There’s more casting news from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen film.

Monica Bellucci (Brotherhood of the Wolf, The Matrix) is reportedly in talks to play Mina Harker (from Bram Stoker’s Dracula).

Also, Richard Roxburgh (Moulin Rouge) will play Campion Bond, the British Secret Service agent that organizes the League and is the supposed ancestor of James Bond. Former 007 Roger Moore was said to be in talks for the part.

--IGN Filmforce, Comics2Film
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An image from the upcoming CGI animated Animatrix has hit the Web.

The spinoff film is set in the Matrix universe.

--Coming Soon
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A trailer for the upcoming Road to Perdition gangster movie with Tom Hanks is on the Web.

Click over to http://www.roadtoperdition.com/media/honor_qt_h.html for a taste of the film based on the graphic novel by writer Max Allan Collins and artist Richard Piers Rayner.

--Ain’t It Cool News, Comics2Film
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The trailer for the upcoming Star Trek X: Nemesis will be attached to Men in Black 2.

MIB 2 premieres July 3. Nemesis drops out of warp Dec. 13.

--Coming Soon
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Watch for a Reign of Fire videogame based on the upcoming movie about fire-breathing dragons taking over the planet.

BAM! Entertainment will unveil the game at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles this week.

The film stars Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale and hits theaters July 12.

The game will made for PlayStation 2, Xbox game console and Game Boy Advance simultaneously this fall in addition to Nintendo(TM) GameCube in early 2003.

--Coming Soon
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TNT/TBS has first TV broadcast rights to Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg’s action sci fi film Minority Report.

The film, which debuts June 21 in theaters, will air on TV in February 2005.

--Reuters, Variety
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Angela Bettis (Girl, Interrupted) will play Carrie in NBC’s 3-hour TV movie adaptation of the Stephen King novel.

Shooting begins June 12 in Vancouver and the film will likely premiere sometime this year as a pilot for a possible series.

Although the plot will follow closely the 1976 film starring Sissy Spacek, writer Bryan Fuler will update it. Carrie is a psychokinetic girl who is sneered at by prettier and more popular high school students. Her rage explodes in the film, resulting in gruesome deaths.

--Reuters, Variety
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Won’t Daredevil be mad? Spider-Man dropped in from the ceiling at a recent stuntmans’ award show to kiss Elektra, played by Jennifer Garner in the upcoming film.

In a re-creation of the now-famous kiss with Mary Jane Watson in the Spider-Man film, the masked web-slinger planted one on Garner at the Taurus World Stunt Awards last Sunday. Garner was a presenter.

Other stunts performed at the event were: Arnold Schwarzenegger falling from a helicopter, Dennis Hopper crashing a limousine and Bob Brown falling 20 stories on fire.

Look for the ceremony to play on ABC Friday, May 31st at 8 pm ET.

--Comics2Film
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Ashley Judd, star of the upcoming Catwoman movie is talking about how the success of Spider-Man will affect her film.

"One of the things I loved about Spider-Man is that for the genre, they made it very real," Judd told Sci Fi Wire. "They played the emotion very genuine, and even the news editor, who was the most campy sort of iconic cartoon figure, there was something really great and plausible about him. It just definitely reinforced the direction that we had been planning on taking Catwoman all along, which is why we've worked so hard on the script in order to make it more real."

One script change was prompted by a Spidey joke. "I think our joke was a Superman joke, so we've got to find a good joke, since there was a good Superman joke in Spider-Man."

Judd plans to follow Michelle Pfeiffer’s advice and have fun in the role (Pfeiffer played Catwoman in Batman Returns). "My first sort of internal response was it's got to be the funnest thing I've ever done in my life, or else it's not worth it, because [these films] are hard," Judd said. "It sounds so trivial, but the reality of being in that costume and doing all that stuff is just if you do it for something like four months, that can be miserable. It's got to be the funnest thing ever."

--Sci Fi Wire, Comics2Film
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Grab some Scooby-snacks and sit down to watch the second, longer full trailer for Scooby-Doo -- now on the Web.

More of the special effects and new scenes are featured.

Click over to http://promo.warnerbros.com/scoobydoo/casefiles/video.html?id=scooby_f3&settings=true.

--Coming Soon
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