In 1942 John Wayne made a movie called Flying Tigers about the exploits of the 1st American Volunteer Group who helped China fight the Japanese, now John Woo is directing a remake called Flying Tiger Heroes.

The film remake of The Mechanic see’s Jason Statham taking on the Bronson role and Ben Foster playing McKenna, it appears to be following the plot of the original closely and the director is Simon West who has previously directed Con Air.

It’s been a long wait but finally all four Alien films are being released on blu ray in a special Alien Anthology boxset, they will incorporate a new feature exclusive to blu ray called MU-TH-UR Mode. Alien Anthology hits blu ray on October 25 in the UK and October 26 in the U.S.!

Karl Urban has signed on to play Judge Dredd and the script has been written by Alex Garland. I just hope they have a lot of money to do this film right and are ambitious enough to go the extra mile and not cut corners. The film is being made in 3D.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is a novel by the late author Stieg Larsson, it forms part of his Millennium trilogy, the other two entries are The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, all three were made into Swedish films, Hollywood is now remaking the first movie.

The continuing financial woes at MGM have seen a number of film productions postponed or axed while a buyer is sought for the troubled studio and now the latest MGM production casualty is the remake of RoboCop.

For years there have been discussions about taking the film series back to it’s roots and making an alien prequel based around the space jockey seen in the original film and learning more on the origins of the aliens.

Twilight was written by author Stephenie Meyer in 2005, she followed up with New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn, the books tell the story of Isabella ( Bella ) Swan and Edward Cullen and the movies were adapted from these books.

Resident Evil: Afterlife is the fourth movie of the popular zombie series and it opens in September, it was made using the Pace Fusion 3D camera system which was used to such good effect on Avatar. Milla Jovovich returns as Alice.

The new version of Piranha has an underwater volcanic tremor causing the earth to open up and large numbers of prehistoric piranha are unleashed, these piranha’s have no problem with biting off more than they can chew.