Smaller, more frequent bite sized Obsessed With Film news updates should make for a cleaner, quicker experience. Expect one of these updates at least once a day, possibly two or three times. Enjoy…

You’ll be pleased to note that Obsessed With Film got accepted for the press gig at the Cannes Film Festival, though sadly we were only given one pass and Simon and myself’s plan to report on our coverage together, have sadly died.

I’m currently weighing up the options of whether I should really indulge myself in a two week holiday in the South of France, when I no longer really need to be there.

The peace and quiet I would enjoy. I could write a novel. I could have two weeks in the sunshine updating this little site for your amusement without having to worry about the hustle and bustle of daily life. Surely, I should right? But then… Cannes always reminds me of a posher version of Brighton with more sunshine, which isn’t that spectacular really. And then there’s the problem of how the heck do I find a hotel at this 11th hour?

I have a macbook and I’ve been told many times that mac’s don’t get viruses. So I’m not worried about my computer blowing up tomorrow, thankfully.

Speaking of which, in twenty minutes time (at the time of writing) it’s April Fool’s Day so be very wary of what you read among film sites tomorrow. History tells us that this day is when webmasters have fun and run the most outlandish stories to try and see if they can fool other webmasters into picking them up as truthful reporting. Yes, they aren’t thinking about the audience one bit. 

I flirted with doing something similiar this year but I decided against it because I thought it was dumb. Or I couldn’t be bothered with the hassle, whichever one you prefer really.

Onto some movie talk shall we?

Disney look like they are cutting back on the expenditure of the 3-D re-release of Toy Story 1 and 2, by giving both movies a limited fortnight’s run beginning on October 3rd. The short run will feature the films back-to-back, probably at a price slightly larger than the usual ticket fare for one feature but not nearly the massive amount for two, and will also be the only place you will see the trailer for Toy Story 3 (The Princess and the Frog we believe will be attached to Pixar’s Up). 

Toy Story 3 which has completed the majority of it’s voice acting work (featuring the return of Hanks, Allen and co. with the new addition of Michael Keaton as Ken Doll) is released June 18th 2010. 

This will be followed by a 3-D re-rendering of Beauty and the Beast from February 12th 2010. 

Disney and Tim Burton’s motion captured/live action 3-D Alice in Wonderland will be released on Nov. 19th 2010 in iMax 3D!

Terry Gilliam finally completed The Imagnarium of Doctor Parnassus today. Now hard task is to find a distributor, though the director himself claims reports he is struggling to sell the film is bullshit. 

Obsessed With Film has seen Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell and although I’m not really suppose to talk about it, I can say the feedback I got from Martyn who went to see it for us uber positive.

Here’s what Raimi is banking on to drag people to his horror film…

Speaking of Raimi, the director has told Empire that he has “full control” over Spider-Man 4 and we aren’t set for another bullshit situation involving studio interference, or as Raimi puts it his lack of “creative control”. Does that mean we get to see his Ben Kingsley cast Vulture, the villain he initially wanted in Spider-Man 3 with Thomas Haden Church’s Sandman? 

The Tron sequel… which remember is a sequel and not a remake, will be titled Tron.

Paul Bettany is set to lead a big screen adaptation of the Horror Western TokyoPop comic book, Priest which will unite him with director Scott Stewart, who he has just worked with on a movie titled Legion which opens next January. Set in a world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampire, the movie follows a warrior priest (Bettany) who turns against the church to track down a murderous band of vampires who have kidnapped his niece.

Jonathan Levine has signed on to direct The Sitter for Fox Atomic, irreverent comedy will harken back to 1987’s Adventures in Babysitting.

Real life couple Justin Long and Drew Barrymore (at least I presume they are still a real-life couple, I don’t read gossip mags and usually find out these things, wayyyyy late) are doing a romantic comedy together. How sweet. It’s titled Going the Distance and will be directed by lauded Indie director Nanette Burstein (American Teen) from a rookie scribe’s script at New Line. 

Channing Tatum (as a wounded Roman soldier) and Jamie Bell (as his Celtic slave) look set to star in Kevin Macdonald’s (Last King of Scotland, State of Play) next movie The Eagle of the Ninth, a Focus Feature production set at the height of the Roman Empire that will begin production in August. Jeremy Brock who co-wrote Last King of Scotland, has written the script about mystery of the Ninth Legion, a brigade of Roman soldiers that vanished after heading into the untamed Highlands of Scotland 15 years earlier.

Young Aussie actress Emily Browning has replaced Amanda Seyfried in Zack Snyder’s all female cast, psychological thriller prison movie Sucker Punch.

And that’s ya lot for now because I really must sleep. I quite enjoyed updating the movie news in this format and may well come back and give it another go. Let us know what you thought of it formatted like this!