"New Line Cinema has signed a two-year, first-look production deal with Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson and his still-untitled company will set up offices in Los Angeles. The movies Jackson produces will be a mix of starring vehicles and ones that his company develops. source will be very hands-on with material..." (full details)

""The Children of Hurin," an unfinished tale by J.R.R. Tolkien, has been edited by his son into a completed work and will be released next spring. Christopher Tolkien has spent the past 30 years working on the book, an epic tale his father began in 1918 and later abandoned. Excerpts of "The Children of Hurin," which includes the elves and dwarves of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" and other works, have been published before..." (full details)

"Remember the casting news that Johnny Depp had been cast in I Am Legend? According to our "on-set" source is pure BS, Depp never signed on and bottom line, he is not in the film. The IESB can confirm that the Phillip character is not in this script and that this movie will actually be closer to The Omega Man film than the original 1954 novel written by Richard Matheson..." (full details)