Satellite awards designated their winners of the 14^th edition on 20 december. Best movie in drama category was named The Hurt Locker, movie that received other prizes from Gotham Awards and L.A. Film Critics Awards. As we expected, Nine movie, which was named at 11 categories, was the best movie at comedy/musical category, surpassing competitors like Julie&Julia, A Serious Man or Up in the Air.

The event took place Sunday, at Intercontinental hotel from Century City, and the winners were elected by International Press Academy members.

Winner list includes Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) and Shoreh Aghdashloo (The Stoning of Soraya M.) – best actors in a drama, as Meryl Streep and Michael Stuhlbarg – at musical/comedy category.

The award for best director was received by Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker.

At TV category, the best serial in drama category was Breaking Bad, and from comedy/musical category, Glee TV-show.

We recently told that Bryan Singer comes back to X-Men franchise, to direct X-Men: First Class, which will show us about the origins of the friendship between teacher Xavier and Magneto. Some time ago we told that after X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the Magneto character will enjoy same treatment as the character interpreted by Hugh Jackman (Wolverine).

If we stay a moment to analyze the situation, the news that X-Men: First Class is on the right path, doesn’t mean anything else that the chances for Magneto to have a movie are drastically reduced.

In an interview for THR, Singer fueled this possibility by explaining:
“This story will use a part of Magneto’s past, because we are talking about a younger Magneto, so it may be possible to replace a movie made just for this character, because X-Men: First Class will explore the relationship between the energic teacher and the Holocaust victim”

Taking into consideration that X-Men Origins: Wolverine, didn’t raise to the level of expectations, this news might not be that bad.

Although it was announced recently that Louis Letterrier’s movie, Clash of the Titans, exists in definitive form and that it will be launched on 26 mars 2010, Sam Worthington stated that they will film about 11 hours of “explosive adventure” with gods and creatures from old Greece. The actor told for LA Times that the work for this movie will end in January.

We must mention that it is not about re-filming, it is about adding scenes at the already finished product. It seems that the founders were so happy for the movie that they offered Letterrier extra money for working continuously at this remake.

With all these, according to Worthington, “there were some little weak points, which we knew will exist in the moment we started this. The studio offered some money to film some extra scenes.”

More than that, Clash of the Titans has big chances to be realized in 3D format, if not totally, at least the scenes that are supposed to be filmed with producers agreement.

As we expected , the new film of James Cameron, the heroic Avatar, did very well at box office in the launch day, having returns of 27 millions of dollars and tickets sold in 3,452 cinema halls. Although it is a remarkable amount of money, and although the movie is spectacular, and visually extraordinary made, it hasn’t been set a new record.

Taking into consideration that Avatar wasn’t launched in the summery season, the 27 millions bought in the first day of projections represent an incontestable commercial success. Cameron’s movie surpassed, the Ice Age: The Meltdown animation, which got returns in the first day returns of 21 millions of dollars.

The leader of this classification is still I Am Legend, which got returns of 30,1 millions of dollars in premiere day. Although Lord of the Rings made 34 millions of dollars in its launch day, making to the head of the list, the movie is disqualified because it was launched in a Wednesday. It seems weirdl at a first glance but the rankings of this type start from the premise that an ending of December brings less people to cinema than a middle of a December week, and lesser people than any part of a summer week.

Because of a misunderstanding between Sony Pictures and the stage director Sam Raimi, the production of the fourth movie of Spider-Man franchise was cancelled.

It seems that Raimi would like to have as antagonist the infamous Vulture. The original story of the third part should have Sandman as a cell colleague for Vulture, but, after the common escape of the two’s, Vulture forced Sandman to commit murders. The studio didn’t accept the idea and wants to put on screen the famous Venom, this way the Vulture idea had a very short way into the trash basket because of the pressures made by Marvel. We all know which was the ending of these debates.

Here we see producers trying again to convince Raimi to bring into  the movie scene a villain with more public attraction than unfortunate Vulture.

But all these can be considered rumors on a theme, because, officially, the production of Spider-Man 4 got stopped for the simple reasons that winter celebrations are on the way. Another words, there aren’t reasons for us to worry for Spidey’s destiny.

The ones from ShockTillYouDrop.com announce us that Laurence Fishburne received a role in the new movie of Nimrod Antal, Predators, which is being filmed now in Austin, Texas.

The actor from Matrix trilogy, and will have the role of Roland in this remake produced by Robert Rodriguez will join the distribution made from Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Danny Trejo, Walton Goggins and Alice Braga.

Taking an ensemble view the movie will present a group of persons which go to the predator’s original planet, where, as we expect they will do their best in order to not get slain by those ferocious alien creatures.

The movie will be launched on 7 July 2010.

Although it is known that Johnny Depp would receive 36 millions of dollars to act as famous Jack Sparrow in the fourth part of the successful franchise and that Rob Marshall would be the most probable candidate to take the directing wheel, the things aren’t still set up.

The ones from Coming Soon had the occasion to talk to Rob Marshall and found that nothing is certain yet.

He said he doesn’t know when and if it will be done.

“If it will be done – I believe Johnny makes a movie with Angelia Jolie in the spring (The Tourist) – so, if it is made, we will begin this summer and we’ll see. I am enthusiastic. If it will be made, I’ll be delighted, I like Johnny and I am thrilled by this movie genre.”

But the problem doesn’t come from the busy schedule of Johnny Depp, it appears that nobody knows a thing about the scenery. Lets hope that we will hear something concrete, not just rumors.

Frank Miller decided to break the silence code and reveal us fresh information about the 300 prequel which he will direct. It seems that the movie will name Xerxes and its action is placed during the Marathon battle.

The stage director said that he finished the scenery and preparations are made for graphic design.

The battle of Marathon took place at 26 miles of Athens and was given between the Athenian army and the Persian one, lead by Darius I, in 490 BC. Modern history estimates that the greek army had almost 10 000 soldiers, while Persians had double at least. The atheniens beat the Persian army, and legends says that an Athenian ran 42 kilometers from the battlefield to Athens in order to announce the great victory. From here comes the name of marathon competition.

We still don’t know if Rodrigo Santoro will come back to take Xerxes role, as we don’t know if we will have the same approach with shaped bodies worked at gym as in 300.

Check the latest Brothers trailer, enjoy!

Variety announces that Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter, The Exorcism of Emily Rose) was distributed in the independent thriller of Roger Donaldson, Hungry Rabbit Jumps, with Nicolas Cage, Guy Pearce, January Jones and Harol Perineau.

Carpenter will play the best friend role for the character interpreted by Jones, and Cage was distributed in the role of teacher that “scores” into an underground judiciary organization, after his wife is brutally murdered.

The movie, wrote by Robert Tannen, has a production budget of 30 millions of dollars.