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05.13.08: Scorsese May Direct Sinatra Biopic, Gyllenhaal & Biel Back On 'Nailed'

According to Frank Sinatra’s daughter Tina, Martin Scorsese is coming on board a Tina-produced film about the life of her combative father. Frank’s youngest daughter claims it will be a warts-and-all portrait of her legendary pop, who hung out with mobsters although she insists the actor-crooner was no Mafia stooge. “Marty has always wanted to do this,” says Tina. “I trust him implicitly.” More at Jam!

05.12.08: 'Iron Man' Crushes 'Speed Racer', Portman Flees 'Wuthering Heights', Spielberg Slots In Lincoln

Iron Man showed powerful legs in its second weekend, muscling in on a further $50.5 million to bring its haul up to $177.1 million. It was an easy win for the metallic superhero over his closest rival, the Wachowski brother’s sputtering vehicle Speed Racer, which wheezed its way to $20.2 million – way below even the studio’s most pessimistic projections and barely enough to keep it in front of the Cameron Diaz-Ashton Kutcher rom-com What Happens In Vegas, which grossed $20 million for third place. More at Variety

05.09.08: Verbinski To Direct 'Bioshock', Jackson Does 'Unthinkable', Perlman Joins 'Bunraku'

Gore Verbinski will direct the adaptation of last year’s smash-hit videogame Bioshock, which takes place in an idealized underwater city where things have gone horribly wrong. In the game, players control a pilot who crash-lands at a secret entrance to the city and is drawn into the local power struggles. “I think the whole utopia-gone-wrong story that’s cleverly unveiled to players is brimming with cinematic potential,” said the Pirates Of The Caribbean helmer. More at Variety

05.08.08: Knoxville & Posey Buy Into 'Fruitcake', Routh Enters 'Dead Of Night'

Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey have committed themselves to John Waters’ next project Fruitcake. The plot of Waters' latest nutfest is being kept under wraps but apparently centers on the eponymous title character, a boy who runs away from home over the holidays after he and his parents are arrested shoplifting meat. He meets up with a teenage runaway who’s being raised by two gay men and trying to track down her birth mother. More at The Hollywood Reporter

05.07.08: Ellen Page's Period Piece, Grodin's Muppet Cameo, Brolin in 'Nailed'

Ellen Page Gets Her Period (Piece)
Although the breakout star of Juno has become a poster child for her pop culture-infused generation, Ellen Page will try her hand at acting in a classic period drama. BBC films has announced that Page has been cast in the titular role of a new adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.  Alison Owen, who served as producer on the recent period piece The Other Boleyn Girl, is developing the project from a screenplay by Moira Buffini and production is slated to begin this fall. More at Variety.