic The Evil Dead into production for release next year, Spider-Man trilogy director Sam Raimi will produce a remake of Poltergeist as well.

THR reports that Raimi has joined MGM's remake of the 1982 horror movie directed by Tobe Hooper and co-written and produced by Steven Spielberg, and will oversee the search for a director. The remake was written by playwright and screenwriter David Lindsay-Abaire, who wrote Raimi's upcoming Oz: The Great and Powerful. The story so far doesn't sound too far off from the original, with a family moving into a house that they don't realize was built on sacred land and soon are visited by supernatural forces that take their daughter.

Poltergeist isn't the only iconic horror movie to be remade by MGM. The studio is teaming with Sony Screen Gems for a remake of Brian De Palma's Carrie as well. In January, Boys Don't Cry director Kimberly Peirce was hired to helm the remake, which will star Chloe Moretz (Dark Shadows, Kick-Ass) in the title role. Moretz recently spoke to ComingSoon about the project and admitted how excited she was to work with Pierce.

Casting News: Chris Evans Is the Snow Piercer; Jeffrey Dean Morgan Joins Chloe Moretz in The Rut; Kate Winslet in Kenneth Branagh's Latest

In November, actor Chris Evans (Captain America: The First Avenger) added a non-Marvel movie to his upcoming slate with The Iceman, replacing James Franco as Robert Pronge, the mentor of convicted mob contract killer Richard Kuklinski, a.k.a. the Iceman. Now, Evans has also added another non-comic book character role in The Snow Piercer.

Variety reports that Evans is in negotiations to star in the indie drama which is set on an ice and snow-covered world where a train full of travelers struggle to co-exist. Bong Joon-ho, who directed the 2006 Korean monster movie The Host, will make his English-language directorial debut with The Snow Piercer, which was written by Park Chan-wook, the director of the 2004 Korean adaptation of Oldboy. American remakes of both Oldboy and The Host are reportedly in the works, though Oldboy is further along with Spike Lee (Miracle at St. Anna, Inside Man) set to direct and Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men) set to star.

First Official Look at the Cast of Dark Shadows

Recent "spy" photos from the set of the upcoming adaptation of Dark Shadows offered the first look at Johnny Depp as the 200-year-old vampire Barnabas Collins, and from the looks of it, Depp was wearing so much clownish goth make-up that it put his Mad Hatter role from Alice in Wonderland to shame.

Luckily, director Tim Burton has delivered a first look photo of the cast, where Depp, and the rest of the cast, look more like they just stepped out of the ABC gothic soap opera on which the movie is based. "I remember seeing a group photograph of the cast of the original series," Burton told EW. "For me it captured the weird Dark Shadows vibe in a single image. I had a brief window of opportunity to have our cast present at the same time, the day before principle photography began. We decided to stage a similar picture instead of rehearsing, to see if we captured the Dark Shadows feeling."

Chloë Moretz on Returning as a More Mature 'Hit-Girl' in Kick-Ass 2

Whether or not there will be a sequel to Kick-Ass seems to depend upon who is being asked the question. Mark Millar, the creator of the comic book on which the movie is based, has been talking about a sequel since the first movie was still in theaters and is still adamant that Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall will get made. Matthew Vaughn, who co-produced and directed the first movie, is far less certain about a sequel, but he's also not ruling it out, saying that it "might" yet happen. But, Kick-Ass screenwriter Jane Goldman has said that she doesn't think it's going to happen at all and is "not entirely sure" that it even needs a sequel.

Assuming that Millar, Vaughn and Goldman can all get on the same page about the sequel, the biggest obstacle seems to be the fact that comic book characters don't age, while the actors who play them do. One of the things that made Kick-Ass so controversial (and awesome) was the fact that the best action scenes starred then-tween actress Chloë Moretz as the pint-size vigilante Hit-Girl, an 11-year-old trained from early childhood by her father, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage), to be a killer. In a recent interview with GTBP, Moretz said that aging Hit-Girl will be a good thing, allowing the character to be shown "in a different light," as a more mature, "Catwoman-y" character, rather than simply as Big Daddy's little soldier.

Chloë Moretz Discusses the Tone of Tim Burton's Dark Shadows and Teases a "Really Dark Secret"

Back in May, during the first week of production on his new movie, Dark Shadows, director Tim Burton (Alice in Wonderland) was asked to describe the tone of the movie. He seemed to struggle to find the right word for his adaptation of the '60s gothic soap opera of the same name, first calling it "weird," then "funny," and finally "ethereal." When young cast member Chloë Moretz was asked the same question during a recent interview with GTBP, she also seemed unable to pinpoint the tone, describing it as a mixture of several of Burton's classic movies and creating a new genre category for it: "drama horromedy thriller."

Trailer for The Texas Killing Fields Starring Sam Worthington and Jeffrey Dean Morgan

The first trailer for the crime thriller The Texas Killing Fields (formerly The Fields) has debuted online in anticipation of its October release.

Based on true events of some brutal murders of women in Texas, Texas Killing Fields stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Sam Worthington as two detectives who team up to solve the mysterious murders before the killer can claim his next victim. Director Danny Boyle was originally set to direct the movie, but left revealing that the script, by former DEA agent Donald F. Ferrarone was "so dark it would never get made". Director Ami Canaan Mann (daughter of Heat director Michael Mann, who produced) took over the movie.

Trailer for Martin Scorsese's Hugo Cabret to Debut with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Although the 10-year run of Harry Potter movies is about to end, you can get a peek at another upcoming children's book adaptation when the final movie hits theaters. For the past few months, Martin Scorsese and his team have been hard at work on post-production for Hugo Cabret, based on Brian Selznick's Caldecott-winning book The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Today, the movie's Twitter page announced that the first trailer for the movie will run ahead of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, which arrives in theaters July 15.

Dark Shadows Starts Shooting; Story Details Revealed

Last November, it was reported that Johnny Depp would start shooting Dark Shadows with director Tim Burton last month. Close enough.

Warner Bros. announced shooting has begun in England on the project, which is an adaptation of a Gothic soap opera created by Dan Curtis that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971 and centered around vampire Barnabas Collins (Depp), a role originally played by Jonathan Frid. Seth Grahame-Smith, the author of the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies mash-up novel, wrote the script for the movie based on a story by John August and Grahame-Smith.

The Warner Bros. announcement also included a movie synopsis, giving those who remember the show the first chance to see how the adaptation will compare.

Chloe Moretz Joins Tim Burton's Dark Shadows

In what may be considered a consolation prize, Chloë Moretz has joined the cast of Tim Burton's upcoming Dark Shadows remake.

But we shouldn't weep for Mortez, since she is starring in a Burton/Johnny Depp production about vampires (the duo's last outing — Alice in Wonderland — made over $1B at the box office and vampires are currently red hot).