"Barry Munday" Official Trailer

BARRY MUNDAY premieres On Demand, Xbox Live, Playstation, Amazon and Vudu on August 27th and opens in theaters on October 1, 2010.

Barry Munday, a suburban wanna-be ladies man, wakes up in the hospital after being attacked in a movie theater, only to realize that he is missing one of his most prized possessions... his testicles. To make matters worse, Barry learns he's facing a paternity lawsuit filed by a woman he can't remember having sex with.

With this being Barry’s last chance to ever be a father, Barry reaches out and embraces the journey of parenthood and the onslaught of bumps that face him along the way.

 Filled with an ensemble of unusual characters, "Barry Munday" is the surprisingly heart-warming tale of a guy who finds it took losing his manhood to be a better man.

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Josh Brolin may join Charlize Theron in Young Adult

Josh Brolin seems to have been around forever but role-wise he really launched himself with the lead in Oscar gobbler "No Country for Old Men."

Now he is circling the lead role in Jason Retiman's next film opposite Charlize Theron, personally I think Reitman has gotten better with every movie and this would be another good choice for Brolin in his quest to banish Jonah Hex from memory.

The film sees Theron as a ghost writer of young adult fiction who returns to her Midwestern home town to reconnect with old friends and the ex love of her life (Brolin if he signs), who happens to be happily married with a family and not interested in Charlize' advances (Yes this is fiction folks).

Brolin will next be seen in Oliver Stone's belated sequel "Wallstreet: Money Never Sleeps."

Showbiz 411 has the...err..411.

How Do You Know Trailer

It seems like the morning for movies I've never heard of, and this one has even reached trailer stage.

James L Brooks is back with his latest, slightly subversive rom com with Owen Wilson and Paul Ruud essentially playing the same roles they always play while vying for the affections of the pretty but suspiciously pixie-like Reese Witherspoon.

The trailer showcases a movie that looks amiable enough while being very formulaic, I suspect the leads will help it open solidly though. There is a killer line in there from one of Wilson's characters baseball buddies and Jack Nicholson has a supporting role that will probably steal the film.

"How Do You Know" opens this Christmas and you can check out the trailer below.

Shia LaBeouf and John Hillcoat Interested in Triple Nine

When I first saw the title I thought it might be a golf movie but thankfully it's a far more interesting sounding cop/heist thriller. The Wrap has the lowdown.

Shia LaBeouf and director John Hillcoat are circling Matt Cooke's spec script "Triple Nine," a crime drama that Steve Golin is attached to produce, individuals familiar with the project have told TheWrap.

Neither LaBeouf nor Hillcoat are officially in talks to sign on to the project, but they are definitely interested in Cooke's script, which is built around a fairly intriguing premise.

The story concerns a group of crooked cops planning a major heist who realize they must shoot one of their own in order to get away with it. The lead character is an upstanding young officer who they choose as their victim.

999 is the police code indicating that an officer needs immediate assistance.

WME is packaging "Triple Nine," and a separate individual has told TheWrap that Warner Bros. is in talks to pick up the project.

LaBeouf has been linked to several projects in development, including "The Promised Land," "The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman" and two Tony Scott projects -- "Hell's Angels" and an adaptation of John Grisham's "The Associate." He's currently filming Michael Bay's "Transformers 3" and next stars in Oliver Stone's "Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps."

Hillcoat, who previously directed "The Proposition" and "The Road," has also been linked to "The Promised Land," as well as the western "The Revenant," a remake of "The Red Circle" and several other projects.

Shia seems to be looking to get that role that transitions him from teen star to adult movie star, yes he's not actually a teen and by adult star I don't mean porn, but he's been stuck in that in between crossroads for a while now. This project seems ideal, and Warner Brothers have been racking up the quality over the last few years. This or Hells Angels seem his best bet, but I prefer the sound of this.

As for Hillcoat, while I suspect this will be dark and R rated like his other movies, it does seem to have the potential to actually be a hit, which is new for him.

Michael Vartan Joins Colombiana

Michael Vartan is best known to you as Vaughn in Alias opposite the lovely Jennifer Garner, I say this because it's the only thing I've ever seen him in bar a trailer for a JLO rom com where he played her boyfriend and she got her face slammed into a cream cake by some old actress.

Anyway he has a new movie role and once again he's the boyfriend of a badass female lead according to Heat Vision.

Michael Vartan will star opposite Zoe Saldana in "Colombiana," an action movie produced and co-written by Luc Besson that is being directed by "Transporter 3" helmer Olivier Megaton.

The film centers on a woman (Saldana) who as a child witnessed her parents' murder in Bogota. She grows up to become a hitwoman by day but in her personal time engages in vigilante murders to lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' deaths.

Vartan will play Saldana's boyfriend, an artist with no idea what she does for a living who is her only link to normalcy.

Besson wrote the script with Robert Mark Kamen; the pair previously teamed to pen "Taken," "The Transporter" and "The Fifth Element."

Besson is producing with Pierre-Ange Le Pogam and Ariel Zeitoun.

Production will begin in late summer in Chicago, New Orleans and Mexico City. The action thriller is set to be released Sept. 2, 2011.

Besson certainly loves his assassins and Leon is an all time classic, but these second tier actioners he's been churning out as writer/producer are very hit and miss, for every 'Taken' there is a 'Transporter 3' and this flick happens to share the same director as that noisy drek.

Josh Hartnett Signs Up for Tomorrow

Always more successful with the Ladies than at the Box Office, Josh Hartnett is set to return to the screen in his third collaboration with director Paul McGuigan according to Worldview Entertainment via that Twitter thingamejig and Comingsoon.net.

I've always though Hartnett was a solid actor that just hasn't gotten that one big role that leads to better scripts, maybe this will be the one to change things, but I doubt it.

Worldview Entertainment has revealed that Josh Hartnett will reunite with Wicker Park and Lucky Number Slevin director Paul McGuigan for the sci-fi thriller Tomorrow.

In the film, Hartnett will play a man who travels back and forth through time and space, trying to prevent the murder of his family.

The movie was written by Michael Gould.

Hiro to Hawaii

He's the one on your left in case you're wondering. I thought Heroes pretty much blew after season one but Masa Oki was always a likable fella in the role of Hiro, and along with Miss Panettiere was probably the shows most popular star, now news comes from TV Guide that he's set to join the new Hawaii Five-0.

After squinting his eyes and time-hopping around the globe to save the world as Heroes' Hiro Nakamura, Masi Oka has signed on to help Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) and his team investigate murders on CBS's Hawaii Five-0 reboot.

He'll debut in the fourth episode as the coroner and be billed as a guest star. But with the body count expected to spike considerably in Oahu, this coroner could potentially be busy for several seasons.

I loved the original Hawaii Five-0 and the new version is looking very sharp, Oki will no doubt be providing some quirky light relief, the shows version of Abby from NCIS perhaps. Hawaii Five-0 starts on September 20th and I've plonked the trailer below.

Bugs Bunny headed to the big screen

What's up Doc!?...Now that's out of the way apparently what is up is legendary toon icon Bugs Bunny is headed to the big screen in one of those awful CGI/Live action hybrid deals like the dreadful looking Yogi Bear movie, Toldya! got the details.

Warner Bros has hired Elf scribe David Berenbaum to write Bugs Bunny, a live action/CG feature film designed to revive one of the studio’s most iconic intellectual properties. I’m told that Berenbaum, who also adapted The Spiderwick Chronicles and is writing an animated project with George Lucas--just closed his deal.  No producer has yet been assigned. While Warner Bros has struggled to pick winners out of its DC Comics catalog beyond Batman, the studio has done little with its Looney Tunes catalog lately. Warner Bros scored with the 1996 film Space Jam, mingling Looney Tunes characters with NBA superstars led by Michael Jordan, but its feature momentum ground to a halt with the 2003 Brendan Fraser-starrer Looney Tunes: Back In Action.

While the rabbit was toned down in later Looney Tunes incarnations, the 1940 Tex Avery creation was the centerpiece for smart, topical, sophisticated and sometimes subversive cartoon shorts, marked by the vocal versatility of Mel Blanc, who also voiced Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and others. Berenbaum's repped by WME.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan Is The Courier

I like Jeffrey Dean Morgan, I mean I've only seen him in "The Losers" but I thought he showed charisma in the lead role, now granted he's not famous enough yet to be nicked JDM so typing out his full moniker is a chore but a must, but he has signed on to star in a new action flick that sounds like "The Transporter" according to Toldja!

Watchmen’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan has committed to star in the title of The Courier, an action film directed by Paradise Now helmer Hany Abu-Assad. Production is set to start next month in New Orleans. Arclight Films is financing.

Script’s by 3:10 to Yuma team Derek Haas and Michael Brandt, and Morgan plays a courier who has taken on improbable missions and never missed a drop. He’s hired to deliver a briefcase to a notorious underworld figure that can’t be found. The courier finds himself pursued by corrupt cops, double-crossing feds and rival crime bosses. Cary Brokaw is producing. Morgan will also be executive producer.

Harry Potter EW Cover

With less than 100 days left until the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, the hype machine is officially starting up with the new Fall Preview issue of Entertainment Weekly, available on newsstands today.  You can check out an excerpt of the Deathly Hallows feature here, and the full article over at Mugglenet.

The article does confirm where the split will be between Parts I and II of the final films (SPOILER warnings for those prefer to wait).  Fans had speculated that the movie would likely split just after the trio are captured by Snatchers and taken to Malfoy Manor, since that happens around the halfway mark of book and it sounded like it would give the first part a big cliffhanger ending.  Judging from this information from EW, it sounds like the split will be happening later than that part of the book:

"Part 1, by the way, will end at about Chapter 24 of the book, with Voldemort gaining possession of the Elder wand, one of the three Deathly Hallows that allow the bearer to conquer death."

That would be just after the Malfoy Manor chapter, as well as one of the book's saddest death scenes, so that should leave everyone nice and miserable on their way out of the theater.  That also means that Part II will open with the trio sneaking into Gringotts to retrieve one of the Horcruxes - which involves a dragon - before heading back for the final Hogwarts battle, which sounds like it will be taking up most of Part II.  Which sounds pretty sweet.

Also, if you're a Harry Potter fan in the UK, you have a chance to win tickets to the Deathly Hallows premiere in London if you sign up for the Join The Final Battle Facebook page by midnight tomorrow. 

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 opens in theaters on November 19.