Movie Hopping: August 18, 2008

Movie Hopping – a place for some stories we may have missed and where you can get a large dose of movie news at once. Enjoy!

• Twilight has moved up three weeks and will now be released on November 21. The release change comes hot on the heels of the recent Harry Potter announcement. >> More
• Tropic Thunder managed to knock The Dark Knight out of first place this weekend at the box office, but not before the Batman flick became the second highest grossing film of all time. >> More
• Samm Levine, of Freaks and Geeks fame, has joined Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards. However, the rumored David Krumholtz (Numbers) will not be appearing in the film. >> More
• Despite rumors circling the web that Punisher: War Zone was being cut down to a PG-13 rating, the flick will in fact be rated R. The film’s cinematographer Steve Gainer recently confirmed the news on the Raw Studios forums. >> More
• Actor John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have been tapped to rewrite the New Line/Benderspink comedy Burt Dickenson, Most Powerful Magician on the Planet Earth. >> More
• A trio of production companies are teaming to tell the story of the Moulin Rouge, the first desegregated hotel and casino in Las Vegas. Scribe Milosz Feigin has completed penning The Fabulous Moulin Rouge, and the producers are setting up the film to be shot in Dubai. >> More
• Word on the street is that the trailer for Fast and Furious will premier in front of Death Race this weekend. Expect it to hit the web around the same time. >> More
• The folks over at Shock Till You Drop are reporting that Sony is looking to remake Clive Barker’s Candyman. >> More