United Artists is targeting August 8th 2008 (8-8-08) to release the Bryan Singer-directed Valkyrie which stars Tom Cruise in the real life story of the attempted assassination of Adolph Hitler at the height of World War II. Valkyrie will go head to head with New Line’s Journey 3-D, Sony’s Pineapple Express, Disney’s South of the Border, and Warner Bros’ The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. [via: ComingSoon]
Dreamworks Animation is moving Monsters vs. Aliens up one week for a May 15th 2009 release to avoid direct competition with James Cameron’s Avatar. This a a good move since both films are going to be released in digital 3D. Today only around [...]

Bad News: It looks like Bryan Singer will be filming The Mayor of Castro Street before the Superman Returns sequel after all.
Good News: This morning it was announced that Kevin Spacey has signed on to return as Lex Luthor in Superman: Man of Steel.
Spacey hopes to shoot his part during a six-week block, as he did on the first film, after he completes his run in David Mamet’s “Speed the Plow” in April. Variety confirms that Singer will direct Castro next before going into production on Man of Steel early next year. A June 2009 release date had been previously announced, but who knows if they will be able to [...]

Last week producers of Bryan Singer’s Harvey Milk biopic, The Mayor of Castro Street, were claiming that would be Singer’s next project following Valkyrie. Of course, the Superman Returns sequel Superman: The Man of Steel was scheduled for a June 2009 release. But the Castro producers claimed that “The next Superman, that’s a ways off. Don’t worry about it. Trust me. We may even start preproduction on Harvey Milk while he’s on post production on the Tom Cruise movie.”
IESB caught up with someone in Singer’s camp who says there is no truth the the previous statement.
“That’s total horse shit, I would say the same thing if I was producing that [...]

Bryan Singer has been telling everyone that he will begin work on the Superman Returns sequel Superman: The Man of Steel after production wraps on Valkyrie. And with a tentatively announced release date of June 2009, production will need to start in early 2008. But Singer’s producers are saying differently. The Mayor of Castro Street producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan claim that Singer will start production on his Harvey Milk biopic within the next year.
“The next Superman, that’s a ways off,” claimed Meron to RT. Zadan added: “Don’t worry about it. Trust me. We may even start preproduction on Harvey Milk while he’s on post production on the Tom [...]

Germany has barred Bryan Singer and company from shooting at a German military site because the film’s star Tom Cruise is a Scientologist. The German government does not recognize as a church. According to THR, Berlin says Scientology masquerades as a religion to make money, a charge Scientology leaders reject. The movie, Valkyrie is based on true events, and tells the story of a scheme hatched by German Generals to assassinate Adolph Hitler at the height of World War II. Descendants of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg have also been vocal about Tom Cruise being cast for the lead role, fearing that the story will be turned into “propaganda” for [...]

Warner Bros has released a batch of new photos from the upcoming horror thriller Trick ‘R Treat. Check them out below, along with an updated plot synopsis. We’re looking forward to this one. Not only is it screenwriter Michael Dougherty (X2, Superman Returns) directorial debut, but it’s produced by Bryan Singer. As always, left click for high res and don’t drink and drive.

Elizabethtown actor Orlando Bloom was spotted discussing roles in the upcoming Superman Returns sequel (tentative title, Superman: The Man of Steel) with director Bryan Singer and producers Mindy and Jon Peters. Bloom’s ex-girlfriend Kate Bosworth played Lois Lane in the first film. So speculation has already begun over Bloom playing the Man of Steel.
But Brandon Routh is already signed on for the sequels, so I somehow doubt (and hope) they don’t replace him with Bloom. I could see the Pirates of the Caribbean star as either Brainiac or General Zod, but why?

Last week we learned that Tom Cruise would star in Bryan Singer’s World War II drama (you know, the one that absolutely won’t push back Superman Returns 2). Well now the untitled drama has a name.

Tom Cruise will star in the just announced Bryan Singer-directed World War II drama.

Why are you guys listening to those stupid internet rumors anyway? This time even the people around Hollywood were spooked.
One of the big stories on Monday was that Warner Bros was considering dumping the proposed Superman Returns sequel altogether. Brandon Routh would instead star as Superman in the recently announced Justice League of America movie. A juicy rumor which we did not report because, well, it’s not true.
Even Variety today is slamming internet websites for reporting such nonsense.
“While the Internet is home to both news and pure rumor, the two sometimes get mixed up, said Pamela McClintock of Variety. “One thing is for sure, though: Superman isn’t flying off the [...]

Last week Bryan Singer signed on with United Artists to direct a World War II Dramatic Thriller, prompting many people to speculate that the Superman Returns sequel would be delayed. Variety reported it, we reported it. Well apparently that isn’t true.
“Filming will probably begin March, 2008, as was always planned from the beginning. The WWII film Bryan plans to shoot over the summer will have NO EFFECT whatsoever on the Superman sequel schedule,” explains Robert Meyer Burnett, who was behind all the behind-the-scenes material for Superman Returns (but is probably better known as the director of the geek classic, Free Enterprise).
So there you have it, direct from a guy who [...]

It looks like comic book fanboys might have to wait a little longer for another fix of the man and blue and red tights. Variety reports that United Artists have greenlit Bryan Singer’s next project.
The yet-to-be-titled dramatic thriller is an ensemble mult-character story set in World War II. What is it about? We don’t have any idea. What we do is that the project reunites Singer with The Usual Suspects screenwriter Chris McQuarrie. So it’s probably going to be good, despite the blatant lack of red and blue tights.
Singer and McQuarrie took the project directly to United Artists heads Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner, who agreed to finance it almost [...]

I’ve always been interested in contemporary adaptations of literary and film classics (as is evident with the Disturbia Movie Trailer posting). Well some interesting news just hit the wire that Russel Crowe has signed on to play the Sheriff of Nottingham, in a modern day REVISIONIST live-action Robin Hood adaptation titled Nottingham.