The story, written by Jason Keller, follows Theseus, a young warrior who leads his men into battle with the immortal Greek gods (Variety). Producing the picture is Mark Canton under Atmosphere Entertainment, Ryan Kavanaugh from Relativity Media and Gianni Nunnari from Hollywood Gang Productions. The film is poised to be released under Universal Pictures sometime in 2011.

The story centers on a down-and-out Gotham writer (Cooper) who comes into possession of a designer drug that gives him newfound intelligence and success. De Niro will play a brilliant financial mogul who begins pursuing Cooper’s character (Variety).

Neil Burger is attached to direct, his previous credits include The Illusionist and The Lucky Ones. De Niro can be seen once more on the big screen in a few films this year, a couple of them being the John Curran thriller Stone, Little Fockers and the Ethan Maniquis and Robert Rodriguez directed Machete.

Ryan Kavanaugh from Relativity Media, Gianni Nunnari of Hollywood Gang Productions and Mark Canton of Atmosphere Entertainment are all producing, says Variety. Singh helmed a couple of other films, those being The Cell and The Fall. The feature, penned by Jason Keller, is set to be released under Universal Pictures sometime in 2011. Mickey Rourke can next be seen as Whiplash in the Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures action/adventure film Iron Man 2 on May 7th.

Cube and Splice director Vincenzo Natali is taking on the adaptation of Tunnels. This piece is based off of a novel series of the same name written by Brian Williams and Roderick Gordon. The script is being penned by Joel Bergvall and Simon Sandquist with Ryan Kavanaugh, Mark Canton, Neil Canton and Danny Davids producing.

Tunnels is abouthe adventures of fourteen year-old Will Burrows after his father, Dr Burrows, a frustrated archaeologist who works at the local and rather unexceptional museum in Highfield, suddenly goes missing. Will is an unconventional leading protagonist; unpopular and picked on at school because of his albinism, his passion is to dig in search of the buried past. As the story unfolds, he forms a new friendship with Chester Rawls, another outsider at school, and together their investigations into Dr Burrows’ plight lead them down to a hidden city below London called the Colony, a time capsule of life from eighteenth century England, ruled with an iron fist by the barbaric and evil Styx, a kind of religious police.

Here’s a little bit more of an explanation on the upcoming adaptation from Mark Canton to Coming Soon.:

“This first installment of the ‘Tunnels’ franchise will open up a whole new universe of excitement and adventure to audiences throughout the world,” said Mark Canton. “It represents the next level in family entertainment, combining a science-based reality reminiscent of the classic fiction of Verne and Wells, but in a completely contemporary setting, with today’s immersive cinematic technology to create a believable, yet unforgettable movie-going experience.”

Producing is Ryan Kavanaugh and Gregory Jacobs under Relativity Media. Lionsgate is handling the distribution with a still to be announced 2011 release date. Filming is scheduled to start up next month in several locations around the world.

Normally, when say for instance college or high school students go through a short film the first time, they may not like the end result. It most likely did not get that great of criticism and therefore in the short or long future end up remaking it into a fresh and better version of the original. When you have films like The Crow which are loved by many and overall well done, that does not warrant any sort of green light to go and remake the original comic book adaptation property. Here’s what JoBlo found out on the property:

(Ryan) Kavanaugh says that he can’t really talk about the casting yet, “We’ve got good ideas. We’re looking. We’re in discussions….I think it’s something cool, we’re approaching it differently. It’s really a whole relaunch of the franchise, much more of a dark superhero type. As far as if it will be a known or unknown actor playing Eric Draven, “It will be an actor you’ve heard of, yes. We’re not ruling anything out. We’re looking at both, with the very well known and the “very talented but they may not be quite there yet.” Kavanaugh did want everyone to know that it’s not a remake, but a relaunch.

This reporter sees no particular difference between a remake and a relaunch. When your discussing on how your going to fix up the main character it sends off a signal that this could be a completely new piece of paper on the entire series for them. The Crow relaunch is being penned at the moment by Stephen Norrington who is also directing the film.

The Dark Fields was originally written by Alan Glynn and is being adapted for the big screen by scribe Leslie Dixon. Dixon is also attached to write the sequel to the hit 2004 film “Mean Girls” and penned “Hairspray”. Producing the film will be Ryan Kavanaugh under Relativity Media along with Scott Kroopf and Leslie Dixon.