• Christian Bale has signed on to the boxing flick The Fighter alongside Mark Wahlberg. David O. Russell (I Heart Huckabees) will direct. Three hotheads working on the same movie? Expect the leaked on-set meltdown tape to be of epic proportions.
• The economic recession is causing adults to stay away from the movies. Pretty soon movie theaters will be solely for teens and elderly folks looking for some nice air conditioning.
• The father of Slumdog Millionaire child star Rubiana Ali is denying allegations made by News of the World that he tried to sell his daughter for $300,000.
• Jenna Malone and Jamie Chung will join the all-female cast of Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch.
• Fox has shifted the release dates of Tooth Fairy and Date Night to January and April 2010, respectively.
• Columbia Pictures is moving forward with the third film in the Da Vinci Code trilogy, The Lost Symbols. The book will be published in September.
• Demetri Martin (Taking Woodstock) will join Brad Pitt in Steven Soderbergh's Moneyball.
