Movie Minesweeper - The Your Name Here If You Want It Edition

- David Greenwalt is to oversee an Angel-like show for CBS. Moonlight sounds enough like Angel that I'd have thought Greenwalt would have run a mile. Maybe he has some tricks up his sleeve to make this entirely different, or maybe he just doesn't care and just wants a job.

- Chris Cunningham's Sheena is a Parasite video, starring Samantha Morton, has been nominated for the CADS 07 Best Rock Video award.

- Lots of sites have been commenting on who they think should play Death in Neil Gaiman's upcoming film. I don't think any of them have guessed correctly.

- BloodyDisgusting have casting news for J T Petty's The Burrowers. They name William Mapother, Clancy Brown and Doug Hutchison. I'm still waiting for more on Petty's Faces of Death - anybody got any news on that one?

- Mark Verheiden will confirm only Nightwing for his Teen Titans film, but promises the rest of the line up won't disappoint.

- JV Pixar News are passing on a rumour from Miceage that there's a Cars 2 just over the horizon, plus a new Cars short to debut before Wal-E. I can believe the Cars short, at a pinch, but a second Cars film...? And that soon...? I'm not biting.

Movie Minesweeper - The Blue And Red Marker Pens Edition

- Cartoon Brew have linked to an interesting video. An abandoned cave in Cody, Montana apparently bears the signature of Walt Disney. Could it really be real?

- Amy Pascal at Sony is softening us up for the future of the Spider-Man franchise: stand alone narratives with different creatives and, every now and then, a new actor in the lead. Spider-Man 4 is to be the On Her Majesty's Secret Service of the series, I suppose.

- Regal Cinema's Complain-o-tron is finally going wide.

- Mark Verheiden has the job of writing a Teen Titans movie. Who do you get to direct that? Not Victor Salva, obviously... but who?

- The remake of Midnight is to be written by Michael Arndt and will star Reese Witherspoon in the Claudette Colbert role. The original is really very, very, very good so, of course, I'm nervous about this but, well, Arndt and Witherspoon? Seems to be working out very well so far.

- After finishing Sugar, Ryan Fleck will adapt Special Topics in Calamity Physics from Marisha Pessl's novel. He's also attached to an adatation of Ned Vizzini's It's Kind of a Funny Story. I really have to track down Half Nelson and see if all of this is something to get excited about or not.

- The Weinsteins are to release Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream. It was looking pretty hairy for the film for a while with no buyers stepping up (or at least, not as far as anybody knew) but at least it should get a decent release now.

- The remake of The Women is finally set to go ahead. I'm quite disappointed Todd Haynes isn't directing, but fingers crossed for Diane English anyway, despite her suspicious cast list: Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett Smith, Anette Bening, Candace Bergen and Debra Messing.