Tom Hanks is thinking about starring in “Major Matt Mason” a live-action flick based on an oldschool Mattel action figure. Oh yeah, maybe there’s a plot attached to all of it too. [Variety]
Breakout “Slumdog Millionaire” star Freida Pinto has joined the cast of Julian Schnabel’s new Israeli-Palestinian conflict film, “Miral.” [EW]
If you haven’t heard already, Kurt Russell is another actor who didn’t want to appear in Sylvester Stallone’s action B-movie “The Expendables.” Does the script really, really suck or what? [FilmJunk]
The Smoking Gun does a good play by play on the way the “Brüno” filmmakers and Sacha Baron Cohen have been duping their subjects. Basically it’s a lot of fake websites for fake companies. [TheSmokingGun]
Will Warner Bros. give Zack Snyder $100 million to make “Sucker Punch” after the not-quite-success of “Watchmen”? That’s a very good question. [Observer]
Fake meta-marketing For “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World,” turns up in Toronto where the picture is shooting. Fake movie posters for Lucas Lee films (the character played by Chris Evans) have been spotted around the city. Photos were taken, but have since been removed. [PopGoesTheNews]
Netflix and Facebook have joined forces. It was probably inevitable. Now they’ll probably do that annoying “synergy” thing that posts whatever you rent on Netflix on your Facebook page without your knowledge (or at least it’s not obvious). Viewers of Skinamax lite and bad B-movies take note. You might want to dig through the annals of your Facebook and turn that shit off. [NewTeeVee]
The Toronto Hot Docs documentary film festival has announced its line-up. Featured films include James Toback’s “Tyson” and Mercedes Stalenhoef’s “Carmen Meets Borat,” which is about the Romanian villagers exploited seen in “Borat.”A lot of documentaries addressing the economic crisis are on tap as well. [Variety]
Former Primus frontman Les Claypool turns soundtrack and video game music work into his next album, Fungi And Foe. Apparently he scored a thriller called, “Pig Hunt,” which is “about a three thousand-pound wild boar which terrorizes the pot fields of northern California.” [Aquarian]