MGM’s planning a remake of 1982’s POLTERGEIST.   Why?!

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With filmmaker Sam Raimi, Tom Cruise is setting up “Sleeper” as a feature project at Warner Bros. Cruise is loosely attached to star in the adaptation of the DC Comics/Wildstorm comic, which Raimi would produce with his Star Road Entertainment partner Josh Donen.

Written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips, “Sleeper,” which ran from 2003 through 2005, centers on an operative whose fusion with an alien artifact makes him impervious to pain. An intelligence agency places him undercover in a villainous organization and falls for Miss Misery, a member of the group.

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After a major court victory, the studio has announced a bid to block the release of Warner Bros.’ anticipated adaptation of the seminal graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

Fox originally tried to develop the project more than a decade ago, but didn’t manage to get the film off the drawing board. The studio claims Warners never properly acquired the rights to The Watchmen, and, in a major twist, instead of seeking a share of the would-be blockbuster’s box-office gross, Fox is seeking to kill the flick entirely before it unspools in theaters March 6.

Directed by 300 helmer Zack Snyder, The Watchmen stars Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Billy Crudup and Jackie Earle Haley as a band of former superheroes who find themselves reclassified as criminal vigilantes in an alternate universe circa 1985. As an unknown assassin begins to hunt them down, the heroes try to unravel a conspiracy and thwart a nuclear war.

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MAN ON WIRE is the best documentary of the year.  One of the best of the Summer and a must-see.  It unfolds like a thriller, although you know the result.  It’s a lyrical salute to the impossible - celebrating at once an amazing ballsy man - and of course, the two towers.  I didn’t want it to end.  Truly spectacular.  

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Just like the rest of the world, I caught Phelps fever.

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 The Entertainment Weekly Fall-Preview issue of August 22 has HARRY POTTER star Daniel Radcliffe on the cover.  As you all know the Potter film has been postponed until next Summer.

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 I dread seeing shows I’ve seen on Broadway on tour.  You normally get a photo-copy of the original - and sometimes there’s a degree of carelessness in the staging.  So it was with trepidation I went down to San Diego to see SPRING AWAKENING - 2007 winner for Best Musical.  I have now seen SPRING four times in different incarnations - its original production off-Broadway at the Atlantic and twice on Broadway.  Although I miss a few original cast members, the performance I saw tonight was phenomenal.  The touring cast’s fresh and has found nuances in the text.  A lot of the success belongs to Michael Mayer - its Tony award winning director - who’s still tinkering and finessing the production.  It will be going to San Francisco, Seattle, Portland and an extended stay at the Ahmanson theatre in LA.  After then, it will travel the USA.  Get yourself some tix.  Worth your while!

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Large crowds of people are gathering in Chicago to attend a public memorial for actor and comedian Bernie Mac.

Actor Samuel L. Jackson and Mayor Richard Daley are among the speakers expected to pay tribute to Mac at the large House of Hope church on the city’s South Side.

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The highly anticipated adaptation of the Stephenie Meyer teen vampire romance novel “Twilight” directed by Catherine Hardwicke has been moved from its December 12 release date to November 21, the date just vacated by Warner Bros.’ “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”

“When Warner Bros. decided to move ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’ to the summer of 2009, we saw a unique opportunity to slot in our film, which has been gaining tremendous awareness and momentum over the past several months,” Summit Entertainment’s Rob Friedman said.

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A friend asked me this morning what to see this weekend.  She was in the mood for a romantic comedy.  I suggested VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA.  The best Woody Allen movie in years. 

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