I loved Bad Boys! Can’t wait!

Columbia Pictures is developing a third installment of the “Bad Boys” franchise, hiring Peter Craig to write the screenplay, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The studio hopes to have a script that would reunite director Michael Bay, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. At this point, with the project in the early stages, none has a deal to return.

The first Bad Boys was released in 1995 and grossed $66 million domestically and $141 million worldwide. The 2003 sequel grossed $138 million domestically and $273 million worldwide.

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From MoviesBlog at MTV:

In case you haven’t heard, “V for Vendetta” director James McTeigue is getting himself set to helm “The Raven,” a fictionalized take on the last days of Edgar Allen Poe.

It is widely known that Poe died shortly after he was found wandering the streets of Baltimore, dazed and incoherent. No clear story was ever assembled of what left him in that state. A variety of theories exist of course, and McTeigue is prepping to put forth one of his own.

In “The Raven,” Poe’s last days are spent in pursuit of a serial killer who is modeling his (or her?) crimes after the murders in the author’s stories. Poe was 40 when he died, and the director is looking to fill the role with someone who can play that age. In a recent interview, McTiegue revealed to MTV that “I’m getting very close to the person who I want to be Poe. I think the person we’re looking at will make a great Poe.”

Interesting. Not only is McTeigue close to nailing down his Poe, but it appears that he has someone specific in mind. Someone who can play a 40 year old. The odds certainly favor Johnny Depp, even if his plate is too full to make such a commitment. He looks the part certainly; his take on Sweeney Todd bore some inescapable resemblances to Poe.

Disney has acquired screen rights to a new rendition of “The Diary of Anne Frank,” to be written and helmed by David Mamet, reports Variety. Mamet will also produce with Andrew Braunsberg.

The trade says that the film will be an amalgamation of the famed diary; the stage adaptation by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich; and Mamet’s own original take on the material that could reframe the story as a young girl’s right of passage. Frank, who died at 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, became an icon of the Holocaust after the post-war publication of the diary that she kept during the two years that her family hid in a secret attic apartment in Amsterdam.

A 1959 big screen rendition of Hackett and Goodrich’s “Diary of Anne Frank” earned an Oscar for Shelley Winters. The Anne Frank story has been told several times on TV, most recently ABC’s 2001 Emmy-winning mini “Anne Frank: The Whole Story.”

So who should play Anne? I think Saoirse Ronan would be genius. (She was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Atonement.)

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More bad news for the outrageous comedy Brüno — Ukraine’s Culture Ministry has banned it, calling the Sacha Baron Cohen hit movie “immoral.”

So what is it that the ministry finds so displeasing? The Associated Press reports that the depictions of sexual organs, homosexual intercourse and language are deemed obscene and improper by Ukraine.

We guess not everybody understands Sacha’s particular brand of in-your-face humor.

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As its release date creeps closer, we’ve been treated to more and more of a glimpse of what Tim Burton’s “Alice In Wonderland” is going to look like.

Today, we have four new photos for your viewing pleasure!

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Say what?!?? I guess Hollywood is all out of ideas.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal won a bidding war for the big-screen rights to the classic 1979 Atari game Asteroids.

Writer Matthew Lopez, who recently worked on Disney’s Bedtime Stories and Race to Witch Mountain, has the task of inventing a story for the arcade game, in which a player controlling a space ship racks up points by shoots asteroids and flying saucers.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) will produce.

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According to sources, there are about five scripts to the Sex and the City sequel floating around — each with different endings.

Apparently one of the scripts contains a storyline in which Carrie and Big have a baby and another where Big leaves Carrie.

Movie producers made all of the scripts and plotlines to avoid any potential leaks. If we know what’s going to happen, what’s the likelyhood of all of us crowding a movie theater to see it in motion?

What do you want to see happen in the sequel?

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