Not long ago The Weinstein Co. announced that Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s double feature Grindhouse with be released as two separate movies in several countries around the world. Instead of showing the two films in the way it was originally intended to resemble double features they would break they into two separate films and now Variety reports that unfortunately that will be the case for its UK release.

The original plan was to screen Grindhouse as a double bill in the United Kingdom and Australia, with other territories getting Tarantino’s Death Proof and Rodriguez’s Planet Terror separately.

Momentum Pictures will release Death Proof in U.K. theaters on Sept. 21 however a date for Rodriguez’s Planet Terror has not yet been set.

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The British Guardian newspaper has revealed that the director of the like-it-or-hate-it The Fountain is considering a biblical epic film will be a version of the story of Noah and the flood.

When the writer-director was 13, he won a United Nations competition at his school in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn; it was for his first poem, a little effort about the end of the world as seen through Noah’s eyes, the newspaper reported. “That story has interested me ever since,” Aronofsky told the paper.

Aronofsky has said that the script will not be conventional and it does sound intriguing to me. The director hints of a dark, complicated character who is trying to cope with survivor’s guilt in a lonely new world. Should be one to watch out for if he goes ahead with it.

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The ashes of late Star Trek actor James Doohan, who played Scotty, have been rocketed into space after the first attempt failed due to weather conditions last year.

His remains were shot into orbit from Spaceport America in New Mexico. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s ashes are already in space.

It was the first launch of its kind by UP Aerospace, who charge $495 for people to have their remains sent into orbit.

Doohan died in July 2005 at the age of 85. Before his death the iconic actor had been suffering from Alzheimer’s.

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Karey Kirkpatrick who previously directed Over the Hedge has been brought in by Paramount to direct a comedy starring Eddie Murphy.

The movie comedy NowhereLand stars Murphy as a successful financial executive who finds his career going down the drain and discovers the answers to his problems within his daughter’s imaginary world.

NowhereLand was penned by Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson and is being produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura as well as Solomon.

They hope to start shooting on September 10th.

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Malcolm McDowell who has recently played the corrupt Linderman in NBC’s Heroes has joined the cast of Pictures’ action thriller Doomsday.

In Doomsday, McDowell will play Kane, the brilliant scientist who is the only true expert on the lethal Reaper virus and helps a group of specialists to find a cure to the virus that has ravaged the earth.

Also starring in Doomsday are Rhona Mitra and Bob Hoskins and is written and directed by Neil Marshall.

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David S. Goyer will be directing Fox’ Magneto which revolves around a young mutant from the marvel universe before he eventually turns into a villain.

Goyer is well known for his work on Super Hero films having worked on Batman Begins and Blade.

Not only will we see a young Magneto but there is also a very good chance that we will see a young Professor Xavier, mentor to the X-Men. Both characters should be in their twenties and so Ian McKellen’s services will not be needed.

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Eric Roberts who has been playing a recurring role on NBC’s Heroes, is to join the cast of latest batman movie, The Dark Knight.

In the film which is to be directed by Christopher Nolan, Roberts will play the part of a notorious Mafia kingpin.

Eric Roberts will join the production in June which stars Christian Bale as Batman

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Sci Fi.com and Sci Fi Magazine are asking Internet users if they should pick up a new sci-fi comedy called Outer Space Astronauts.

Visitors are given access to 5 vignettes from the show on the SCI FI Pulse Broadband Network and asked to fill out a survey explaining what they think. Sci Fi says it will also take traffic into account when deciding whether or not to pick up the show.

Think you know how to program the American Sci Fi Channel better than NBC Universal? After they started airing wrestling on the Sci Fi Channel… who doesn’t.

You can watch the Outer Space Astronauts clips here.

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Michael Bay director of films such as Bad Boys 1 and 2, The Rock and Pearl Harbor, is reported to be taking on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time after finishing the Transformers movie.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a film based on a popular video game and it will be made with longtime producing partner Jerry Bruckheimer. The film will take elements from the video game and not keep strictly to the video game’s storyline.

The video game’s storyline follows an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world.

Persia is eyeing a summer 2009 release date.

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Edward Norton as the Hulk? How on earth did the casting director pull that one off? I think that that piece of genius casting will make the newest Hulk movie worth watching.

The first film received mixed reviews and starred Eric Bana as Bruce Banner the scientist who finds himself turning into the Hulk whenever he gets angry. The sequel, The Incredible Hulk has not only a new leading man but a new director, Louis Leterrier.

The new movie begins with Banner on the run, trying to avoid capture long enough to cure the condition that turns him into a misunderstood green menace.

The script for The Incredible Hulk was written by Zak Penn, who had a hand in crafting two X-Men films, Fantastic Four and Elektra for Marvel.

The Incredible Hulk will shoot this summer in Toronto and is set to open on for June 13, 2008.

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