Movie news round-up: Diana, dogs, Dracula and Dougie-T

The best of the week's news, in newsabetical order. Of course, this week's biggest story is that TheShiznit.co.uk features in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, but you knew that already, right?
Singer and occasional actress Whitney Houston has been found dead aged 48. I've already made the Kevin Costner joke so don't bother.

Good news, fans of unnecessary prequels! Vampire prequel Dracula: Year Zero, previously thought dead, has fittingly risen from the grave, and will now be directed by commercial director Gary Shore, although Sam Worthington will no longer star. The movie will be based on historical fact, with Young Vlad of Translyvania trying to fight off the Ottoman Empire. The synopsis has no cool vampire shit in it, but then, neither does Twilight.
Oh yeah, and Russell Crowe is apparently interested in starring in Jaume Collet-Serra's Dracula re-imagining, Harker. Because if an idea is worth doing once, it's worth fucking it repeatedly into the ground until it has a mouthful of dirt.

SlashFilm.com rounded up these two rather ace special effects videos from ILM and Digital Domain, showing how the best action sequences from Transformers: Dark Of The Moon were put together. If only the actual movie had been as brief, with the same amount of dialogue.




In case you were worried, yes, Lionsgate will make more Twilight movies if Stephenie Meyer writes more books. Put that suicide bid on hold, guy!
Speaking of which, here's the first ever clip from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2, recorded on camcorder in a crowded shop with unintelligible dialogue and people talking over the top.



Yeah, now's the time to slit those wrists.


Or so he says. The special effects expert behind 2001 and, more recently, The Tree Of Life, says he is hard at work on a brand new technique of filmmaking that could potentially change the way films are made forever. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Douglas Trumbull claimed he is "trying to reinvent the movies" and without the help of Hollywood.

Twenty quid it just turns out to be a massive window.
Once Ridley Scott is done with Prometheus, he's allegedly jumping straight on crochety old bastard Cormac McCarthy's first ever screenplay, The Counselor, about a lawyer who gets sucked into the drug trade. Whatever keeps you away from the Monopoly board, dude.
Naomi Watts has signed up to play Princess Diana in Oliver Hirschbiegel's Caught In Flight, a drama about the last few months of Diana's life. Somewhere, the editor of the Daily Express is laughing maniacally and masturbating slightly more vigorously than usual.


Billy Connolly has joined the cast of The Hobbit, as a dwarf named Dain Ironfoot. "Och, I knooow! Wee jobbies!" said someone doing a bad impersonation of Billy Connolly. [Okay, I admit. It was me.]
Requiem For A Dream has been re-enacted with puppets and is no less distressing for it.


DreamWorks are remaking Alfred Hitchcock's only Oscar-winning film, Rebecca, much to the ire of people on the internet who haven't seen it and barely care. "A classic film from a respected director, being remade?" they typed. "I've never heard of such a thing in this day and age!"
Finally this week, EW have the first pictures of Martin McDonagh's follow-up to In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths, starring Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Rockwell and OH YEAH DID I MENTION WE'RE IN THE NEW ISSUE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY YET?