Returning to the story that started it all, this “re-imagining” of the original Friday The 13th heads back to summer camp where a mysterious killer is systematically slaughtering the teenage camp counselors.

Empire asks the hard hitting questions of Darren Aronofsky, and here’s what he said:

“It’s a real reinvention,” he told us, responding to those rumours that the movie would somehow follow on or be a direct sequel to Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 original. “Me and David Self are working on the screenplay. He’s a great, great writer and we’re trying to do something new and fresh. We’ll see what happens when the screenplay comes.”

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Ben (Will Smith) is an IRS agent who is depressed and guilt-ridden about mistakes from his past. He sets out to make amends by helping seven strangers. When he meets Emily (Rosario Dawson), a beautiful woman with a heart condition, he falls in love with her, thereby complicating his plans. Woody Harrelson also appears as a blind pianist who befriends Ben.

Starring Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper, Madison Pettis, Sarah Jane Morris, Bill Smitrovich, Elpidia Carrillo, Bojana Novakovic, Robinne Lee, and directed by Gabriele Muccino.

Will Smith comes home for the holidays December 19, 2008.

NBC just released the official description of Episode 03.08 : ‘VILLAINS’
HEROES 03.08 VILLAINS
11-10-2008 9:00PM (60 min)

TO PREPARE FOR THE CONFRONTATION AHEAD, HIRO (MASI OKA) EXPLORES WHAT FORCES — AND FAMILIAR FACES — HELPED TWIST SYLAR (ZACHARY QUINTO), FLINT (BLAKE SHIELDS) AND ARTHUR PETRELLI (ROBERT FORSTER) INTO VILLAINS — MALCOLM MCDOWELL, ERIC ROBERTS, KRISTEN BELL AND JESSALYN GILSIG ALSO GUEST STAR — To prepare for the confrontation ahead, Hiro (Masi Oka) follows respected businessman, husband and father Arthur Petrelli (guest star Robert Forster) in the days before he “died” — to discover what drove him to create rival company Pinehearst and strike at Angela (Cristine Rose). Later, a moment unfolds where Sylar (Zachary Quinto), horrified and guilt-ridden, might have stopped his murderous pursuit of abilities — that is, if H.R.G. (Jack Coleman) and Elle (guest star Kristen Bell) had swayed from their monstrous assignment. Finally, under the wing of Company man Thompson (guest star Eric Roberts), agent-in-training Meredith (guest star Jessalyn Gelsig) watches her new life go up in smoke, following the arrival of her hot-headed brother. Greg Grunberg, James Kyson Lee, Ali Larter, Hayden Panettiere, Adrian Pasdar, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Dania Ramirez and Milo Ventimiglia also star. Jimmy Jean-Louis, Malcolm McDowell, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Ron Perkins, Blake Shields, and Jeff Staron guest star.

Show Cast: Milo Ventimiglia, Ali Larter, Hayden Panettiere, Greg Grunberg, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Masi Oka, Adrian Pasdar, Jack Coleman, James Kyson Lee, Dania Ramirez, Zachary Quinto, Cristine Rose

Sources confirmexclusively that three characters will be dying very soon on Prison Break, and if you’re going to believelovely leading lady Sarah Wayne Callies, at least one ofthemwill not be easy for the fans to take. “We’re going to lose a couple of people, a couple of people we have loved from the beginning,” she tells us exclusively.”And we’re very, very, very sorry to see go. And we may be starting to lose the one person none of us thought we could.”Ummm…If you’re talking about Wentworth Miller (Michael Scofield), Sarah, you’ll need to give us (and millions of fans around the globe) a moment, a paper bag to breathe into and possibly some Valium ’cause we were under the assumption that men who are hot as fire are not killed off of TV shows!

To prevent widespread (and internal) panic, I have done some digging among sources and have this exclusive scoop on the upcoming deaths and shockers you must prepare yourself for…

The facts:

-There arethree big deaths over the next two episodes. (Note: The show is preempted on Oct. 27 for the World Series.)

-One of them involves a character who has been on the show since day one.

-There is a shooting, a torture and a drowning.

-One is very heroic.

-And OMG, Michael Scofieldis totally not going to die.Are you crazy?

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The Bat Pug asks “Why So Serious?” [superpunch]

Bolt tells of a heroic dog (Travolta) on a hit TV show who really believes he has superpowers. A nice reality check comes when he’s accidentally shipped from Hollywood to New York City (aka the real world) and has to somehow make his way back home with help from an old cat and an overweight hamster.

Disney’s Bolt boasts a voice cast that includes John Travolta and some girl named Miley Cyrus

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IESB revealed new details about Zack Snyder’s 300 sequel/prequel. Apparently the film will take place between the Battle of Thermopylae and the Battle of Plataea. You remember, the battle that Dilios (the narrator) is at during the film’s final monologue. So the film is kinda, sorta, a prequel and a sequel, because it takes place in the one year window, and likely concludes with the Battle we saw at the conclusion of the first film.

According to Wikipedia, The Battle of Plataea was the final major battle of the Greco-Persian Wars in southern Greece. It took place in 479 BC between an alliance of the Greek city-states Sparta, Athens, Corinth, Megara and others against the Persians. The Greek to Persian ratio is given as 1:3 (”Good odds for any Greek”) with the Greek force numbering 40,000 against 120,000 Persians.

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