BRETT RATNER PREPARING A NEW LIVE ACTION ADAPTATION OF "SNOW WHITE"

We'll definitely be seeing a lot of fairy tales on the big screen in the future. Beside already announced "Cinderella", "Jack The Giant Killer", "Wizard of Oz" and "Maleficent", and already successful "Alice in Wonderland", it seems "Snow White" will get a live action movie as well. According to "Deadline New York", director Brett Ratner is preparing the live action adaptation of "Snow White".
In the new movie, a young woman will still get poisoned by the evil witch's apple, but there will also be several updated aspects to the story. The plot will be more connected to the 500 year old folk tale and will put in some of the things that were missing from Walt Disney's film. His dwarves were miners, and here they will be robbers. There is also a dragon that was in the original folk tale. This new "Snow White" is going to be more edgy, with more comedy.

MESMERIZING FIRST POSTERS FOR SF ROMANCE "UPSIDE DOWN" WITH KIRSTEN DUNST AND JIM STURGESS

It seems that the lovely and very intriguing Kirsten Dunst sf romance "Upside Down", which HOLLYWOOD SPY wrote about last autumn, is progressing really nice. Check out the first posters. As you know, the story of "Upside Down" takes place in two worlds that are literally on top each other, each city with their own gravity system. Sadly, the citizens of each town can not visit the other, for unknown reasons. Jim Sturgess plays the main character Adam, who falls in love with a girl from the upside down world Eve, played by Kirsten Dunst. And like any good lovelorn hero, he's not going to let a little thing like gravity get in the way of his heart's desire.
The big plus in this movie is its production designer Alex McDowell ("Watchmen", "The Crow", "Fight Club","The Minority Report").

ASHLEY JUDD AND PATRICK DEMPSEY IN "FLYPAPER"

I've always loved Ashley Judd, she is so charismatic and so unbelievably beautiful, and she had such a promising start, but I just don't know what has happened to her later on. She kept starring only in thrillers, never made some groundbreaking performance, and somehow just got stuck in B-league instead reaching the top as she deserves. I was so excited when she was supposed to play Catwoman, but then Halle Berry took the role and we know what kind of disaster the film was after that. And now Ashley has a new role. Together with Patrick Dempsey she will star in the bank heist comedy "Flypaper" and according to "MovieWeb" this will be her first role after not working for a year to get her graduate degree at Harvard. "Flypaper" will tell the story of a bank robbed by two different groups of crooks at the same time. However, they both get upended by a secret enemy (Patrick Dempsey), as he tries to save the bank teller (Ashley Judd) he is in love with.

EXCLUSIVE: FIRST CONCEPT IMAGES OF "THOR" COSTUME

Ok, so after we've seen the concept images of Captain America's costume yesterday, today the Net is swamped by the similar concept images of Thor's costume, but this time Marvel hasn't really confirmed whether this one is real or not. Off course it doesn't mean we can't study the look of Chris Hemsworth in these pics. Do you like it? I'm not really amazed, I've expected something more spectacular and more stylish, this costume looks a bit too rough for me, but we shall wait and see whether it's the real costume or not.
As you know, directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Chris Hemsworth "Thor" will follow a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. Once here, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.

THE FIRST CONCEPT IMAGES OF "CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER" COSTUME

After we've seen many different fan-drawn images of Captain America's film costume last week all around the Net, it seems that "Ain't It Cool News" has the real deal - these are the first concept images of the costume which will be worn by Chris Evans in "Captain America: The First Avenger". As you can see, Captain will wear an army helmet instead of the original hood, and the blue colour of the whole costume will be less vivid than in the comics. As you know, "Captain America: The First Avenger" is out in July 2011 and stars Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Tommy Lee Jones, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper ...

EXCLUSIVE: FIRST ARTWORK FROM "XERXES" THE "300" PREQUEL BY FRANK MILLER

Here's a real treat. "Dark Horse Comics" has just released the first artwork image from the upcoming comic book "Xerxes" by Frank Miller, which is basically a prequel to his comic book "300" which was adapted into one of the most famous epics ever. "Xerxes" should be made into a new movie by "300" director Zack Snyder. Xerxes rose to power in fifth-century-BC Persia and became known as "The King of Kings" eventually raising and leading a massive army intent on ruthlessly destroying the hated Greeks who killed his father. He wanted nothing less than to become a god himself. The time frame of "Xerxes" begins 10 years before "300" and the story starts with the Battle of Marathon which was extremely difficult to draw as Miller said himself. The lead character of the book and of the possible movie is Themistocles, who became warlord of Greece and built their navy. The story will cover a much greater span of time - around 10 years, and will be very complex, with many details such as the conflict between Athenian naval fleet and the Persian fleet, the conflicts between spies, gods, warriors...

JOSH HOLLOWAY IN TALKS WITH MARVEL TO JOIN "THE AVENGERS"?

Oh, here's another super-hero news. According to latest rumors circling around the Net, "Lost" star Josh Holloway is negotiating with Marvel to take a lead role in an upcoming film about one of Marvel's characters. Some websites are speculating that he might get a role of Ant-man or Hawkeye, since both of those characters appear in the announced superhero film "The Avengers", while Ant-Men also has it's own spin-off announced. "The Avengers", which is supposed to bring the Marvel team of super heroes together in the same movie is scheduled for 2012 and will be directed by Josh Whedon with Chris Evans as Captain America, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man and Samuel L. Jackson in the cast. They also have to find someone to play Hulk. Josh Holloway could also appear among them if these rumors are true.