Academy Award winning film “Once” (for Best Original Song) - that was literally made for two peanuts and a box of Cracker Jacks - is set to get the Hollywood remake treatment.

Director Kevin Smith has jumped aboard “Busking”, a modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.

Colin Farrell and Rosario Dawson are in negotiations to play the leads, with Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová again providing the music.

Colin Farrell profoundly put it this way:

“Once is like the best fucking movie of 2006… and 2007… It’s twice as good as anything I’ve done in fucking years. I wanted that bitch. So we took it. In our version I’ll of course fuck the girl [the film] will be sweet, but it’ll be sexy too. And I think we can really have some fucking fun here”.

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One of my favorite directors in the “game” right now is Peter Berg. He’s the silly-looking actor (he recently played a guest role on an episode of his TV show “Friday Night Lights“) turned director who brilliantly directed 2007’s “The Kingdom” with Jamie Foxx.

Berg’s style is Michael Mann and he uses real-looking actors in his films as well as a cinematography style which borrows from docu-drama cinema.

Now Paramount have announced that they will be re-hashing Frank Hebert’s classic science fiction novel “Dune” with Peter Berg attached to direct.

Former Universal executive, now producer Kevin Misher secured the book rights from the Herbert Estate for Paramount. The 1965 novel is a futuristic story set on a remote desert planet Arrakis which produces the empire’s sole source of the spice Melange — used for distant space travel. An empirewide power struggle breaks out over the control of the spice.

The property, which spawned a classic 1984 David Lynch film as well as a 2000 Sci Fi Channel miniseries starring William Hurt. So Berg’s look and feel will certainly be a third vision.

Paramount is currently out to writers with the hopes that this film will have tent-pole potential. Berg’s upcoming tent-pole picture “Hancock” starring Will Smith releases July 2nd for Sony.

Of course it was inevitable given the recent semi-success of Rob Zombie’s HALLOWEEN redux. But it’s official, Michael Bay, TRANSFORMER of decent 80’s horror movies into pieces of shit, shall be producing a remake of the slasher classic Friday the 13th through his Platinum Dunes shingle. Friday the 13th will be penned by Damion Shannon and Mark Swift, who wrote the upcoming SPYHUNTER but are perhaps best known for their 2003 addition to the Voorhees canon, Freddy vs. Jason.

Seriously, someone needs to do something about Michael Bay. I don’t care that Transformers was semi-watchable, the guy’s 8 ounces of Massengill feminine wash and capped teeth. He embodies every thing douchey about directors, who are uncontestably the douchebaggiest douchebags in all of Hollywood. Ever wonder why the DGA building on Sunset smells like vinegar? Well you shouldn’t. Michael Bay. Fuck that guy.

WWE wrestler, “actor” and mixed-race Pacific Islander extraordinaire Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is linked to star in Disney’s Remake film “Witch Mountain,”. An homage to the 1975 adventure movie “Escape to Witch Mountain” which nobody has ever heard of or ever seen before.

Apparently the origina film is about a pair of paranormal powered sibling freaks who are on the run from a group of evil men trying to take advantage of their powers. The Rock will play a Vegas cabbie who picks up the duo and probably commits some kind of sex crime on them (I’m just thinking out loud here.)

Disney is looking at their calendars and putting a penciled circle around March 2008 to start shooting this film. Andy Fickman, the director of Disney’s upcoming The Game Plan will direct this monstrosity and we can foresee it becoming a DVD duo-pack at Wal-Mart with The Nanny Diaries and Underdog.

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