• While Disney's A Christmas Carol took the top spot at the box office over the weekend with $31 million, the indie drama Precious Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire is already breaking records with $1.8 million on only 18 screens.
• Sony is developing the board game Risk for the big screen. So instead of a movie about conquering the world, it'll be a movie about watching people play a game about conquering the world.
• Moon director Duncan Jones has scored Jake Gyllenhaal as the lead for Source Code, his next science fiction thriller. Can you find the source...of the code??
• Actor Dennis Hopper spoke out for the first time about his recent cancer treatment.
• In quite possibly the most insane news of the year, Martin Lawrence and Jamie Foxx could unite for Sheneneh and Wanda, a movie that would combine their popular cross-dressing characters from In Living Color and Martin. And that, ladies and gentlemen, marks the end of modern cinema and quite possibly the universe as we know it.
• Nick Counter, the former president of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, has passed away at the age of 69. Counter, a controversial figure in the industry, was a major player during the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike.
• Clueless director Amy Heckerling is tossing her hat into the vampire movie ring with a romantic comedy, entitled Vamps. To be fair, Heckerling understands teens far better than Stephenie Meyer.
