Shadow Locked, a sci-fi site from the UK, was able to interview Roger Christian, the art director who worked on Star Wars and Alien. Christian is in a good position to talk about the prequel because he has met with Scott about the movie and there’s talk that he could possibly work on it again with Scott. He did confirm that it is going to be shot in 3D. He also shared Scott has a clear vision of where he wants the movie to go and hinted that with the whole concept “had legs to go on”, there is a possibility that a new trilogy may be in the offing.

I’m certainly looking forward to this. I think Scott’s Alien is one of the best sci-fi horror movies ever made. And I even think that it blows Cameron’s Aliens out of the water.

Harris is going to star in the Smurfs movie. This Smurfs movie is reportedly going to be a mix of both live action and animation. This means Harris is not just going to be voicing one of the Smurfs. He is reported to be playing the lead live action character.

Filming for the movie will commence this coming April, which will coincide with the end of the filming for Harris’ hit CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother.” The movie is expected to be released on July 29, 2011. Raja Gosnell will be directing the movie.

Newly appointed Chief Creative Officer of DC Entertainment Geoff Johns, gave some relatively cool news about the new superhero movie. First, he confirmed that actor Mark Strong is going to play GL’s nemesis Sinestro. Strong was last seen in Sherlock Holmes and is also a part of the cast of another comicbook adaptation, Kick Ass.

AMong the other Green Lantern staples that you can also expect in the movie, based on Johns’ information are the Guardians, Oa, and fan favorite Kilowog.

Green Lantern will be directed by Martin Campbell and will star Ryan Reynolds in the titular role. Also starring in the movie are Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard and Tim Robbins. The movie will be released on June 17, 2011.

The new movie, officially entitled The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of The Unicorn was shot using techniques and technology that was used in James Cameron’s Avatar.

Spielberg reportedly used performance capture techniques so that he could get as close to Herge’s vision for Tintin. Spielberg thought that a live action movie will be too stylized for the audience, what with the unique costumes. By going digital, he said it fits better with the whole look of the movie.

The motion capture stage that they used for making the movie allowed Spielberg to watch his actors in real time, but using a screen that showed them already within the digital world created.

The movie will star Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis, and Simon Pegg, among others. It will be released on December 23, 2011.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Universal Pictures has plans to reboot the American Pie franchise. It’s surprising to realize that the first American Pie movie was released way back in 1999. The third movie, American Wedding, hit theaters in 2003. After this third movie, a number of direct to video movies carrying the “American Pie Presents…” banner came out to varying degrees of success in terms of delivering the laughs.

Some of the original American Pie cast are reportedly interesting in coming back for the reboot but everything’s still up in the air. I’m pretty sure though that Alyson Hannigan is not going to come back. With her tremendous success with How I Met Your Mother, there’s really no need for her to go back and try to milk a little more media mileage.

Apparently, Stiller is currently negotiating to star in the Universal Pictures movie Trump Heist. The movie, which may be retitled Tower Heist, will be about a group of con artists who think up of a plan to swindle the people who live in the upscale Trump Tower in New York.

As I have previously mentioned, Eddie Murphy was attached to this movie as the lead star. He was supposed to co-star with other black comics Chris Rock, Chris Tucker and Dave Chappelle. But with Stiller now taking over, the script is being rewritten and a new direction is going to be taken.

Brett Ratner is said to be attached to direct the movie.

One other thing Tarantino is considering is making a western, but of course with that trademark Tarantino twist.

Tarantino said that he wants to do a western but instead of setting it in Texas (like most westerns do), he wants to set it during the time of slavery in the United States. Tarantino said that it’s a good opportunity to “shine that light on ourselves,” especially with a subject that everyone still considers quite sensitive. In typical Tarantino style, he said that instead of making a ponderous history lesson on slavery, a good adventure movie about them would be a better idea. He then said that instead of a western, he’d call his new take on the genre a Southern.

I’m a big Tarantino fan so I think that this new idea of his is going to work.

Her marriage to Guy Ritchie probably made Madonna think that she can direct a movie too. According to Variety, Madonna is going to direct W.E., a biopic that will revolve around the affair between King Edward VIII and the American widow Wallis Simpson.

Up in The Air’s Vera Farmiga is in talks to play Simpson’s role. The actor who will play the part of King Edward is yet to be determined.

King Edward and Wallis Simpson’s affair caused quite a stir in the 1930s, and many consider it a great love story for a king to step down from his throne in order to marry the woman he loves.

Aside from directing, Madonna will also write the script Alex Keshishian.

James Cameron has weighed in on possible Avatar sequels. Cameron revealed that he was not thinking about a sequel when he first wrote the script of Avatar more than 15 years ago. He did say ideas for a sequel began to pop up during the course of making Avatar. He said that anything they thought up or designed for Avatar that they didn’t know how to include in the movie was immediately considered as something that can be put in a sequel. This means, according to the director, that they have a huge backlog of things that they can put into future movies.

Cameron further said that he already thought up of a story arc for a second or even third Avatar movie but everything’s still up in the air. He vaguely said that there may not be a third film, or they can go further than three films. The just have to figure out how things will develop in the future.

We’ll see if Cameron does follow through with a sequel, and if it will take less than fifteen years to develop it.

One of the more crucial plot points in the new movie was more or less confirmed by two of the actors in the first two Ghostbusters movies — Bill Murray and Sigourney Weaver.

Weaver was actually getting Ghostbusters questions during her press tour for Avatar and she finally revealed the info that Bill Murray was teasing people with. She revealed that in the new sequel, her son is all grown up now and is now also a Ghostbuster. She said she may be involved with the movie even if it’s just a small part but Bill Murray will have a little more in terms of screen time — because he will play a ghost in the new movie!

Bill Murray as a ghost is going to be awesome. I’m already sure he’s going to be a scene stealer. Just look at his cool cameo in Zombieland.