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Justin To Spin Some Gold

Justin Timberlake has signed on to star in new movie Spinning Gold.

The star that seems to have completely ditched his music career to concentrate on films will play Neil Bogart, the founder of Casablanca Records in the new musical biopic.

The record company that was discovered in 1974 was credited with launching the careers of a huge roster of singers who have since gone on to become music superstars. This roster included; KISS, Donna Summer, The Village People and Parliament.

The film is written and produced by the late music mogul’s children, Tim and Evan Bogart. Tim said of the film, “This movie is literally three decades in the making, but we knew that without the perfect actor to bring our father to life on film, his essence and impact on the lives and careers he inspired would never be fully captured - from the moment we met Justin, we knew we'd found our Neil Bogart.”

The film will also be getting the musical soundtrack treatment, so lets hope Timberlake finally gets singing some tunes after his five year hiatus.

Cult Comic To Hit Big Screen

With the comic book film market growing and growing it looks as though cult comic Area 52 has been picked up to get the big screen treatment.

Summit entertainment recently picked up the rights to turn Area 52, which were originally published by image, into a movie.

Brian Haberlin wrote the 2001 comic book mini series and the art was done by Clayton Henry and revolved around Corporal Monica Lane as she was dispatched to an outpost in the Arctic. The remote area where she has been dispatched also turns out to be the place where the US military dispose of things they don’t understand. After the gets off to a boring start thing soon change after an alien killing machine is hatched.

Sounds pretty good to me and it will be nice to see a relatively unknown comic book get the big screen treatment instead of rehashes and reboots of the same ones over and over … Superman, Spider Man and X-Men anyone?

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian will be producing the film and will be going out to writers for the story soon.

Duchovny Joins Phantom

David Duchovny has signed on to star in indie thriller Phantom.

Duchovny will be staring alongside Ed Harris, Natasha McElhone and William Fichtner, while he takes time from his series Californication.

The film itself is set on a soviet submarine during the time of the cold war, and will see a Russian captain battling with not only a rogue KGB unit but also a supernatural force that appears to be trying to take over the submarine vessel. Doesn’t sound like a fun time for the people in the submarine does it?

The film does sound very interesting indeed, although a little strange so it should be interesting to see how the pull this one off.

Harris will be playing the role of the captain and Duchovny will be stepping in to replace Andy Garcia as the Soviet Special Forces team leader.

The film will be written and directed by Todd Robinson, and will start shooting next month in Long Beach, California.