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The longtime Kevin Smith collaborator talks about the film, the controversy behind it, future projects and much more.

Web Exclusive: Fresnadillo, Bayona projects in development -- Producer Enrique Lopez Lavigne ('28 Days Later' ) has teamed with Belen Atienza, exec producer on 'Che' and 'Pan's Labyrinth,' to launch Apaches Entertainment.

TV News: Bruckheimer show features trauma surgeons -- It wouldn't be a pilot season without a Jerry Bruckheimer project at CBS -- and the Eye has come through, picking up the medical drama 'Miami Trauma.'

Web Exclusive: 'Cherub,' 'First Grader' among projects -- BBC Films is not only getting into the franchise game but also mining Kenya for a good yarn. The shingle is developing 'Cherub: The Recruit' as the first in a planned series.

International News: Vanessa Redgrave in talks to join project -- Ralph Fiennes is making his directorial debut with a feature adaptation of William Shakespeare's Roman tragedy 'Coriolanus.'

MC Messenja readies 'Take The City' CD

Only two days after it was revealed that Al Pacino is to play King Lear in a new big-screen version of the play, Variety reports he is also in talks to play King Herod in the biblical tale Mary, Mother of Christ.The project looks set to attract a high-profile cast, with Jessica Lange also considering the role of Anna the Prophetess. Peter O'Toole has already signed to play the elder, Symeon, while Jonathan Rhys Meyers will play both Gabriel and Lucifer.Camille Belle, last seen battling anachronistic sabre-toothed tigers in Roland Emmerich's 10,000 BC, will take the title role. Argentine director Alejandro Agresti, who shot 2002's Valentin and 2006's The Lake House, is directing the film, which starts production in Morocco in May.Film-makers such as Mel Gibson (The Passion of the Christ) have found huge success in recent years by producing films which capture the hearts and minds of religiously minded middle America, and Mary, Mother of Christ appears to be aimed at a similar target aud

TV News: Gale Anne Hurd is exec producing project -- Julia Ormond has been tapped to star in upcoming Lifetime telepic 'The Wronged Man.'

BIG Pictures, the Motion Pictures Brand of Reliance Big Entertainment, has acquired worldwide marketing & distribution rights of Kites, Filmkraft's most ambitious project yet.Kites commenced sh...

A preliminary sketch of Mystique by Anzu for the Del Rey Manga / Marvel Comics edition of a shojo manga style X-Men graphic novel project.