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News Shorts: August 29th 2011

New stills from Bel Ami, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Safe, Contagion and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

First photos of Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Isla Fisher on the set of The Great Gatsby; and various vehicles on the set of Prometheus.

Posters for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Three Musketeers, The Ides of March and The Skin I Live In.

The first glimpse of footage from the second season of the BBC’s “Sherlock” is up on Youtube, sadly it’s only about fifteen seconds from “The Hound of the Baskervilles” episode.

“Focus Features is moving Tomas Alfredson’s “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” adaptation an awards season push, but to do it they’re delaying the U.S. release another three weeks – from November 18th to December 9th…” (full details)

“Originally conceived as a web series, “Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome” looks to be ditching plans to become a possible SyFy TV movie/backdoor pilot and will instead become a web series…” (full details)

“Kyle Chandler (“Super 8,” “Friday Night Lights”) has scored a small role in Ben Affleck’s upcoming hostage thriller “Argo”…” (full details)

“Maria Maggenti (“Monte Carlo”) has been hired to script the Kenny Ortega-directed remake of “Dirty Dancing” at Lionsgate…” (full details)

“Sienna Guillory says that she’s meeting with the producers of “Resident Evil: Retribution” about whether she’ll reprise the Jill Valentine character from the second and fourth film in the upcoming fifth chapter…” (full details)

“Chad Michael Murray will reprise his role as Lucas Scott in the upcoming ninth and final season of “One Tree Hill”. Murray departed the show at the end of the sixth season and will return when Haley (Bethany Joy Galeotti) reaches out to him for help…” (full details)

“Juliette Lewis has joined Scottish director Justin Molotnikov’s contemporary film noir “Blood or Water”. Stephen McCole, Kate Dickie, Gary Lewis and Greta Scacchi also star in the project which begins shooting in Scotland in the Spring…” (full details)

“Apple has quietly removed the ability for iTunes users to rent TV episodes from the iTunes store, meaning only purchasing full episodes or a season pass are available to viewers.…” (full details)

“In France, the upcoming Anna Faris rom-com “What’s Your Number?” has been re-titled into the simple straightforward “Sex List”…” (full details)

“‘Drive’ director Nicolas Winding Refn has mentioned that his star Ryan Gosling might be working on Terrence Malick’s untitled next film…” (full details)

“Brad Pitt saved a woman during a scene for “World War Z” being shot on Thursday night in Scotland. Pitt was in the middle of shooting a scene in which a mass of people run through Glasgow’s George Square in an attempt to get away from the incoming zombies. One woman, in one of the masses, fell over and was close to being trampled on before Pitt rushed over, carrying her out of danger…” (full details)

“Mark Wahlberg and brothers Donnie and Paul are opening up a hamburger restaurant named Wahlburgers…” (full details)

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