Movie Hopping: July 8, 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!

• It looks like Friends isn’t heading to the big screen after all. Reps from the actors, as well as the studio, have squashed last week’s rumor. >> More
• Christian Gudegast has signed on to direct the bank heist drama Den of Thieves for Relativity Media. The story centers on a thief who’s planning a heist but gets trapped between two sets of criminals. >> More
• Concept art for the talked about, but never realized, Aircraft carrier Transformer is now online. The idea was scrapped due to budgetary concerns. >> More
• Matt Czuchry, Jesse Bradford and Geoff Stults are raising their steins for I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, the adaptation of the bawdy best-selling memoir of Tucker Max. Bob Gosse is directing. >> More
• An alternate Trailer for the Don Cheadle thriller Traitor is now online. The film co-stars Jeff Daniels and Guy Pearce. It opens on August 29. >> More
• Seth Rogen recently talked to Moviehole where he revealed there won’t be a Superbad 2, but he isn’t against another Pineapple Express. >> More
• The Milford Daily News has some new spy photos from the set of The Surrogates, the new Bruce Willis flick based on the Robert Venditti graphic novel. >> More
• Rumor has it that Summit Entertainment has optioned the movie rights Stephenie Meyer’s New Moon, the sequel to Twilight, with plans to adapt it for release in December ‘09. >> More
• Tim Burton’s upcoming take on Alice in Wonderland may have found it’s Alice. The Bad and the Ugly is reporting that relatively unknown actress Ryan Nicole Parker has landed the role. >> More