Sorry folks, this is not news related to the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Samuel L. Jackson's company Uppity Films and Andras Hamori's H20 Motion Pictures have just secured the rights to the life story of Andrew Mwangura.

Mwangura is the current head of the Seafarer's Assistance Programme, an organization founded in 1996 that monitors piracy that happens off the African coast. He is an ex-marine engineer who is not paid for his work negotiating between pirates and their captives - he is a freelance journalist.

Said Hamori, "(Andrew) has the trust of the pirates and the ship owners, and his loyalty is to the kidnapped crews that get caught in the middle of these episodes."

The story of Mwangura is aiming to have Jackson play the lead role. As of now, there

Four Brothers and Boyz n the Hood director John Singleton is set to return to the silver screen with Vin Diesel behind the wheel. Variety is reporting that the two are signed up to make "Wheelman," a film adaptation of a video game released this past March. Lorezno di Bonaventura is going to produce the live-action feature with Diesel and Samantha Vincent.

Diesel will be playing Milo Burik, an "expert driver" who leaves retirement to protect "a woman from his past." The Fast and Furious actor also helped produce the video game, whose main character was even modeled after his image.

A script for the project was originally written by Rich Wilkes (who wrote the original xXx). A re-write was done by Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell, the writing duo who scripted The

Today, Moviehole was able to uncover solid information about that Karate Kid remake starring Jaden Smith (produced by his daddy, Will Smith). First of all, it seems that the film is not going to be called "The Kung Fu Kid," as rumors from a month ago had started to perceive. The title for the project is currently still The Karate Kid. I guess "Killer of Childhood Dreams" isn't snappy enough. Bitter remarks aside, it is worth discussing the new plot as it seems to update its original source with as many modern elements as possible. However, for those who want to be "surprised" by the film when it is released in a year, I will warn you that there are going to be SPOILERS of some sort here.

Daniel, the character originally

God bless the MTV Movie Awards. They have the same self-indulgence but lack the arrogance of the People's Choice Awards, and they always offer the best excuse for movies that came out last summer to get re-hyped as if they still haven't come out yet. Plus, it's probably the only award show where a film selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as "Best Picture" has the chance of losing to a movie called High School Musical 3: Senior Year.

Nominees for this year's awards (which can be seen live on May 31st) were announced a few days ago, with Slumdog Millionaire and Twilight getting six nominations each. Totally more awesome than the Golden Globes, this award show aims at the real important elements of a good film. Some

The boys are back in the City ... Sex in the City ... with three key actors recently signed up for the sequel. First, Chris Noth was reported by Variety to have signed up to return as Carrie Bradshaw's Mr. Big. Now, E! Online reports that the on screen husbands of Charlotte and Miranda have also signed on (Evan Handler and David Eisenberg, respectively).

This marks the basic completion of the series' leading cast, with Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall and Kristin Davis all set to return. Writer/director Michael Patrick King will also return for the film which is going to start shooting this summer.

The sequel to Sex and the City is set to be released May 28, 2010.

Source: Yahoo news

Source: Variety

Here's a sequel idea that does actually make a bit of sense. According to Entertainment Weekly and Variety, a heavily rumored sequel to Oliver Stone's Wall Street is now in the works. The director of the 1987 film, Oliver Stone, is going to helm the project, which will also star Michael Douglas once again portraying the role of Gordon Gekko. Douglas earned an Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of the manipulative economic monolith.

Shia LeBouf is also in talks to play a role similar to that of Charlie Sheen's in the original.

The plot for "Wall Street 2" is set to take place nearly two decades after Gekko is released from jail. The screenplay, written by 21 scribe Allan Loeb, will be certain to reflect on current economic foul play and

High School Musical sweetheart Vanessa Hudgens is set to star in a modern adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast" called Beastly. The film is set to be directed by Daniel Barnz using a script he adapted from a book by Alex Flinn. A modern twist, the New York City-based story is about a 17-year-old mean girl who is changed into something awful in order to find true love.

Beastly will be one of the first projects from CBS Films, and will be produced by Susan Cartsonis through her company Storefront Films.

This fluffy role sounds harmless, especially for someone as bubble gum as Hudgens. Ain't no shame in making another movie that tries to get kids to stop being brats. Beastly may not be a monster hit, but it'll probably surpass Disney-channel-movie-like expectations

The list just keeps growing. Another name of potential directors for the Eclipse, the third film of the Twilight saga, has been thrown into the pot. Joining the likes of Drew Barrymore, Paul Weitz, and even Orphanage director Juan Antonio Bayona, David Slade is reportedly also being considered.

Slade is known for 30 Days of Night and Hard Candy, two films from different sides of the horror spectrum that are both grounded in a dedication to reality.

Nikki Finke is reporting that producing company Summit Entertainment has met with Slade, and that the director has also met with Twilight author Stephanie Meyer.

If you really think about it, Slade would be an excellent choice for the series. Hard Candy offered some tasty thrills, while also delivering a visual style (various color tints) to make