Movie Hopping: October 6, 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!

• Bram Stoker’s great-grandnephew Dacre Stoker and award-winning Dracula documentarian and historian Ian Holt have sold North American-English publishing rights of the Stoker-family-authorized sequel to Bram’s classic novel Dracula. Dracula: The Un-Dead will hit book shelves in October 2009, with a film adaptation hoping to get rolling before its release. >> More
• Paramount and DreamWorks have hammered out a joint arrangement for up to 40 development projects. As part of the separation agreement, DreamWorks will take the lead on 15-20 projects, with Paramount retaining an option to co-finance and co-distribute the films. >> More
• Zhang Ziyi (Memoirs of a Geisha) will star in a mid-budget Chinese-language romantic comedy called Sophie’s Revenge. The film will be helmed by an up and coming Chinese director to be announced in November in Beijing. Filming is scheduled for December. >> More
• Liev Schreiber and Helen Hunt will star in Every Day, a drama written and to be directed by Richard Levine. The two will play a couple whose marriage is strained to the breaking point. >> More
• New spoiler pics from Quantum of Solace are now online. The scene in question pays homage to the classic Bond flick Goldfinger, and shows the demise of someone. >> More
• A cast has been announced for George A. Romero’s’ latest zombie flick. Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh, Kathleen Munroe, Devon Bostick, Richard Fitzpatrick, Stefano Colacitti and Athena Karkanis will all star in the movie, which takes place on an island. >> More
• JC Chasez, a former member of ‘N Sync, has joined the cast of Kerosene Cowboys, director Mario Van Peebles’ action-thriller about an elite Navy attack squadron. >> More
• Kat Dennings (Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist) is in negotiations to join Woody Harrelson and Sandra Oh in Defendor. The film centers on a regular guy (Harrelson) who believes he has a secret superhero identity. Dennings will play a teenager he befriends, while Oh is cast as his psychiatrist. >> More