A weekly round-up of news stories on the comings and goings of the entertainment world. This week: Robert Downey Jr. may be cast as the vampire Lestat, Superman is being chopped up in the courts, St. Elmo’s Fire is coming to television, and Bryan Singer moves closer to rebooting Battlestar Galactica.
Coming out this week in stores, director Ari Folman looks back on his youth during the Lebanon War in Waltz With Bashir; Paul Rudd and Jason Segel star in the comedy I Love You, Man; and Sony Pictures debuts Starman and St. Elmo’s Fire on Blu-ray.
There are just a couple of weeks to go before the 28th annual Toronto International Film Festival hits the city and two more Gala Presentations have been announced. Both Robert Benton‘s The Human Stain and Joel Schumacher‘s Veronica Guerin will make their North American and more films will be announced in the weeks to come!
