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Bonnie and Clyde Return

Director Neil Burger is to tackle a new version of Bonnie and Clyde.

After the success of his recent flick Limitless, the director has been lining up a whole new selection of projects, and it has been announced that he is attached to direct a new version of the outlaws story.

The screenplay will be written by Sheldon Turner who penned the script for Up in the Air, and will be based on the book We Both Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn.

Burger and Turner are set to make a much darker version of the Bonnie and Clyde tale, which will see it be a far cry from the 1967 Arthur Penn version, which was a much more romanticised version of the duo’s story.

The book looks more closely at the facts, such as Bonnie was most likely a prostitute before joining Clyde, and that his first kill was in fact a sexually abusive prison cellmate. Not forgetting the fact that they had killed seven people and died by the age of 22.

The two have secured funding from Marissa McMahon and are expected to get the screenplay on paper soon.

Captain America Topples Potter

Super hero film Captain America has topped the US Box Office.

The film has taken an estimated $65.8 million over the weekend, helping to maintain the popularity and success of the recent Marvel comic book based films.

The film may have been helped claim its position at the top of the box office due to it being launched on the same weekend as Comic-Con, and if the figures are correct then the film’s launch puts its weekend gross ahead of recent hit film Thor.

Paramount has warned that the figures may decrease once the final tallies have been calculated.

The film pushed the boy wonder Harry Potter and his fellow Hogwarts friends down to the number two position. The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 however still took a considerable amount of money, totalling at $48 million, bringing the movies total US Box Office gross at around $274 million.

Captain America and Potter were followed by the Justin Timberlake/ Mila Kunis comedy Friends With Benefits that brought in an estimated $18.5 million.

The top five was completed with Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon at number four grossing $12 million and Horrible Bosses at number five which took $11.7 million.